Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[Ephier]

wep if you can solve acc issues (read: i180 crafted or a1s earrings+a2s belt/feet) for a3s/a4s. need around 630-635 for the frontal portion of a3s, which is likely to be flank req in a4s

if you can't.. still wep. just downgrade accessories for more acc

Had to downgrade my entire set for a1s. Was ilvl 186 with 466 acc, spiders were having none of it. Had to drop down to i180 to meet acc cap. Sad days for the short lala.

[CedricDur]

May I ask why you leveled SMN for MCH when Archer and Lancer are the job's subs?

That was me not being clear. What I meant was that I leveled to 50 (with the summoner) in order to be able to pick the Machinist.

[Velhart]

That was me not being clear. What I meant was that I leveled to 50 (with the summoner) in order to be able to pick the Machinist.

What I am asking is if you had intent on leveling MCH from the start, why did you not pick a job that benefits from it? Raging Strikes, Blood for Blood, and Invigorate are too good to pass up. If you leveled SMN and decided later you wanted to MCH is one thing. If you started and had MCH in mind from the beginning, you should of played BRD or DRG up to 50.

[CedricDur]

I liked summoner. I needed one class to reach 50, summoner it was. I don't like melee though if I ever get serious and decide to raid I suppose I'll have to level lancer and such for the cross skills. FF14's system isn't very palatable. Give me Rift's talent tree anytime.

But anyway, yeah, just considering my summoner again. I wanted to try machinist just for the magitech and guns aesthetics despite knowing about Gauss. It has been tried, Gauss sucks the fun out of the class. which is what it boils down to. Not the mechanical howmuchDPScanyoudo, just the fun aspect. Might as well get near infinite resources, strong AoE, self-heals, battle res and etc if casting enters the equation. Machinist burst was nice though, and all the weaving of OGCDs.

[Doraymon_Prime]

This is how much time I can get to react for procs with Gauss Barrel on:



Holy shit, it's not easy...0.31 seconds to react...and skill queue looks like 0.5...You can't spam Split Shot and wait for procs...You are fucked right now with GB. It's pretty disgusting.

I wonder if cast times on slug and clean and instant split shot would be the answer. That gives you time to react to slug shot procs and while it'd be hard to react to clean shot procs...you wouldn't need to. You can go straight from slug shot back to split shot, if you got a clean shot proc it can hold(So like, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2... with all procs and a generic control setup). It'd make more since for the big hits to be the ones with the cast times anyway.

*cut some message off for 1000 words*.

i think the answer is to allow slug shot proc to stack 2 times
1.split shot -> split shot -> notice that slug shot proc from 1st split and even if this split also proc it, it not matter since it will stack 2 times-> slug shot -> split -> clean shot or slug depend on proc

if someone agree with this and have good English writing skill, please write the proper recommend for it

[Jeckyl_Tesla]

Is anyone else here having problems with ACT not parsing their Wildfire?

My ACT is registering it's use, but not it's damage whatsoever.

[jk315904]

Is anyone else here having problems with ACT not parsing their Wildfire?

My ACT is registering it's use, but not it's damage whatsoever.

Yes, I have been having this issue as well even with network parsing, it will register for the first wildfire but any Wildfire after that it will not.

[Velhart]

Is anyone else here having problems with ACT not parsing their Wildfire?

My ACT is registering it's use, but not it's damage whatsoever.

Let it run through your firewall, run as administrator, and keep network parsing up.

[Trepesque]

Hey, y'all! I'm a fresh lvl 60 MCH and had a quick question in regards to Wildfire. Does turret damage contribute to your Wildfire damage? Or is it just your damage skills that add up to the big burst at the end? I'm on the PS4 so I can't parse myself to really test it.

Thanks for the help, and sorry if this question has been asked before!

[Jeckyl_Tesla]

Let it run through your firewall, run as administrator, and keep network parsing up.

I have all of that already set up. IT was working before, but has suddenly stopped. I've fully updated and sorted everything out.