How to play Gunbreaker: Just hit your 1-2-3 and then tap your other buttons as they light up. Put all the defensive abilities in a row and if your health goes down just pick one and hit it. Maybe hit two if you're spooked. That's like it basically lmao.
@@zirilan3398 If you're going to adjust your glasses at people at least get your information right. SeeD members are not knights but mercenaries for hire. They are highly trained specialists that take government and civilian contracts. In FFXIV, the GNB job quests highlight this as well. Squall ended up being a SeeD commander. That still doesn't make him a knight.
Ah yes, Superbolide. A.k.a "Give the Healer a heart attack". Nah but seriously, GNB is my tank of choice. It's fun, stylish, and easy to pick up. Plus you get a gunblade. The weapon so stupid, it circles back to being cool. Lmao
@@Alen725 So it's a super easy tank to pick up, but for high-end gameplay it's extremely complicated. It has a huge opener, and you need some serious timing to min/max with it. It's only as complicated as you want it to be, and I for one don't want my game to feel like an unpaid job XD
I'll be honest. I became a GNB before realizing Thancred was one. I mostly did it to avoid leveling a tank and have faster queues for when EW gonna drop in a month. It's honestly super fun
I wanna be a Gunbreaker so bad. I've unlocked the job but I'm so nervous about getting into queue as a tank. At this point I've done a bunch of fates to understand my moves, so I plan to jump in later and give it a shot, but this is my first MMO with the Trinity system like this so I'm super anxious
@@tamerxero honestly, tanking is way easier than some people make it out to be. I used to be a DPS only guy for 3 whole expansions (that is ARR, HW, and StB) because I'm afraid of messing up as a healer/tank. Then I picked Paladin up because giant sword from the earth equals cool shit and I like cool shit. I found that early level dungeons set you up great to learn the basics. I play Warrior in savage now. Tl;dr: You should try tanking. Take it from a former DPS exclusive guy.
@@anjayana6150 I took your advice and I love it. I'm still nervous going into duty roulette, but I'm an anxious kinda guy. Leveling dark knight now in preparation for shadow bringers. There is one thing, though. I haven't done any trials. Any advice for stance dancing? Is it just something I gotta feel out?
@@tamerxero stance dancing is an outdated mechanic. It used to be mandatory because you're taking damage debuff when tank stance is on; you don't, now. The only thing you need to make sure is to let your Main Tank (if you're not the main tank) cement his aggro first before you activate your stance. This means activating your tank stance after the first 10 or so seconds of the fight. That's it.
Your videos are always super handy after already getting to know a job, because I always seem to snag a little tidbit or two of information I didn't naturally pick up on. Thanks for the great, easy-to-digest content!
Heads up- the continuation thing doesn’t change the skill so much as gives you an extra button to press after pressing it. It’s just verbage but I only learned last night at level 90 that burst strike apparently has that same thing added on or something?
@@SilverforceX I don't but it's barely noticeable in FF compared to other MMOs like ESO. I just notice it playing MCH and for some fast dodging mechanics chained
No seriously though Superbolide right at the last few seconds of a raid boss, right where everyone is mentally exhausted and resources are drained, it is a GOD SEND. Save up 3 cartridges and pop your aurora, absolutely unload and that last pixel of health is done for.
Just got GNB. I play on PS5, how do I use Savage Claw and Wicked Talon since they can’t be used on the hot bar? Do I hot bar Actions and traits and manually select them in the middle of battle? If so that’s insane. Nvm, rewatched the video and you explained it. I’m dumb Though another question. I’m not sure what the use of Rough Divide is, it seems useless.
Have you considered an idiots guide to tanking, I tried tanking once and basically got yelled at constantly because I didn't know what I was doing and had to go back to being a dps for a mental health break but have basically never tried tanking again because I don't want to be trouble for other players and I'd really like to try playing as a Gun Breaker or Dark Knight, but I just don't understand what I'm doing sometimes when I'm tanking
As a black mage main who is also a controller player, I’m having trouble finding a good button layout, I’d prefer no to split between 3 sets like I do with blm, any ideas?
Was playing on ps4. Had a hard time remembering the concealed/hidden X-bars. Much worse when multi-classing... Now im settled with ext keyboard, i can make use of shared hotbars feature. Thou i still miss the fluid movement using controller...
@@radity11 I actually found a solution, I’m using stacked cross hotbars now. I put my less used abilities on set 2 and all I have to do is double tap the trigger to access them
That’s how I do it. I shrunk them a bit and offset the top bars a bit to get them to fit better. The only class I struggled to fit into that configuration so far was Dragoon because of the multiple combos really bloated their button count.
