A newly minted Gunbreaker, so many skills – so little time! Lucky you’ve found the right place! Our Gunbreaker L60 & Leveling Rotation guide should help you get into the basics.
Looking for a list of skills? See our Gunbreaker general guide, or preferably… your own skill list. Gunbreaker enters the world with the following number of actions, all of which we will account for:
- NINETEEN Job actions
- SEVEN Role actions
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Gunbreaker (GNB) L60 Rotation Summary
Here we discuss the single target rotation, AoE rotation, and cooldown usage of Gunbreaker. If you need a skill by skill explanation and protips, it’s in the next section.
Protip: Never forget your enmity stance (Royal Guard) in dungeons. And at least one of you two tanks should have it in raids (Remember the “he who keeps it on is the main tank” rule).
L60 Gunbreaker Single Target Rotation
It would help to imagine Gunbreakers L60 rotation as using combos to gain cartridges, and appropriately spending them.
Your basic rotation loop looks something like this:
- Keen Edge > Brutal Shell > Solid Barrel GAIN CARTRIDGE.
- Spend cartridge: Gnashing Fang combo > Burst Strike (cooldown dependent)
That constitutes a majority of your decisions and actions, but also consider the miscellaneous parts of your DPS.
- Use heavy cooldowns: No Mercy > Sonic Break
- Weave OGCDS: Danger Zone > Rough Divide
L60 Gunbreaker AoE Rotation
Your basic AoE rotation (3+ enemies!) loop looks something like this:
- Revert to single target at any time you have less than 3 enemies.
- Demon Slice > Demon Slaughter combo: GAIN CARTRIDGE
- Save up to 2 Cartridges, don’t overflow! Use them as you would in your single target rotation but maybe prioritizing Burst Strike spam, for speed.
That constitutes a majority of your decisions and actions, but also consider the miscellaneous parts of your DPS.
- Use heavy cooldowns: No Mercy > Sonic Break
- Weave OGCDS: Danger Zone > Rough Divide
AS YOU DO NOT HAVE A CARTRIDGE AoE SPENDER,
you cannot truly have an isolated AoE rotation yet,
and must incorporate single target.
L60 Gunbreaker Other skills and responsibilities
Here we outline the uses of any other skill not mentioned in the rotation guide above.
Keep Royal Guard on! You’re a tank, so (easy as it is these days) hold aggro at all times. Royal Guard is essentially an enmity generation stance. It’s OGCD these days! Provoke helps with the strays
Heavy damage (help your healers!) should be mitigated by:
Nebula, Camouflage, and role action Rampart.
You can help heal yourself with Aurora. Every little bit counts…
If you’re on the precipice of death, Superbolide ENSURES you to be an inch from it! Jokes aside, it will keep you alive for the next few seconds. Hopefully, you’ll be alive AFTER it.
Gunbreaker L60 skill by skill explanation and binding tips
Here, we bind your actions and help you understand them
IN THE ORDER THEY APPEAR.
Keen Edge: is your basic combo starter. “1”.
No Mercy (short cooldown): A very long DPS steroid that should BASICALLY be used as much as you can. Keep it in reach as its cooldown is very generous.
Brutal Shell: Is the second step in your basic combo. “2”.
Camouflage (long cooldown): an amazing cooldown due to its titanic duration. Essentially a second Rampart. Great for absorbing “two” mechanics worth of damage.
Demon Slice: is the first step in your AoE combo.
Royal Guard: is your tank stance. Switching it is OGCD these days. Honestly, I wouldn’t mind clicking this, or having a far bind.
Lightning Shot: Ranged pulling attack.
Danger Zone (short cooldown): Heavy OGCD attack. Used quite often.
Solid Barrel: Your basic combo finisher. “3”. It also gains you a Cartridge.
Burst Strike: Heavy single target Cartridge spender.
Nebula (long cooldown): Short but heavy damage mitigation. Use for tank busters.
Demon Slaughter: Your AoE combo finisher that also gains you a Cartridge.
Aurora (cooldown): A cute regen effect on yourself, or any party member.
Superbolide (long cooldown): Ultimate “Oh Shit” Button, but puts your health at 1.
Sonic Break (cooldown): Massive DoT with long duration that’s mostly relevant on bosses.
Rough Divide (short cooldown): OGCD gap closer with damage. Will mostly be used for damage, lol. Keep it close in bindings.
Gnashing Fang > Savage Claw > Wicked Talon: Are the three parts of your cartridge combo. Note that the combo has a cooldown, aside from cartridge cost. Personally, I put these in “Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, Ctrl+3”.
I’ll loosely discuss these Tank Actions in relation to Gunbreaker.
Rampart: is a workhorse. Due to its long duration, it’s suitable for large dungeon pulls and “double mitigating” a string of mechanics in raids. Gunbreaker also has Camouflage to act as a “Rampart 2”.
Low Blow: Is rarely useful in raids but great otherwise. Stunning a monster makes it deal no damage, and can also interrupt their spells. I used to bind this near me, but I now have a super out of the way bind for it. (CTRL or ALT + something). Clicking it is fine, too.
Provoke: Is essential in raids, and has some usefulness in dungeons. You should ALWAYS know if your Provoke is up, and where to press for it. No self-respecting tank would ever be confused about their own Provoke.
Interject: Similar to Low Blow in many respects, it’s a pretty niche skill. Find a far bind for it, or click it.
Reprisal is a godly skill in raids, but pretty much a non-issue otherwise. Find a good bind for this if you’re the raiding type.
Arm’s Length is something I comfortably put in the “okay to click” tier. It’s RARELY used and its uses will rarely catch you off-guard. It’s almost always planned.
Shirk: is essential in most raids. Transferring aggro to and receiving aggro from your tanks helps ease tank swap mechanics.
Gunbreaker L60+ How new skills affect rotation
I’ll add to this very soon.
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WELL THATS IT FOR NOW. I’ll definitely be adding information. Good luck shooting and slashing with your Fresh L60+ Gunbreaker Leveling Rotation!