Machinist is arguably the biggest let down of a class/job ever to me

I feel like I'm in the minority because I quite enjoy the current fluidity of the class. I find it's rotation to be very easy to grasp, much easier than before with the glorified cast times, and keeping my heat between 50-85 is hardly a chore at all. About the only thing I honestly despise is the fact that they took all of our utility and made them into role actions whilst also lowering a good deal of our potency in other areas and failing to fix the RNG frustration that comes with our randomly proc'ing core skills. BRD benefits heavily from actions that once were stables of the MCH line up and without a boost to DPS at present we simply lag behind while they shine by comparison. If we're going to lose half our utility to the class we share a role bar with and only getting a speed increase in return, we should at least be given a damage boost to make up for it.

Anybody know where i get the flamethrower quest...cant seem to find it

I admit, I would have prefer a double pistol wielding class myself, but I enjoy the MCHs aesthetic well enough that I'm currently leveling it as a second class (in hopes that it will eventually get buffed).

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Originally Posted by poffo

Anybody know where i get the flamethrower quest...cant seem to find it

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Hilda, down in the Brume in Ishgard. I recommend bringing some food.

I love MCH's current play style. I am not in love with the garbage damage we do for the ridiculous lack of utility we have compared to BRD.

I wish there wasn't ammunitions "wasted" on every other skills which are not the base combo (so "Hot Shot" and "Cooldown"). Ammunitions here are completely useless, not even bringing any special effects by using them. At least, we can say the ammunition will cancel the gain of heat from "Hot Shot". But it does nothing else for Cooldown, and it's not even a real shot...

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Originally Posted by Fannah

I wish there wasn't ammunitions "wasted" on every other skills which are not the base combo (so "Hot Shot" and "Cooldown"). Ammunitions here are completely useless, not even bringing any special effects by using them. At least, we can say the ammunition will cancel the gain of heat from "Hot Shot". But it does nothing else for Cooldown, and it's not even a real shot...

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Adds potency at least. :O

Patch 4.01 in 2 days please look forward to it.

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Originally Posted by Ephier

Adds potency at least. :O

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I said any special effect x)
And they would still add 25 potency after being used for the base combo. So yes it's a waste as it provides nothing to use them with those skills especially (our ammunitions don't have timer to be used, so whatever we are doing, we would end doing our base combo anyway in a few sec).
We should be able to have ammunitions, and use "Cooldown" because we need to, to manage our skills more easily. If our reload skill (for 3 ammunitions) is up and that we are at 90-95 heat, we shouldn't have to wait to use our 3 ammunitions like "1 - 2 - 1 - Cooldown" because the 3rd hit would set us in overheat mode.

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Originally Posted by Vallhallix

Hey! no one has the right to complain about weapon aesthetics but us SMN/SCH sure occasionally we get awesome looking books like the Dead Hive Grimoire (which I still have glamoured SUPER SEXY, sexiest book to date the other primals aren't bad either) but usually we get basic looking books with the same designed pages.

Also SE has decided that SMN is a girl's class so sometimes we get a lot of effeminate looking stuff like pink glowy books GDI SE our soul crystal is green stop giving us pink and purple stuffs!! Don't get me started on our gear.

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Yes, but at least your book changes.

Also, you get to summon Bahamut. Any complaints on 'not cool enough' are silly. :p