State of Machinist 7.2

[Carighan]

I think it's pretty obvious why walking casts on filler, like in pvp, aren't good as added "commitment".
It doesn't work in PvE because there is no decision to make on whether or not to commit to it. You have to keep your GCD rolling and you have to use your filler or you will quickly fall behind in heat and battery generation, messing you up for the rest of the fight.

Eh, that's no difference than hardcasting.

The skill is in prepositioning so the time between casts is enough to slide-move into position for the next mech, and/or pacing your instant-cast tools to be available and last you through extended movement situations.

/shrug

It's entirely normal to do?

[Absurdity]

Eh, that's no difference than hardcasting.

The skill is in prepositioning so the time between casts is enough to slide-move into position for the next mech, and/or pacing your instant-cast tools to be available and last you through extended movement situations.

/shrug

It's entirely normal to do?

Alright, I don't know how often I'm supposed to rephrase why it doesn't work.

Go into the game, switch to machinist, put your walk button on a hotkey, go into a dawntrail fight (normal raids would probably be ideal) and switch to walking speed every time you do your Split Shot-> Slug Shot-> Clean Shot filler combo, importance on actually trying to do a proper rotation and not just sitting on your filler for like 5 seconds doing nothing.

Then come back and tell me how well that worked.

It isn't anything like hardcasting. There is no period of no movement transitioning into normal speed and Machinist isn't as freeform as BLM, RDM or Picto where you can save instant casts for movement heavy phases.

[Carighan]

It isn't anything like hardcasting. There is no period of no movement transitioning into normal speed and Machinist isn't as freeform as BLM, RDM or Picto where you can save instant casts for movement heavy phases.

Interesting how you automatically assume two things:

* It'd be the filler combo that is walking casts (and only that combo, at that?).
* That it'd be all-100%-walking-casts, and no interrim time between walking casts.

Why do you make these assumptions?

[Absurdity]

Interesting how you automatically assume two things:

* It'd be the filler combo that is walking casts (and only that combo, at that?).
* That it'd be all-100%-walking-casts, and no interrim time between walking casts.

Why do you make these assumptions?

Because that is literally how pvp Machinist works and we have nothing else to go on when it comes to walking casts.

But even if we're talking about making other abilities a walking cast barely anything changes, because with the way Machinist currently works you barely have any abilities that you can delay in the first place.
Making it entirely up to rng whether the fight screws you over or not.

Like I already said before, it only works in pvp because there no fixed rotation or dps requirement.

[Valence]

Because that is literally how pvp Machinist works and we have nothing else to go on when it comes to walking casts.

But even if we're talking about making other abilities a walking cast barely anything changes, because with the way Machinist currently works you barely have any abilities that you can delay in the first place.
Making it entirely up to rng whether the fight screws you over or not.

Like I already said before, it only works in pvp because there no fixed rotation or dps requirement.

In before someone proposes to bring back gauss barrel stance dancing