Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[Grieve]

Hey! I'm trying to help a friend out with MCH and I've been looking over this thread for a bit, but with an Eso weapon & mostly i190 with no pots or no food on a 3-4 minute dummy parse what's a reasonable DPS range to pull. I'm not looking for the "best", but what would be considered above average or good.

[Butcherboy]

It is not updated. I would look through more recent pages of this thread or recent YouTube videos for a better idea on rotations.

Can u post some links for certain rotation.

[VitalSuit]

Hey! I'm trying to help a friend out with MCH and I've been looking over this thread for a bit, but with an Eso weapon & mostly i190 with no pots or no food on a 3-4 minute dummy parse what's a reasonable DPS range to pull. I'm not looking for the "best", but what would be considered above average or good.

Above 900. Ideally over 1k.

[Dervy]

If you're a career Machinist, the two following posts between myself and Judge_Xero are of importance and you should definitely read it:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post3257742

Hopefully, this starts some interesting discussion.

[girlsimulation]

Above 900. Ideally over 1k.

"Above 900" is a pretty low bar. My mch is i186 with hive weapon and I pull 1035 on a dummy easy, often above 1050. And this is with >150ms of latency.

7th wave it'd be optimal to aoebot all 4 but tanks......... I go and cds -> dot all 4 -> focus on clearing one tank.

Psst...tell your tanks to each pick up two dolls and then immediately run through each other. Speaking as a pld main it's legit the fastest and easiest way to pull this wave and you end up with all four dolls in a neat pile in the center.

[zandervont]

"Above 900" is a pretty low bar. My mch is i186 with hive weapon and I pull 1035 on a dummy easy, often above 1050. And this is with >150ms of latency.



Psst...tell your tanks to each pick up two dolls and then immediately run through each other. Speaking as a pld main it's legit the fastest and easiest way to pull this wave and you end up with all four dolls in a neat pile in the center.

It was our original plan but after several wipes to tanks getting cleaved (drk+war) they decided to F it and do it like they do now, in 2 separate piles. tanks...

[BannedatRegistration]

"Above 900" is a pretty low bar. My mch is i186 with hive weapon and I pull 1035 on a dummy easy, often above 1050. And this is with >150ms of latency.

post a video with the parse please

[Aiurily]

so you can reset a turrets autos manually by either

hypercharging (hypercharged attacks reset the timer, and then normal attacks after hypercharge wears off resets it as well)

or

summoning a new turret. the best way to gain dps is to do it 0.5s before it shoots (so that your current turret despawns right after it shoots), then triggering your new turret to attack mode asap. in gauss barrel you need to use an ability or weaponskill; outside of it, your auto attack mode will automatically trigger it. so gauss off+replacing turret is probably a match made in heaven. you could also just load up on a proc as well.

they're both pretty annoying if you want to consistently reset turret autos for a dps increase, but the latter is nice to know, that even repositioning your turret can be a dps increase if you do it right

anyway, here's two useful macros for turret placement. same concept as flaming arrow macro.

http://pastebin.com/hQA4nh7c

[Ephier]

If you're a career Machinist, the two following posts between myself and Judge_Xero are of importance and you should definitely read it:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post3257742

Hopefully, this starts some interesting discussion.

Surprised that DET affects turret and not SS tbh. As a MCH who had 740 SS last raid period I can say it does feel smooth, especially with Selene giving fey wind, buy you blow through TP like its nobodies business, if it was not for phase changes, I would be dry very early (before 3:30 early). While I do not think SS is useless, I will say that DET and CRIT will still out shine it a lot more. Crit due to the multipliers, and Det because obviously base damage, and now the new information of turret damage.

[girlsimulation]

post a video with the parse please

ok http://youtu.be/N7qirICRmD0
Definitely not my best performance, but running OBS makes my game laggy enough that playing optimally while recording is really hard.
If anyone has any advice or can see any mistakes I'm making (aside from obvious stuff like 2:51) I'd appreciate it, I still don't feel like I understand this class completely. Also, I realized after posting he said "3-4 minute parse", not "3:40 minute parse"--3:40 parses seem to be standard, so that's what I did, but obviously I'm not pulling 1050 at the 3 minute mark, and I wouldn't be if I continued to 4 (usually I'm around 1010 at 4 minutes).

my latency when I recorded this: http://puu.sh/jIk0Z/b0de57907f.jpg