Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[Kuroyasha]

Thread got linked in an article from MMORPG, though it's kinda asking for a buff lol

[Smexynerdy]

So Blood for blood, Hawkseye and Raging Strikes line up pretty good with wildfire+ rapid fire for burst. What i'm not shure about jet is how to use Reload after my initial burst.
I'm referring to a static encounter like Faust. After the initial burst should i either:
A) save reload für my second wildfire
B) use Rapid fire on cooldown and delay my second wildfire untill reload is back up again

[Ryaz]

Use reload on cooldown. You'll lose dps if you don't because you'll be spending quite a lot of time waiting on procs. Using Blood for Blood, Hawk's Eye, Rapid Fire, Wildfire and Quick Reload for the second buff phase. For the third phase, you'll have Raging Strikes and Reload up again for a proper buff phase. Personally, I'd also save Hypercharge for this one.

[Odowla]

I'm assuming you have a ninja; that really does make it easier. Also, the only way to hit 9k's reliably atm

[Lavieh]

I'm assuming you have a ninja; that really does make it easier. Also, the only way to hit 9k's reliably atm

Well my highest is 8.7, I just rounded up. I also don't have a ninja so my average is around 7.4-8k. I have never had problems with hate and I use something very similar to Hax's opener so it is very bursty at start. I also used a countdown when we pull so my first GCD lands at the same time our tank pulls. I have literally never felt the need to use Quelling Strikes in my raid group.

Is your main tank a WAR by any chance?

[Odowla]

I haven't needed to quell, but we're starting to pull with Sword Oath, so i believe i'll need to - i usually g et to yellow ish right now

[Lavieh]

I haven't needed to quell, but we're starting to pull with Sword Oath, so i believe i'll need to - i usually g et to yellow ish right now

Fair enough, I'm fairly confident I would pull hate if our PLD pulled with SO. If I wouldn't pull hate, I would prevent a RA or two. In that instance I would set Quelling over Feint.

[Aiurily]

we just have the warrior pull with unchained so it's a non issue

for the mchs that bought weps, how much are you parsing on a dummy now? pretty curious. drop luck makes my accuracy too low to bother buying the wep, so i'll probably just skip it altogether

[Lavieh]

we just have the warrior pull with unchained so it's a non issue

for the mchs that bought weps, how much are you parsing on a dummy now? pretty curious. drop luck makes my accuracy too low to bother buying the wep, so i'll probably just skip it altogether

Next week we can get two Accessories to help alleviate some accuracy problems. I was probably going to get the Gordian Neck and Fabled Bracelets.

I think that will put you at : http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/R6VY

Assuming you didn't get any shafts and you have crap for luck in Savage.

This week I will probably just get the weapon and keep using a gimp build until the following week.

[Judge_Xero]

we just have the warrior pull with unchained so it's a non issue

for the mchs that bought weps, how much are you parsing on a dummy now? pretty curious. drop luck makes my accuracy too low to bother buying the wep, so i'll probably just skip it altogether

Seems to be about 50 DPS or roughly 4% increase.