Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[Unaki]

New to parsing so a little lost in this thread but what sort of sustained dps can be achieved at i180?

Without Hive weapon and no party buffs, food or pots, 820 is realistic in a real environment that isn't on a dummy. With buffs and everything including food, Hive weapon, about 1k in a fight that doesn't have a lot of downtime.

[Lavieh]

In regards to the whole "Do I turn GB off":

I cleaned up my math a bit, and included ADII as well as incorporated AA's properly.


AA Pot (Did 35 non crit slugs, took out AD II and averaged them and came up with 4.05 PPD. Then took the average of my non-crit AA's and turned it into Potency) = 86



4x Split - 140x4
2x Slug - 180x2
1x Clean 200

17.5 Second (6 AAs)

560 + 360+ 200

1120 Potency

86*6

516 Potency


With GB + HS + ADII

(((1120 * 1.2) * 1.3) * 1.05) - 1834.5


Without GB

((1120*1.2) * 1.05)+ (516 * 1.05) = 1952.8



That is around a 118 Potency difference or 479 Damage over the course of 17.5 seconds which is around 27 DPS difference.

Taking off GB while fishing for Procs is definitely ideal. The problem comes in with Tunnel Visioning and knowing when to turn it back on.

Also for reference you lose around 37 Potency when you fire off Blank/Head Graze while out of GB.

[Judge_Xero]

Also for reference you lose around 37 Potency when you fire off Blank/Head Graze while out of GB.

Wouldn't it be
100 Potency * 0.3 = 30 Potency each? (60 Potency Total) Or are you accounting for the AA Damage during that period?

At least it's nice that @ 30s and 25s CD those skills should line up when you re-apply LS anyways.

[Ryaz]

Wouldn't it be
100 Potency * 0.3 = 30 Potency each? (60 Potency Total) Or are you accounting for the AA Damage during that period?

At least it's nice that @ 30s and 25s CD those skills should line up when you re-apply LS anyways.

When combined with Increased Action Damage 2, GB actually gives a 36% increase.

[Haxetc]

When combined with Increased Action Damage 2, GB actually gives a 36% increase.

No, this isn't where he gets his math for that nor is it right. (IA2×GB×HS)-(IA2×HS).

(1.2×1.3×1.05)-(1.2×1.05)=.378

37.8 potency is added to those 2 abilities with GB.

[zandervont]

anyone have an idea why does act sometimes drop out Wildfires? mostly the 1st and 3rd are just missing in the list.. so frustrating

[Dervy]

As long as a copy of your parse is saved, either raw combat log or network data, contact reddit.com/u/ravahn and give him your parse data along with telling him about Wildfire issue.

I remember this was a problem at launch and he may of broke it again, or a recent FFXIV patch might of changed the ID numbers for it.

Basically, the game treats Wildfire as ground AOE DoT oddly, but it goes through the combat log in-game this sometimes causes issues with ACT tracking it correctly.

[ArdorGrey]

anyone have an idea why does act sometimes drop out Wildfires? mostly the 1st and 3rd are just missing in the list.. so frustrating

I've noticed this even in the actual battle log. A machinist friend and me(warrior) took down a b rank. Wildfire very clearly went off after my fell cleave combo. Looking back through the log we could find my fell cleaves, but not wildfire.

[LunarEmerald]

Nope, turret damage is not included in Wildfire right now.

Yes it is. Have only your turret attack a dummy, throw wildfire on it and it won't do 0 damage.

[Haxetc]

Yes it is. Have only your turret attack a dummy, throw wildfire on it and it won't do 0 damage.

The turret absolutely does not contribute to WF. Make sure you don't AA.