Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[itti18]

if MCH use GB and keep their turret on attack mode would their dps be equal to SMN and BLM ?

[Humorless]

if MCH use GB and keep their turret on attack mode would their dps be equal to SMN and BLM ?

...in what situation?


That's an awfully pointless question.

[Ryaz]

Lol... In several A4 runs today, I was averaging about 850 dps. First phase between 900-1050. The Drg, who was equally geared (except for his hive weapon) was averaging over 1000 and between 1300-1400 on first phase. Even with Hive weapon, there's no way a MCH would be able to approach that. While SMN and BLM aren't as OP as DRG, if played right, they'll still beat us handily.

[VitalSuit]

So is stance dancing again the optimal way for best DPS?

It is a dps increase, yes, but it also makes it so much more complicated. Unless you really want that extra tiny push in dps just stick with GB.

[Haxetc]

Should be noted that we're probably missing DPS on our Turrets. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...tion-Damage-II

[Leeora]

Lol... In several A4 runs today, I was averaging about 850 dps. First phase between 900-1050. The Drg, who was equally geared (except for his hive weapon) was averaging over 1000 and between 1300-1400 on first phase. Even with Hive weapon, there's no way a MCH would be able to approach that. While SMN and BLM aren't as OP as DRG, if played right, they'll still beat us handily.

I think the difference also is that MCH is supposed to be a support dps and not a full dps so our numbers will tend to look lower overall.

[Judge_Xero]

Should be noted that we're probably missing DPS on our Turrets. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...tion-Damage-II

I thought there was something fishy there (but for the wrong reason that I mentioned earlier)

Since I thought AA was effected by IAD, but it isn't.
Split Shot - 140*1.2 (168 Potency)
Average AA Potency @ 80-84

Puts AA @ Half Split shot where it measures.

But Rook and Bishop still only measure at 80 and 60 compared to 96 and 72.

[Massterchef]

Comparing MCH damage/potency to turret damage/potency is not a correct merit for determining potency.

So that 86 potency per AA value is most likely wrong.

Hotshot - 27773 damage
http://i.imgur.com/nH3ttq5.png

AA - 17690
http://i.imgur.com/p6p6fyG.png

Excluding the 8 crits from the hotshot parse and 5 crits from AA damage to get non crit averages

Hot shot - 20701 damage:591 average

AAs - 15104 damage:359 average

AA in this case is ~60.7 % of hotshot potency making it an average of 72 potency. You'll probably get more accurate values if you draw out the parse but it's easier to exlude and manually calculate noncrit averages if you do ~50 hit parses.

[jk315904]

I know I posted about it before but I'll be putting out a guide that will be done by Saturday. It'll go over almost everything. If you have questions that you'd like answered in the guide you can add me on Guildwork.com @ http://guildwork.com/users/haxetc and send me a PM. I want to try and cover all questions the community has. Also, if you watch it and have feedback on things that could be done different/better let me know. I'm open to any criticism, I promise.

Will this still be going up today? Looking forward to it

[Haxetc]

Will this still be going up today? Looking forward to it

https://youtu.be/UbZkwgz6JnU There's your response :3