SE: Please show MCH some love in Stormblood

[Greedalox]

I feel like if they really wanted to treat MCH to a steak dinner, they could maybe redesign the animations of Split/Slug shot. Both are practically the same animation which is raise your arm and shoot

... Gauss Round too if we're going for lobster.

I feel like a large turnoff of players from MCH is the iffy animations.

[Ama_Hamada]

I'm pretty sure you've got bigger problems if you're running content with people that actually care enough to notice that attachment on your gun.

"glam is the true endgame"

I feel like if they really wanted to treat MCH to a steak dinner, they could maybe redesign the animations of Split/Slug shot. Both are practically the same animation which is raise your arm and shoot

... Gauss Round too if we're going for lobster.

I feel like a large turnoff of players from MCH is the iffy animations.

I think it has to do with more so how hard it is to get high end damage from it. Like my friend has been obsessed with MCH and likes the play style but feels like she is being carried in groups because the damage she outputs is not up to her standard. This is even multiplied by the fact she has a lesser geared blm that can have large gaps over her MCH.

I know she is trying as well, showing me all these rotations she finds that leads her to make improvements. On blm on the other hand she does high end damage with it just as long as she learns fight timings to keep enochian on. Even without it she can outdamage average skill level dps. On MCH if you slip up one little thing, she ends up dead last.

[Ghastly]

"glam is the true endgame"

My main dps is mch
My second dps is blm

I completely sympathize with your friend, mch damage is so frustrating to understand. Even 2 years already it's only been the last few months that I started getting the most out of the rotations.
There's so much pre planning for mch compared to almost all classes that I've played (I've played almost every class).

One advice for your friend is to not be afraid to use all or almost all her buffs before going for the big damage bursts with the reload rounds. So like use blood for blood, hawk's eye, and raging strikes before or during the big damage rotation. Sometimes I save raging strikes for when I've used all the rounds. Anyway just wanted to share that bit since I know how harsh playing a mch can be. You do more work than any dps class and the result is sometimes kind of low. I know mch is used in many raids now because of their burst damage (there's a lot of adjust/mini phases in savage raids) so burst is a good thing. But in regular content blm and even archer have better consistent damage, but mch can keep up (if you follow strict rotations).

Anyway I hope for stormblood they simplify mch by a lot. I know they wanted to make it complex so it's not like bard but for the FUN of it please simplify mch or add new gadgets so it's more different from bard. But really they need to do to mch what they did to smn from ARR to HW. Merge a lot of all that preparation into other skills and remove the % chance to trigger a bonus on next shot (this isn't fun).

And yes glam is end game, please remove gauss barrel it's ugly and ruins all guns.

[Ama_Hamada]

My main dps is mch
My second dps is blm

I completely sympathize with your friend, mch damage is so frustrating to understand. Even 2 years already it's only been the last few months that I started getting the most out of the rotations.
There's so much pre planning for mch compared to almost all classes that I've played (I've played almost every class).One advice for your friend is to not be afraid to use all or almost all her buffs before going for the big damage bursts with the reload rounds. So like use blood for blood, hawk's eye, and raging strikes before or during the big damage rotation. Sometimes I save raging strikes for when I've used all the rounds. Anyway just wanted to share that bit since I know how harsh playing a mch can be. You do more work than any dps class and the result is sometimes kind of low. I know mch is used in many raids now because of their burst damage (there's a lot of adjust/mini phases in savage raids) so burst is a good thing. But in regular content blm and even archer have better consistent damage, but mch can keep up (if you follow strict rotations).

Anyway I hope for stormblood they simplify mch by a lot. I know they wanted to make it complex so it's not like bard but for the FUN of it please simplify mch or add new gadgets so it's more different from bard. But really they need to do to mch what they did to smn from ARR to HW. Merge a lot of all that preparation into other skills and remove the % chance to trigger a bonus on next shot (this isn't fun).

And yes glam is end game, please remove gauss barrel it's ugly and ruins all guns.

She does well with wildfire, she is usually top with it and a lot of times gets close to pulling hate when it blows up. She had the "2" for a long time when we did niddy today for example when doing trail roulette.

It is the downtime and how to reuse wildfire is the issue. Also once doing light farms on a1s her friend kept asking how much the wildfire did on this one run. After she found faust.. (I think?) took 19k damage from something and guessed that was prob it, the other friend says " yeah it is likely, (my friend) hit 5k dps when that wildfire blew."