Lock and Load: The Reassembled Machinist Guide

[Jollyy5]

I've been trying out Machinist, and now that I have reached level 35 and got Clean Shot I've noticed that latency may be making proc usage a bit difficult, as in when I use Slug Shot, I have to wait a moment to see if Clean Shot procs, which is fine most of the time, but is almost impossible to react to it when using Rapid Fire, as the icon lights up pretty much at the same time as the GCD is off if a proc happens.

Am I the only one having this problem or is Reload/Quick Reload supposed to negate this issue? My latency is a steady 126ms most of the time.

[Wixey]

Am I the only one having this problem or is Reload/Quick Reload supposed to negate this issue? My latency is a steady 126ms most of the time.

Clean shot procs should never be an issue.
After casting a slug shot you can just do a split shot when you're seeing the clean shot procs too late. Your clean shot proc has to be used within 10 seconds, not immediately.

You should be concerned more about split shot proccing slug shot. Here you're risking not consuming the slug shot proc when you should have. The animation of split shot is a bit shorter than slug shot, so that helps a little. For me the proc would appear when my GCD is is little under halfway. (@50ish ms) So in general that is fine.

That is without gaus barel like at your level. At 52 you'll learn and use gauss barel most of the time, so your split shot has a 1,5second cast time. The time to react on a proc is very short there. I would guess around 0.7 second (rough guess) for me.

[Xenogear]

Just wondering since just started to play this job.. Why was no dismantle included for the opening?

[RiceisNice]

Just wondering since just started to play this job.. Why was no dismantle included for the opening?

Dismantle isn't a damage skill.

[Xenogear]

Dismantle isn't a damage skill.

Will it not increase our dps? Since it increase physical damage? Or did it only apply for melees? Anyway group raid should be benefit by it anyway?

[ShinSenpai]

Will it not increase our dps? Since it increase physical damage? Or did it only apply for melees? Anyway group raid should be benefit by it anyway?

"Lower target's physical damage by 5%"

It lowers the target's damage output by a percentage. It does not have anything to do with the target's defense. It's just a minor damage mitigation.

[Archaell]

Mistake or not, it brings an interesting question. Couldn't that be the original design of the sklils? As it would make kinda sense in comparison to Foe Requiem.

Based on the percentage it might have even done both things - decreasing damage done by 5% and increasing damage received by 5%. Blasted, I would love such a change...

[RiceisNice]

Mistake or not, it brings an interesting question. Couldn't that be the original design of the sklils? As it would make kinda sense in comparison to Foe Requiem.

Based on the percentage it might have even done both things - decreasing damage done by 5% and increasing damage received by 5%. Blasted, I would love such a change...

We already have hypercharge that increases their damage taken. Dismantle/mind rend reduces their damage dealt.

[Archaell]

We already have hypercharge that increases their damage taken. Dismantle/mind rend reduces their damage dealt.

We do have hypercharge, but I don't think it is as good as Foe. That's why I assume that Dismantle and Mind rend were created to help a bit with the balance between the jobs.

[RiceisNice]

We do have hypercharge, but I don't think it is as good as Foe. That's why I assume that Dismantle and Mind rend were created to help a bit with the balance between the jobs.

Depends on what you mean by that, and even then we don't need to homogenize the two jobs even more than they already are. Hypercharge has the capability to increase physical damage taken, something that BRD doesn't have, as well as the option to do a weaker variation of foe's. Dismantle/Rend works as a psuedo virus for 5% to reduce damage taken.