GNB is TERRIBLE now!

[Mikey_R]

These are one and the same. Adjusting a rotation to suit the fight accounts for the downtime, you build a rotation around it. There have always been ways with fights that have downtime to fix your rotation from the drifting and lack of carts to return it once more to the usual optimal rotation. To me, no good gunbreaker would sit on a rotation that's just less optimal forever, if you know what you are doing you know that you can re adjust your rotation and get everything back on track. You either sacrifice a bit of your own dps to re algin everything with the parties buffs for their sake, or if going for your own numbers, realign your timers with your own buffs and ignore the party. Maybe you need to burn an extra cart ahead of time that you normally wouldn't in order to fix everything, etc...

Not going to lie, I keep going back and forth as to whether they are the same or not. If there is a difference, it is very nuanced, however, I will say the following;

Why should you have to lose potential DPS by using an un-optimal burst phase or by delaying your burst phase? Wouldn't it feel more rewarding if you were able to adjust Gnashing Fang to not lose out on potential DPS because you have that flexibility, rather than having to look at the whole fight and work out which is the least bad option?

[NightHour]

1% Gunbreaker DPS nerf to a job that was like 2-3% ahead of the other tanks in DPS is not change anything.

Gunbreaker will still be best in class.

[Rithy255]

1% Gunbreaker DPS nerf to a job that was like 2-3% ahead of the other tanks in DPS is not change anything.

Gunbreaker will still be best in class.

Are you pretending that people are only mad about the damage change? a lot of people are mad about the rotation changes more then anything which is valid GNB doesn't need to appeal to people who disliked it before.

[SyferU]

Maybe the future of FF14 is all jobs in a specific role playing the same, you just choose which Jobs animations you like the most. Have been thinking for a while that this might be where the game is heading.

[CidHeiral]

The dev notes on the change pretty much sums up their job design philosophy these days:

If gunbreaker did not manage their cartridges carefully during burst phases, executing Bloodfest would result in cartridge overflow. To rectify this irritation, we have added an effect to Bloodfest that increases the maximum number of cartridges available.

Apparently it is unreasonable to ask the player to carefully manage their resources, everything must be made nearly impossible to fail.

[Mercury_Grey]

I like the new changes on GNB. Been playign it since it came out so i been sticking to it. Hell im like one of the few GNb mains some of my fc members trust for harder content. The new charge for GF? i'll take the potency nerf for it. Gives some breathing when in downtime, Lionheart being every minute? Feels nice especially when you can time it with no mercy. Some of the buffs/nerfs GNB got this patch i like.