Leveling Rotations and Tips for Gunbreaker — Endwalker 6.5
This page covers the rotation and action usage when leveling Gunbreaker to Level 90. This page can also be used to help when doing roulettes with level scaling by using the slider to adjust the information to your desired level.
Gear Options
Use the highest item level gear available to you while leveling. Upgrade gear whenever possible after level 50 by purchasing items with tomestones. You can exchange Allagan Tomestone of Poetics for gear in Idyllshire at level 60, Rhalgr's Reach at level 70, and Eulmore at level 80.
Rotation Overview While Leveling Gunbreaker
As Gunbreaker is unlocked directly at level 60, you will have access to all actions up to then. This page will begin at level 15, as the first available instanced duty is level 15. Openers will start at level 70.
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Single-Target Rotation
When you are tanking, turn on your tank stance Royal Guard.
No Mercy should be used in your opener and on cooldown every 60 seconds.
Keen Edge and
Brutal Shell is your single-target combo.
Keen Edge,
Brutal Shell, and
Solid Barrel is your single-target combo.
- Spend cartridges on
Burst Strike.
- Spend cartridges on the
Gnashing Fang combo in your opener and every 30 seconds. Any leftover cartridges will be spent on
Burst Strike.
- Spend
cartridges on the
Gnashing Fang combo in your opener and every 30 seconds. Any leftover cartridges will be spent on
Burst Strike.
Sonic Break should be used in your opener and during every subsequent
No Mercy buff window.
Bow Shock should be used in your opener and during every subsequent
No Mercy buff window.
- Use
Continuation after each weaponskill in the
Gnashing Fang combo.
- Use
Continuation after each weaponskill in the
Gnashing Fang combo and after each
Burst Strike.
Danger Zone should be used in your opener and on cooldown every 30 seconds. At level 80, this ability gets upgraded to
Blasting Zone, which is just a potency increase.
Rough Divide is your gap closer and should be saved if needed to close the distance. Otherwise, use both charges during your opener and every subsequent
No Mercy buff window.
- Use
Bloodfest in your opener and on cooldown afterwards.
Mitigation and Healing Utility
Heart of Stone is your active mitigation and should be used frequently to mitigate incoming damage.
Heart of Stone is upgraded to
Heart of Corundum. It is your active mitigation and should be used frequently to mitigate incoming damage.
Rampart is your bread-and-butter defensive mitigation.
Nebula is your strong defensive cooldown and is used to mitigate heavy instances of incoming damage.
Superbolide is your invincibility cooldown. It has a long cooldown and reduces your HP to 1, but renders you invulnerable to basically all incoming damage for 10 seconds. Use this in emergencies or to handle extremely heavy tank busters.
Aurora is a heal-over-time that should be used whenever you are taking frequent damage, or to slowly recover health after taking damage.
Aurora is a heal-over-time that should be used whenever you are taking frequent damage, or to slowly recover health after taking damage. It has two charges and they do not stack.
Heart of Light is your party mitigation tool that reduces magic damage taken. Use this against raidwides.
Reprisal inflicts a debuff to all nearby enemies that reduces their damage dealt. Use this to mitigate incoming damage.
- Use
Arm's Length to prevent knockbacks, or to mitigate against dungeon mobs.
- Use
Low Blow to stun trash mobs.
Provoke will taunt your target, establishing enmity on it.
- Use
Interject to interrupt enemy casts if possible.
Multi-Target Rotation
When you are tanking, turn on your tank stance Royal Guard.
- On large trash pulls, ignore single-target actions and
only use your AoE actions, such as the
Demon Slice combo.
- On large trash pulls, ignore single-target actions and
only use your AoE actions, such as the
Demon Slice combo and
Fated Circle to spend cartridges.
No Mercy should be used in your opener and on cooldown every 60 seconds.
- Use
Demon Slice is an AoE weaponskill and is used on three or more targets.
Demon Slice and
Demon Slaughter are your AoE weaponskills and are used on two or more targets.
- Spend cartridges on
Burst Strike.
- Spend cartridges on the
Gnashing Fang combo in your opener and every 30 seconds. Any leftover cartridges will be spent on
Burst Strike.
- Spend cartridges on the
Gnashing Fang combo in your opener and every 30 seconds at less than three targets. At three or more targets or when the combo is not available, use
Fated Circle instead.
- Spend Cartridges on the
Gnashing Fang combo in your opener and every 30 seconds at less than three targets. At three or more targets or when the combo is not available, use
Fated Circle instead.
Sonic Break should be used in your opener and during every subsequent
No Mercy buff window.
Bow Shock should be used in your opener and during every subsequent
No Mercy buff window.
- Use
Continuation after each weaponskill in the
Gnashing Fang combo.
- Use
Continuation after each weaponskill in the
Gnashing Fang combo and after each
Burst Strike.
Danger Zone should be used in your opener and on cooldown every 30 seconds. At level 80, this ability gets upgraded to
Blasting Zone, which is just a potency increase.
Rough Divide is your gap closer and should be saved if needed to close the distance. Otherwise, use both charges during your opener and every subsequent
No Mercy buff window.
- Use
Bloodfest in your opener and on cooldown afterwards.
Changelog
- 13 Oct. 2023: Updated for Patch 6.5
- 29 May 2023: Updated for Patch 6.4
- 12 Jan. 2023: Updated for Patch 6.3
- 09 Sep. 2022: Edited to clarify Bow Shock in the rotation.
- 17 Mar. 2022: Guide added.
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This page has been written by Lyra Rose and reviewed by Rin Karigani and Keelan Strike.
This guide has been written by Lyra, one of the Administrators on the Balance Discord. He is also an accomplished raider and has written raid guides for FFXIV for the past four years. You can follow him on Twitter and he streams raids on Twitch.
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