Gunbreaker Got the STRONGEST Skill in The Game | Xeno Reacts to Dawntrail Changes (Media Tour)

[@yep8058]

Glad you didn't get caught sneaking in through the backdoor, my liege.

[@1Shayz1]

"I landed all 8 GCDs within the burst window!" "YEAH BUT DID YOU CRIT???"

[@BlaxxShadow]

smadge

[@aethernmr]

For what it's worth, after watching, I found that it was easier to follow the rotations with you clicking on each ability as it shows that you're going to press next. Everyone's bar is different so I found it much better to follow along also because when you hover a skill it says the name/gives a description

[@fairytamer8144]

"Greed responsibly." I am going to print this on a shirt. 🤣

[@Frostbyte115]

Get me one

[@Vidyagameenjoyer]

SO ABOUT THAT BIRTHDAY, STRUMMER....

[@strawberrysundaes]

it was his birthday but he could not get birthday present for his hair

[@Ravemaster620]

The reason his hair isn't there anymore is cos it went out to buy him a present and never came back

[@kristofkovacs3012]

EXCELLENT MEDIA TOUR MY LIEGE

[@thepeanutter9972]

Gap closer should've been using the recoil of a gun shot to propel yourself to the target.

[@gasparguruoftime5475]

Like Rufus from FF7 Remake and Rebirth. Dang that's a good idea. These damage-less gap closers are nice but they all just kinda look like Thunderclap lol.

[@PotatoeGamerLP]

​@@gasparguruoftime5475why did they remove the damage from the gap closers lol

[@foxghost11]

@@PotatoeGamerLP Because it's a pain to use them in burst windows especially when moving the boss or pressing mitigations , and when u actually need a gap closer, you already used them in ur 2 min burst window so nobody was using them as gap closers anymore, warrior makes sense since he doesn't have any ogcd beside ur gap closer and upheavel

[@StriderZessei]

Hopefully the job will take more inspiration from Rufus now that most of Squall's moves have been used.

[@renakira4904]

Man Kratos sure is passionate about this

[@ashesofaranea]

okay i'm glad for the changes, hopefully next season your wish of it going down to 1 minute job actually goes through

[@nr1samurai331]

Dumping 3 burst strikes before 2min no mercy and back loading gnashing fang should have better damage profile. 2min window should look like this: No Mercy > Sonic > DD > Lionheart combo > Gnashing combo. For odd windows No Mercy > Sonic > DD > 123 > gnashing. This also means we can enter odd minute window at 2 cart instead of usual 3 because we will obtain necessary cart within it.

[@Orphan_of_Kos_or_some_say_Kosm]

Thank god they made most DT raid buffs 20s instead of 15s, the gnashing fang at the end of the burst won't be punished now, I guess the question now is how to not waste the 1 cartridge in the opener with that rotation

[@James-kv3ll]

Why do Lionheart Before Gnashing? Isn’t the idea to get gnashing on cooldown as soon as possible to maximize the uses in a fight? The lionheart combo doesn’t have the same concern because bloodfest goes on cooldown as soon as you use it to get cartridges

[@gasparguruoftime5475]

Don't you wanna use Gnashing before Lionheart so the cooldown gets rolling? You can put the Lionheart combo anywhere as long as it's under No Mercy and raid buffs. This is even moreso the case now that all raid buffs are being standardized to 20 seconds.

[@James-kv3ll]

@@gasparguruoftime5475 That’s what I said

[@gasparguruoftime5475]

@@James-kv3ll Ah you said it too, yeah. I was intending that comment towards OP.

[@TheAuron32]

with you on the crit vs non crit thing, we already had a problem with that in Double Down, about 30k non crit vs about 75k direct crit, it feels so bad when your big hitting cooldown fails to crit.

[@ZackFairTV]

What a legend NOCRINGE 5:06

[@shugo2355]

i would love for the Lion Heart combo to be 1 minute and much lower potency with auto crit -- maybe crit and direct hit. that sounds so much more fun!

[@terrellcole7633]

It might've been too "on the nose" but I wish they just called it Renzokuken

[@Jambara]

I feel like with the action continuations on one button charges they need to reorganize the job actions menu to show the action tree.

[@parky669]

omg finally, i'm gonna cry! media tour stuff!!!!

[@DDazzleD]

I agree with Xenos on shorter cooldowns! I hope the devs will listen to what Xenos suggest. Too many “waiting” in combat is not funny IMO.

