Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[Judge_Xero]

I have a video for you guys showing my wildfires.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar4SRNvwxMM

That is nice. I think the only thing I do different is Gauss Round before Hot shot so that it is back up before Wildfire falls of.

Obviously it wont effect wildfire but I think it adds a bit more burst.

[Aiurily]

to put it into dragoon terms

machinist true thrust (split shot) has a 50% chance to proc vorpal thrust as a combo action, and vorpal thrust (slug shot) has a 50% chance to proc full thrust (clean shot) as a combo action, 100% with ammo for both. ammo is depleted by 1 on every weapon skill, reloaded by QR and reload. procced vorpal thrust/full thrust (slug shot/clean shot) in gauss barrel have no cast times, but everything else in gauss barrel without rapid fire has cast times (roughly around 1.5s before skill speed reduction)

[BannedatRegistration]

That is nice. I think the only thing I do different is Gauss Round before Hot shot so that it is back up before Wildfire falls of.

Obviously it wont effect wildfire but I think it adds a bit more burst.

I just tried that out and buffs fall off by the time it's back off cooldown. Just weave it in during B4B/HE/RS uptime.

[Myon88]

I just tried that out and buffs fall off by the time it's back off cooldown. Just weave it in during B4B/HE/RS uptime.

The timing is tight but if you fire a Gauss Round early enough it'll be up again at the end of Wildfire.

Hypercharge, BFB, HE, RS, Gauss Round
Hot Shot | Pot
Lead Shot | Reload
Split | Wildfire
Slug | Rapid Fire
Clean | Ricochet
Split | Head Graze, Blank
Slug | Reassemble
Clean | Quick Reload
Split | Gauss Round
*Wildfire goes off*

The principle of it is since the opening rotation is so long, and Gauss Round is a fairly hard hitting ability with a short CD, you may as well put it on CD first thing ASAP. It's basically an opportunity to get an extra cast of it, and let its CD tick down while you're busy with our bloated opener. It'll be up again just before Wildfire expires so you're still getting 1 Gauss Round in a Wildfire - but now you have 1 extra Gauss Round cast, having fired 2 at this point in the fight.

Damage buffs have fallen off by the point of the second Gauss Round, that is true. So it's a question of (1 buffed Gauss Round outside Wildfire + 1 unbuffed Gauss Round inside Wildfire) vs (1 buffed Gauss Round inside Wildfire), and also whether the damage of 1 extra Gauss Round is worth the extra split second spent casting it (the tiny GCD that ability casts incur).

On a side note I'm happy to discuss any optimizations to my opener. It's fairly similar to the ones in popular use with a bit of variation to accomodate fitting 2 Gauss Rounds in.

[BannedatRegistration]

stuff

I used HC > Buffs > GR > Hot > pot > Lead etc. and the only buff that was up when GR came off cooldown was B4B with 1second left, so I will personally be weaving it in like normal. I'm sure the other folk here can test it out though.