So I installed FFXIV. I am an old school fan of the franchise and Kain's my fave character in the series, so I main dragoon. But I saw a bunch of players with gunblades and heard about the Gunbreaker and thought, 'I wanna do that...' But FFXIV is my first trinity MMO, and while weskalber did a great hour long primer on tanking, it's an hour long... So while this video made me go 'maybe I CAN do that!' I'm still very nervous about being the tank. Any advice you can give to help me go from 'maybe I can' to a real party-protector, decent-to-good -ish tank?
Personally, I'd say hold off on jumping into alt classes at least until post MSQ tbh, especially going from a Melee DPS such as Dragoon to a tank such as Gunbreaker. It's not that GNB is inherently "difficult" to understand really (there's a reason it's jokingly refered to as Three DPS in a blue trenchcoat), but it can be jarring jumping into the responsibility of a tank role at such a high level. So if you're dead set on it, I'd advise heading straight to any training dummy you can find, wailing on for a bit while you adjust and organize your hotbars, and then take it into any of the low level dungeons with either some friends/FC members, or even just randos (while being sure to warn them that you're new to tanking of course. Don't worry, people tend to be pretty chill with newbie tanks and healers)
Don't be nervous. In fact, get your practice in low level dungeons where the skills are limited anyway. Learn to pull, position, and don't save all your defensive cds for bosses. I tend to pay more attention to the healer when I tank just to gauge if they're struggling to keep me up. If it looks like a seasoned healer, I'll pull more. If they look like they're new or just trying out the class, I'll slow down and pull one pack at a time. Just have fun with it. I'm still fairly new to the game and it seems to me most people are pretty chill especially if you indicate that you're a new player or new to a class.
Ow... GNB seems to be a lot simpeler than I thought. It even veels like they have less skills in general, though thats just me I guess.Welp, 10more levels of RDM before I can try it out
Gunbreaker is good fun, but optimisation is a real struggle in savage. The main problem being that you must reach your 60s No Mercy window with exactly 3 cartridges and activate it on cooldown. It's not too bad, but there are 7 total abilities that need timing with your 30/60/90 second windows, and messing any of them up is a massive DPS loss and an embarrassment in the raid. Then we have warrior which is just 'Fell Cleave go brrrrr' with no worries at all about timing for nearly equivalent damage and great mitigation.
GNB felt too much like Paladin for me and since PLD is my go-to tank anyway I didn't feel the motivation to level GNB. Still a cool-looking class though.
I get super nervous about tanking but really wanted to pick up gunbreaker because they looked sick as hell, and this video is a life saver! Great way to introduce the class and its basics without being overwhelming! Thank you! 🙏
![Gunbreaker Starter Guide for Level 60: New to the Job? Start Here! [FFXIV 6.40+]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4_WJJSmZt_8/mqdefault.jpg)
How to play Gunbreaker: Just hit your 1-2-3 and then tap your other buttons as they light up. Put all the defensive abilities in a row and if your health goes down just pick one and hit it. Maybe hit two if you're spooked. That's like it basically lmao.
thats all tanks
Don’t forget to throw out your aurora when a stray dps gets low
FF 14 combat system is so simple.
Basically this class goes: "anyway I started blasting"
ye but the question is which one do i hit when multiple light up at the same time "confused sprout noises*
Hey! I didnt want to be a Gunbreaker because Thancred is one! I wanted to be a Gunbreaker because Squall is one!
This!
Squall baby!!!
True, thancred is annoying but don't let ff14 fanboys hear u they will get triggered
Sqall is not a GNB, his and Cifers Jobs are Knight who happen to use gunblades
@@zirilan3398 If you're going to adjust your glasses at people at least get your information right. SeeD members are not knights but mercenaries for hire. They are highly trained specialists that take government and civilian contracts. In FFXIV, the GNB job quests highlight this as well. Squall ended up being a SeeD commander. That still doesn't make him a knight.
Ah yes, Superbolide. A.k.a "Give the Healer a heart attack".
Nah but seriously, GNB is my tank of choice. It's fun, stylish, and easy to pick up. Plus you get a gunblade. The weapon so stupid, it circles back to being cool. Lmao
I heard its somehow complicated and you need lots of button mashing, is it true? Or it was true but its now streamlined?
@@Alen725 So it's a super easy tank to pick up, but for high-end gameplay it's extremely complicated. It has a huge opener, and you need some serious timing to min/max with it.
It's only as complicated as you want it to be, and I for one don't want my game to feel like an unpaid job XD
Superbolide OAO)/ gang!!! 🤜🤛
i use superbolide early in low level trials to scare healers.
- Mom, can we have gunbreaker ?
- We have gunbreaker in home.
Gunbreaker in home:
Bloodborne hunter with Reiterpallasch.
you tried at least
@@peen2804 an attempt was certainly made.
A better comparison would be Luster from PSO2 but I still laughed.
I'll be honest. I became a GNB before realizing Thancred was one. I mostly did it to avoid leveling a tank and have faster queues for when EW gonna drop in a month.
