Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[Odowla]

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

Havent done a full parse but i checked Wildfires on a dummy.. 8k no pot no dragoon... lol

[Ryaz]

I haven't tried on a dummy yet, but I was doing about 850-900 dps in A3 today, which was 50+ higher than the second highest dps (a Drg). My initial burst hit 1600, including some movement dodging aoe during Wildfire and a a couple seconds wasted buffing up because there was no time to use them before fight started. No pots or food (but Disembowel). Didn't have time to really check on a dummy, though.

[Ryaz]

Hrm... Did some tests on dummy. After about 5 min, my dps average (with Risotto) is ~1k. Which is weird because it seems like at ilvl 190, with Eso weapon and all Alex gear (except Chest), I'm doing less than some other parses here with lower level gear. I never got the Hive weapon, so I'm not exactly sure how it would compared. Trading 56 Det for 64 Crit and gaining 9 Skill Speed. It's definitely an upgrade from my Asuran weapon, though.

Then again, the really high parses are usually outliers and the fact that I can repeat 1k damage in multiple parses isn't too bad. My highest Wildfire was around 7.3k, but only averaged about 6.5k on most parses. It's possible if I had been luckier with Crits, I could have hit even higher numbers.

[Empty-handed]

I'm getting similar numbers 45 to 50 dps increase.

My tp runs dry around 3:30 mark ; ; slight wait for the second invegorate. Definitely because of the extra ss.

I need advise guys on a2 savage. I run in a team where resources should not be an issue as we run bard+machinist combo. Drg on the gobwalker. And our smn is the aoe dot king.

However, tp is a major issue for me in a2. I'm reluctant to use rook promotion instead of a hyper charged bishop to boost aoe dmg. We are at wave 7. We didn't have much practice (our second practice session)

I may have rook run promotion the whole time during wave 3 and 4 and potentially wave 8 or 9 if needed. Just so that me and the bard can aoe without worrying about tp. He's on foe duty.

Any suggestion is much appreciated.

[Judge_Xero]

@ Empty

A lot of the phases are mob based and not timed so you have time to run Rook TP instead of Bishop AOE since your SMN's dots probably aren't running their full duration anyways. The quicker you kill some groups the faster you have to deal with new ones and you have to keep that in mind for how much AOE you put out as well.
You can pad your numbers but it is a resource check too.

[Odowla]

prety low crit, but i was over 1200 on the 3rd wildfire. just went till i went dry. non-stance dance.

[Ryaz]

How are you hitting such high numbers? I'm ilvl 190 and have current BiS gear (minus any Savage gear) and I'm only hitting around 1k. Keeping Hot Shot and Lead Shot up, lining up my cooldowns the best I can. I'm following the same rotations as everyone else, but my Wildfires are only around 6500-7500.

[BannedatRegistration]

How are you hitting such high numbers? I'm ilvl 190 and have current BiS gear (minus any Savage gear) and I'm only hitting around 1k. Keeping Hot Shot and Lead Shot up, lining up my cooldowns the best I can. I'm following the same rotations as everyone else, but my Wildfires are only around 6500-7500.

I hit a 9k Wildfire ( 6-7k average) with a DRG, HQ Black Truffle Risotto, Battle Litany, and non HQ Dracopot on Savage Faust last night/earlier this morning. My lodestone should be all my current gear...with all that being said, I personally think it has to do with luck on getting Crit DoTs on Lead Shot and OGCDs because I was NOT expecting to damn near break 10k at i186

[Ephier]

non HQ Dracopot

Just incase you did not know, HQ X-Pot = Non HQ draco pot for like 1/4 the manufacturing price for 3.

[BannedatRegistration]

Just incase you did not know, HQ X-Pot = Non HQ draco pot for like 1/4 the manufacturing price for 3.

Funny enough I was told that during the raid, but paid it no mind because I got them from some 3.0 maps. I used them because I do actually have HQ versions but was being conservative with them. However, I won't ignore another person dropping a jewel so I will start making some asap...I really appreciate the inspiration.