Machinist Breakdown and Thoughts

[Alchemii]

So I can honestly say I was super surprised to wake up to Mch and Brd getting a buff this morning. So I'll do a quick break down of the buff, along with numbers to show what we gained and lost over all.
First off Gauss Barrel is now an Insta-cast like it should have been all along, woot woot, and it's now a 30% potency increase as instead of just a 20%, but now it has a CD time on it.

Ok so that 10% increase might actually make this a viable stance. Since we still loss are auto-attacks and gain casting onto times on other skills it's hard to say weather this is going to be full on viable to keep up at all times or not yet, it does make it a much more viable burst stance change and that's all around good.

Now let's look at that Gauss Round "Nerf" shall we. This is actually a lot less than it appears to be, originally Gauss Round did 200 potency with a 20% boost from Gauss Barrel making it actually do 240 potency. Now it does 180 potency with a 30% boost from Gauss Barrel making it do 234 potency..... Yeap that's right this nerf made us loss a total of 6 Potency, not even some outrageous amount, infact we're almost back to square one with it.

Now for Ricochet, Originally this skill did 100 potency to the target and 300 potency total to surrounding enemies, combined with the 20% boost from Gauss Barrel it did 120 potency to the target and 360 total to surrounding enemies, for a total of 480 potency divided up. Now it does 100 potency to the target and 200 potency total to the surround enemies, combined with the new 30% boost from Gauss Barrel it does 130 potency to the target and 260 total to surround enemies, for a total of 390 potency.
Ok yes this is a 90 potency loss, but this becomes less and less noticeable the more enemies that are involved in the fight, and still a 10 potency gain on the initial target. Look at it this way 3 enemies, only a 50 potency loss, 4 it's 33 potency loss, 5 it's 25 potency loss.... Yea I know there aren't too many cases where your gonna have those kind of encounter, but maybe it's more along the lines of not to many cases where your going to those kinds of encounters yet.

Final Thoughts: the Gauss Barrel buff is amazing, now I know some people are gonna talk about how making it a 30% buff instead of a 20% buff isn't going to make that big of a difference. To them I say look at the rest of your skills and do the math. Gauss Barrel isn't a 30% buff just to Gauss Round and Ricochet, it's a 30% buff to every weapon skill you have. Yes Gauss Round and Ricochet are brought to light as they are the restricted behind the need to have to have Gauss Barrel up in order to use, but they aren't the only skills you can use while Gauss Barrel is up.