Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[Sigmakan]

Any tips for add phase on a3s? MCH toolset doesn't seem to shine during that phase.

[zandervont]

Any tips for add phase on a3s? MCH toolset doesn't seem to shine during that phase.

Well you got stun/silence (both do work on the flans using Mucilage), 40% heavy for times when your smn/sch is slow, pretty mobile job to begin with and turrets dont take dmg from the middle pool, not to mention no combo losses from movement/Ferros.
We are just getting past that and working on last phase and so far I've no problems on the phase.

Mostly I just keep Hotshot on and use Reload+Reass.+Ricochet (savin other stuff for last phase) and focus on the furthest ones from the melees/tanks. I'm also mpbotting for until the last 2 packs when I take Rook out and well.. that's pretty much it for tips I can give.

[Aiurily]

Any tips for add phase on a3s? MCH toolset doesn't seem to shine during that phase.

so the waves go

2 big
3 small
1 big 2 small
4 small
3 small
4 big

with current gear and experience, most raids will typically kill all the adds that spawn in the first waves before the next wave spawn; only starting to fall behind wave spawns after the 1 big 2 small wave. at the same time, if you use your 1m cds at that point (rico, reassemble, reload) , they will be back up once the living liquid is back. so right around when the 1st ferrofluid resolves is a good time to pop your CDs and catch up on DPS.

ideally you want to do your full wildfire burst once the boss once he's back in last phase. this means most of your CDs have to be saved; the add phase lasts roughly 2 minutes, and you shouldn't have any CDs going into it (because of the prior hand of pain dps check). anyway, i usually actually play mana song til the end of the 1 big 2 small wave, then i put rook out; and then i play a bit of TP song on the 4 big wave (since at that point DPS is all caught up, and topping MP/TP off in add phase>giving MP/TP in last phase)


the best you can do is figure out where you can stun mobs and putting your heavy to use. ideally the tanks should handle the 2 big and the 1 big stun; you should only have to save stun for the 4 big wave as a fallback even (2 melee+2 tanks should get it). so everywhere else, you can/should stun mobs that aren't being hit by melee or ranged. then if your stun is on CD and you see another mob that has a low chance of being hit immediately after spawning, leg graze it. if you know a mob will live at least 9 seconds, put lead shot on it.

also, grenado shot will hit some of the mobs if you target the living liquid; but not all of them. uneven spacing