It's honestly super fun
I wanna be a Gunbreaker so bad. I've unlocked the job but I'm so nervous about getting into queue as a tank. At this point I've done a bunch of fates to understand my moves, so I plan to jump in later and give it a shot, but this is my first MMO with the Trinity system like this so I'm super anxious
@@tamerxero honestly, tanking is way easier than some people make it out to be. I used to be a DPS only guy for 3 whole expansions (that is ARR, HW, and StB) because I'm afraid of messing up as a healer/tank. Then I picked Paladin up because giant sword from the earth equals cool shit and I like cool shit. I found that early level dungeons set you up great to learn the basics.
I play Warrior in savage now.
Tl;dr: You should try tanking. Take it from a former DPS exclusive guy.
@@anjayana6150 I took your advice and I love it. I'm still nervous going into duty roulette, but I'm an anxious kinda guy. Leveling dark knight now in preparation for shadow bringers.
There is one thing, though. I haven't done any trials. Any advice for stance dancing? Is it just something I gotta feel out?
@@tamerxero stance dancing is an outdated mechanic. It used to be mandatory because you're taking damage debuff when tank stance is on; you don't, now. The only thing you need to make sure is to let your Main Tank (if you're not the main tank) cement his aggro first before you activate your stance. This means activating your tank stance after the first 10 or so seconds of the fight.
That's it.
@@tamerxero I have like 4 tanks levelled and I still have anxiety with it lmao.
I just picked up GNB recently, and the job was quite fun.
Thank you SO MUCH!!! For this video!!! I just started gunbreaker and was so overwhelmed, this really helped break it down!!
Your videos are always super handy after already getting to know a job, because I always seem to snag a little tidbit or two of information I didn't naturally pick up on. Thanks for the great, easy-to-digest content!
Bro I got so much more out of this video then I did the 5 or so other tutorial vids I watched on GNB! thanks for the good content!
Heads up- the continuation thing doesn’t change the skill so much as gives you an extra button to press after pressing it. It’s just verbage but I only learned last night at level 90 that burst strike apparently has that same thing added on or something?
You're refering to Hyper Velocity, it's a upgrade to Continuation at I think lvl 86
You keep it short and sweet. Love the info.
I guess they're saving a Lionheart ability/skill for future expansions :P
You possess the gift of prophecy...
My fav tank class, it's stylish-fun-and goes well with all of the whole ffxiv themes (I mean the 'medieval' & 'futuristic' one).
These videos are crazy useful, you're the first person I go to when I'm learning a new class! I love the "I wanna do that!" every vid
For those playing this class just for FUN, I'd recommend going full skill speed with the materia lmao, thank me later
Make sure u live next to the server for low ping else it's lolz in a bad way.
@@SilverforceX I don't but it's barely noticeable in FF compared to other MMOs like ESO. I just notice it playing MCH and for some fast dodging mechanics chained
Just became a gunbreaker today so happy this came out keep up the work also congrats on 4k sub in just two months
Does the bullet fire when you swing the blade or when you pull the trigger
Well that helped me more as a starter than most of the written guides
So does Heart of Corundum activate the heal if you use Superbolide?
No seriously though Superbolide right at the last few seconds of a raid boss, right where everyone is mentally exhausted and resources are drained, it is a GOD SEND. Save up 3 cartridges and pop your aurora, absolutely unload and that last pixel of health is done for.
Oh how do you change your party list job icons to look like that
How does your HUD look like that?
Just switched to maining gunbreaker and this pure gold.
Thank you
Just got GNB. I play on PS5, how do I use Savage Claw and Wicked Talon since they can’t be used on the hot bar? Do I hot bar Actions and traits and manually select them in the middle of battle? If so that’s insane.
Nvm, rewatched the video and you explained it. I’m dumb
Though another question. I’m not sure what the use of Rough Divide is, it seems useless.
Ugh thank you, this was so helpful
Have you considered an idiots guide to tanking, I tried tanking once and basically got yelled at constantly because I didn't know what I was doing and had to go back to being a dps for a mental health break but have basically never tried tanking again because I don't want to be trouble for other players and I'd really like to try playing as a Gun Breaker or Dark Knight, but I just don't understand what I'm doing sometimes when I'm tanking
Is this updated? I just reach lvl 60 dragoon and wanna try gunbreaker
As a black mage main who is also a controller player, I’m having trouble finding a good button layout, I’d prefer no to split between 3 sets like I do with blm, any ideas?
Was playing on ps4. Had a hard time remembering the concealed/hidden X-bars. Much worse when multi-classing...
Now im settled with ext keyboard, i can make use of shared hotbars feature.
Thou i still miss the fluid movement using controller...
