Combat Readiness Gunlancer : Gunlancer Build Guide

Build Details & Information

Basics

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Stats: Specialization is your core stat, get it everywhere you can and crit when you can't.
Spec: All of it
Crit: The rest of it
Swift: 0

Neck - Spec/Crit
Earrings - Spec
Rings - Spec
Bracelet - Spec/Crit

Relic Set: Nightmare (Hallucination is viable, with KBW as an engraving and minor rune changes, aka Focus so you're not OOM)
Cards: LOS30 > LOS18 > Deep Dive > LWC 7% > Max HP
Use some judgement here since each has differing awakening points they may shift left to right
Engravings: Combat Readiness is insanely efficient at level 1, abuse it. CR3 is viable but just behind it. Use Adrenaline 1-3 as your additional engraving as your accessories or stones support it.
Skills: There's not a TON of variety here, your awakening can be whichever you want but remember Battlefield Shield offers a lot of the utility that Guardian's Protection does and you're wearing Nightmare Relic, so you WANT to awakening on the pull for your buff.
Nelasia's Energy also has some great Tripod choices like the damage reduction but unless you're regularly changing things the cleanse will be a much better "set and forget" option.
Shield Charge speed tripod is commonly swapped for the shield, but honestly if you're managing your identity the tripod shouldn't benefit you much with the amount of shields you already have.
Gems: So if you're following my rotation below, these gem levels are accurate, if you want to go with the standard dps of Bash > Smash every skill you have... then you can increase those CD gems as high as you want. Shield Charge technically doesn't need a cd gem at all if you're following my personal rotation but the alternative is maybe a Bash damage gem? So I keep the CD in case it helps me use it as a movement skill to save my life.
Lastly the non DPS skills are increased at your leisure, obviously more shields more better for your RAID, but won't be a tangible performance increase.

Rotation

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Bash into Lance of Judgment as early as you feel comfortable because Nightmare buff.

After buff is up you can technically just lead off with Bash for your buff then smash as many skills in as you can during that buff, I find that a more static approach below is more comfortable to me, and with Quick Recharge it makes a repeatable smooth 2 part rotation.

You can utilize Dash Upper Fire and Nelasia's Energy as needed between rotations to maintain Adrenaline stacks too but beware to hold them for when needed for raid mechanics too.

Primary Rotation 1. Shout of Hatred 2. Bash 3. Guardian's Thunderbolt 4. Leap Attack 5. Shield Bash

Secondary Rotation 1. Bash 2. Shield Charge 3.Auto Attack x1 (this is just buffer to maintain Adrenaline AFTER this rotation without issues) 4. Shield Bash