Gunner (how on earth)

I run the exact same thing as the first, except I swapped armor for reload speed.

I also run a second gunner custom, Gold Crit, Silver Armor, Bronze RoF.

Gold Accuracy is PHENOMENAL on maps with wide open areas, where as Gold Crit is to good for words on packed up maps.

I play with Gold Armor, Silver Accuracy and Bronze Rate of Fire. My logic is this.. I can take a lot of hits while having some accuracy at range. With this build I noticed an Assasin frontal sword attack won't kill me. An Assasin knife won't do much at all either (rear or frontal). I can take 4 Auto Sniper Bullets (assuming they don't hit me in the head which is likely seeing how fast they fire), I can take 2-3 Shotgun blasts, about half a clip of Assault Rifle, and 5-6 Railgun hits. That is a lot of Survivability.

If my team can cover me though and I am not taking gross ammounts of damage I have a second build. I have Gold Critical, Silver Accuracy and Bronze Rate of Fire. This is my heavy hitting build. I learned from forums and the internet that Achilles gives +5% chance to crit and +20% Critical Damage. It's the only way to get extra damage according to everyone.

That is how I play it. You have to realize that any class or build you do must be set to your play style though.

Accuracy
Armor
Rate of Fire

Gunner is stupid easy. Gunner is one of my worst classes and I can go 40 and 10 no problem.

NEVER STAND STILL

Rail-gun should never kill you. If you get hit once just jump into cover. But for the most part you should massacre tanks because you can outrun and out-range them.

Just mortar snipers. One near misses will kill him.

Listen for the hum of assassins, thats really all you can do. They are your nemesis and unless your head is on a swivel they will stab you in the back

assaults are your fodder. They are bite sized morsels for any gunner worth his salt. stay off the ground when you think he is going to charge and avoid his bombs. In a strait gunfight you do way more damage and out-range him. You hit him a few times and he will run like a bitch. But if you have the accuracy perk then he wont get very far.

If you are getting hit and don't know from where then just fly into cover

oh and supports... just chew them up with a mini gun and mortar the fire-base. Easypeasy

Hmm...
Ever since I started using Gunner, I've been doing hit & run tactics. Despite being a big fatass, I move around a lot and I only move between the open if I know I won't be spotted or if I know I can get the jump on someone. If I get spotted from afar, I draw my mortar, fire the shells and kite like hell back to safety.

Gold: RoF
Silver: Armor
Bronze: Acc

I main assault, and i have NEVER died to a gunner, that I didnt basically let kill me for the greater good.

Even really good gunners, can simply keep me from advancing, and our AR chews through their armor FAST.

they also make easy targets for our bomb.. like surprisingly easy to stick with it.

the only good gunners ive seen either have supports attached at the hip, or are mortar spamming.

Ive seen 2 gunners that RAPED with miniguns from any distances, but after 5 minutes it was clear they were hacking.. aimbots seem to benefit the gunner quite a bit.. Besides that though the minigun seems to be the weakest of his tools..

Two things I've noticed from watching fellow Gunners:
1. Use the Mortar Cannon more. It is a devastating weapon when aimed properly, and can clear out turrets like nothing.
2. Deploy correctly. This does not mean in the middle of a bot lane, or out in the open, or for longer than 5 seconds. I will deploy for almost every 1v1 encounter so long as I maintain my spacing.
3. The grapple is amazing. Your first instinct might be to slam, but think about the possibility of your opponent's escape before you send them flying with minimal damage.

On 360 i run RoF, Acc, Armor.

From my experience of fighting gunners I will have to say that gold accuracy and gold armor have always been the most devastating. As people have said the mortar is much better at long range and if you get good with it its an amazing weapon for flushing people out and finishing off wounded pros. It's also the most powerful weapon against turrets and when juiced its impossible to keep any turret alive against it.

But your minigun IS the pro/bot killing machine. When played properly gunners are nearly unstoppable in mid-range combat if you use the combination of gold accuracy + proper hovering. Flying and shooting is just as important as the gunner as it is the assault because on the ground your mobility is terrible and gold accuracy helps with that a lot. Also sets up pancakes.

Gold armor directly makes you more survivable which is never a bad thing, but gunner is one of the few classes I would say benefits more from stacking offensive power. You shouldn't be alone or at the front lines anyways.

I am ok with a few things you said here. I strongly disagree with using the Mini Gun on Bots though. In my experience it only takes 3 Mortar Rounds to kill a Blackjack. If you arc it high enough the rounds will split hitting the other Blackjack and the Slim Bots. In addition if you have the default Main Weapon and Secondary weapon changed like I do to 1 and 2 then you can switch back forth between Mortar and the Mini Gun.

This is good because what I do is Mortar the Bots and if I see a Pro run up I switch to the Mini Gun and rain bullets on him. This will hopefully keep them back and not destroy my Bots. Also so I don't run out of Mini Gun ammo too fast. The Mini Gun takes longer to reload then the Mortar. I would hate to be reloading if an Assassin ran up and tried to kill me. That is me though.

Those are good points, but you don't have to reload a minigun very often. A good pro isn't going to run at you in your field of view while you are gunning away at a bot lane, and if they manage to get in close do you really want to take the time to switch from mortar to minigun (including the rev time on the minigun)? Unless your slam got them you're probably dead.

Gunners should always be near their team though so honestly I have no problem with mortar usage on bots because hopefully someone should be nearby to help you.

this or accuracy instead of clip, bronze acc is probably the best bronze IMO

I always troll with Gold RoF Mortars. Just mortar turrets from your spawn all day for rages.

I will never ever again play gunner without gold accuracy. Since i've picked that I tear away almost everything that gets close to me. Accompanied by silver Crit and bronze ROF



Who needs armor anyway -3-

There is no "right build" to use, but there are definitely some bad builds.

First off if you are not playing with a support you know, don't run anything less than silver armor. Secondly, I HIGHLY recommend not running gold RoF unless you only use your mortar, the benefit between gold and silver RoF on the dual mini guns is almost unnoticeable, and the difference between gold armor and silver armor or gold accuracy and silver accuracy is much more noticeable. I personally would never run gunner with reload speed, as clip size is a much bigger benefit. (Protip, start your minigun reload at the end of your juice).

Accuracy is really situational, if you are going against lots of small targets, you're generally going to want at least silver accuracy to make sure your bullets are connecting on them. If you're going against mostly heavies, you only need bronze accuracy, as they will soak up more bullets. If you really like to mortar also, silver RoF should do the trick.

If you are in a really competitive match where you know you will have a support healing you, armor becomes a necessity and will only decide matches against other leashed gunners. Also, in competitive matches, gold accuracy is a MUST. It might not help you directly in every fight, but it definitely helps your team out a lot, with gold accuracy, you should never let your enemy's health go back up, and against anyone smart, your mortars will travel too slow to keep them from escaping. As this is happening your assault should be chasing down the kill unless he is severely out matched.

Builds I recommend:

Casual:
Armor/RoF/Accuracy, Armor/Accuracy/RoF or Accuracy/Armor/RoF

Mortar Intensive Build:
RoF/Armor/Clip

Competitive Build:
Accuracy/RoF/Armor, Accuracy/RoF/Clip or Accuracy/Armor/RoF

Again, I highly recommend using your minigun over mortars, as I have never seen a mortar build work in a competitive match.

zarakon will tell you that I also am clueless as to how Gunner can be used to kick any ***.

I will be trying out some of these loadouts I think.


L. Spiro