Gauss Barrel

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

The stance itself you get used to, and definitely feels more designed for it than BRD, but it's the overall ideal that SE has forced upon players which ends up very counterproductive for what's asked of us when we play the job: Support vs DPS. As I said before, EVERY job now offers some kind of supportive skill to the party, and in some cases, it's a significant one. But only BRD and MCH are automatically lesser for being Support, then further penalized in our primary role of damage dealers when tasked to use said support skills. All this of course, in the face of fights with tight DPS checks and sometimes heavy movement (which our damage-increasing stances don't mesh well with).

It's really time SE truly reviews their concepts of BRD/MCH as "support" as well as DPS, and yes, while at it, address the almost unanimously hated visuals of the Gauss Barrel.

[morpheurenequi]

Just change the name from "Gauss barrell" to "Gauss stance". While in Gauss stance you hold the gun with two hands instead of one.

Nice idea. Don't know how much effort from SE it would take, but I would like to see it as well. =D

[Duelle]

Imo they should just rename the skill to something that relates to spending time aiming the weapon or something that justifies the cast times without any addition of weird aparatus. Cause honestly the thing looks horrible on close to if not all guns.

If Fallout 4's use of the Gauss rifle is to be seen as accurate, the way the barrel works and why the stance is named that makes sense.

[Velhart]

Q: There are a lot of great gun designs in the game, but there are many occasions when machinists use Gauss Barrel and you can’t really enjoy the original design. Can you implement a feature to hide the Gauss Barrel?

A: We’ve standardized it into a single design so that it would not limit the freedom of the guns’ designs; however, we are planning to implement a setting that will allow you to toggle this by using a text command since there is a large demand for it. We’re aiming to implement this in the next patch.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post3635205