Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[Ryaz]

So by the guide I should be holding Blood for Blood to pop with Hawks Eye and the rest.
But what of Hypercharge?

The cooldown list places it in the combo, but past the opener it doesn't line up as neatly like the other cds.

Unfortunately, Hypercharge won't line up too well and it isn't worth waiting an extra 30 seconds for it to come up. I just end up popping it by itself with Reload. The other abilities (Blood for Blood, Hawk's Eye, Rapid Fire and Wildfire) I use when they're ready. It's worth waiting the 10 extra seconds on Blood for Blood to line it up.

Right now MCHs biggest weakness is that we're almost too cooldown reliant and if something happens to mess up that buff phase (like Quarantine on A4), you can say goodbye to doing really good dps. It's very hard for this class to recover from something like that.

[Humorless]

Focus target boss. You'll see him use quarantine, which is your cue to prepare. You shouldn't need to save cooldowns for it. Use everything for wildfire. I guess you should save reload/assemble for either wildfire or adds in this particular fight, just make your wildfires count. You shouldn't be handling that much mechanics unless your party is bad.

[itti18]

hi all
i have a question about Wildfire
is it possible to crit with it ?

[Greywolfamakir]

hi all
i have a question about Wildfire
is it possible to crit with it ?

Not, It's not currently.

[Cronno]

So how is Machinist now? I'm kind of interested in playing it, but not if they still suck.

[arctic]

So how is Machinist now? I'm kind of interested in playing it, but not if they still suck.

Still sucks, you should play Dragoon - they're OP. You'd probably be much happier with their higher dps numbers.

[Velhart]

So how is Machinist now? I'm kind of interested in playing it, but not if they still suck.

If you go in aware that you are a DPS/support hybrid and not reach DPS levels of a good caster or melee, then yes it is very fun. I find it more fun than BRD at least.

[Divebombs]

What seems to be the optimal opener? I'm seeing a lot of different things and personal testing seems to vary. Is there one people seem to be gravitating towards?

[Eevey]

From 1st post:

w/ GB
WD - 10.71
Dexterity - 1.000
Determination - 0.125
Critical Hit Rate - 0.140
Skill Speed - 0.020


Can anyone explain the logic/math behind the thought of SS being 7x worse than Crit? It's almost like GCD reduction wasn't even considered and only lead shot potency was accounted for.

[pandabearcat]

Because the sim is for openers and not for general full parses, I'm assuming.