Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[SovereignAegis]

Does Machinist have access to a machine gun or a machine gun like play style?

Spreadshot as well as rapidfire are closest.

[Unaki]

Does Machinist have access to a machine gun or a machine gun like play style?

With all the shots at its disposal it fires rounds fairly quickly. Its more like a semi-auto shotgun but its first AOE is Spread Shot which is a full auto burst in a cone.

[Shhikasan]

from what I am hearing a dark knight was dpsing about 800-850 in pure dps form.IF true just might as well remove bards and mch from the game and replace them with drks since they have more hp they can survive any fuck ups and deal dmg if not more then mch and brd.

I just want some kinda of word on the subject before alex that mch and brd be address.

[Soliz0816]

Is it me or does MCH not really get any love? I already see a lot of AST and DRK at 60 and fully geared, but I have yet to see MCH...it makes me want to play it lol

[MrSmiley]

Is it me or does MCH not really get any love? I already see a lot of AST and DRK at 60 and fully geared, but I have yet to see MCH...it makes me want to play it lol

We are very high maintenance for low reward right now, what is needed is either gear, or se to fix us >_> that's probably why not many.

[Elizabeth]

We are very high maintenance for low reward right now, what is needed is either gear, or se to fix us >_> that's probably why not many.

Yup. But i'm having so much fun with the job tho.

[Ephier]

Is it me or does MCH not really get any love? I already see a lot of AST and DRK at 60 and fully geared, but I have yet to see MCH...it makes me want to play it lol

I am a "fully" geared MCN (missing ravana weapon). I enjoy that there is not many of us yet, cause when those buffs come, the bangwagon will come with it.

[LittleArrow]

This job has tons of potential. I love how I feel like a cross between a mnk / blm / brd. Unfortunately, there are some real issues plaguing this class atm. Just like MrSmiley stated, the effort put into this class does not reflect in the outcome.

I've made a post on the official forums here discussing my thoughts and many others regard MCH. If you're interested, it could be a good read while your taking a snack break

Just a quick disclaimer: I share my thoughts in that post as well as many others. There is some testing done that I post from other users.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ious-attention

[MelvinK]

Wild fire cooldown of 90 sec is not playing nicely with reload 60s and quick reload 30s. In this case, is it more DPS to delay reload (use wildfire on cooldown) or wildfire (use reload on cooldown)

[Zorzi]

Wild fire cooldown of 90 sec is not playing nicely with reload 60s and quick reload 30s. In this case, is it more DPS to delay reload (use wildfire on cooldown) or wildfire (use reload on cooldown)

I've been wondering this too. I've been using Reload when it comes up and delaying Wildfire simply because it's more fun to use Reload whenever possible, but seeing how much damage comes from Wildfire I would guess it's best to delay Reload instead.