PvE
PvPLone Knight Gunlancer Build Guide for PvE
Build
Don't fancy being an ultimate shield wall and would rather blow your enemies up with a huge cannon? Well this build is for you!
You equip all your hard hitting cannon skills like in this build. Since these skills are Red on the hot bar, it's known as the Red Build. You have massive burst damage, great weak point destruction and stagger, are still relatively tanky because of Defensive Stance, and can support your allies with shields and taunts... talk about an MVP!
10
Fire Bullet
10
Dash Upper Fire
10
Charged Stinger
4
Counter Gunlance
10
Surge Cannon
7
Bash
10
Shout of Hatred
10
Nellasia's Energy
Guardian's Protection
Skill priority
Max out your hardest hitting skills followed by your utility skills. can stay at level 7 and can stay at 4.
At lvl 55 and 60, make sure to allocate points into your burst skills. Once you have enough skill points to level another skill to 10 you can replace with for more damage.
How to play
Unlike , requires more careful management of positioning and shield guage to stay healthy and do damage. Ideally, you want to use Defensive Stance before your burst combo so that you can avoid being interrupted (If you need extra shielding you can also use .
Burst Combo
is the key to every Gunlancer rotation, debuffing the enemy and buffing your damage with . Combining this with , will allow you to hit very hard. That's why you should execute the combo as follows:
- Defensive Stance
Use the following combo to clear stagger checks no problem:
engravings
3
Lone Knight
3
Super Charge
3
Grudge
3
Master Brawler
3
Cursed Doll
1
Combat Readiness
You want to max and first for faster and harder hitting skills. is great because all the strong attacks use it. When you get to the end game, you can put one point in for optimal shield gain.
3
Lone Knight
3
Super Charge
3
Grudge
3
Master Brawler
3
Adrenaline
1
Combat Readiness
A variation where you get more swiftness at the expense of crit on your gear. To compensate, you need to slot or instead of or , since you want to crit often to take advantage of your class engraving.
combat stats
Crit
Swiftness
Specialization
Endurance
Domination
Expertise
The more Swiftness you have the easier your rotation becomes. You want at least 1300 Crit with a standard build to make sure you are taking advantage of your class engraving.
Specialization does nothing for you, so avoid it at all costs. An alternate build is to get more Swiftness and make your rotation cleaner and more frequent- just make sure you take the appropriate engravings.
Attack Gems
Surge Cannon
Charged Stinger
Dash Upper Fire
Fire Bullet
Power up all your main damage attacks.
Cooldown Gems
Surge Cannon
Charged Stinger
Dash Upper Fire
Shout of Hatred
Nellasia's Energy
Bash
Fire Bullet
Reduce the cooldown on all your burst attacks, utility skills, and bash.
gear tripods
High Explosive ShotOverchargeFocus FireWeak Point DetectionCharge EnhancementLast ChargeReady AttackReady AttackWeak Point DetectionExtra ShellQuick PrepQuick PrepLucky ChanceEnhanced StrikeAttack CreationReady AttackThe most critical tripods are those attached to your burst rotation and damage skills, especially and . Make sure is maxed as well. Follow up with your utility skills reduced cooldown tripods.
Gear Set
You will use Preordained Diligence from Argos until you hit 1445 and can get the Earth's Entropy Set. This will dramatically increase the damage of your burst combo.