Guntechers are very versatile but all of your strength is heavily reliant on your PA levels. Without high level bullets, you will be very weak in comparison to anyone else.
Pure attack power will only take you so far as a Beast but in order to get the best damage out of your bullets, you will need them leveled to at least Lv. 31.
That's not to say you need to get all seventy one bullet PAs at Lv. 40 to be effective, just pick elements that will cover each other and choose which weapons are the most suitable in the more general situations. Having all the elements and all of the fragment PAs at max is nice but takes a long time (I should know, I'm doing it) and doesn't automatically make you awesome.
Learning to use what weapons at the right time is also important. The four most important weapons/firearms to work upon (in no particular order) are: Rifle, Shotgun, Laser Cannon and Crossbow.
Rifles gain a knockdown effect and have the longest range in the game (Chousei-Sou 31+ is probably on terms with it or longer but fires much, much slower so it's not worth the range in 95% of situations) and are very useful in boss battles.
Shotguns are THE highest damaging weapons in your arsenal against one or two enemies due to their double shot effect. Comboing it with Just Counter (Exact Counter I think is the proper term but I could be wrong) makes it even deadlier!
Laser Cannons are THE highest damaging weapons in your arsenal against three or more enemies in a straight line. THese things are just so powerful and are just ridiculously devastating at Lv. 40. Sure, they take a LOOONG time to get there but heh, they're well worth it.
Crossbows are smaller versions of a Shotgun - firing only three shots instead of five. They lose the ability to double shot but gain mobility and occupies only your left hand so your right hand is free to hold another weapon. There are situations where you will need to deal damage quickly and safely so a Crossbow will be a better choice for you than a Shotgun.
Sometimes though, enemies are just too dangerous and will need to be taken care of quickly so you will use other means such as traps or your other weapons but it'll all come with experience.
You could probably get away with using just those four weapons and a few wands though... but you should try out a single PA on all of the weapons before making any big decisions. For most weapons, they start off rather weak but they do build up strength extremely quickly and will out-damage most melee players.
Guntechers can solo but you really suffer against bosses in comparison to most other jobs/classes. Lack of a Grenade Launcher or decent melee really hampers things but you'll have to make do with a Shotgun and a Rifle.
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