Machinist: Will Auto Crossbow ever replenish gauss round and Richochet?

[Valence]

What if Flamethrower was reworked to just a quick AoE burst, like how Bioblaster performs and it fills the Heat Gauge by 40, 50 or 60% percent?

It's really sad to see how mishandled MCH is in high end content.

I do think instead of constantly doing lukewarm raises of FT's potency they should go about it differently and make it reward immobility: remove the 60s CD, make it USE heat the same way ACB does, but make it do A LOT MORE damage. You'd just shut down the flame when you have to move or when you're out of heat.
FT used to do comparatively less potency in Stormblood (60 per tick), but you could reach over 200 effective per gcd under overheat which was a lot back then, and the way you could use it to cover the barrel lockout was clever (used similarly to Apokalypsis on BLU today over the moonflute debuff).