MCH buffs!

Hot Shot: Effect duration increased from 30 to 60 seconds.

Gauss Barrel: Damage increase when overheated changed from 10% to 20%.
Recast time reduced from 10 to 2 seconds.

Dismantle: Recast time reduced from 90 to 60 seconds.

Flamethrower: Increase to Heat Gauge during use changed from 10 to 20.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...a3edcf44f0d489

My take: YES on hot shot. It's a PITA to have to weave it in and I get so involved in the rotation I occasionally let it drop.

And the new overheat change just made overheating something you'll actually want to do regularly, maybe even as often as possible!

Yes now MCH is even more easier than it's ever been:

Overheat every wildfire.
Use FT to push you into that overheat every WF.
Apply hotshot before every WF.

I was hoping for a dismantle buff (given that it was weaker than reprisal and not on par with BRD defensive utility) but this is just silly.

Still at least it lays to rest the question "should I overheat" I suppose. Since now the answer to that question is "yes, you dummy".

As much as I'm glad this clarified the purpose of overheating, it doesn't look like it will do anything to fix the monotony that is the 50 seconds between Wildfires. Heat will still build so slowly that you'll only be able to use Cooldown once between Wildfires. This at least gives a skilled MCH something to optimize, but I want a job that's interesting most of the time instead of 1/6 of it.

Actually you won't even use cooldown once between wildfires. If you overheat every wildfire you'll never cooldown outside of them ever again unless something in that fight goes seriously wrong.

Barrel stabilizer sits nicely in to use right after. So you will spend pretty much all your time 50+ heat surely.

So does that also mean the downtime after overheat is 2 seconds instead of 10?

I would rather they'd have returned the heat generation to 10 per shot and left Flamethrower as is, personally.

Gotta admit I'm probably gonna be taking MCH up next. The buffs look excellent.

I already talked about my feelings about the job in this post here

I was kind of hoping it'd get some of it's nuances back that lend to interesting complexity that I could enjoy. 4.06 MCH appears to be the furthest away from HW MCH that we could ever reach, never you mind the cast times. Not to be a negative nancy, but the job I fell in love with no longer exhibits the qualities it had when I fell in love with it.

Realistically, I don't know if I want to play the job anymore.

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Originally Posted by Elnidfse

Actually you won't even use cooldown once between wildfires. If you overheat every wildfire you'll never cooldown outside of them ever again unless something in that fight goes seriously wrong.

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Not necessarily because FT now gives 20 heat, fitting a CD in is possible now, since you usually end up around 75-80 heat after CDing and the FT tick being weaved between GCDs will allow you to overheat on time with wildfire.

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Originally Posted by Yorha

So does that also mean the downtime after overheat is 2 seconds instead of 10?

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Lock out is still 10 seconds, recast is only for if you remove the barrel and reapply it.