My Eulogy for Machinist

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Any job I love in a MMO, I wouldn’t wish it to stagnate this badly. it is far worse to submit with a “just how it is, don’t fix what isn’t broken” as it’s a recipe for unambitious design than vent.

Or be one of those forum white knights that swears the game would be better if everyone stopped having opinions. Games not perfect MCH isn’t perfect not was it perfect enough to stagnate. That’s the argument, and the best counterclaim to it I’ve seen is “stop dreaming of a better job”

You also have the other side of the coin for a problem. World of Warcraft suffers from always wanting to make changes instead of keeping to what works. They are falling apart and have some of the worst class design in existence. I much rather SE keep making tiny or no changes to some classes or abilities while making larger changes where needed than simply wanting change for changes sake. Stagnation isnt by definition bad just like change isnt by definition good.

As for what they should add to machinist. I think for flashy and flavour they should make queen no longer be an automated DOT like doll. But instead when you summon queen you can start using abilities/attacks and expend heat to "charge her" further. The more you do the more weapons can be beamed down to equip her. Then after the equip window goes away she starts firing all the new weapons in sequence. Maybe some shoulder pad missiles, gatlings on the arms, lasers in the chest. Something with a bit more interaction and control on your part. It probably sounds dumb but this is something I could at least get behind rather than summon doll, doll punch, doll go byebye.