GNB main here, the opener Wesk shows at the end is the "1-2-3 No Mercy" opener, a very standard opener used by GNB for many fights - its legit! I use it for most fights in savage/ultimate content, so any new players would do well to practice it as it's actually the recommend opener to learn with. Great guide Wesk!
@@vteccomplex more or less - your first 1-3 GCDs will be outside of raid buffs, so no sense immediately blowing your biggest CDs on them. This also allows you to get an extra Burst Strike/Hypervelocity inside of your opener No Mercy. 1-2-3 (1/3 carts) No Mercy Gnashing Fang (0/3 carts) Bloodfest (3/3 carts) Double Down (1/3 carts) At end of burst, Burst Strike (0/3 carts)
EDIT: As of 6.2, regen no longer gains aggro over time. The initial use still grabs aggro, so it still has some use when trash spawns mid-fight. Original comment below. Aurora is my favorite pulling tool. Royal Guard's enmity multiplier on the regen means you will overpower anything the Healer or DPS does before you can AOE to secure the enmity lead. Plus, it helps patch up some of the damage you take when pulling multiple groups before stopping and popping damage mitigation. It even works if a boss should spawn adds. It's one of my favorite GNB skills because it has that added utility.
Started playing a little bit ago, and your guides have helped me immensely with picking up the game! Keep up the good work and thanks for the content :)
This was one of the issues I ran into when I picked up sage. The job is complex to begin with, plus it starts leveling at 70. I still want to play sage down the line, but I've been playing WHM to get a feel for healing in general.
I'm glad it's my third tank. I leveled Marauder to level 50 WAR, then to level 73 with DRK, then went back and now have GNB to 70. It's my favorite tank job so far.
I know this come out a year ago but I want to say thank you for this video I only have GNB at 61 but the way you have it setup it made learning the opener so much easier to understand and follow that I am really enjoying GNB now keep up the good work 👍
It's amazing how different one can view gunbreaker from a casual view to an optimized, savage raiding view. I've gone over my opener and melds three times over the course of Pandaemonium due to the headaches Gnashing Fang gives me since it's affected by skill speed. No other job gives me this headache because I can't think of another job where a core job skill is affected by skill speed, just mainly the main gcd roll. But it was worth learning the best gunbreaker I can be. Superbolide is much easier to pull off in EW thanks to Corundum, plus playing with Scholars in roulettes is an interesting way to use Bolide proactively when I know Excog is on. I basically learned to use Bolide proactively, when I know my healer hasn't used their big cooldowns yet. Don't have to worry about becoming the Benediction meme if I use Bolide above 50%.
So Machinist is the last one I assume. All your guides are amazing and I love them. Cant wait for the last one. I'm leveling MCH now. Need that hotbar setup. Keep up the great work.
oh that's a good tip! my tank hotbar setups tend to have defensive CDs spread across different modifier keys (ctrl+key, shift+key), whereas i've always kept my AoE stuff on one modifier key... now i realize that those are *both* tools used to respond to big crowds of enemies, and maybe i could stand to shuffle things around so that i'm doing less finger gymnastics
I just started reading the patch notes and I initially thought the Bloodfest cooldown increase to 120s was a nerf until I realized that the new cooldown matches well with the other skills.
I really like this format, it makes more sense than the level by level way for sure. Good call! I just swapped to GNB for DSR (because we're masochists and want to all change roles for each clear) and I'm glad to know I'm not making any egregious errors.
@@WeskAlber I didn't know it was a layout that you'd done before! I must not have watched them all, bad fan. I'm sure there are some things on every job that could probably have their skill interactions highlighted in this way, like hide/mudras/ninjutsu/trick on NIN or the various Afflatus spells on WHM. Either way, I just like it, good job 👏
@@swiftcastholy9034 Something like Mudra is far to complex to merge into one section. And if you're trying to learn from level 1, you do have a good 10+ levels of not having all of them, which gives you time to learn those interactions without being overloaded. The step by step process is something I greatly value in this format, only combining when absolutely imperative.
