How Easy Is Gunblade Compared to Paladin?

[aqskerorokero]

Pld is a job you can pick up easily, Gnb needs some basic knowledge of tanking. As it should be.

[shao32]

after play both i find PLD have more things to keep an eye on but is not necesary more harder while GNB being nice and fast i find more harder to keep the integrity of his rotation depending of the fight due how you need to keep using gnasing fang and how you have to delay the combo 30 sec or no to realing everything againg, wich adds some kind of quick choise making on combat.

in resume both have his own dificulty and depend more of the player perspective and i consider they are more or less equally harder and obviously much more harder that WAR and braindead DRK.

[Makeda]

In design goals the PLD is the low skill floor low skill cap job and the GNB is the high skill floor high skill cap job.

PLD is supposed to be easy to master but doesn’t go as far. GNB is supposed to be hard to master but will go further once you do. And the same is supposed to be true at entry skill.

As an Overwatch player I liken it to PLD is meant to be Lucio, and GNB is meant to be Ana. Despite one being for entry level players and one for experts the ideal comp has one of each. The meta is basically GNB mt, PLD ot.

Now... the use if the word supposed to was key above. Some might disagree that the above is how they ended up, but it is the goal Yoshi-P put forth for both.

[Nedkel]

I would recommend warrior.

It may be easy, but feels quite good and is strong for how little effort it needs.
GNB is not overly too complicated, you could use macro to help you out in playing him, but its really fast paces and you find yourself pressing fast. PLD share the same level of complexity with GNB, if not a little more.

[Kacho_Nacho]

Pld is a job you can pick up easily, Gnb needs some basic knowledge of tanking. As it should be.

Interesting! A lot of other posters speak of the speed of gunblade rotation which may cause some problems for me.

However, you've given me hope.

I would recommend warrior.

It may be easy, but feels quite good and is strong for how little effort it needs.
GNB is not overly too complicated, you could use macro to help you out in playing him, but its really fast paces and you find yourself pressing fast. PLD share the same level of complexity with GNB, if not a little more.

*nods* . I have warrior on three of my alts. It's rewarding to play.

[TankHunter678]

I found GNB to be pretty easy, it only feels flimsy until you get Heart of Stone, after that it feels mostly like a DPS that does its own tanking.

[Absimiliard]

GNB is not overly too complicated, you could use macro to help you out in playing him

GNB requires too much speed to use macros as a fallback. The amount of clipping that would occur is ridiculous.

[BarretOblivion]

WAR is a better option than GNB as its a speed class that will punish you if you screw up your rotation while WAR is the most straightforward tank job of all now to almost a detriment..
Overall ease of tanks from ease of use is:
WAR
PLD
GNB
DRK

I would argue DRK is the hardest of the tank jobs simply because it is resource intesive outside of casual duties.

[Freyyy]

After levelling all 4 tanks to 80 and doing quite a bit of max level content with them I'd say GNB is by far the easiest and the most intuitive of them all BUT it's a very fun job to play and it feels busy nonetheless. Uptime loss feels a lot more punishing on GNB than other tanks tho. Optimizing GNB's DPS requires very good knowledge of the fight and its timings in order to lose the least possible amount of GCDs while doing mechanics since the rotation is so fixed and not resource-based at all (and unlike PLD, it doesn't have a 10sec burst window that doesn't require melee range every minute). I'd say easier to play than PLD but a bit harder to optimize in relevant content.

[Wyndam]

Objectively speaking, I think WAR has the fewest abilities to put on buttons and PLD the most.

I knew a guy long, long ago who was missing multiple fingers (I don't recall exactly how many, 2-3) and that was his problem, he just didn't have enough fingers to hit all the buttons. I don't know about your disability, but that's the kind of thing I always imagine when people mention having a disability of some kind. That said, there's a couple different setups you can use to get around that sort of problem. You can get the MMO mouse (which I just think everyone should have one anyway), this game is also pretty controller friendly, or you can do like a one handed keypad with a thumb stick and Razer and Logitech both make those.

For myself, I just had to put pads down to protect my wrists because certain high APM jobs were a strain and the pads have alleviated a lot of the problem.

I don't know, is any of that helpful?