Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[Ryaz]

This is what helps with analyzing, espesically when comparing playstyle differences. Thanks for this.

In the end though, I still feel stance dancing can get very impractical if the fight does not line up for the 15 second lock. Were you using ricochet and gauss round off cooldown during fulltime, or did you try to line it for every second wildfire?

Stance dancing can be detrimental in other ways as well, as I found out. It's just one more thing to keep track of on top of mechanics, buffs, procs, etc. I was actually so focused on it today, I missed one of the reflect changes on Bismarck and killed myself. For what amounts to a negligible difference, I don't really think it's worth the headache.

Leeora: I did Alex the first day it came out with one of my FC members who's a tank. He was iffy on MCH as well. By the end of the day he wanted to play one as he saw me topping the Aggro and dps charts all day, and was glad that MCH wasn't the horror story he had heard about. He was even surprised when I pulled Aggro off him once because he thought a MCH would be the last class to be able to do it. There's a stigma right now due to all the talk, but trust me, enjoy your MCH and learn a little about it. When you do, you'll show your FC members just how good it is. And if they really try to bully you into switching classes, I'd say it's not an FC worth being part of.

[RiceisNice]

Stance dancing can be detrimental in other ways as well, as I found out. It's just one more thing to keep track of on top of mechanics, buffs, procs, etc. I was actually so focused on it today, I missed one of the reflect changes on Bismarck and killed myself. For what amounts to a negligible difference, I don't really think it's worth the headache.

Tunnel visioning can be a problem for any circumstance though, not just stance dancing. I was stancing before 3.01 because the burst from it is no joke. If you could find a time where you werent attacking the boss and had 3 seconds to attach the barrel, you could do so, use both guass and ricochet, then turn it off. It was a dps gain over full time GB (which was barely doing more than non-GB). Stance dancing isn't as effective now because ricochet's potency went from a whooping 480 to 390 (which technically would be made up by the 30% gain across everything else, but that's not the case if you're toggling GB off anyway). Right now it's just not leading to a consistent damage gain, and you're really just busting your stones for no good reason.

[Ryaz]

Right now it's just not leading to a consistent damage gain, and you're really just busting your stones for no good reason.

I was trying to go the extra mile and only have GB up when Gauss Round was up (and Ricochet, Reload and buffs), which was every 20 seconds or so. Which means I was putting it on and taking off in 20 second intervals. Just wasn't worth the effort. Lol.