Machinist needs help.

[Nekuroi]

Flamethrower feels like a Skill that should've been scrapped alongside the old heat system, or have a "first three attacks deal low damage but then it charges and deals alot of aoe damage" to justify it being a 60 second CD. But I am not here to talk about it, but rather automaton queen

AQ has a problem for me, which is that it is just a glorified DoT. I was thinking, couldn't it be like Reaper's Enshroud? Where you turn half-robot or get a big gadget and change your attacks for a few seconds? Like Scouter from Lost Ark.
Mostly because it would make the job feels more "I am doing stuff" than just let my robot do the big damage. Plus I'm all for MCH having a more complex rotation and have a higher DPS than the other two R.Physical because of that. The AQ is cool and all, but I often try to time to use to make finisher be inside buffs and forget about it.

[Doragan]

AQ has a problem for me, which is that it is just a glorified DoT. I was thinking, couldn't it be like Reaper's Enshroud? Where you turn half-robot or get a big gadget and change your attacks for a few seconds? Like Scouter from Lost Ark.
Mostly because it would make the job feels more "I am doing stuff" than just let my robot do the big damage. Plus I'm all for MCH having a more complex rotation and have a higher DPS than the other two R.Physical because of that. The AQ is cool and all, but I often try to time to use to make finisher be inside buffs and forget about it.

Unfortunately, same thing happened to DRK, where they put all the complexity part of its rotation into a pretty dot. Really wish it wouldn't take 4 centuries to spawn,tbh, but heh.

[CKNovel]

AQ has a problem for me, which is that it is just a glorified DoT. I was thinking, couldn't it be like Reaper's Enshroud? Where you turn half-robot or get a big gadget and change your attacks for a few seconds? Like Scouter from Lost Ark.

I wish it was the case for Flamethrower, where you take the big gun for a short moment. At least I expected Flamethrower being changed to a Heat spender but... Untouched.
But I'd be happy to go full-on Samus Aran and distributing big shots left and right.

IMO, that's what MCH should be, swapping between tools that locks abilities like Reaper's Enshroud.
The neat part is that it doesn't change a lot the rotation since Hypercharge phases are just exactly that, phases of 10 seconds where you use Heatblast/GR/R and nothing else.

[Warlyx]

I wish it was the case for Flamethrower, where you take the big gun for a short moment. At least I expected Flamethrower being changed to a Heat spender but... Untouched.
But I'd be happy to go full-on Samus Aran and distributing big shots left and right.

IMO, that's what MCH should be, swapping between tools that locks abilities like Reaper's Enshroud.
The neat part is that it doesn't change a lot the rotation since Hypercharge phases are just exactly that, phases of 10 seconds where you use Heatblast/GR/R and nothing else.

u dont have to look farther than Gw2 engineer , it has a FT tool that once used it converts all your attacks to FT mode

1 Flame Jet Spray fire in a cone pattern while moving, burning foes on the final attack. Deals 10% bonus damage to burning targets.
2 Flame Blast Fire a napalm ball that rolls through foes and explodes.
3 Air Blast Push back foes and projectiles with a hot-air blast, burning foes that are already on fire.
4 Napalm Burn foes with a wall of napalm at the target location.
5 Smoke Vent Vent smoke from your flamethrower, blinding nearby foes.


hell the new spec for engi is a mech mode lol