ShB Machinist personal retrospective after 4 months

[Ayanumi]

In my opinion, the shadowbringers machinist is the best machinist has been. And I actually liked, though didn't main, MCH back in HW. Granted, I had a 15ms ping instead of the 80-110ms ping I have now, but that's a topic unto itself. The big thing is that it has a coherent direction and focus. Sure, it was dumbed down, but a lot of that dumbing down was busywork that made the class especially inaccessible, as well as streamlining a really, really dumb part of the rotation.

Additionally, Machinist (still) has the best pets in the game. Namely, they're fire and forget, cannot drop GCDs unless the boss jumps, which you have a button you can push to make up some of the DPS loss from that anyways, win win win. Meanwhile, over in summoner-land......

Got to humbly disagree, I dont understand why the pets still being "fire and forget" is a good thing when thats the main complaint people had about rook/bishop autoturrets since you only had to throw them down then forget about them. Queen's difficulty with terrain like E4s and its inability to change targets once set + losing DPS from boss jumps (meaning actual boss movement not downtime) actually make it a downgrade from rook in my opinion.

Current MCH as you said has been very dumbed down, I dont think battery really interacts with the kit at all so its just a slapped on additional gauge that functions as a DoT which I hope they change in the future so it actually matters to your gameplay.
I agree that at this point they could remove wildfire and it wouldnt really matter since its became so boring and detatched form the kit.

Overall the design feels slicker on the job but thats mostly because they removed so much of it that it would actually be HARD for them to make such a basic job feel clunky.
(even then heatblast spam still feels clunky due to the weaving and time commitment you need to put into dumping 50 gauge)

[MyakotApelsia]

I dont understand why the pets still being "fire and forget" is a good thing when thats the main complaint people had about rook/bishop autoturrets since you only had to throw them down then forget about them. Queen's difficulty with terrain like E4s and its inability to change targets once set + losing DPS from boss jumps (meaning actual boss movement not downtime) actually make it a downgrade from rook in my opinion

In sb you didnt really ignore them, you hypercharged it for damage up on wildfire, overloaded before wf goes off, then sat without turret for some time, and then threw it again until next wildfire. I prefer current queen more tbh, altho i would love to have aoe alternative to it (like bishop autoturret becoming automata king or something). Like it is huge ogcd, instead of taking part of mch's autoattack damage, partially ruining skill speed (and alphascape raid weapon) and just being general nuisance

[Ayanumi]

In sb you didnt really ignore them, you hypercharged it for damage up on wildfire, overloaded before wf goes off, then sat without turret for some time, and then threw it again until next wildfire. I prefer current queen more tbh, altho i would love to have aoe alternative to it (like bishop autoturret becoming automata king or something). Like it is huge ogcd, instead of taking part of mch's autoattack damage, partially ruining skill speed (and alphascape raid weapon) and just being general nuisance

It had more interaction sure, but hypercharge and overload were two minute cooldowns, so they werent exactly super interactive.

[Dianoia]

Instead of spamming Heat Blast, make it an ability similar to GNB’s Gnashing Claw/Wicked Fang/Savage Claw that combos off the base 3hit combo when overheated. Seems like an easy fix to the latency issue for Wildfire and the boringness of Heat Blast spam

[Jirah]

Instead of spamming Heat Blast, make it an ability similar to GNB’s Gnashing Claw/Wicked Fang/Savage Claw that combos off the base 3hit combo when overheated. Seems like an easy fix to the latency issue for Wildfire and the boringness of Heat Blast spam

Hmm interesting conecpt