Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[Aiurily]

to continue on the note of an older post on the subject of stance dancing

rather than full time stance dancing lately, i've just been doing something a bit more easy (and also more rng, but pretty rewarding when it pays off)

drop gauss after a procced slug/clean shot where you have no other oGCDs to use in that time period. if you get an auto right as you drop it, you are on pace to get 2 autos for the duration of 1 GB off ws; after that, you turn GB back on before your GCD has a chance to catch up to your auto timing. so for example

clean shot->gauss off+auto->split shot+auto>gauss on>etc

the concept is that, if you have no oGCDs and drop gauss after an instant cast skill, you have effectively a 3.5s~ window to get autos in; so if the timer is friendly, you can get 2 attacks in that window, then put GB back on before your GCD can catch up.

worst case scenario, it's still a pretty low risk dps increase if the timing is off and you only get one shot. this is the issue i had with stance dancing in certain places before; if you turn it off after like a split shot, or after a slug/clean shot that has an oGCD after it, there's a chance that your autos will fall behind your GCD, and by the time you put GB back on, you end up with a DPS loss since you missed an auto. with this, in the best case you get a nice chunk of dmg added on; worst case, it's practically a guaranteed dps increase still, and you can be fairly confident that your autos will maintain a 1:1 ratio with your GCD in that situation.

edit: video on it -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRrOK6pWz0w