Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[girlsimulation]

2nd: And a more on topic question, anyone have a crossbar layout they can share?

http://puu.sh/jV6FE/6a6037cc82.jpg
http://puu.sh/jV6GV/2da16177e2.jpg
The left half of the second page is mapped to L2>R2 and the right half is mapped to R2>L2.
I keep hidden cooldowns on an unbound hotbar above my cross bars: http://puu.sh/jV6JS/a8b09624dd.jpg

You can probably see why most of the stuff is where it is, but basically I wanted to minimize swapping between L2 and R2 during buff phases and keep as many important cooldowns on the front as possible.

e: turret retrieval and extra stuff (leg graze, etc) are on a third page that I swap to with R1.

[Dervy]

To be honest, it's only for the GCD/oCD usage, rather than the numbers.

[BannedatRegistration]

This is extremely negligible but worth a share anyway: If you're in a sanctuary and log out then log back in after your initial opener you can reset your cross class cooldowns. So in the case of Raging Strikes, you don't have to wait the extra minute after HC is done...

[Judge_Xero]

I have a video for you guys showing my wildfires.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar4SRNvwxMM

That is nice. I think the only thing I do different is Gauss Round before Hot shot so that it is back up before Wildfire falls of.

Obviously it wont effect wildfire but I think it adds a bit more burst.

[Aiurily]

to put it into dragoon terms

machinist true thrust (split shot) has a 50% chance to proc vorpal thrust as a combo action, and vorpal thrust (slug shot) has a 50% chance to proc full thrust (clean shot) as a combo action, 100% with ammo for both. ammo is depleted by 1 on every weapon skill, reloaded by QR and reload. procced vorpal thrust/full thrust (slug shot/clean shot) in gauss barrel have no cast times, but everything else in gauss barrel without rapid fire has cast times (roughly around 1.5s before skill speed reduction)

[BannedatRegistration]

That is nice. I think the only thing I do different is Gauss Round before Hot shot so that it is back up before Wildfire falls of.

Obviously it wont effect wildfire but I think it adds a bit more burst.

I just tried that out and buffs fall off by the time it's back off cooldown. Just weave it in during B4B/HE/RS uptime.

[Myon88]

I just tried that out and buffs fall off by the time it's back off cooldown. Just weave it in during B4B/HE/RS uptime.

The timing is tight but if you fire a Gauss Round early enough it'll be up again at the end of Wildfire.

Hypercharge, BFB, HE, RS, Gauss Round
Hot Shot | Pot
Lead Shot | Reload
Split | Wildfire
Slug | Rapid Fire
Clean | Ricochet
Split | Head Graze, Blank
Slug | Reassemble
Clean | Quick Reload
Split | Gauss Round
*Wildfire goes off*

The principle of it is since the opening rotation is so long, and Gauss Round is a fairly hard hitting ability with a short CD, you may as well put it on CD first thing ASAP. It's basically an opportunity to get an extra cast of it, and let its CD tick down while you're busy with our bloated opener. It'll be up again just before Wildfire expires so you're still getting 1 Gauss Round in a Wildfire - but now you have 1 extra Gauss Round cast, having fired 2 at this point in the fight.

Damage buffs have fallen off by the point of the second Gauss Round, that is true. So it's a question of (1 buffed Gauss Round outside Wildfire + 1 unbuffed Gauss Round inside Wildfire) vs (1 buffed Gauss Round inside Wildfire), and also whether the damage of 1 extra Gauss Round is worth the extra split second spent casting it (the tiny GCD that ability casts incur).

On a side note I'm happy to discuss any optimizations to my opener. It's fairly similar to the ones in popular use with a bit of variation to accomodate fitting 2 Gauss Rounds in.

[BannedatRegistration]

stuff

I used HC > Buffs > GR > Hot > pot > Lead etc. and the only buff that was up when GR came off cooldown was B4B with 1second left, so I will personally be weaving it in like normal. I'm sure the other folk here can test it out though.

[pandabearcat]

I wish you guys had big guns like Tera's gunner.

=(

[Dervy]

Procs and Buffs are all averaged out in my damage models anyway. If you wanted an actual sim, well, poor Pandabearcat has to sort that out. Like, are there any special CD alignments for a MCH, like what a Bard does? (Barrage + Empy Arrow etc). That's kinda what I need a parse log to see, then just copy the GCD rotation until I can identify a loop somewhere.

But I mean, if the GCD changes depending on what procs you get, then this is gonna be pretty tricky for me to do as it would literally require me to level up MCH to understand how it works.