Here i will be speaking about another of my personal classes that i have played on the CN client the Gunner and why building it as a tank like i do might be something you find enjoyment in
Please note that I as a player am strongly advertising the class as a tank in PVP i have very little experience with PVE so please do not confuse the guide towards the monster slaying spectrum and am in no way advertising this guide as the "Build this my way" post. This is simply to give insight and informative information to those who are looking to expand their knowledge on other concepts, play-styles and builds that are out there.
1. First i will give a brief overview of what i found very successful and what failures came with my build as a Tank Gunner. . .
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- So firstly, I will have to advise you that the tank version of Gunner is a very very unique and exotic class. I would not recommend actually building into CON and Spirit until you get into the peak of your lvl you would like to be in regards to the tiers of PVP (Lvl 59, 69 or 79). This is because unless you have all your core abilities unlocked and have a good portion of HP and defense you won't scale well enough to get through the preliminary dungeons and quest due to the Tank version of gunner scaling more for late game potential then early game thus making you useless to your team and to yourself.
Now that, that's out of the way lets get into the build
So first i will explain the core abilities that you will use as a Tank gunner.
If you look here: Revelation Online calculator - Gunner
You can see all of the abilities their stats and their scaling.
The core abilities of tank gunner:
- Call pet
- Fel Armor
- Marked for Death
- Sky Fire
- Razor Bot
- Metal Gear
-Desolation Shot
-Booby trap
-Power Burst
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How they scale with Tank Gunner:
Call pet: The pet scales with both your defensive stats and 20% HP (Defensive scaling not stated on the calculator) - If you choose to get Tier 2 Steel passive upgrade it will increase the hp% scaling to 40% thus making you a harder target to take down and having annoying pets assist you in being annoying. . . And to go another step further into annoyingness. . . Give the robot the passive upgrade of Cold Wave. . . And now your already annoying enough robot now slows enemies in an AOE by 50% for each attack.
Fel Armor: Fel armor grants you 2400 flat physical defense - With the correct passive skill upgrades you can boost the bonus physical defense by 50% making the flat bonus = 3600 , Another passive upgrade will grant you a shield when this ability is used granting you a shield that blocks damage equal to 12% of your maximum hp.
Marked for Death: This grants you 1600 extra flat damage against the target - The tier 2 passive skill upgrade for this grants you the effect that ANY damage you do to enemies who are marked restores 100 hp to you for each attack (Even from robots ) (Note: This has a cooldown of 3 secs per heal) Thus making your already annoying robots . . . Even . . . more. . . annoying. . .
Sky Fire: This is one of your very high base damage abilities it does damage equal to 992% oh your physical power but also 5% of their current hp which with passive upgrades can upgrade to 20%
Razor Bot: Another great pet that scales with both your defensive stats and your maximum hp by 50%. And thus . . . yes. . . making you and your pets. . . Even. . . more . . .annoying. . .
Desolation Shot: A nice ability for added annoyingness. Grab the passive upgrades in the steel tree and now this ability does some damage, reduces movement speed, purges positive buffs and effects from the target, and reduces oncoming healing to that target as well.
Booby trap: A great ability to use in many ways as it is both a mine and a robot. . . If you simply lay down the trap you can use it to cover your butt. . . or a squishy teammates butt. . . But lets say the enemy walks right past it to you or a teammate. . . Well the booby trap is also another robot in disguise and with another click of the ability you can send the robot to the enemy of your choosing to then suicide itself, do damage and either knock down or freeze the enemy if you gave it the correct passive upgrade depending on your choice of element you decided to give the booby trap bot.
Power Burst: What this ability does is it increases the crit chance and crit damage of your your pets and your ally's. . . Now you might be thinking that's all good and dandy. . . BUT the true greatness of this ability comes from the ability passive upgrade that gives your pets added damage reduction in PVP by 50% and their crit chance and attack power get upgraded by 50% also. . . Yeah you thought you pets couldn't get any more annoying. . .
Metal Gear: Your bread and butter ultimate - This grants you not only a 50% damage reduction buff but also 100% CC immunity.
-So as you may have already guessed the play-style of building tank gunner isent to apply de-buffs, stand in the middle of cross fire, save private ryan, or be the worlds #1 punching bag. The concept is simple. . . BE. . . ANNOYING . . .Do this by using these abilities to your advantage. . . Throw robots willy nilly. . . Chuck CC grenades. . . Go into your ultimate decepticon robo form and blast some fools. . . Throw another robot. . . Yell at your healer for DCing. . . Have a dance party in the middle of the battle field. . . Throw another pokemo- Robot . . .
The Choice is yours.
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These are all the abilities that scale with choosing to go tank gunner. Now you have to come to realize that yes you may not be chunking people with 12k damage crits. . . BUT this build is meant for suitability and sustained damage and due to all of your scaling robots and excellent base damage of the class it can get that job done easy. I am not stating that this build is ultimately up to par or even better then building the Gunner as a DPS spec and am in no way trying to push people towards making you think the way i build is correct. This guide is simply for those who are looking towards classes and other ways to build them thus increases your knowledge of different concepts and play-styles.