Endwalker GNB Discussion

[Absurdity]

While GnB's high cpm playstyle is literally the only thing that's keeping me on tank atm I can wholeheartedly agree that it did not need more continuation, especially not on THE ONE ABILITY that so far allowed you to freely weave 2 defensives without breaking your Gnashing combo.

Continuation was completely fine in ShB, I would even go so far as to say it is essential to gunbreaker's appeal. Sure boss positioning was a pain during Gnashing but that's what you had Burst Strike for. I'm honestly not sure if whoever designed that ever played GnB without losing potency left and right...or they designed the Endwalker changes entirely on a dummy without ever taking mitigation weaves into consideration.

This doesn't even go into how unintuitive the playstyle is now going to be if potencies stay the way they currently are.

Gnashing Fang + Jugular Rip is a combined potency of 540, Burst Strike + Hypervelocity is a combined potency of 600, this means that you will most likely want to use Gnashing Fang outside of No Mercy and all following combo GCDs inside No Mercy so you can fit one extra Burst Strike into the buff. This doesn't just go against the current flow of Gunbreaker but also means that you have another forced weave since you need to double weave Continuation + No Mercy after Gnashing Fang.


I honestly hope that they will revert this change because it doesn't add anything but frustration to the playstyle.