This is the first job I’ve managed to get the level 90 rotation down, in terms of opener, filler, and reopener(not counting healers because….yeah). Feels like a good first step being…maybe slightly above middle ground for rotation complexity across all jobs
For me gnb is the most difficult tank for me to play, because the bloodfest cooldown kinda screws with my mind, and i play on controller. Also gnashing fang combo really locks you into a strict rotation. Imo it would have been better if hypervelocity didnt exist and instead added its potency to burst strike.
I'm just putting this here, because I'm a pedantic person. The "Bow" in Bow Shock is pronounced like "Ow". As in the bow of a boat. It's a nautical/aerospace term, which is in line with the naming scheme of Gunbreaker skills.
I started ff 14 as thaumaturge into a black mage but around the time I beat the first main story I started leveling marauder into warrior and really been loving tanking... I know u can have ur hands full but I feel like i can really put in work with damage reduction, barriers, healing, stunning, etc it's super fun... I almost have my black mage to lvl 60 so I might start gun breaker soon
Heart of Corundum is my favorite Tank skill, WAR's Bloodwhetting is a close second. I love that they are on a short 25 second cooldown and all the stuff they give you!
Me over here listening to the karaoke opener on 0.5 speed while at work until i can repeat it back perfectly. Who knows what my coworkers think is going on.
Welp, I was - a little. I always used double down and sonic break outside of the gnashing fang combo, didn't realize (or maybe forgot) that other skills don't break it! Will definitely start putting those GCD's in there to make sure they're affected by party buffs and are on cooldown asap! Never fails to amaze me how much there is to learn in this game and how well Wesk communicates it! ty
I'm just starting as tank. But I have a question : (for raid or trial) I'd I have agro from boss with enabled royal guard , when tanks needs a swap each other I should use shirk on second tank and disable royal guard? 😅
In addition, or alternatively, the other tank can drop a Provoke to force the swap. This is useful if your partner gets stunned by mistake just before you need to swap, or if they seem to have forgotten entirely that the swap is necessary.
Hey Wesk, I love your vidoes please keep it up! I have one question that I really want to know the answer, do you actually need to save your cooldown/opener facing a 4 man dung boss? Like for example as SAM do you need to save your Iki/Namikiri/Meikyo or Kenki for the boss or you would actually pop all of those during the wall to wall pull to kill the mobs faster? I think I am always saving it for boss and that might slow the speed my group killing trashes which probably make Healer and Tank's life harder. If I am doing wrong please let me know because I really don't want to hold my partys back and improve my gameplay.
No, dungeons you should be using stuff on CD and in trash. If things don't line up because of that, they don't line up. Trash is always much more dangerous.
In the Level 90 opener can I swap the Double Down and Sonic Break with no effect on later rotation? (and leave the rest the same). Reason being my hotbar setup and muscle memory are used to doing the sonic break first from L80
this job was the first i try when i got the full game and oh boy the combo ff8 réf animation and the never ending attaque is so rewardind i also like how this tank can help the main tank by basicly saying "here take my défensif cooldown i dont need it right now" also question after the first no mercy opening combot do stacking bullet to max until the next no mercy to spend them make it do more damage over all ? (whit out forgeting to not over cap bullet and put gnashing fang on cooldown)
@@WeskAlber so what i end up doing after the first combo is when theres around 20 seconds left on double down, i'll actually manually build up 3 cartridges with the 1-2-3 combo and its always in time for a full combo reset, aka gnashing into continuation, into double down, then the 4 other ogcd's and so on and so forth. If i dont, an instead spend on burst strikes, it becomes impossible to get another double down. This is something i figured out on my own while doing quite a while of long combo chains on dummies, and i feel it should be stated if its correct because not many people may figure it out.
