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

[DRKoftheAzure]

Gunbreaker plays like Stormblood Machinist to me. A very active burst phase, and a longer cooldown phase. I personally would do the charge/ammo aspects differently, but the tanks are in a fairly good starting point as it is. I just hope moving forward they branch them out again.

Never played Stormblood MCH so I don't for sure but I have heard horror stories about the RNG on it... and GNB doesn't even feel like it has a long cooldown phase given how often Blasting Zone and Gnashing Fang combo are off cooldown, which line up nicely for No Mercy burst.

If any tanks have a very long cooldown phase it's WAR and DRK, which is why I stopped playing DRK...

I personally find the No Mercy burst window to be one of the smoothest and most satisfying aspects of the game right now. The animation are smooth, they all transition well and it all feels very responsive even with all of the double weaving.

Do not double weave oGCDs in any burst window it is a bad practice because of 10-15 second raid buff burst windows. Just weave an oGCD after a GCD, and you can get just as much damage in if you time the button presses right in a 20-25, don't worry about other people's raid buffs.

I feel like Gunbreaker plays a bit more like a Rune Fencer than than a gunblade user, but that's because I really don't like the class animations and sounds. I wanted it to be more of a two handed weapon than the current one-hand implementation. All that aside, all of the tanks have VERY simplified damage rotations and mechanics in 5.0, so if you are looking for something more complex, then you'll have to swap to DPS.

It feels to me like the reason for all of the simplification was to lower the skill floor for tanking, which they have done quite well; however, they also drastically lowered the skill ceiling, which is why tanking feels a little underwhelming to me.

Simplified tank damage rotation is okay for PLD but it could be a better if Goring Blade DoT duration was 30 Seconds due to Atonement weaponskill spam... GNB is DPS rotation is simple but really hard to master due to certain boss mechanics(hey there downtime phase, you interrupted my burst combo), WAR and DRK is "press on cooldown" while spamming 1-2-3 making DRK and WAR too simplified, and WAR should be the only one that's too simplified(but that's just my opinion)...