Switching from Gunslinger

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Switching Main Class from Gunslinger. What DPS do you suggest?

GS is really fun, but the squishyness and weapon swap is kinda tiring. Feels like I’m putting double the effort than other classes to achieve the same goal/damage. And we are not even close to Abrelshud and Clown, these raids must be exhausting as GS. I’m getting lazier by the minute haha

I’m looking for a chill DPS class that I’ll have a good time in future Raids… pump some damage, not floor POV, simple skill rotation, no supports…

From what I’ve seen so far, the candidates would be;

  1. ShadowHunter
  2. Scrapper
  3. Zerk

Which Class do you suggest me and why? Thank you!

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Gunslinger main here as well. Berserker is definitely The Class if u just want easy dps, because you can play that with your brain turned off. But like Gunslinger will have higher potential once u get 1370 and be able to build 100% crit. Mastering weapon swapping is not for everyone but keep in mind that that the skill ceiling will pay off if you’re patient enough.

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I actually don’t think the weapon swap is hard at all. It’s just muscle memory. I’ve already got a pretty good grip at it. My GS is 1332ilvl. The main thing was assessing if I was safe enough to use my animation lock skills, cause when I get hit that thing hurts like hell lol. The squishyness gives me a bit on anxiety.

But I think the weapon swap is more tiring than hard, you know?

For example, on that underwater abyss dg, my group wasn’t doing so well… so we spent like a full hour until we could clear it. All the pulls I was like jumping all over, weapon swap full throttle, zapping everywhere, half of my health gone when I was caught out of position… and eventually I was kinda tired you know lol. At the same time, the Zerker on my group was chilling… and probably doing more damage than me.

And about the squishyness, I felt the same way when I was playing my Sorc alt… when I messed up and the Guardian Boss combo me, I was fried…

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Here is a list of the defense side of the classes:

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Gunslinger straight up does no damage before 1370 on tier 3. I don’t know how many people realize that Gunslinger’s damage is lackluster without 100% crit, and there is no way to achieve that without a proper legendary set + Time to Hunt 3. Indeed when a squishy class’s main damage source come from movement-locked skills, you know they are out-damaged by melee classes unless they have insane burst and sustain damage. Just run your T3 dailies to get 1370 and focus on other chars because the true end game for these squishy damage classes are when you get your max engravings and optimized Tier 3 gear.

Also, I would like know what your thoughts on engravings as well, because I haven’t found anything that feels perfect on Gunslinger for damage.

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you lost me at time to hunt 3

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I think you found your problem

I run

Peacemaker - 1
Adrenaline - 2
Grudge - 3
Hit Master -3

and out damage everyone in my party 70% of the time

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Scrapper is insanely fun, especially taijutsu but it requires having a LOT of boss uptime. Its very fast paced, an easy rotation due to short cds, fairly tanky and has a lot of stagger. Really fun class to play, especially if you like using skills constantly.

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Except it has the smallest hit boxes of ANY other class and does crap damage overall.

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The dmg is more than fine but it does have small hitboxes

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So lemme get this straight… by saying she has a small hitbox, it means it’s harder for her to hit mobs/bosses? Is that it?

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Im a main scarpper, have shadow hunter and recently make a gunslinger.
I think gunslinger is more fun that others and really like it, and yes agree its squishy but u dont need stay close to boss.
I recomend u scrapper super fun class

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How do you compare ur Scrapper and ShadowHunter?