Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[Caitlyn]

Rapid-Fire doesnt affect Gauss-Barrel any more. Thanks SE : (
Now we have to hard-cast GB, which makes MCH even more worse T_T

Dont get me wrong, I love playing MCH. But SE must make some adjustments!

I mean, come on! Even the paladin does more damage than the machinist O_O

[Shhikasan]

Rapid-Fire doesnt affect Gauss-Barrel any more. Thanks SE : (
Now we have to hard-cast GB, which makes MCH even more worse T_T

Dont get me wrong, I love playing MCH. But SE must make some adjustments!

I mean, come on! Even the paladin does more damage than the machinist O_O

with the case of ravana ex and bismarck ex there are moements where you could hardcast GB i know bismarck is a easy one when you have dots on you from being on the back you'll have to wait 4-6 seconds before you can jump on awayways that is the perfect time to GB and unload on bismarck back. with ravana there is VERY VERY little room to hardcast GB. and probably the start to keep gb on till rest of the fight case rest of the fight usually has you moving a ton.

[Ooshima]

with the case of ravana ex and bismarck ex there are moements where you could hardcast GB i know bismarck is a easy one when you have dots on you from being on the back you'll have to wait 4-6 seconds before you can jump on awayways that is the perfect time to GB and unload on bismarck back. with ravana there is VERY VERY little room to hardcast GB. and probably the start to keep gb on till rest of the fight case rest of the fight usually has you moving a ton.

I can't recall off hand but there's quite a few openings to hardcast GB in Ravana EX

You can keep GB on from the start all the way until he finish his ifrit style dashes actually.

But if you prefer to turn it off after the opener then as much as I can recall off hand:

- After he finishes his Prelude to Liberation and disappears and you deal with the purple circles, you can hard cast GB and go nuts on him as he comes back and charges for Liberation and does his ifrit style dashes. You can keep GB on for the entire of phase 3 if you are confident not to screw up during the all-seeing stances, which you should try to, since this is adds phase without any dodging mechanics.

- Phase 4 isn't a GB friendly phase due to knockbacks, stacking for Laughing Rose, prey movements and Rose of Hate. Prob should turn it off

- Swift liberation: you can hardcast during the time he charges and can probably keep it until you have to deal with Final Liberation prey mechanic

- Final Liberation: You can hardcast GB when he does the lunar dynamo thing but the 2nd one when you have to stay at the edge and keep it until the pillars of heaven knockback again.

[Divebombs]

I've toyed around with various different rotations re: GB in Ravana and can say the only point at which I HAD to turn it off at all was at the orbs, at which point I will keep it off for awhile as the fight gets pretty movement intense after that.

[Ephier]

I've toyed around with various different rotations re: GB in Ravana and can say the only point at which I HAD to turn it off at all was at the orbs, at which point I will keep it off for awhile as the fight gets pretty movement intense after that.

Could have just spammed feint which is effectively 144 potency with gauss barrel on (120*1.2), still lower DPS than no gauss barrel in that portion, but do not HAVE to turn it off.

[Ryaz]

Could have just spammed feint which is effectively 144 potency with gauss barrel on (120*1.2), still lower DPS than no gauss barrel in that portion, but do not HAVE to turn it off.

Actually a bit more than that with Increased Action Damage. Kind of sucks that it's multiplicative with GB and not additive. That hurts the actual damage increase that GB gives you.

[Ephier]

Actually a bit more than that with Increased Action Damage. Kind of sucks that it's multiplicative with GB and not additive. That hurts the actual damage increase that GB gives you.

How so?

120*(1.2*1.2) = 172.8
120*(1.4) = 168

Multiplicative is still higher unless I am doing something wrong.