@@MrMannerless You spend carts to prevent overcapping, not every time you get them. Having resources for your skills is the default more than anything. Strong skill, you wanna use on CD. So make sure you can
GNB honestly feels great i think a solid tweak would to just drop bloodfest to a 60 second timer to fit with no mercy windows just for easier usage. feels awkward for me
I started in ARR with Paladin and was happy switching to Gunblade, not only did I like this because Im a FF8 Fan but the other Tanks just feel boring,ly slow they are so slow and now that I entered EW, it got even more fast paced and I dont think I can even play the other tanks without getting bored to death. Aint got no cooldown for that lul Seeing a lot of things that you say in your guide, that I also got into a habit, so seems im on a good path.
Cool video, too bad everything after level 30 was a fever dream as you slowly bled out from the giant ice spike. Alternate joke: ... Whatever. Cool as always, gotta get back in to 14 and get to endwalker already. Also sad the "Danger Zone~" didn't make it into the karaoke opener.
"Late" weave no mercy. Place continuation right next to gnashing fang. Use your cartridges unless >8 for gnashing fang. Don't forget to dodge mechanics. 🤣
Oh i dont know we double weave blastzone+bowshock directly, all this time i always weave single those cd between gnashing fang combo :/ This is why we need wesk job guide
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Yay, you used my intro gag idea :D
I did, and you will be pinned to prove credit.
And now I wonder if the MCH intro will just be "from this" (Makai Mortar) "to this" (Giantsgall Knifelock)
I didn't get it ;;
@@macurvello he's deciding back and forth whether to use a gun or a sword
Omg, I didn't even pay attention to the actual weapons the girls were holding...
Sry for making you explain a joke 😅
GNB main here, the opener Wesk shows at the end is the "1-2-3 No Mercy" opener, a very standard opener used by GNB for many fights - its legit! I use it for most fights in savage/ultimate content, so any new players would do well to practice it as it's actually the recommend opener to learn with.
Great guide Wesk!
Why use combo to get your 1st cartridge instead of Bloodfest? Is that just to insure your team has all their buffs up?
@@vteccomplex more or less - your first 1-3 GCDs will be outside of raid buffs, so no sense immediately blowing your biggest CDs on them. This also allows you to get an extra Burst Strike/Hypervelocity inside of your opener No Mercy.
1-2-3 (1/3 carts)
No Mercy
Gnashing Fang (0/3 carts)
Bloodfest (3/3 carts)
Double Down (1/3 carts)
At end of burst, Burst Strike (0/3 carts)
New player who is just picking up gnb. I appreciate the way you talk through the rotations at levels that arent just max. Great vid.
EDIT: As of 6.2, regen no longer gains aggro over time. The initial use still grabs aggro, so it still has some use when trash spawns mid-fight. Original comment below.
Aurora is my favorite pulling tool. Royal Guard's enmity multiplier on the regen means you will overpower anything the Healer or DPS does before you can AOE to secure the enmity lead. Plus, it helps patch up some of the damage you take when pulling multiple groups before stopping and popping damage mitigation. It even works if a boss should spawn adds. It's one of my favorite GNB skills because it has that added utility.
I never even thought about using tank healing as a pull lmao
Well...
@@zealous404 Yep. I edited my comment. The healer in me is happy, but the GNB in me is weeping.
@@nemothesurvivor sameeeeee
You can also do this with WAR equilibrium to an extent
Started playing a little bit ago, and your guides have helped me immensely with picking up the game! Keep up the good work and thanks for the content :)
"I really hope this is your second tank"
I pray for that every time I see a gnb.
This was one of the issues I ran into when I picked up sage. The job is complex to begin with, plus it starts leveling at 70. I still want to play sage down the line, but I've been playing WHM to get a feel for healing in general.
@@niedas3426 i assume youve picked up sage by now. how has it been
I'm glad it's my third tank. I leveled Marauder to level 50 WAR, then to level 73 with DRK, then went back and now have GNB to 70. It's my favorite tank job so far.
