MCH Heat Blast

I'm trying the MCH, reached level 35 and got HEAT BLAST and I don't understand how to use HEAT BLAST. I mean, do I just spam it during the 8 seconds of HYPERCHARGE and use GAUSS ROUND somewhere during HYPERCHARGE? Or maybe I'm too low level right now and HEAT BLAST has no real utility at this point?

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Originally Posted by Nephisto

I'm trying the MCH, reached level 35 and got HEAT BLAST and I don't understand how to use HEAT BLAST. I mean, do I just spam it during the 8 seconds of HYPERCHARGE and use GAUSS ROUND somewhere during HYPERCHARGE?

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Correct. Eventually you'll unlock other skills that interact with hypercharge and heat blast (wildfire and ricochet).

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Originally Posted by Nephisto

I mean, do I just spam it during the 8 seconds of HYPERCHARGE and use GAUSS ROUND somewhere during HYPERCHARGE?

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Yes.

During Hypercharge, you'll want to be spamming Heat Blast and Gauss Round (As Heat Blast also recharges Gauss Round)

After level 50, you'll also be spamming Ricochet too as it is another oGCD skill that is recharged by Heat Blast.

A point to note, while it does not seem very strong with only a 220 potency compared to your normal combo's 180/260/340 potency, one of the things is that it takes your GCD to 1.5 seconds instead of the normal 2.5 seconds allowing you to do ~60% more attacks in the same time frame (In addition to allowing you to use more Gauss Rounds/Ricochets)

The hypercharge has multiple effects:

-Unlocks HeatBlast
-Unlocks Auto Cross Bow

Heatblast is a GCD (Weaponskill) at the fastest speed that also reduce Gauss round cooldown by 15s, later on it will also reduce Ricochet cooldown by 15s.
Auto Cross Bow is also a GCD at the fastest speed but as an AoE.

MCH also has a skill named Wildfire, a bomb that explodes after 10 seconds which potency increase everytime you hit it with a Weaponskill.
You guess it, you are supposed to use Wildfire, then Hypercharge and spam the fast Weaponskills.


In the endgame, you'll often use Hypercharge to spam Heatblast -> Gauss Round/Ricochet -> Heatblast -> Gauss Round/Ricochet -> Heatblast -> Gauss Round/Ricochet -> and so on...

Other than that, Hypercharge is all about damages.

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Originally Posted by Kalise

During Hypercharge, you'll want to be spamming Heat Blast and Gauss Round (As Heat Blast also recharges Gauss Round)

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Ok, maybe there is something I don't get, but Heatblast don't seems to recharge Gauss Round, but just reduces cooldown, so how I'm supposing to use multiple time Gauss Round during 8 seconds if the cooldown is 15 seconds? I got the skill westerday, so I didn't play long with it yet. ;)

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Originally Posted by Nephisto

Ok, maybe there is something I don't get, but Heatblast don't seems to recharge Gauss Round, but just reduces cooldown, so how I'm supposing to use multiple time Gauss Round during 8 seconds if the cooldown is 15 seconds? I got the skill westerday, so I didn't play long with it yet. ;)

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Every heatblast reduces the cooldown of guass round by 15 seconds and you can use heat blast 5 times per hypercharge. so you will reset the cd of gauss round and ricochet 2.5 times every hypercharge, so you gotta spam to avoid overcap

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Originally Posted by Nephisto

Ok, maybe there is something I don't get, but Heatblast don't seems to recharge Gauss Round, but just reduces cooldown, so how I'm supposing to use multiple time Gauss Round during 8 seconds if the cooldown is 15 seconds? I got the skill westerday, so I didn't play long with it yet. ;)

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Originally Posted by ReiMakoto

Every heatblast reduces the cooldown of guass round by 15 seconds and you can use heat blast 5 times per hypercharge. so you will reset the cd of gauss round and ricochet 2.5 times every hypercharge, so you gotta spam to avoid overcap

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To elaborate on this in case it's not immediately clear, after the first Heat Blast, use whichever of Gauss Round or Ricochet has more charges / less cooldown remaining. Then, alternate after each remaining Heat Blast. That way, you use up the 1 charge that built up in the last two Heat Blasts.

E.g., if you have 2 charges of Ricochet and 1 charge of Gauss Round, it's
Heat Blast (Ricochet) > Heat Blast (Gauss Round) > Heat Blast (Ricochet) > Heat Blast (Gauss Round) > Heat Blast (Ricochet)

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Originally Posted by Rongway

To elaborate on this in case it's not immediately clear, after the first Heat Blast, use whichever of Gauss Round or Ricochet has more charges / less cooldown remaining. Then, alternate after each remaining Heat Blast. That way, you use up the 1 charge that built up in the last two Heat Blasts.

E.g., if you have 2 charges of Ricochet and 1 charge of Gauss Round, it's
Heat Blast (Ricochet) > Heat Blast (Gauss Round) > Heat Blast (Ricochet) > Heat Blast (Gauss Round) > Heat Blast (Ricochet)

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Ok, thanks! I got it westerday! Lol! I don't have Ricochet yet, but I understood the Heat Blast/Gauss Round rotation! And a question about AoE. Right now, I just have Spread Shot. Do I just use it again and again in dungeons during mob pull? The next AoE is Ricochet at level 50, and I'm level 39, so that's it for now? Mad Spreading? Lol!

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Originally Posted by Nephisto

Ok, thanks! I got it westerday! Lol! I don't have Ricochet yet, but I understood the Heat Blast/Gauss Round rotation! And a question about AoE. Right now, I just have Spread Shot. Do I just use it again and again in dungeons during mob pull? The next AoE is Ricochet at level 50, and I'm level 39, so that's it for now? Mad Spreading? Lol!

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Even at level 80 spreadshot is your baseline aoe skill and should just be spammed if theres 3 or more enemies, later you get autocrossbow which is the aoe version of heat blast so thats what you spend your charge on, as well as bioblaster which is used every 20s. Ricochet is a ogcd so you can just use it along with gauss round when they come off cd as its free damage.