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Combat Readiness - Blue Gunlancer Build Guide for PvE
Build
This is the tankiest build in the game. You will shrug off attacks and do respectable damage all while taunting enemies and supporting your allies!
The build encourages you to take all your blue skills that scale with specialization, hence the popular nick name "Blue Build". Your focus is to keep a healthy shield gauge so you can stay in Defensive Stance, and hit the boss with your full rotation following .
4
Dash Upper Fire
10
Bash
12
Shield Bash
12
Leap Attack
12
Guardian's Thunderbolt
12
Shield Charge
10
Shout of Hatred
10
Nellasia's Energy
Guardian's Protection
Skill priority
Your goal is to max out your 4 main damage skills and have at level 7 for the tripod. That means that once you hit 55 and 60, make sure those 4 skills are leveled past 10. You should have both your utility skills at 10 to ensure maximum effectiveness, and your counter can stay unleveled.
How to play
Overall this is a very easy build to play. There are two important things about playing this build well: Manage your shield guage well and maximizing uptime by executing your rotation perfectly.
Shield Management
You have to turn off Defensive Stance to use and build Shield meter, but a good player can also identify when to turn it off in other situations. Outside of wipe attacks and one-shots, you should be able to tank anything, but knowing how much you can tank before your next taunt is key. If your shield disappears, so does your uptime and damage.
Main Rotation
The most important thing is to use your strongest skills in the window. When you are new to the class, you will and just fit in whatever you can in those 5 seconds.
- Go into shield mode
engravings
1
Combat Readiness
3
Barricade
3
Stabilized Status
3
Grudge
3
Cursed Doll
3
Adrenaline
This is standard Nightmare set build
1
Combat Readiness
3
Barricade
3
Cursed Doll
3
Grudge
3
Keen Blunt Weapon
3
Adrenaline
This is alternative Hallucination build
combat stats
Crit
Swiftness
Specialization
Endurance
Domination
Expertise
You want as much Specialization as possible in this build. It increases the amount of shield you gain from as well as the damage from all your blue skills. At the highest level of Specialization, you can gain more than half your bar from one Taunt.
Crit is your secondary stat that you get from your necklace and is more of a damage increase than Swiftness.
Bracelet
Mandatory: Spec Crit
Good Effects: Circulate Hammer Wedge Precise Fervor Superiority
Decent Effects: Dagger Expose Weakness Assail Strength Swift Attack
Attack Gems
Guardian's Thunderbolt
Leap Attack
Shield Bash
Shield Charge
You want damage gems only on the four hardest hitting skills.
Cooldown Gems
Guardian's Thunderbolt
Leap Attack
Shield Bash
Shield Charge
Bash
Shout of Hatred
Nellasia's Energy
You want cooldown on every skill except your counter.
gear tripods
Damage LuckTough StrikeLightning StalkQuick PrepShockwaveLow ShockEnhanced StrikeQuick PaceDestruction ChargerNimble MovementWeak Point DetectionAdditional HitQuick PrepShieldOpen WeaknessArmor DestructionReady AttackBell StrikeQuick Prep
Shout of PurificationSurviveQuick PrepHIGH PRIORITY
MEDIUM PRIORITY
LOW PRIORITY
Gear Set
You will use the Pre-ordained Diligence set from Argos until you hit 1445. After that, you want to use the 6 piece Nightmare Flower set. It bolsters your damage consistently and makes sure you never run out of mana.