[@54fedase90]

Never understood why people like guaranteed crits (outside of optimization). I always felt that ability with guaranteed crit feels like an ability that can't crit at all, missing that dopamine hit when Big Buttons does Big Number I do think crit and direct hit as a mechanic don't make much sense as they are now, but making everything crit feels lame to me

[@gasparguruoftime5475]

Well, that's why people don't like Crit and DH currently; it adds way too much RNG that you just can't do much about other than hope it happens, and Crit is so busted that it makes a big difference for your damage. That's why in the video he said he wants to raise the floor and lower the ceiling on that damage. For me, I like the big number from Crit, but I like that number whether it's a guaranteed Crit or not; the RNG of it plays no factor into my dopamine hit. If anything, them adding so much guaranteed Crit to stuff is almost like them admitting the issue.

[@khash6419]

16:22 You can still get the hypervelocity continuation in at 9 GCD Skill speed No mercy. Just use burst strike before the Lion Heart combo and that way with Lion Heart as the last hit since it has no continuation tied to it you fit it all in. So maybe Gnashing fang combo with Sonic and Double down (5 GCD's), Burst strike right after (6 GCD's) Then use the last 3 for Lionheart to make 9.

[@bogerdank]

with media tour potencies burst strike/continuation is 540 potency lower than lion heart. which is very unlikely to be better damage because of variance/raid buffs 👍

[@khash6419]

@@bogerdank That doesnt matter because what I said states that you can use BOTH within no mercy at 9 GCD skill speed. If you are at 2.50 GCD Skill speed you would not do this.

[@QuixSilver1234]

with "ready to break" lasting 30s it's probably better finish with sonic break. That way if there is any forced downtime during the NM window you don't clip the LH combo

[@Trapp_]

Bloodfest at 1 minute is a fine idea, it might even be combined with no mercy, and allow either free use of double down and gnashing fang for the duration or your meter expands to 6 cartridges like a revolver, filling 3 and to not lose it - use it.

[@TheLewisScott]

I always hoped for the 6 cartridge gauge cause like it’s a revolver in a sword it should have 6.

[@FutayuriShironeko]

I like how gnb plays. But reload is a must add.

[@sr7olsniper]

yeah dying for any reason feels bad man. Its soo punishing. Atm if you dont play absolutely optimaly just uninstall because you are going to be crap regardless. I love it themacally and its my main but it needs some help. It wasn't like this at 80.

[@FutayuriShironeko]

@@sr7olsniper everyone's talking how good gnb was at 80, which sure. But punishing aspect is actually what I like about gnb alongside going fast. Gnb simply needs reload (meditation) because of forced boss downtime, not because dying sucks.

[@sr7olsniper]

@@FutayuriShironeko that is part of the issue. not having your cartriges

[@FutayuriShironeko]

@@sr7olsniper 1min bloodfest would solve everything.

[@1Shayz1]

Mr Happy had an interview with YoshiP where he asked if they take into account Black Mage losing their uptime for "down for the count" mechanics, and it seems that they do in fact balance around this So I would assume the same for GNB and cartridges

[@Kazgrel]

It's heartening to see someone else say what I've been thinking for better part of EW, specifically with GNB; skills that have you hitting a target or give you a resource to hit a target should be on 60 second cd instead of 120. SAM got that treatment with Senei and Guren. Really wish GNB (and DRK) got that with their 2 min cds. Things like Embolden, Litany, stuff that just buffs stats/damage can be left on 2 min window. I'm like Xeno; the buttons that hit the boss are the ones I want to hit more often.

[@stealtheirmoola]

Tbh I'm fine with optimizations like downtime and AoE cartridge generation, gives me something extra to think about for a role that is already easy. More punishing, but that's my style

[@MurakamiTenshi]

Happy birthday ❤️ I've been waiting for the day GNB can come back to the spotlight. It's always been clunky, never did as well as WAR, but I love it. PLD got their glow up in Endwalker, so maybe it's our time?

