“Gunbreaker Pictomancer Overview” Sounds exotic

I raided on Gunbreaker for Anabaseios Savage so I'd like to think I'm fairly knowledgeable about the job. That said, I'm very happy with these changes and not needing to spam Burst Strike. I know people are upset about the removal of damage on the dash but honestly this does make it easier to find ways to weave in mits during burst window tank busters (which happened a lot and I suspect will continue in Dawntrail...) EDIT: I would actually have liked it if they added a single new OGCD to replace the two Rough Divides, but overall I'm pretty pleased with what I can see, can't wait to try it in a few weeks!

Great Nebula does the ff8 protection spell animation!!

We gained Lionheart but lost Rough Divide... Why did they have to rob us of all having all 4 finally

Love the trajectory change. Makes the job better and gives a bit extra identity.

Looking forward to trying these out soon, thanks Mr. Happy!

GBR is my fall back tank. Its fun, its solid, its not too hard to use but still fun. Im liking what I am seeing

I wouldn't consider gunbreaker becoming less busy during bursts as a win, since that's how I enjoyed it, but it might make it easier if they plan on making more tank busters during burst phases

I loved ShB Gunbreaker

That Ready to Break button condensing is nice. Could always use more PvP style button condensation personally as a pad player. Thanks for the videos!

I don't play GNB a lot but it looks fun!

Pictomancer in thumbnail

Wasn't Rough Divide's name a throwback to FF8? I wish they at least kept the name. Gonna miss that name. Why not change the name of Great Nebula to Orion, that way it seems clever instead of uncreative? Ready to Reign --> Reign of Beasts --> Noble Blood --> Lion Heart is just perfection, chef's kiss, and they don't even need cartridges either so you still have your 3 to spend after

ilove gunbreaker pictomancer

make bow shock a contiuation ability of sonic break for button blote. give lightning shot a continuation button just for coolness. give back rough divide animation with no damage, and get rid of that goofy ahh monk gap closer

I liked rough divide...

coulda just kept the rough divide animation and remove the dmg from it, heck tweak it a little and still woulda been fine instead of diet Thunderclap

interested to figure out how the new 100 rotation will play out. definitely like all the buffs to the mit CDs

LIONHEAAAAART

Bruh. Why does PLD gap closer still does damage but rough divide is totally replaced? Huh?

In the thumbnail you have Pictomancer instead of dawntrail

As someone who LIKES the busyness of the No Mercy window, I am concerned. I legitimately feel like I am messing up whenever I run out of OGCDs to double-weave in between GCDs in the NM window, as it feels like that's just wasting time that could've been used for more damage. Losing Rough Divide, having the 3 Lionheart skills replace the 6 Burst Strike-Hypervelocity attacks... It's all small stuff overall, but it leaves me very much afraid that my enjoyment of my main is about to take a massive hit. But only time will tell, I guess... =\

Was it really necessary to remove rough divide?

Very happy with the changes overall. I play with high ping yet my love for this job makes me main it anyways, so the removal of the potency on the dash is huge, I prefer utility skills to be that, utility. Nice to see the changes help a little with button bloat even if GNB wasn't the most bloated job. Can't wait to try it out!

Gunbreaker main here; not enough Continuation skills and Rough Divide can co-exist with Trajectory so long as they are not tied to sharing charges and I would rather have both Rough Divide and Trajectory under those conditions, and I can use Trajectory for target part members. Though Trajectory is going to be use to grief other player if can target other players... Also losing the flexibility on Sonic Break sucks and I would rather it and Bow Shock were 30 second cooldowns instead just so I can use them outside of burst windows, and new burst combo doesn't have enough flexibility to be used outside of the 2 minute burst window also hurts the job needlessly along with the Rough Divide change. Would also love to have Continuation to be readily available in ARR content because Level Sync sucks ASS.

Sounds like all of the tanks are getting overly complicated now and my hotbars are gonna get bloated again. Really wish they would, at the very least, give us PvP style combo buttons for all applicable moves.

This looks really good, rough divide was a horrible skill to force in your burst windows, glad it's gone.

Pictobreaker

Weird to me is that gnb has the max HP on their 40% and warrior has the regen. You would think it is the other way around.

question what GCD? 2.5?

ahh, beautiful. After playing around with GNB in UWU I’ve been wanting to play it in higher level content, but some bits of its kit at 90 made it hard to feel comfortable in. These changes look like exactly what I want out of the job! Might be dropping PLD for R1S for GNB. Overall intrigued with DT’s trend of replacing OGCD buffs with GCD follow ups, we’ll have to see how it flows and if I need to pull my buffs off of my second crossbar.

I like the changes, but a part of me is going to be bothered by the fact that every 2nd Bloodfest is going to put Reign Of Beasts outside of No Mercy. Definitely excited for it, though!

The main source of rigidity in gnb rotation is double down, because it costs 2 carts and you also need 1 more cart for gnashing, you always want to enter your no mercy window with 3 carts. This wasn't the case in shadowbringers in which either 1 or 2 cart entries were viable. This results in any loss of uptime having a knock on effect on your rotation, as on 2.5 sks full uptime you just about get enough carts per minute to sustain it. DT changes don't address this in any way and unfortunately the job is going to be just as rigid as it is today. Cooldown usage in 2 minutes was never an issue this expansion, every fight you could just pop your cooldowns earlier and have them catch all they needed to catch. What's morbidly funny is that devs did something gunbraker mains actually wanted, and tied a 1 minute cooldown gcd to no mercy use similar to primal rend, except they did it to the wrong one. Instead of tying double down to no mercy use and making it not cost carts they tied sonic break to it, which literally no one who plays gunbreaker asked for. Replacing 3 burst strikes you used to have in 2 minute windows with a 3 hit combo does basically nothing to address gnb issues, yeah it's 3 fewer ogcds in burst, but that was never really the issue with the job.

Why the Fck does the character float in the air while using the beast skills? It lacks weight wtf is wrong with the animators

Ehhh, the animations on the combo are too floaty for my tastes. I get it that it's meant to be a homage to the old Squall animation but that kind of floatiness and "comic book cheesiness" fit that era much better than it does XIV.

Great Nebula additional effect is literally warrior's thrill of battle 1st effect lol..... But sonic break being an oGCD now omg yes 🤩