Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

I misread thanks for the answer

I really like machinist currently 40, looking forward to testing it pvp. Should have some excellent burst combined with between the eyes.

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Originally Posted by Elizabeth

That's correct.

Well, according to the japanese forums (thanks to @kiyamashuuichi), here's a full buff Wild Fire (lvl56 MCH) dmg:

Gauss Barrel ON = 1900 to about 2000
Gauss Barrel OFF = about 2100-2200

Now i'm confused if it's better to do an opening with GB or not :/

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It's starting to become apparent that something is very off, not working as intended with MCH and Gauss Barrel

I am not sure if anyone mentioned this. You can have you Gauss Barrel up without casting when you have Rapid Fire buff. Could this benefit and alter the rotation?

Since rapid fire only last 3 weapon skills, would it be better if we cast it before any other buff in the opener? Even if you want it to line up with Wildfire you can delay it later
And well... I don't think that you will have 50 sec count down in most of the pulls, even if you are in a static, I know that it gives you more damage in teoria but it is not practical
For gauss, I have a question since I am still not high level, how many cast time does it add?
For the opener, maybe deactivate it after gauss round and ricochet would be optimal, so maybe would be optimal to use those two ASAP

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Originally Posted by Keylus

Since rapid fire only last 3 weapon skills, would it be better if we cast it before any other buff in the opener? Even if you want it to line up with Wildfire you can delay it later
And well... I don't think that you will have 50 sec count down in most of the pulls, even if you are in a static, I know that it gives you more damage in teoria but it is not practical
For gauss, I have a question since I am still not high level, how many cast time does it add?
For the opener, maybe deactivate it after gauss round and ricochet would be optimal, so maybe would be optimal to use those two ASAP

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Attacks in Gauss take 1.5 seconds. You should be able to fit all of your shots in a wild fire with proper use of rapid. Attaching the barrel takes 3 seconds of channeling, and it isn't really feasible unless you're at a complete downtime

Thx for the help so far. i am hoping we can figure out the ins and outs of this dps... i do enjoy the class so far, but i am seeing alot of people feeling that teh dps is quite subpar.. im going to use some of this

From @FunkMasterOne on Reddit:

Just want to clarify a few things. As a level 59 MCN, with a 57 weapon and ilvl 142, I am sustaining 622 dps after 3min. With an intial burst of 1000. HOWEVER, upon testing skills individually, ACT is not picking up on Wildfire . This is a very huge DPS skills for the MCN, and I dare say that the parse would be much higher were it to be read accurately. So now to compare to my DRG friend w/ ilvl57 Wep and ilvl 143: He is bursting for 1200 and sustaining around 750.
Don't get too panicked about MCN been worthless yet.
Edit: Just to clarify, I am updated to the latest parsing plugin.
Edit 2: No pots or food was used.

Update: ACT developer just confirmed on Reddit. Working on a fix.

so if what im picking up this right Gauss burst turn off wait for rapid fire repeat.
so we are seeing bunch of Stance dancing stuff with a lot of the classe if this were the case. I mean I feel a lack of dps when everything is off cd and im just waiting for my shots to proc

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Originally Posted by Elizabeth

That's correct.

Well, according to the japanese forums (thanks to @kiyamashuuichi), here's a full buff Wild Fire (lvl56 MCH) dmg:

Gauss Barrel ON = 1900 to about 2000
Gauss Barrel OFF = about 2100-2200

Now i'm confused if it's better to do an opening with GB or not :/

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So I did some tests in game again as well as creating a rough spreadsheet of the first 20 seconds of an opener, and yeah, Wildfire basically does more damage without Gauss Barrel even if you cancel Gauss Barrel after the first Clean Shot. The discrepancies in the opener starting with Gauss Barrel and without were taken from 20 samples, but I guess RNG acts up. And so, it's not worth hard casting Gauss Barrel either.

Here's the spreadsheet with the math done: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing



): Gauss Barrel is basically useless other than for AoE pulls.

EDIT: Whoops, forgot to extend the GB openers to 20 seconds, GB is worth using only until Clean Shot after all for higher overall DPS in the first 20 seconds but not higher Wildfire damage.

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Originally Posted by Cascadi

Here's the spreadsheet with the math done: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing



): Gauss Barrel is basically useless other than for AoE pulls.

EDIT: Whoops, forgot to extend the GB openers to 20 seconds, GB is worth using only until Clean Shot after all for higher overall DPS in the first 20 seconds but not higher Wildfire damage.

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Does the spreadsheet account for rapid fire? Ideally you would open with rapid fire and gauss, then cancel after the first crit clean shot.