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

First aesthetics.

The guns are ugly. Gauss barrel makes it even worse lol. I don't actually mind the ammo pouch thing tho. Its also really dumb the essentially gave us muskets that we keep on our back but we hold like a pistol. We get some stupid hybrid between the two and it looks ridiculous almost 99% of the time

I wanted a true pistol class, preferably a dual wield like merylwyb. Or an actual rifle class. Not what we got.

Play style...

I hate it so much more now. I could put up with the looks but its not even fun to play anymore, and I really dislike the mechanic. Nothing feels like it flows anymore, and is just very uninteresting to me. I think ammo should have been the primary mechanic. Not over heating. I feel like there could have been way more interesting things. On top of all that the damage is not good at all.

It just sucks because from the beginning I wanted a gun/pistol class and this is not at all what I wanted. It has cool ideas but was executed so poorly. It looks so dumb that my character has a cannon on their back half their size.

I know it will mever happen but the need to redo the entire class from the ground up to be a rifle class that has more influence from the tinkering/technology aspects, and then have the actual pistol/dual pistol class.

Corsair, perhaps? I'm sure that'll be a job in the future.

Was this a bump from HW? You're acting like it just got released and you're shocked at the aesthetics....

I disagree wholly with your post. I'm sorry you don't enjoy it.

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Originally Posted by Greedalox

I disagree wholly with your post. I'm sorry you don't enjoy it.

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Have to agree with this sorry. Personally finding it alot of fun next to other classes and the DPS better than I thought, considering the doomsay.

Hope they leave it alone :(

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Originally Posted by Meta-Flare

The guns are ugly. Gauss barrel makes it even worse lol. I don't actually mind the ammo pouch thing tho. Its also really dumb the essentially gave us muskets that we keep on our back but we hold like a pistol. We get some stupid hybrid between the two and it looks ridiculous almost 99% of the time.

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While I'm with you that the guns are oversized and should just be treated as rifles/carbines and not pistols, you know you can turn the visual for Gauss Barrel off, right? /gbarrel will do it.

I did not know This thanks!

Still like the idea and looks of the class. By far my favourite in the game. Still there are a few things that I just don't get:

SAM Katana sheats, RDM jewels and sometimes AST duel discs are different depending on the weapon. Our lunchbox and Gaus Barrel always looks the same. Would it kill them to go the extra mile and atleast make the Barrel an individual fit for every weapon? There seems to be no problem with going the extra mile with other classes.

Next is a very personal oppinion: I had hoped they take the focus away from Wildfire. I figured, with heat and ammo things would get more interesting. Nope, WF is still the one thing our whole gameplan revolves around.

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Gauss barrel makes it even worse

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/gbarrel - toggles gauss barrel visibility (Not like you need the model to know when it's active because you have the heat gauge)

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.