MCH, still as bad?

[Judge_Xero]

Wildfire is probably the only big difference between a BRDand MCH. It's both frustrating and satisfying to use, the very nature of it makes it very inflexible to when it can be done; burst damage on adds or trash is out of the question if they die too fast, and wildfire by itself is very ineffective, especially if you can't dedicate the full 15 seconds. It's different, and messing up wildfire (which in itself is less veristile and flexible in it's use) is more detrimental to a BRD missing an extra GCD or two during their cooldowns; you have that feeling of dying inside when you goofed up wildfire, but oyu'd have to actually try (or mess up cooldown timing big time) to goof up something like barrage empyreal.

These are the main reasons why I enjoy BRD over MCH. I enjoy how flexible MCH is with their ammo system/movement and mixing their CD's in different situations for optimal performance, but Wildfire just kills me. (that and if you pre-load ammo before a pull is annoying to maintain)

Like you say, you can't really mess up Barrage + EA, and it is un-affected by things you are concerned about for WF, other than possibly the boss going Invuln as you fire.

I don't think the WF design is a good trade off for MCH for how easy the class is over BRD.

I feel that a 10s Duration with 35% damage would synergize a bit more with the class and fight mechanics. So I think I'll stick with BRD for now especially for how interesting/dynamic BRD is with gear scaling.