Lets get some Gunner discussion in here.

Honestly for the skill to have any kind of usefulness the gunner should have a little mini charge: he opens his arms wide and grabs anything that touches his extra wide reach. To balance this out you could make him have to sit still for a second even if he misses a grapple. That way the skill becomes viable and the gunner doesn't get a movement power.

GOLD ACCURACY

SILVER RATE OF FIRE

There we go, Gunner tactics.

mind you with that you will move as slow as a car with no tires

Unless you pick up one of the numerous Speed Boosts dropped by Bots, Pros, Bullseye...

ive never seen a use for accuracy, i deploy a lot, and that takes care of it. also, i generally get out-gunned by gunners running armor(when not deployed).

As cool as that would be, I don't see Uber giving a Zangief-esque running charge to the gunner grapple since the whole idea behind that class is a powerful weapon and weak special abilities to compensate.

However, it does seem kind of lame that a fully-upgraded gunner grapple has no ring-out potential (?) and won't even kill the weakest class.

I play gunner quite often so here are my tips
-spot target, spin mini guns (alternate fire), then shoot
-keep mini guns spun up as much as possible
-deploy acept against supports and assaults due to their bomb and air stike
-endorsements 1 Gobi numb (Armour) 2 organ farms (accuracy) 3 biono-grip (reload speed)
-do it "tiki style"

i run gold acc silver rof and bronze armor, and i usually win one on ones, due to the brokenness of pre spin = win.

I actually do it tiki style quite often sir

Yeah, just yesterday I started spinning up my minigun with the left trigger at spots right before where I was likely to engage someone and the difference was huge. I started getting much better results right away. Totally crucial.

Level 3 gunner grapple has as much ring-out potential as the sniper's grapple, and insta-kills assassins and cowardly snipers who aren't using armour endorsements (due to some sort of head injury I imagine).

yea without spun up mini-guns a gunner is a big slow and lacks fire power also remember to upgrade your passive first and nothing else as dual mini-guns are twice as good and twice as deadly

I run gunner a lot because of his strong offensive bot control on the field... 9/10 games I rival MVP every time... even against pros my setup is boss... don't knock it until you try it.

lvl 68
gold/RoF
silver/Crit
bronze/Accuracy

and Ive only recently started using the silver crits as before i would run RoF/ClipSize/Reload or RoF/Armor/Clipsize.... I have to say Crits really do put on a show... you will run over any gunner/tank (unless the host is an enemy gunner) just as long as you have your doubles and pre-spin.... *And one last thing.. ive been testing this out and i am convinced it works.. upgrade your deploy ONLY ONCE and i swear it gives you extra heath... i.e. assassins would insta kill grapple me (with the sword from behind) and when i upgrade the deploy to 2nd i would always have a sliver of life remaining to slam and shoot.. and that is with my final setup mentioned above

** And one last note with the gunner... your dual minis are only as good as the hosts connection**

RoF Gold isn't the best choice, IMO.

gold RoF is great for pushing bot lanes and annoying snipers and destroying turrets though (all with mortar of course)

My build is Armor ROF and Regen, and it works amazing for me. And to be a halfway decent gunner, mortar spamming is a must.

Yesterday I ran into agitating, top on the leaderboards for overall and kills. 3 fights against me 1v1 and he joins my party asking what my build is because "he's got nothing on me". It was adorable.

Anyone who doesn't use accuracy isn't playing the gunner right

+1

Anyone can play any class anyway they want.

Having said that, silver ACC is a must or you fail =)