Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[EvilYang]

It should show under simulated DoTs in your breakdown.

Ah nice thx.
I'll check it later when I get home then

[Sevyn]

everyones so lucky they have dragoons in their group . My group has monk/nin -cries in a corner-.

[Ryaz]

everyones so lucky they have dragoons in their group . My group has monk/nin -cries in a corner-.

I had a DRG earlier putting out less than 600 dps on A3. On the first phase. I'd rather take a monk or ninja who's doing 800-900 anyday.

Skill speed will be harder to test on turret than I thought. Apparently, spell speed no longer increases the speed of SMN pets attacks-- it just makes them stronger physically. I could picture our turrets getting the same treatment with skill speed. They keep the 3 second time between attacks, but do more damage with each hit as you get more skill speed. Crit/det will still be our big stats, though.

[Hutan]

I had a DRG earlier putting out less than 600 dps on A3. On the first phase. I'd rather take a monk or ninja who's doing 800-900 anyday.

I think he means for the piercing debuff the DRG applies, so he can do DPS at his full potential as MCH.

[jk315904]

I have a 60 MCH, but I have some questions for the seasoned MCH out there:

1. Should I use Wildfire on trash in dungeons or just bosses?
2. Should I be reserving the Reload and Ricochet abilities and my buffs just for Wildfire?

Also, I would like to add thak you to the OP for all of the great info posted at the beginning ^^

[Humorless]

I have a 60 MCH, but I have some questions for the seasoned MCH out there:

1. Should I use Wildfire on trash in dungeons or just bosses?
2. Should I be reserving the Reload and Ricochet abilities and my buffs just for Wildfire?

Also, I would like to add thak you to the OP for all of the great info posted at the beginning ^^

1. Use Wildfire on mobs that will live longer than 15s if it'll be off cooldown by the time you get to the boss.
2. Reload isn't worth saving because it has 2/3rd of the cooldown of Wildfire, you'll have Quick reload and proc regardless, even if you somehow get 0/7 procs and no QR you're only missing out on like 25% of 200 potency (+modifiers). Ricochet is a little more complicated, it's dependant on when the boss/target is going to die. After the first Wildfire, if the boss dies in <120 seconds, save it for Wildfire. If it lives for 120-150 seconds, use on cooldown. And so on. If in doubt just use it on cooldown.

[Ryaz]

I think he means for the piercing debuff the DRG applies, so he can do DPS at his full potential as MCH.

Oh, I know why he likes DRG. But the DRG needs to actually pull their weight as well or that 10% extra piercing damage will mean nothing to the overall raid.

[Haxetc]

Messed up at the end with a late Ricochet that could have helped my 3rd WF as well as still getting used to "Stance Dancing" but here's what I was able to do with the buff to MCH https://youtu.be/FXYX0Z3SbGY

[Humorless]

Messed up at the end with a late Ricochet that could have helped my 3rd WF as well as still getting used to "Stance Dancing" but here's what I was able to do with the buff to MCH https://youtu.be/FXYX0Z3SbGY

Do you feel you could go higher? RNG was somewhat kind but that was pretty much compensated by applying lead shot w/o gauss, cancelling a cast & wasting 1 ammo on clean shot late in the attempt.


Though I still think parses should run until TP is dry... not after a convenient wildfire tick.

[airshowboat]

Messed up at the end with a late Ricochet that could have helped my 3rd WF as well as still getting used to "Stance Dancing" but here's what I was able to do with the buff to MCH https://youtu.be/FXYX0Z3SbGY

Curious to what the same rotation would be without stance dancing.