[@highroller5335]

I like to think of the bloodfest LH combo as giving you 6 cartridges. Like how some of the other jobs their "reload" button just lets them do their gauge stuff for free rather than actually fill it like machinest's barrel stabalizer.. gunbreaker does both.. it both gives you carts and discounts the carts you'd spend in that burst phase. And in theory crafting, i think it's trying to address a few concerns. 1 of which is countered by it breaking your gnashing fang combo. i really hope that gets changed because what the lionheart gcd's do is give you back weave slots that would've been used on hypervelocity. You now have those ocgd windows back for defensives if needed... buuut it breaking combos i feel nonbos this point. The other thing it does is give you back something different to do during your off phases, if for example you do have great uptime between minutes 2-3 of a fight then you **will** go into your reopener with a full suite of 3 carts which will be spent on gnashing + doubledown and then get those bloodfest carts coming out of it.. this kinda forces you down the line to hit some burst strikes during your filler to stop overcapping.. and it also means that so long as you stay alive, it'll be much easier to have 3 carts ready for your next burst without bloodfest. The lionheart combo might not come up every minute, but the carts it saves you on will be relevant a minute later.

[@phoscent]

liking the video is the gcd and subscribing is the continuation combo for it

[@TheMaxinR]

Continuation on a solid barrel could be a defensive continuation. it'd be super cool.

[@lastdayer101]

The fact that gunbreaker potencies are so high is why they are cool. When you hit that massive hit it feels great. This is from a non-raider perspective.

[@kimlee6643]

I think them closing the job action vid with GNB's lionheart was intentional. The sound design in particular for GNB has always been super meaty, and they evidently wanted to take it up a notch.

[@ROBerter-h9u]

Excellent work my Liege 05:06 diesfromcringe

[@decuns434]

Stance like cartridge regeneration would be an issue, what they really can do to fix passive downtime and cartridge management - give us 5s gcd that would recharge one cartridge for use. That'll be great, hope they'll realize that option sooner or later.

[@LoyalToTheMicrobes]

i agree on the floating thing. def look better on the ground. one of the things i do when playing Gunbreaker is find moments to jump during attacks to give them more air time when they jump in the animation. Like I jump before doing Burst Strike and....the 3rd attack in the regular combo I jump in between the 2nd and 3rd hit giving the 3rd jumping strike a larger jump....that's how i play lol.

[@robotom6595]

The fact that any new downtime fights wont be nearly as punishing on GNB burst is awesome. You can theoretically go into your 2 min burst with 0, 1, or 3 shells and be fine. DSR made me hate GNB so I hope this fixes things

[@dcajeton1712]

EXCELENT BIRTHDAY TOUR MY LEAGE

[@kamaro6279]

4:45 after he said "you know whats awesome" an ad started playing

[@hayatojin2886]

enjoying all the content, hope to catch a stream one day!

[@beergrills]

Bad example with 30k vs 90k hits, mr strummer. Crit direct hits are around 2x damage not 3x.

[@Volfur2251]

i really do hope the gap closures are more of a visual thing then a time difference. its gonna be really hard to break that muscle memory of dodging tight AoE's/Greeding with it

[@ThatCasulGuy]

Have to agree the floating around looks bad, it seems super awkward and out of place, save that shit for DRG. Really don't like the change to rough divide. It was absolutely fine before.

[@awtodor]

It's nice having someone knowledgeable and entertaining. Good breakdowns.

[@Brucesleek]

I dont really agree with the philosophy of making high potent skills watered down just so you can press it more. I like to have at least 1 skill that can slap hard every once and a while its way cooler thematically.

[@gasparguruoftime5475]

I think the neat thing about bursting every one minute is that it naturally makes the game more challenging since now with more consistent damage, you're losing a lot more if you miss damage while doing mechanics, meaning that hitting your rotation during mechanics is a lot more satisfying. I feel like more consistent damage and less focus on burst would make encounters more engaging because of this. Also it wouldn't water them down; they'd still be bringing value over the course of an entire fight. It's all about perception I guess, but as a DRK main I desperately want more to do outside of the 2-min burst, but that's what the game is designed around right now unfortunately.

[@DICEBOY22]

I don't think I've actually had a problem with Cartridges... I just keep up a combo constantly refreshing cartridges.

[@JasontthePro]

GUNMODE

[@Ti7Vk3y]

🔫

[@mesnfes]

3k fppong "When you want shit done, bring in the gun" massive chills aside from that, EXCELLENT POINTS M'LIEGE, expecially your bloodfest point.

[@phuckerpower]

I'm not a tank main anymore, but GNB is my favorite tank job. This is what I was waiting to see.

[@jesternonsense5516]

I totally agree with bloodfest being 60sec. I mean double down is 1200 pot and is 60 sec. So yeah low lion heart pot. Give 60sec will fix most issues but still looking forward to playing GNB.

[@SwoleSenjuXL]

4:36 felt with the double down not criting lmfao

[@jonh4872]

Minor nitpick, Bow in "Bow Shock" is pronounced the same was as Bow of a ship (rhymes with wow).

