Leveling Rotations and Tips for Gunbreaker — Dawntrail 7.1

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, Eulmore at level 80, and Radz-at-Han at level 90.

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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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 Double Down every minute and Gnashing Fang every 30 seconds. Any leftover cartridges should 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.
• Use Bloodfest in your opener and on cooldown afterwards. Be sure to spend your Cartridges prior to using it to avoid overcapping.

• 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.
• Great Nebula replaces Nebula as your strong defensive cooldown, and should still be used to mitigate heavy instances of incoming damage.
• Superbolide is your invincibility cooldown. It has a long cooldown and reduces your HP to 50% of your max HP if you are above 50% HP, but does not change your HP if you are below 50% HP at the time of using the ability. It renders you invulnerable to most 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 the effect does not stack, so only use it again on the same target once the effect ends.
• Heart of Light is your party mitigation tool that reduces magic damage taken by 10%, and physical damage taken by 5%. 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.

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.
• Demon Slice and Demon Slaughter are your AoE weaponskills and are used on three or more targets, as Melee Mastery II, aquired at level 94, makes the single target combo stronger on two 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 four targets. Melee Mastery II, aquired at level 94, makes the Gnashing Fang combo slightly stronger on three targets now. At four 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.
• Use Continuation after each weaponskill in the Gnashing Fang combo and after each Burst Strike and Fated Circle.
• 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.
• Use Bloodfest in your opener and on cooldown afterwards. Be sure to spend your Cartridges prior to using it to avoid overcapping.