I explain all of the important aspects about Gunbreaker to get started, specifically at level 60, including combat advice, opener and rotation, and cooldown management as a tank.
If you want to go the extra mile, I also have a guide on 6 tips to help you master the Tank Role:
https://youtu.be/vdIYobuVpbY
Other Relevant Subjects for further learning:
Global Cooldown Short: https://youtube.com/shorts/WDtPflAdQto
Weaving Short: https://youtube.com/shorts/1NXPYbJuh98
Discord Community Server, come hang out:
https://discord.gg/FDNFgEYyaT
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CaetsuChaijiCh
Music Used:
FFXIV Endwalker – Cradle of Hope
#ffxiv #endwalker
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:23 Royal Guard – Your Tank Stance
00:40 No Mercy – Your Damage Boosting Cooldown
01:28 Basic Attack Combo and Area of Effect
02:19 Cartridge Spenders and how to use them
03:36 Other Weaponskills and Abilities
04:45 The No Mercy Burst Window and Downtimes
06:47 Small Burst
07:06 Area of Effect Variations to the Rotation
07:44 Pulling like a Tank
08:42 Defensive Cooldowns and cycling
10:59 Opener and Rotation Summary
12:25 AoE Adjustments
13:06 Fun Fact
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Thanks for the guide Cae
Thanks! I’m a sprout pally main but since it’s so easy to over level the msq, I’ve begun queuing as gun breaker to split up the xp. This is a very timely video for me.
Firstly, thank you so much for all your guides! I only started playing a few weeks ago, so I'm still a sprout, and have found your videos to be both informative and insightful, greatly helping me understand how all the different jobs work, and their history over the years.
Gunbreaker is now my main job, and this video helped deepen my understanding of the job, but also gave me reassurance that what I have been doing was, generally, along the right lines.
One thing I was wondering though, is whether you might also be able to offer any additional guidance regarding hotbar setups? You always show your own hotbars, which is great, but I'm a "clicker" and for some jobs I find it really difficult to get my head round how to set my hotbars up for all the different jobs in a way that "makes sense" and compliments their particular skill rotations, so would really value hearing from someone like yourself who has far more knowledge and expertise than me, or if you could point me in the direction of any other useful resources that might help me?
Thanks again o7
Gunbreaker was my first tank role and it's still my favorite. I also think it was your videos who taught me not to stack my cooldowns. I would always stack Reprisal and Rampart because I didn't know they actually stacked multiplicatively. However, I have noticed that I die more often now that I'm only using one cooldown >_> Healers focusing more on DPS than healing is really kind of annoying.
Once your are comfortable with sword explosions, lookup superbolid macros, giving healers aneurysms is worth the occasional wipe.
Honestly wish they'd make No Mercy 21 seconds so it would line up with server ticks, but oh well. Same with PLD FoF now that I think about it.
3:55 that killed me XD hahaha
I learned something new, gnashing fang combo is prioritized over aoe combo with 3 or less targets?
Tbh i love watching your videos sinc they are slowed down and very informative :p
Thanks for the great video. 10 years ago, I played exclusively WHM and I just got back into the game this week and decided to switch to gunbreaker. But I'm disappointed that they started me at lvl 60 because I feel I didn't earn it, I get 24 abilities thrown at me all at once, and I never tanked before. I'll be using this many times.
Question about priority, if Burst Strike should come before 1-2-3 during No Mercy window, what do you do if Gnashing Fang is coming off CD the next GCD after it ends and you only have 1 cart? Is it still worth more to get the Strike in and delay your Fang by another 1+ GCDs?
Early game the gunbreaker seems to do less damage than others? I'm a lvl 62 gunbreaker now, and i've been doing the rotations correctly, buff window correctly and choosing when to use what ability well, but it seemingly does way less damage than my DRK at level 60. Yes i use a DPS meter.
jesus, i just can't, this game seems so unwieldy, first time i see something about it and i am a huge FF VIII fan so obv this was the class i was looking for but oh man, and lol was hard to master? here you have like 4323443 buttons, rotation and combination to look, i don't think it's for me