[@tygersigma7454]

Okay fine… you got me with that subscribe thing 😂

[@Nyanti_Games]

I love gunbreaker, and i agree with the too much dps in one spot route they are taking, did an extremely rough calc based on my own personal damage rolls in athena from dbd in bis 2.5, based on the extreme high of it (98k crit/direct), lionheart if it rolls like that for all would do 32k dps or 245k damage, with a high dbd would end up being 34k dps or 343k damage over 10 seconds, on the low end lionheart pulls 12k dps basded on my low 36k damage rolls. I could be entirely misguided in my math here so correct me if i did order of operations wrong, but i dont like my entire dps output being based on 4 rolls every 2 minutes essentially, i like gnbs 30 second gnash with a 1 min burst of pump (Clarification edit: all calcs are based on a party buffed 2 minute with a grade 8 hq strength pot, so take it with a geain of salt)

[@ampur2]

as a PLD main I agree GNB should also become a 1min job, makes it easier to manage

[@ToaChronix]

I wish they kept the current gap closer and just removed the damage from it

[@dasnab2231]

GUFF THE BUNBREAKER! Thanks for the vid Xeno!

[@gasparguruoftime5475]

So I'm slightly interested in GNB but never really played it. What I think I grasped from what you said is that right now in EW, you go into your burst with 3 (non-Bloodfest) cartridges, burn them on Gnashing and DD, then use Bloodfest so you can Burst Strike three times to get the most possible potency under No Mercy (and all other 20s buffs). But now you can instead burn your cartridges just before burst, and go into burst with Bloodfest cuz those three Burst Strikes are now replaced by the Lionheart combo, so the Burst Strikes won't be under buffs no matter what so might as well burn them just before. That sound about right?

[@dividion8102]

If your healers are having trouble and you need to pop Superbolide and are still at 1hp when the cooldown ends, hitting Great Nebula could be a real life saver.

[@mechaulfr9600]

Cat says Meow, Dog says woof, Xeno says he thinks GBR feels clunky. (I love GBR, I love all my tanks but GBR was my first and it gives me a lot of happy brain chemicals) NUMBERS- you have a point, annnd is why I generally dont watch them. :p But Im also a filthy casual Reload: .... yeah 100% that would be awesome. Im good at keeping my carts full but still just having that for when I mess up or whe Gap Closer: Yeah that LOOKS slow. I miss Rough Divide already.

[@James-kv3ll]

You don’t like the Lion Heart combo breaking your gnashing gang combo but I love that because starting gnashing fang and NOT finishing it immediately is one of the stupidest things about how GNB is played optimally Atm. Every GCD should break the combo imo. Stop this dumb “oh we’re just gonna start it to get it on cooldown” bullsht

[@BoyBadtrip]

YoshiP will create a separate button where you must click as your attack hits like Squall so it can critDH. 😂

[@alexandrezolla4959]

VeryVeryVeryVeryVeryVeryWeirdMan 4:54

[@MEISINGER888]

Personally the only issues I've had is adapting to the new abilities and changes.(I play on PlayStation) Otherwise I'm enjoying it + the drip is fire.

[@Freelance4hire]

the character flying in the air when they do the lion's heart combo is weird

[@aphilli97]

Yea i agree i dont care for the 2 minute meta id rather bloodfest be every 1 minute. Its kinda sucky i got wait forever for that big bang combo

[@Swerg20]

Fingers crossed, Yoshi said in the interview with Mr happy that 8.0 will focus more on job changes and job Identity, and 7.0 their plan was to just refine what we got in 6.0. sucks that it's 2-3 years out but still

[@SquallL47]

the potency issue is literally how I felt about samurai during stormblood. damn be your wet pool noodle when your midare didn't crit and hit for 10k, then the samurai next to your crits and they're during quadruple that. felt horrendous

[@ich3730]

idk man imo thats the point of having crits in a game xD

[@Synkhan]

Seems to me they dont want the blue dps to compete with the red dps. Would probably explain the long cooldown since its a "tank".

[@Regis_Philbin]

Same rant pepeW : Media Tour Edition

[@KaemghinBeardwulf]

i've never had to AOE combo to get cartridges, at least in savage :O but with that being said, although i clear a lot of savages, i do get burnt out of the game and i've never completed all the 12 steps of an expansion unfortunately. Otherwise i'm still excited despite the issues about GNB, still my favourite job :)

[@LucasOliveira-cy1os]

There are very few savage fights that you can optimize with aoe combo, but you have to do it in every ultimate. A reload button that works like meditade would be a godsend.