Me who had no idea how to leveling so went from a dragoon straight to lv90 gunbreaker:
I know this come out a year ago but I want to say thank you for this video I only have GNB at 61 but the way you have it setup it made learning the opener so much easier to understand and follow that I am really enjoying GNB now keep up the good work 👍
Man I can’t believe it’s nearly the end of the EW guide series 😔 been a heck of a journey
I'm so happy when you upload these. Each time I'm like: I'm gunna pick up X class/job - Wesk to the rescue with a guide, like the next day. :D
It's amazing how different one can view gunbreaker from a casual view to an optimized, savage raiding view. I've gone over my opener and melds three times over the course of Pandaemonium due to the headaches Gnashing Fang gives me since it's affected by skill speed. No other job gives me this headache because I can't think of another job where a core job skill is affected by skill speed, just mainly the main gcd roll.
But it was worth learning the best gunbreaker I can be. Superbolide is much easier to pull off in EW thanks to Corundum, plus playing with Scholars in roulettes is an interesting way to use Bolide proactively when I know Excog is on. I basically learned to use Bolide proactively, when I know my healer hasn't used their big cooldowns yet. Don't have to worry about becoming the Benediction meme if I use Bolide above 50%.
MCH is the same like that too, but you sit on 2.5.
Great video, thank you! Made easing into GNB from PLD very straightforward :)
So Machinist is the last one I assume. All your guides are amazing and I love them. Cant wait for the last one. I'm leveling MCH now. Need that hotbar setup. Keep up the great work.
Always love the guides. I still always recommend them to newer players. I still watch them to improve myself. Keep it up!
Thanks Wesk, high-quality and very informative as always! Can’t wait to see what you’ll be creating when you finish these guides.
god tier content
It's probably a good idea to have your defensive abilities within comfortable distance of your AOE.
oh that's a good tip! my tank hotbar setups tend to have defensive CDs spread across different modifier keys (ctrl+key, shift+key), whereas i've always kept my AoE stuff on one modifier key... now i realize that those are *both* tools used to respond to big crowds of enemies, and maybe i could stand to shuffle things around so that i'm doing less finger gymnastics
I was really waiting for this 👀 im glad to see it on my timeline
I just started reading the patch notes and I initially thought the Bloodfest cooldown increase to 120s was a nerf until I realized that the new cooldown matches well with the other skills.
New GNB main and tank here. Having an awesome time with this role. Thanks for the guide!
Been waiting for this one! Now to see if I'm a complete wreck at my main or not.
Thanks Wesk I was waiting for this :)
Hey look it's my main! Looking forward to seeing what Wesk thinks of my favourite class.
Perfect timing
I really like this format, it makes more sense than the level by level way for sure. Good call!
I just swapped to GNB for DSR (because we're masochists and want to all change roles for each clear) and I'm glad to know I'm not making any egregious errors.
When it's jobs that come with a bunch of skills I do try to group stuff together. If I am keeping stuff separate I am doing it on purpose.
@@WeskAlber I didn't know it was a layout that you'd done before! I must not have watched them all, bad fan.
I'm sure there are some things on every job that could probably have their skill interactions highlighted in this way, like hide/mudras/ninjutsu/trick on NIN or the various Afflatus spells on WHM.
Either way, I just like it, good job 👏
@@swiftcastholy9034 Something like Mudra is far to complex to merge into one section. And if you're trying to learn from level 1, you do have a good 10+ levels of not having all of them, which gives you time to learn those interactions without being overloaded.
The step by step process is something I greatly value in this format, only combining when absolutely imperative.
This is the first job I’ve managed to get the level 90 rotation down, in terms of opener, filler, and reopener(not counting healers because….yeah). Feels like a good first step being…maybe slightly above middle ground for rotation complexity across all jobs
Hyper min max but, for the lvl 70+ openers you should be using continuations in the second ogcd slot to get ur other ogcds cds rolling faster.
Love the content wesk!
Awesome I just started playing gunbreaker
For me gnb is the most difficult tank for me to play, because the bloodfest cooldown kinda screws with my mind, and i play on controller.
Also gnashing fang combo really locks you into a strict rotation. Imo it would have been better if hypervelocity didnt exist and instead added its potency to burst strike.
