Lock and Load: The Reassembled Machinist Guide

[Myon88]

I personally have trouble with Mildfires. Are yoy supposed to hold your 2nd WF until Reload is back up? And do you hold B4B HE for it as well? It seems to work with the timing for A3S Hand of Pain but in extended fights it seems strange to hold it.

Yeah in that particular 3 minute case (in Stone, Sky, Sea) I hold bfb and Hawk's Eye as well, basically the entire 2nd Wildfire. Since you only get to use them one more time before the encounter ends at 3:00, you may as well hold them all for 30 seconds so you can compound them with Hypercharge. It kind of looks like,

0:00 - Bfb, HE, RS, Hypercharge, Wildfire
2:00 - Bfb, HE, Hypercharge, Wildfire
3:00 - Fight end

Looking only at a 3:00 timeframe, this is strictly better than using stuff on cooldown like so,

0:00 - Bfb, HE, RS, Hypercharge, Wildfire
1:30 - Bfb, HE, Wildfire
2:00 - Hypercharge
3:00 - Fight end

Mind you these are very simple and cut and dry situations like Faust and Stone, Sky, Sea where you know the fight is 3 minutes max.

You can apply the same logic to an actual boss fight, but you'd need to have a very clear idea of how the phases line up and whether you have an opportunity or not.