Lock and Load: The Reassembled Machinist Guide

[Myon88]

How do you guys handle cooldown usage on A8S during the transition to the final justice/gavel phase?

The dilemma of course is that you have everything up for an opener level wildfire, but if you pop everything and then get chosen for regulators ~5 seconds later when he finishes casting final justice, you're pretty boned since you have nothing left and a useless wildfire ticking on the boss. I suppose you might be able to do it with just vanilla 1-2-3 weaponskills and your damage buffs still ticking, but it seems close - I haven't seen the phase enough to try it for myself.

On the other hand you can play it safe and wait I guess, but it's a DPS loss since you sit there twiddling your thumbs waiting for him to assign debuffs. If you get FP3 then you can do a proper opener, and if you get FP1 you just have to suck it up and use some cooldowns on the regulator.

Neither option feels particularly good to me though.

[Komoritane]

How do you guys handle cooldown usage on A8S during the transition to the final justice/gavel phase?

I've got no idea if it's optimal, but in Aiurily's clear video it looks like he popped the wildfire right away and used everything except raging strikes. He didn't have to do regulators, and held raging all the way until his next WF which was when the boss was doing his flaming tornado spin thing. I wondered why he held raging, but based on what you're saying maybe it was for the regulators just in case? The only other reason to hold it might've been since you'd only get 1 more use of RS out of the fight, and he paired it with a WF that included a hypercharge...so I don't know. Rianchu Nau already had RS on cd from prior usage and held the wildfire. He had to do the regulator, and popped B4B/HE for it. But, his clear was not as good as Aiurily's. My group hasn't progressed past A7S yet so I can't give any personal feedback at this point, but I'm glad you brought it up, I'll post if I come across any good strategy info on it.