Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[Jeckyl_Tesla]

Hey all,

I have a few questions as a MCN on Ravana Ex.


I know when he has a red shell, that's when you should be popping your CDs, but when I seem to hold my first burst rotation, I don't seem to get as high as I popped at the beginning.

Here is what I do:

- Pre fight, pop RS, HE, BfB, HC.
- Hotshot > Wildfire > Leadshot

And then Reload into my opener. The reason I pop Wildfire so early on, is so that it will be up as soon as he lands after casting Prelude, which means I can get a full WF pop onto his face (minus RS and HC) as he charges up Liberation.

This gives my WF and all CDs to come off CD for as he lands after Bloody Fuller, where I can do a full CD rotation on his face with RS and HC. So far, I have found this to give me the best DPS possible for me. (I lack the hive weapon, but have mostly Alex gear and Eso stuff, ilvl 185)

Depending on how the fights goes, I end up on 850-900 DPS, maybe a tad more depending on how lucky my crits are and how perfectly I play.

Question is, should I hold my RS and HC for the while he is casting Liberation and gain the full effects of his increased dmg at that stage instead? If I do that, I lose out on a lot of early burst.

What do you do for Ravana Ex?

[Alchemii]

Hey all,

I have a few questions as a MCN on Ravana Ex.


I know when he has a red shell, that's when you should be popping your CDs, but when I seem to hold my first burst rotation, I don't seem to get as high as I popped at the beginning.

Here is what I do:

- Pre fight, pop RS, HE, BfB, HC.
- Hotshot > Wildfire > Leadshot

And then Reload into my opener. The reason I pop Wildfire so early on, is so that it will be up as soon as he lands after casting Prelude, which means I can get a full WF pop onto his face (minus RS and HC) as he charges up Liberation.

This gives my WF and all CDs to come off CD for as he lands after Bloody Fuller, where I can do a full CD rotation on his face with RS and HC. So far, I have found this to give me the best DPS possible for me. (I lack the hive weapon, but have mostly Alex gear and Eso stuff, ilvl 185)

Depending on how the fights goes, I end up on 850-900 DPS, maybe a tad more depending on how lucky my crits are and how perfectly I play.

Question is, should I hold my RS and HC for the while he is casting Liberation and gain the full effects of his increased dmg at that stage instead? If I do that, I lose out on a lot of early burst.

What do you do for Ravana Ex?

Ok I noticed I was having a similar problem when I first started dealing with ravana. The reason is if you wait til ravana pops his red shell to start your opener Wildfire won't go off, because he'll go invincible before the timer runs out on it. The answer I came too is to start popping my CDs and applying fully buffed Lead Shot when Ravana is at 88% health. Assuming your dps is fast enough, you should be applying Wildfire about the same time he begins going into Red Shell, the debuff from Hypercharge should last through most of the starting phase as well. Your second Wildfire burst, aka the weaker one, will be up and ready in time for Warlord Shell. It's up to you weather you want to use it here or not, as Wildfire itself will do about 2k-2.5k damage (at least for me) do to warlord shell making him take 0 damage. After that it will be back up and ready for use just before orbs. And I'm sure you can figure the rest out from there.

[Jeckyl_Tesla]

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That seems somewhat better, but whenever I've gotten Wildfire off duriong the first red shell, I've always somehow bursted for lower (due to holding my CDs in the beginning) DPS then if I use my WF at the beginning.

[Alchemii]

That seems somewhat better, but whenever I've gotten Wildfire off duriong the first red shell, I've always somehow bursted for lower (due to holding my CDs in the beginning) DPS then if I use my WF at the beginning.

That may just be a timing issue then, when he starts getting closer to the 88% health, just let all your oGCD come up and save them for that wildfire burst your about to start.