for one straight shot is nothing like hot shot. it gives crit and it can be used in a rotation easily. hot shot is so annoyingly stupid. we don't need the extra heat so maybe if they took the heat and ammo use away from it I would say its not bad. but it completely ruins my heat gauge rhythm. I have a 70 machinist that I wish I could main. they made the balance so unfair towards bard. bard has lots of support buffs while machinists has like 1? maybe 2 if u count a 5 second dmg red on boss lol. and I'm not counting the cross roles bc obviously bard has those too. unfortunately I'm never going to be able to bring my machinist into a raid group bc bard is just so much more useful. warning you now don't main machinist until they fix the class bc right now its the worst unfortunately.