[@Wafflenautiful]

5:06 Chills

[@James-kv3ll]

I like having the 1 minute burst be different from the 2 minute burst. If I wanted to do the exact same fcking thing every 1 minute I’d play some dumber job

[@RyuNoZero]

you know.. that Direct Hit Stuff really grinds my gears as Samurai since they could just changed Kaiten to do do Direct Hit and it would be fixed but NooooOOOooo here spam Shinten... Also.. not a Fan of the damageless Gap Closers.. they should've just made Proximity Based Damage instead, like Warp Strike from the FFXV Event but as OGCD

[@captainziggy82]

Square making crit on gnb even more annoying to chase zzzzzzzzzz

[@4thwall826]

they should convert gnashing fang into lion heart whenever u use bloodfest

[@p1ngerss]

excellent media tour, my liege

[@MB-em9ek]

The floating looks stupid.

[@DrBockNstein]

GB was amazing when it come out in shadow bringers and ever since then every single change has been a mess. Stop trying to design a tank like it's ninja or sam.

[@DarkDyllon]

i'm still kinda salty that PLD/WAR didn't get their damage removed from the gap closers, honestly, why didn't they just remove the damage portion, the animations were fine.

[@777Marcus7771]

im agree with floating animation, its kinda meh... but actualy great suggestions

[@magguthemachine4895]

EXCELLENT VIDEO MY LIEGE

[@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668]

I don't like 2 minute cooldowns either. What if your rotation is fucked and you lose out on a fuckload of damage cause of a boss transition?

[@leighg9o]

Issues persist. 7.0 just compounding more issues jobs have lol

[@thegamemattster]

The gap closer needs to generate enmity even at 0 potency for dungeons

[@Joshua-xh6bm]

I'm so happy for him

[@johnstajduhar9617]

It sucks how inelastic GNBs rotation is compared to WAR. I never feel punished by a fight on WAR, just adjust a bit and take note of how much Fury you're going through. but GNB? You get fucked so bad by downtime or forced mechanics where you have to separate, compared to the other tanks.

[@mikec.9379]

Yay. Gunbreaker rant

[@James-kv3ll]

The 2 minute burst just got significantly better imo

[@Gemini_Godhand]

I don't care if Gunbreakers a hot mess I'll still play it forever as it fits my Sci fi Aesthetic like no other tank could.

[@lofilad13]

the mid roll ad was so fucking good. already been followed/subscribed lol

[@ShadowWalker-ng1it]

So does lionheart combo have continuation? If yes I might look into jerry rig a drums pedal on my computer and find a way for it to be registered as a mouse input

[@絶し不変なる殺戮の地平]

It doesn't have Continuation! You can actually weave in your mits/pull the boss during burst windows with it, which is one big complaint me and my friends had about EW GNB.

[@liukang4603]

Hey man I like and fallowed but I need a dummy guide for tanking, I want to master this class but over all gunbraker.

[@LimitedSource21]

POG

[@Jethro0815]

Isn't the dmg variation the reason why they changed midare?

[@snowy4460]

So question, did they replace rough divide with the new gap closer?

[@trustyrat8632]

Yes

[@flaviomolina7165]

all melees got the monk dash

[@rodimus580]

The SKYFALLEN will not be pleased.

[@James-kv3ll]

“Clunky. Obnoxious. Horrible to play.” But also “Fun”??? Bro what

[@mjkuhnke]

so the job cycles back and forth between stockpiling to vomit everything up at 60s like every other job. and who the eff cares the entire burst window is on one button?? that sounds really weird to play... i guess having long stretches of freestyle time that doesn't really lead up to anything is somewhat forgiving at least

[@admiralcoffeemaker6310]

Pog Gunbreaker be cookin'

[@user-uv4wn2xx7o]

Gunbreaker is tanks Sam. You can jump into a burst combo right away at the start of battle

[@yea9008]

I wish bloodfest gave 3 "special" cartridges to use on lion heart instead of "reign of beasts ready" or whatever

[@はちみつ-p4m]

5:06 DIESOFCRINGE my liege...

[@Tone_E_Tone2181]

5:06 Legendary Strummer NOCRINGE

[@Robocop2134]

I also think it would be way cooler if the character didn't float during the Lionheart combo. I get it, it's a reference to ff8, but awkwardly floating half a meter above the ground still does not look good...