Original General Dungeon Fighter Thread

My girlfriend and I recently started playing this. She's making a Slayer and I'm making a Female Gunner. Right now, we're both level 17 and she already knows what she's going to advance to.

I, on the other hand, need some help. I'm still not sure what to do with the Gunner. Can someone give me a quick overview of each of the possible subclasses? Since I haven't studied much the Female Gunner's path, I'm somewhat clueless at what each subclass can do.

Thanks!

Launcher: Nuke stuff from across the screen, you'll mostly be hanging back, hitting everything on your x-axis.
Mechanic: You'll have the G series robots on your character following you all the time, damaging things close to you. While you're doing that you can fill the screen with bots.
Spitfire: Throw grenades from the sky and spam elemental bullets, you'll be burning/freezing/electrocuting/stunning enemies a lot.
Ranger: Good at kicking stuff at close range as well as using your gun to shoot stuff from mid-range.

Alternatively you can just go http://wiki.dfo-world.com/index.php?title=F._Gunner and choose based on what each classes portrait looks like.

Is making rare avatars anywhere near cubing in maple, at least in terms of cost and rarity of good items? Also, how hard is it to get/buy decent gear in this game? Just wondering what I'd be getting myself into.

Purple (rare) equips, which is what most people use, doesn't really cost a lot. Depends on class, each armor piece in the highest level set, and the highest level purple weapon available currently is typically a few hundred k gold (except for certain classes where it is a bit more). You get a few m just by doing dungeons/quests/selling off drops so any (nx) funding is not needed for decent gear. Auction house makes buying and selling equips really straightforward.

Basic avatars are around 300-400k each I think, I forgot how much advanced are (1m? 1.5m? not sure). Bind 5 adv avatars with a 750 nx bind cube and there's about a 50% chance of getting a rare avatar. <understatement>So it's probably cheaper to make rare avatars in dfo that it is to make unique equips on maple.</understatement>