With domenion set ( - 30 % cd) + full swift on stat + lvl 5 tripod ( quiqck prep) + rune (cd reduction) + lvl 8 cd reduction gem. Your nellias energie cd become 10 s. the shield duration is 6 second that mean your group take damage only during 4 second. I think it’s so op.
Stat: 1600 swift / 650 endurance
Engraving : expert , awakening , heavy armor, strong will, fortitude ( if you decide to play with crit awakening) or drop the ether (if you play with dammage reduction awakening)
Skills : Blue skill with full stagger effectivness on tripod + dammage reduction
Blue GL doesn’t bring nearly the same damage buffs as support & has no healing.
It can be played a support in fights with a replenishing stagger bar if you run different stats and vph, but it brings the most to the party as a hybrid dps built with dps stats & engravings.
Because shield =/= support. Even if you lower Nellasia’s cd to be more useable, it doesn’t change the fact that GL doesn’t come with any form of healing, having to choose between cleanse or damage reduction on Nellasia, and Shout synergy only benefiting some classes. It just doesn’t bring enough utility to be considered a full support. I don’t think it’s right to even consider it a support replacement at all.
Sadly LA doesn’t work this way. “Tanking” isn’t eating damage for the party so they don’t get hit. The boss just does what it wants independant on if you have a “Tank” or not.
So sure, you could build out a full Support shield spammer and in some ways it would be helpful, but you aren’t bringing anything else that a Support does. So now your party is down 1 DPS (Lancer) due to build and also down 1 Support that is providing important DPS buffs to the others, all for a somewhat spammable short lasting shield for the party. Even the Yearning set zipping around is helpful to others.
I think what they mean is for more chaotic mechs, the GL can technicaly tank all incoming damage while others just keep dpsing without moving. Think gate 4 falling meteors/lines or orbs. GL acts as body blocker to give other dps uptime (though it wont work for the targeted falling meteors)
Because Gunlancer is missing the damage buffs support provides and when you start over gearing content or when the players become familiar with the content to the point they barely get hit + there is no back attack classes, Gunlancer value drops off hard.
So all he has is cleanse and defense reduction, the head attack, back attack only benefits entropy classes but if there is none?
Paladin/Artist/Summoner/Artist can cleanse too or you use purify rune so you dont need a Gunlancer.
Gunlancer has the lowest DPS out of all classes no matter what spec, unlike Supports, having a support is as strong as having 3 extra DPS classes, because of the damage buffs they provide.
Gunlancer really shines at buffing the damage of Entropy classes, and if the boss can be taunted open up windows for the whole raid/party to DPS and is a great class to bring for progression.
Playing support Gunlancer in its current state is trolling imo, rather just bring a Destroyer/Summoner/Taijustu Scrapper/Artillerist for good stagger and Paladin/Bard can handle the shielding/healing + Damage buffs is what you really bring a support for
I always love to play with gunlancer weather they play Blue or Red but DPS, the weakpoint, stagger, taunt, shield, defense reduction, push immunity ultimate and X identity on blue gunlancer for push immunity, shield, redirecting damage is always welcomed.
I have a gunlancer and support myself and I would never play support gunlancer in it’s current state, they would have to change the class for me to consider it.
I actually tried Awakening on my Blue Gunlancer and it works just fine in Kakul and Caliligos.
Just get rid of Heavy Armor, Strong Will, Fortitude since you can get protection from your skill tripods, and runes and go for “normal” damage engravings.
Maybe it will work? I don’t know about Expert engraving.
If you’re going high swift, might as well play Lone Knight and Lance skills. You can do dmg and provide good benefits for the team. Because Blue skills NEEDs Spec.
Everything is possible in LA only if you have more IQ than the rest of 94% players based. The thing is most of western players either straight clueless or with single digit IQ tend to be a loyal dogs to their korean master. They won’t be bothered to take their time to have further and deep understanding of what their chars capable of and push it beyond limitations.
Hence if their masters didn’t approved such build, then it’s a NO. Am saying this based upon 10 months of gaming in LA, from what i’ve seen or witnessed myself
man i really hate this kind of post, literally yelling you must follow the korean meta 1:1 have you ever considered to do things because the’re fun to do? this game isnt a job you know.
i really dont know where this “having a support is as strong as having 3 extra dps”, the other day i saw another guy saying sups turn 25x4 into 3x35/10…you know supports buffs are based on their atk. power right? the caster, not the target… therefore you could be 1600 weapon+40 9x3, if your sup has low atk.power, these buffs are not big factors
you’re right about the healing tho, GL’s cant heal but guess what for supports to focus their skill on bursting damage, the dps player most be skilled otherwise the main focus will be healing the stupid chasing big numbers
in hell raids, the most important role is covered by GL which btw the best build is an expertise one
support =/= heal and buff, is to help dps one way or another. taunting the boss can be considered a support role
Because he has no heal, nor he has a big pp damage buffs. Even if you put your support build on him it will suck massive penis compared to a bard or a paladin.
I dont know if anyone mentioned it yet(i didnt read all the reply’s to this post), but you cannot run 6 dominion cause you would ran out of mana ultra fast as gunlancer, so lets say that you run 2 piece nightmare and 4 piece dominion. At this point it would be really bad shield uptime. Also you cant run either of these, cause yearning set buff is a must have for some classes to function properly.