@@radity11 I actually found a solution, I’m using stacked cross hotbars now. I put my less used abilities on set 2 and all I have to do is double tap the trigger to access them
That’s how I do it. I shrunk them a bit and offset the top bars a bit to get them to fit better. The only class I struggled to fit into that configuration so far was Dragoon because of the multiple combos really bloated their button count.
So I installed FFXIV. I am an old school fan of the franchise and Kain's my fave character in the series, so I main dragoon. But I saw a bunch of players with gunblades and heard about the Gunbreaker and thought, 'I wanna do that...' But FFXIV is my first trinity MMO, and while weskalber did a great hour long primer on tanking, it's an hour long...
So while this video made me go 'maybe I CAN do that!' I'm still very nervous about being the tank. Any advice you can give to help me go from 'maybe I can' to a real party-protector, decent-to-good -ish tank?
Personally, I'd say hold off on jumping into alt classes at least until post MSQ tbh, especially going from a Melee DPS such as Dragoon to a tank such as Gunbreaker. It's not that GNB is inherently "difficult" to understand really (there's a reason it's jokingly refered to as Three DPS in a blue trenchcoat), but it can be jarring jumping into the responsibility of a tank role at such a high level. So if you're dead set on it, I'd advise heading straight to any training dummy you can find, wailing on for a bit while you adjust and organize your hotbars, and then take it into any of the low level dungeons with either some friends/FC members, or even just randos (while being sure to warn them that you're new to tanking of course. Don't worry, people tend to be pretty chill with newbie tanks and healers)
Don't be nervous. In fact, get your practice in low level dungeons where the skills are limited anyway. Learn to pull, position, and don't save all your defensive cds for bosses. I tend to pay more attention to the healer when I tank just to gauge if they're struggling to keep me up. If it looks like a seasoned healer, I'll pull more. If they look like they're new or just trying out the class, I'll slow down and pull one pack at a time. Just have fun with it. I'm still fairly new to the game and it seems to me most people are pretty chill especially if you indicate that you're a new player or new to a class.
Just got into the game, been leveling ARR as a dragoon while thinking about what's next. I'll be returning to this vid when I hit 60
Bro I just did exactly that
Finally this is what I needed lol I've been looking to tank for awhile now only problem was I didn't really know how to use gunbreaker lol
Damn, I want gunbreaker, it has cool ass sword from Final Fantasy 9, I don't remember which part of FF had Lionheart main character
Ow... GNB seems to be a lot simpeler than I thought. It even veels like they have less skills in general, though thats just me I guess.Welp, 10more levels of RDM before I can try it out
They squished a lot of the buttons down for EW, a nice little quality of life thing.
Gunbreaker is the off tank Tank because of how easily it can pop like a balloon and how all major mitigations can be tossed into a better tank
Thanks, great stuff!
Great Video
Thanks for this one
can you do a dmg gunbreaker?
I played FF8 so this is why i role a gunblade :D
Daddy Squal teach them
You helped me, thx 😊
Squall was my favorite FF VIII character
Gunbreaker is good fun, but optimisation is a real struggle in savage. The main problem being that you must reach your 60s No Mercy window with exactly 3 cartridges and activate it on cooldown. It's not too bad, but there are 7 total abilities that need timing with your 30/60/90 second windows, and messing any of them up is a massive DPS loss and an embarrassment in the raid.
Then we have warrior which is just 'Fell Cleave go brrrrr' with no worries at all about timing for nearly equivalent damage and great mitigation.
Say, why is his UI like that anyway? It's so clean!
GNB felt too much like Paladin for me and since PLD is my go-to tank anyway I didn't feel the motivation to level GNB.
Still a cool-looking class though.
I love gunbreaker gameplay but I’m bad at tanking :(
demon slice
demon slice
damn I must be a genius
demon slaughter
I picked Gunbreaker because of Lightning honestly
I main GNB just because i'm simping for Seifer Almasy. Thanks the dev made GNB using Seifer stance. I hate Squall
i honestly think it would have made sense to make the gnb a melee dps instead of a tank
Gun breaker is just 3 DP’s wearing a trench coat doing a ‘how do you do fellow tanks?’
My hp doesn’t drop to 1 It drops to like 150
*“HELLO!”*
"So you JUST got wished a nice day in the TH-cam comments!" :D
party list icons look interesting...
Thancred being a gunbreaker is the first thing that made me not want to be one.
I get super nervous about tanking but really wanted to pick up gunbreaker because they looked sick as hell, and this video is a life saver! Great way to introduce the class and its basics without being overwhelming! Thank you! 🙏
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Machinistsssss please :P
this video literally reads tooltips...
Yea but since most casuals don't read a single one they still learn something
Too much for my smooth brain 😅
I just stopped by to say that your voice is migraine inducing
I really hope these shitty four minute videos stop showing up when I search for FFXIV guides.