6.1 Kaiten Changes

[Kabooa]

I wasn't talking about resource management, I was talking about the spam fitting into the rotation, which it does for MCH, and for SAM it used to, but now doesn't.

Alternating between Gauss Round and Ricochet as opposed to just spamming a single button has nothing to do with resource management either.

You brought up Kenki in your post and then proceeded to point at Mach to say the following removal would make it equivalent.

It does not.

The removal of Reassemble is the only equalization. Everything else is a wrong comparison, as if Kaiten needed anymore elevation for its status.

I'll illustrate further.

This is becauase Kaitens removal hasn't changed Samurai's rotation by a significant degree. You replace Kaiten with Shinten with a 4:5 ratio. Despite what it may seem like, you are still generating Kenki -and Kenki is ultimately what is used to use Hissatsu abilties-. You are fundamentally generating your use of Hissatsu through your rotation.

With Machinist, you are generating "Ammo" passively (As the Gauss/Richochet dichotomy is basically the modernization of what used to be their ammo system). You also generate them through hypercharge. Removing Hypercharge (I'll assume you meant the removal of the synergy instead, because that's the most generous way to view that) does not remove Ammo generation. It just slows it down.

This is the fundamental difference - Kenki and thus any ability using it is fundamentally tied to using your standard GCD rotation. You cannot use them without pushing the ABCs.

Ammo isn't. Ammo is fundamentally a wait-and-recharge system, with one additional way to speed up its recharge rate. Not only that, the actual variety in the OGCDs you have is effectively non-existent. Because they exist on different charges, and because they are simply damage OGCDs, you just press them in every scenario. This isn't even a shallow amount of choice like one could attempt to argue with Kaiten.

This is why you do not equalize the field by attempting to remove Wildfire and Hypercharge and consolidating Richochet into Gauss Round. It doesn't put Machinist on the same level of Samurai - They're basically already the same, except Samurai gets Reassemble as a trait.

You are attempting to conflate one arbitrary synergy (Ammo and Hypercharge) with the Situational Skill of a Resource Conflict system. Simply put - that does not work.