Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[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.

[Lavieh]

I need to use quelling on A3S, and my tanks are by no means bad. Machinist burst is so insane lol.

Your tanks need to work on their opening rotation*. Even with the insane burst your tanks should be able to hold hate. I have hit around 9k Wildfires and I have never gotten close to pulling hate.

[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

[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.

[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.

[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.