I'm just putting this here, because I'm a pedantic person. The "Bow" in Bow Shock is pronounced like "Ow". As in the bow of a boat. It's a nautical/aerospace term, which is in line with the naming scheme of Gunbreaker skills.
I started ff 14 as thaumaturge into a black mage but around the time I beat the first main story I started leveling marauder into warrior and really been loving tanking... I know u can have ur hands full but I feel like i can really put in work with damage reduction, barriers, healing, stunning, etc it's super fun... I almost have my black mage to lvl 60 so I might start gun breaker soon
Hope we get an updated guide for Dawntrail.
I'm certain we will, just might be a while since he's doing them for every job, and they take a decent bit of effort to make
Heart of Corundum is my favorite Tank skill, WAR's Bloodwhetting is a close second. I love that they are on a short 25 second cooldown and all the stuff they give you!
The Personal Eye Catcher for me was the Bottom Text to "Simple and Clean" xD
Wicked Talon is the best melee attack in terms of animation and sound, it's just so aggressive!
Me over here listening to the karaoke opener on 0.5 speed while at work until i can repeat it back perfectly. Who knows what my coworkers think is going on.
Gotta love that ♬ Danger Zone ♫♪
GNB was my favorite tanking job in ShB and the only one I bothered to get to lvl 80 lol
Haha the vibrosword revelation at the end to crush the dreams of the naive and innocent
Any update to level 100?
Time to find out if I'm playing my main wrong :P
Welp, I was - a little. I always used double down and sonic break outside of the gnashing fang combo, didn't realize (or maybe forgot) that other skills don't break it! Will definitely start putting those GCD's in there to make sure they're affected by party buffs and are on cooldown asap! Never fails to amaze me how much there is to learn in this game and how well Wesk communicates it! ty
Wait, I wrote this during the 90 karaoke and have just learned something much more critical. Gunblade's do what?! (42:50)
This is great :D
I'm just starting as tank.
But I have a question : (for raid or trial)
I'd I have agro from boss with enabled royal guard , when tanks needs a swap each other I should use shirk on second tank and disable royal guard? 😅
Yes
In addition, or alternatively, the other tank can drop a Provoke to force the swap. This is useful if your partner gets stunned by mistake just before you need to swap, or if they seem to have forgotten entirely that the swap is necessary.
"..punished for grinding.."
Me: I understood that reference!
love you king 👍👑👑
Wait the gunblade doesn’t actually shoot bullets?
Nope!
it never did sadly
Hey Wesk, I love your vidoes please keep it up! I have one question that I really want to know the answer, do you actually need to save your cooldown/opener facing a 4 man dung boss? Like for example as SAM do you need to save your Iki/Namikiri/Meikyo or Kenki for the boss or you would actually pop all of those during the wall to wall pull to kill the mobs faster? I think I am always saving it for boss and that might slow the speed my group killing trashes which probably make Healer and Tank's life harder. If I am doing wrong please let me know because I really don't want to hold my partys back and improve my gameplay.
No, dungeons you should be using stuff on CD and in trash. If things don't line up because of that, they don't line up. Trash is always much more dangerous.
@@WeskAlber Thank you so much
In the Level 90 opener can I swap the Double Down and Sonic Break with no effect on later rotation? (and leave the rest the same). Reason being my hotbar setup and muscle memory are used to doing the sonic break first from L80
It should be fine. it should all be within the same buff window
Did continuation change? I put it on my hotbar, and when I unlocked it, it disappeared?
You might have accidentally removed it
@@WeskAlber I watched it blink out as I turned the quest in, it was weird.
this job was the first i try when i got the full game and oh boy the combo ff8 réf animation and the never ending attaque is so rewardind i also like how this tank can help the main tank by basicly saying "here take my défensif cooldown i dont need it right now" also question after the first no mercy opening combot do stacking bullet to max until the next no mercy to spend them make it do more damage over all ? (whit out forgeting to not over cap bullet and put gnashing fang on cooldown)
I believe you get about 3 cartridges(bullets) between Gnashing Fang combos, so you'll be using 1 cartridge outside of No Mercy for Burst Strike.
