Media Tour MCH issues: MCH is now 4 times more punishing

[AvenoMatt]

Personally I don't mind the 1.5 gcd. I just don't like the heat blast spam. I liked how during wildfire there was just a slew of animations going on my only real issue was flamethrower and how you needed to use it to overheat and needed to immediately activate Wildfire and go, the lack of control MCH had pre lv62 with their heat since Cooldown was the only way for you to prevent overheating to early so once you unlocked Gauss Barrel to when you unlocked Cooldown MCH was just broken, and lastly the lack of gadgets and general use of the turrets outside of Hypercharge/Overdrive. Still love the job though and honestly these changes aren't perfect but they are still better imo.

[MerlinCross]

I kinda agree with AvenoMatt. My biggest problem was Wildfire before and if that's far easier to work around then cool, I'm going back to MCH.

But I'm causal so I'm not really sure I understand the problem with Rapid Fire and 1.5 GCD, and weaving Off GCDs in and out and all that. I just really hated being expected to have everything line up with Wildfire or you're way behind expected DPS.

If MCH still expects you to weave everything together and then sit for a minute for everything to reset, I'll stay with DRG. Or Even Ninja, it's Trick Attack is less punishing.

[Seraphor]

The skill ceiling might be higher, but it seems the floor is lower, and that's what MCH's problem was, it's floor was too high.

I loved MCH at 50 and to some degree up to level 60. The 121323, and the rapidfire>wildfire>reassemble, and placing your turret. It was fun and rewarding because you could fit everything you had into Wildfire.
Overheat and heat management ruined all that and made it a chore to play at a basic level. You're severely punished if multiple gauges, some time based, some action based, don't line up perfectly.

If overheat is both easier to manage, and less stringent on timing (as in, you don't need to line it up with too many other things) then that's the main bonus to take away.

[Hussain]

Can't wait to play a job that only 1% of the playerbase can play optimally , always a good design to have jobs being dependent on ping
good job SE

[Arkenne]

A job for the chosen 1%

You know, funny thing is that lore wise this is supposed to be a job for everyone to have power. So that even the weakest can fight... yet the job seems way more selective than Ishgard's Royalty and its Heavensward :v

[Darkpaw]

Trying to recall if we had this much support and concern over the stormblood machinist changes when we brought attention to those. xD oh well all the changes for expac are dialed in

Time to just wait and see what we get and return with feedback! 12 days til early access

[Nicku]

Trying to recall if we had this much support and concern over the stormblood machinist changes when we brought attention to those. xD oh well all the changes for expac are dialed in

As I remember it people were very vocal early on, and then it kinda got quiet as expansion went on and people realized nothing major would happen until 5.0, and mch just became the background meme you'd bring up every now and then.
As much as we can criticize it on paper I can't wait to get my hands on it and actually try how it feels to play

[Aeliott]

They bowed to every whim of Bard after a controversial 3.X, so hopefully they'll be as swift and decisive with Machinist this time.

[Arkenne]

hopefully they'll be as swift and decisive with MCH as they were with BRD on 3.x

BRD got stuck as bowmage the whole 3.x expansion tho O_o;;;
and MCH as a gunmage cuz BRD was a bowmage =-=a

[Aeliott]

BRD got stuck as bowmage the whole 3.x expansion tho O_o;;;
and MCH as a gunmage cuz BRD was a bowmage =-=a

I meant in early Stormblood, it seemed like bards problems were addressed unusually fast, which I saw as a sign of... repentance? :P they were, granted, more easily fixable issues. But I like to think it's our turn for special attention.