Quote Originally Posted by CKNovel View Post
You could completely replace the battery gauge with something else, put a 60s CD on AQ and you'd get pretty much the same thing but better.
That's the thing with the battery gauge, it's a glorified cooldown that doesn't tick when MCH can't attack.

On paper it's good, in practice it's... It's terrible since MCH is punished by content design and not adjusted accordingly.
DRK LS works and is slightly more interesting because it's tied to the blood gauge. This gauge has more uses beyond Living Shadow.

MCH's battery is entirely dedicated to AQ and the design of MCH makes that it's basically stuck with AQ, unless battery generation would go crazy.
The Automaton Queen is really a problem, everything tied to it is a problem, its AI is (slightly less) a problem, its use gets repetitive and boring.
I'm not sure if I start to be biased against the Automaton Queen.
Honestly be biased against it. It’s not interesting it’s a shiny DoT that if you even glance past the “ooooh flashy robot” you can see how lackluster it is as a “job mechanic”