@@vteccomplex okay thanks you :)
do you by any chance have a full continuation of the level 90 rotation, or is there somewhere i can find it?
Fill in basic GCD combos, spend carts when you will overcap, use everything on cooldown
@@WeskAlber so what i end up doing after the first combo is when theres around 20 seconds left on double down, i'll actually manually build up 3 cartridges with the 1-2-3 combo and its always in time for a full combo reset, aka gnashing into continuation, into double down, then the 4 other ogcd's and so on and so forth.
If i dont, an instead spend on burst strikes, it becomes impossible to get another double down.
This is something i figured out on my own while doing quite a while of long combo chains on dummies, and i feel it should be stated if its correct because not many people may figure it out.
@@MrMannerless You spend carts to prevent overcapping, not every time you get them. Having resources for your skills is the default more than anything. Strong skill, you wanna use on CD. So make sure you can
What do you think that in the next expansion does gunbreaker need?
GNB honestly feels great
i think a solid tweak would to just drop bloodfest to a 60 second timer to fit with no mercy windows
just for easier usage. feels awkward for me
I started in ARR with Paladin and was happy switching to Gunblade, not only did I like this because Im a FF8 Fan but the other Tanks just feel boring,ly slow they are so slow and now that I entered EW, it got even more fast paced and I dont think I can even play the other tanks without getting bored to death. Aint got no cooldown for that lul Seeing a lot of things that you say in your guide, that I also got into a habit, so seems im on a good path.
I mean you must like something specific about GNB because DRK is just as fast paced. PLD and WAR aren't THAT much slower either.
Be honest, how many wipes were there to the Demon Tome?
0, Aurora was enough to keep the SAM alive up to the end you see.
good video
"We'll cover all your skills where you're punished for grinding..."
Ah, I see the obvious reference. XD
Kinda hard to learn this since we lost rough divide, I guess just pretend it's not there lol
@@Rei_Amamiya that really is all you have to do
I'm the only one that thinks the "Bloodfest" icon looks like an evil Shellder?
updated NIN next?
did that months ago
Nice.
Cool video, too bad everything after level 30 was a fever dream as you slowly bled out from the giant ice spike.
Alternate joke: ... Whatever.
Cool as always, gotta get back in to 14 and get to endwalker already. Also sad the "Danger Zone~" didn't make it into the karaoke opener.
Rip rough divide
"Late" weave no mercy.
Place continuation right next to gnashing fang.
Use your cartridges unless >8 for gnashing fang.
Don't forget to dodge mechanics. 🤣
Oh i dont know we double weave blastzone+bowshock directly, all this time i always weave single those cd between gnashing fang combo :/
This is why we need wesk job guide
DANGER ZONE!
Gun sword trick gun sword royal guard
17:08 wrong. some attack needs the invul
Name One.
So now that I'm getting my GNB into the 70s, yeah it's a busy, busy job. Maybe it shouldn't have been my 1st tank -_-
Big bada boom tho
I need to play ff8 just to better blend in with the other gunbreaker mains
Danger Zone! 😆 💖
Wow, your Albert Wesker character looks really good in the GNB artifact gear
well Wesker liked his coats in resident evil,it only makes sense
oh GNB shouldn't be your first tank? haha whoops :)
lol vibrating sword XD
Danger zone lol
Please do Ninja next!
Ninja is done already. MCH is the only one left.
@@Gear_Master_ and the DRG-rework in 6.2
@@zirilan3398 The one that was pushed back?
This is why I never use Discord in FF14.
Not sure how that is relevant
You can't be a Gunbreaker from 1-90 since you get the job at 60. Lol.
The point to starting at level 1 is to get knowledge of each ability and what goes together to get a better understanding of the class.
You can get synced in duty finder, FATEs, and deep dungeons to below level 60.