Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[Ephier]

The animations are stale, as they should be for a gunner class. We have two flashy skills, one being clean shot, jump in the air spin and shoot. I personally hate this one, its not realistically accurate at all. The second being ricochet, which is giant laser circle aoe, being my personal favorite skill in the game.

As for feeling powerful, 3.0 MCN is hands down the weakest dps in the game. People try to say oh we do not know this and we do not know that. I am fully geared ravana weapon included, 60 MCN. The class is incredibly weak. Now when I say weak I mean their sustain damage is bad. MCN burst and aoe is quite high, but what use it that when you lack sustain in raids.

[Cupbot]

Not sure if this is known or not, but you can stack ammunition with Quick reload. Right before the buff duration ends you can quick reload for another stack. At the very least you'll have two ammo before pulls which will optimize Yuri's opener by having a guaranteed clean shot proc before you reload. Gonna punch the numbers in when I get home from the store.

[Ephier]

Not sure if this is known or not, but you can stack ammunition with Quick reload. Right before the buff duration ends you can quick reload for another stack. At the very least you'll have two ammo before pulls which will optimize Yuri's opener by having a guaranteed clean shot proc before you reload. Gonna punch the numbers in when I get home from the store.

You can just reload, and use quick reload while you wait for reload to come back up, so you will have 5 ammo to start reload at 30s and quick reload at 30s minimum.

[Cupbot]

You can just reload, and use quick reload while you wait for reload to come back up, so you will have 5 ammo to start reload at 30s and quick reload at 30s minimum.

That makes more sense

[Kasmiya]

So I'm seeing conflicting things about Gauss Barrel. This guide and a lot of people are saying to only have it up for the opener and when WF/RF are off CD but then I'm seeing others saying that 1) the RF instant cast GB is a bug and 2) it's actually a DPS loss not to have it on all the time. I'm so confused... If I have to keep it up 100% of the time I might have to drop the job because I just don't like that playstyle for it, it's the reason why I wanted to get away from BLM and try something different. *sigh*

[Ephier]

So I'm seeing conflicting things about Gauss Barrel. This guide and a lot of people are saying to only have it up for the opener and when WF/RF are off CD but then I'm seeing others saying that 1) the RF instant cast GB is a bug and 2) it's actually a DPS loss not to have it on all the time. I'm so confused... If I have to keep it up 100% of the time I might have to drop the job because I just don't like that playstyle for it, it's the reason why I wanted to get away from BLM and try something different. *sigh*

Having gauss barrel on all the time IS a DPS loss. Not sure if the RF thing is a bug or not currently. As RF does not work on LB.

[Shhikasan]

people saying blah blah support role etc. WE SHOULD only take hit in Dps when we need to Song/Regen turret not lower then TANKs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rywXw3NiqM DARK DPS 910 video
THIS IS HOW BAD this shit is When the highest parses of mch is fucking 840- rng procs

[Shykrin]

Just a quick question from someone who's simply learning the nuances of the class:

I understand lining up BfB, Hawk's Eye, Wildfire and Rapid Fire to use together (I'm specifically talking about AFTER the initial opener). My question is, should I only use Gauss Barrel (with GR and Ricochet) when those CDs are used or should I still use Gauss Barrel in between those CDs when GR and Ricochet are off CD? Meaning, the 3 second cast time on Gauss Barrel is still worth it for the dps from GB and Ricochet?

Sorry, I hope that made sense.

[KeluBehemoth]

How necessary is it to swap GB on an off. My rotation was good before doing this but now this just made the job ten times more difficult.

I find I have a lot of down time inberween using abilities while enabling wildfire, rapid fire and GB

[Cascadi]

How necessary is it to swap GB on an off. My rotation was good before doing this but now this just made the job ten times more difficult.

I find I have a lot of down time inberween using abilities while enabling wildfire, rapid fire and GB

The GB skills: Ricochet (400 potency) and Gauss Round (200 potency) + 20% is higher than Split Shot (140 potency) and Slug Shot (180 potency) and the damage of Blank + Head Graze is increased by 20%, in addition to the extra 25% that it'll contribute to Wildfire, so it's quite necessary to swap GB on and off if you want to maximize DPS.