PROPOSE Machinist Buffs/Changes HERE

[Chibilidawg]

In my view well lets just say my terrible PoV if we are to lower the cooldown of Reload to 45s and QReload to 15-20 then it PROBABLY calls for the ammo time to be reduced so we aren't carrying about 11 shots of ammo at the start of a pull...

Ammo can't be stacked above 5.

If they did anything with the Ammo Timer, they should simply remove it.

It's silly that it can disappear. I mean, I get it. It's so that we don't get a free-edge on phase-changes (whereas other Jobs like BLM/MNK lose FS/GL) so it's necessitated, I just think it's silly ;P.

Now, an action like MNK's Meditation where we could load excess Ammo from phase-transitioning into an empowered Gauss Round... now, that would be really freaking COOL.

Would be an interesting option for mega-bursting too, especially to drop a high value target, clutch-finish the DPS Check, or in PVP.

[Raeus]

Err that's not what I meant what I meant by possible 11 ammo at the start if we lowered the CD of reload to 45s.
Lets say pre-pull
Reload 5 shots 30s
at the 5s to ammo timeout the pull begins
shoot Split Shot and QReload refreshing the duration and giving you once again 5 stacks of ammo.
Standard opener wasting 2 shots of ammo on Hot/Leadshot.
leaving you 3 shots by which time you could reload again.
thereby you pretty much had 11 shots on the pull 2 of which wasted on Hot/Leadshot

On the support aspect I noticed Virus' CD went up to 90s quite probably for MCN's to line up Disassemble/Rend Mind?
On Gauss Barrel / WM I find it insulting that they make us cast expecting us to catch up while murdering our AAs WHEN WE ALREADY HAVE THE LOWEST WD among jobs.

[Keylus]

Ammo can't be stacked above 5.

If they did anything with the Ammo Timer, they should simply remove it.

It's silly that it can disappear. I mean, I get it. It's so that we don't get a free-edge on phase-changes (whereas other Jobs like BLM/MNK lose FS/GL) so it's necessitated, I just think it's silly ;P.

Now, an action like MNK's Meditation where we could load excess Ammo from phase-transitioning into an empowered Gauss Round... now, that would be really freaking COOL.

Would be an interesting option for mega-bursting too, especially to drop a high value target, clutch-finish the DPS Check, or in PVP.

you can mantain your ammo if you spam quick reload
I don't know why, but it works

I feel like so much of this Job was either rushed or an after-thought or not much care was put into it.

If I remember correctly, SE said that the initial MCN concept was that we need reload to cast our skills, but at the end they thought that it was too clumsy and changed it
Maybe they changed it at the last moment