Lock and Load: The Reassembled Machinist Guide

[JackFross]

My brother plays MCH and he's been bouncing ideas off me as we progress in the fight. He (as he should) holds Raging Strikes for Blaster - when you should be getting a full RS+WF opener to burst the thing's ass off - and just uses Reload with Wildfire on Onslaughter alongside the shorter ogcds (read: all of them besides Ricochet) to drop a 5-6k Wildfire. Then he pulls off for the regulator with B4B+HE+Rapid Fire - gives mobility to dodge the laser if it targets him while making the thing die in like 5 gcds or so. He mentioned how he still has a few B4B+HE gcds left when he's back on the boss.

That's second-hand so a few things might be a bit off?

We talked about how he should try and open with 5 Ammo and then do the WF with maybe just 1-2 Quick Reloads and save Reload for the Steam Regulator but I dunno if that's a thing that would be better. He was consistently downing it with B4B+HE+Quick Reload with off-gcds.

[Yellowskin]

My brother plays MCH and he's been bouncing ideas off me as we progress in the fight. He (as he should) holds Raging Strikes for Blaster - when you should be getting a full RS+WF opener to burst the thing's ass off - and just uses Reload with Wildfire on Onslaughter alongside the shorter ogcds (read: all of them besides Ricochet) to drop a 5-6k Wildfire. Then he pulls off for the regulator with B4B+HE+Rapid Fire - gives mobility to dodge the laser if it targets him while making the thing die in like 5 gcds or so. He mentioned how he still has a few B4B+HE gcds left when he's back on the boss.

It's definently a overkill to hold on to your dps increase cds for the regulators instead just save a few cds like ricochet, rapid fire and reload. these 3 cds should be enough even with 230 weapon.

[vp_cmc]

I think this all doesn't matter after all, because we still have to wait until boss finishes his tank buster+rockets, and it is like 5-10 seconds of doing nothing (except padding numbers for fflogs, of course). We had him clearly at 0% a couple of times before he started casting tank buster, so it seems impossible to finish p1 earlier.

[MSnow]

I think this all doesn't matter after all, because we still have to wait until boss finishes his tank buster+rockets, and it is like 5-10 seconds of doing nothing (except padding numbers for fflogs, of course). We had him clearly at 0% a couple of times before he started casting tank buster, so it seems impossible to finish p1 earlier.

Actually, if your raid groups dps is high enough to get him to 0% a little before the final mega beam cast, he WILL skip tank buster and you'll have to get everyone's stacks off while blaster is landing giving you less time to kill him fast enough.

Still, if your groups dps is high enough to skip that tank buster, killing blaster isn't usually a problem.

[slak]

I seem to be having success with holding reassemble + b4b + ricochet. I don't think you need to hold reload at all, and definitely not hawk's eye. I don't even really think I'll need reassemble if I tweak my opener a little more, but for now I'm sticking to the safe side (since my experience is similar to vp's above where pushing is not an issue either way).

[Bingolinha]

Im in a little of an issue here.
Im sitting on 233 iLevel (just 240 accessories) and my static mate at 222 and our dps is almost the same. Like im doing about 1500 and he is about 1450-70. As for myself i never really cared too much because in general you wont see MCH doing turbo dmg. He got like 1007 crit and im sitting about 980 with food i kinda saw he doing like 5740 clean shots like me so i really have no idea of what is going on. Is it the opener ? Like i used to burn everything off in the wildfire trying to squeeze as much dmg i can then start praying for procs, also i dont do stance dancing because most people told its like a 5% dps gain and if you do it wrong you screw with yer dps.

[Dorone]

Hello everyone!

I might have missed something on an earlier page, but here goes. A7S and Wildfire timing:

In a group too low to be skipping phases etc, where do you guys do wildfires? I have been doing it by timer, but one comes right at phase change to balls, and I have to switch to True Heart halfway through burst. Awkwardness like that, so I'm just thinking if someone could give a quick run-down of the points at which to wildly fire them off.

Thanks

[vp_cmc]

Hello everyone!

I might have missed something on an earlier page, but here goes. A7S and Wildfire timing:

In a group too low to be skipping phases etc, where do you guys do wildfires? I have been doing it by timer, but one comes right at phase change to balls, and I have to switch to True Heart halfway through burst. Awkwardness like that, so I'm just thinking if someone could give a quick run-down of the points at which to wildly fire them off.

Thanks

I usually ignore 1-st heart and do WF on boss. 3 other dps kill it just fine (with stun locking from tank)

[Myon88]

Yeah that first heart is very awkward since you'll have a big wildfire window at about the same time (once your group starts pushing it fast enough).

I ignore it as well, just make sure your group knows so the other 3 DPS can pick up the slack.

[Dorone]

Don't the melee lose more DPS tho, if they have to move to the heart? Just thinking if it isn't a raid dps loss