my first impressions of new MCH

This one feels like a graveyard. 14 icons lost. Still, with all the changes, that's needful, right?

Okay, okay, shake it off, lets try to get these thoughts in order.

1. I love the new bars. The compact look just feels good. The old dial was nice, but primitive, this feels new, improved, without feeling modern. You can picture a world having something not unlike electricity, but still mostly using steam.
2. Because it was so redone, it feels unified, it makes sense to me, it just flows.
3. Wildfire/detonator I like that I can trigger it early, a little more control, but it does not require me to remember and hit it. I'll have to play with it a while to make up my mind if the flat 150 is a buff or a nerf. Being though that I have a lot of weapon skills I can burst in though, and not all of them do much damage... leg graze and arm graze will get clicked every wildfire.
4. Okay, there's my 1, 2, 3. So many weave betweens though. This has the controllable burst that my DRK lost I think. Still, nice to find it here on main class.

Welcome back KING ED. Shame that MCH can't wear the PAL crowns. Then again, he tended to refuse crowns himself, didn't he?

Honestly out of all the jobs this one feels the best for me. Build up those gauges and welcome to oGCD heaven. Feels great.

Feels like HW DRK. Maybe better.

Am impress.

What I can't figure out is, what's the point of autocrossbow?
It's on rotation, so you can't off rotation it, and it's the same range, size, speed, and damage as spread shot, but it does less (no heat gauge boost) and can be used only under overheat (and it's not a single target attack, so no bonus from overheat). It can't even have it's recast timer shortened by gear, so... why?
Does it only exist as a tribute?

Crossbow you spam after you trigger Hypercharge if you have a group of enemies, otherwise you spam heat blast.

How? I hit it once, and it triggers my GCD. I can't cast it any faster then I can cast spread shot.

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Originally Posted by ICountFrom0

How? I hit it once, and it triggers my GCD. I can't cast it any faster then I can cast spread shot.

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Yes, you can. Autocrossbow has a 1.5 second GCD while Spread Shot has a 2.5 GCD.

It definitely feels better to play than it sounded on paper. Using reassemble for a guaranteed direct hit critical on a 700 potency drill is great. MCH has it's own Midare/Foul/Xenoglossy type nuke with drill now.

I'm still running BLM as my main for the story playthrough though, largely due to aesthetics/lore reasons given the theme of the expansion. Surprisingly good first impression on MCH thus far.

I'm really enjoying machinist now. feels great on both AOE and single target.

One thing I'm not sure about is what is the point of flamethrower now? it adds no heat, you need to stand still and it kills less than spread shot? Why would I use it?

Flamethrower deals damage every second, meaning you have to multiply it's potency by ~2.5 to compare it with spread shot. It would be really nice if tooltips listed how often DoTs dealt damage.

I used to use wildfire and flamethrower to take out crystals in pvp, it did a good job of taking out anybody moving in too close as well...

I have to get out of the habit of that combo, it isn't functional anymore.