A Happy Post

[Makeda]

I expected to hate gunbreaker.

I thought it was going to be a projectile shooting gun with a slashing blade. Something that was tried all of once historically because it is massive fail.

When I did the intro quest and learned the idea was cartridges of aether used to magically boost a sword and create shields I was behind the concept...

But then I looked to other new jobs SE has added and figured this would be a weak tank barely able to even get an OT spot. Low DPS, bad mitigation, clunky rotation... basically 3.0 AST or any MCH before 5.0...

Then I played it and started hearing early feedback.

It’s basically my main now.

The gunbreaker is a rock solid design that has a really fun rotation, great sounds and animations, and is ideally suited for maintanking.
- I feel this was the most successful of all the 5.0 job designs. I love dancer, but I prefer gunbreaker.

Before Shadowbringers I had every tank at 70 on one of my other characters. My bard was meant as an alt and I gave her dancer to fit and Viera because she was an elezen before and I liked that least of all my alts... but once I decided I really liked Viera and Dancer I made this my main. So I got gunbreaker to get back access to tanking as fast as possible. And I’ve not had a major itch to get the other tank jobs back. Just slow leveling for the sake of completion.

Gunbreaker is just too fun.