There's something about GNB that I don't like...

[DRKoftheAzure]

... and I'm not really sure what that is. I played all the tanks enough to know left from right up till now, and while I was apprehensive on Gunbreaker, I gave it a shot when it came out.

And I dunno, there's just something about it that really doesn't do it for me. Maybe it's the icons being a lot busier than the others? Or maybe it's that the actions feel more like a DPS class that just happens to have defensive cooldowns?

Heck, it might just be because it's in the same poor state as all other tanks this expansion, and I'm only noticing here because it's new, instead of an altered version of what I used to play. Could any fan of the Gunbreaker please explain what they enjoy about it to me?

To be honest I find Dark Knight's opener to be the more complex of all the tanks.

Waiting the longest 1-2 minutes for your "burst" windows is too simple AND boring because all you do spam 1-2-3(1-2 spam in AoE), with the occasional "Darkside maintenance" button, and your "primary gauge spender" button in between... That is DRKs DPS in a nutshell... TBN has the potential to be good but it's held back by current design which is really bad MP generation, and is DPS neutral at best which you would rather spend that 3k MP for more DPS over mitigation since healers are dealing too much damage and they need to do more healing...


GNB has a burst combo every 30 seconds and those 30 seconds are very short AND it doesn't interrupt main 1-2-3 combo while also having a 2 DoTs which are really powerful on a one minute cooldown which is also very short, and a gauge spender. Though GNB does feel more DPS than tank, and that might be due to tank role actions being very lackluster this expansion...


PLD has 1-2-3A and 1-2-3B with a button you can spam up to 3 times that you can only use after a full 1-2-3A and can use a their healing spell or a damaging spell in before the spam, whereas 1-2-3B is a DoT which needs its duration bumped to 30 seconds, and big deeps button with their magic burst button. Also Clemency OP and makes healers not feel like healers...


WAR you can probably enjoy if you were drunk and it really has nothing to write home about...