Lock and Load: The Reassembled Machinist Guide

[Aiurily]

i mean sure, a lot of the #1 parses are pretty cheesy. but that goes both ways; the 100th percentile mchs can be just as cheesy as the 100th percentile bards (i'll be honest; i have never gotten single target balance/arrow, enhanced or not; or anything else for what i have up currently other than a2s, which is 100% cheese life. im sure other bards/cheeselords have, though.) but apparently even with that, they're losing. but even comparing stuff like a random bard parse to the current highest related machinist parse there's a fair difference. #1 mch on manipulator with no sac, nin/drg, no ast; 1249. 1 hypercharged MP, TP in last phase for people other than themself. #3 brd on manipulator, same comp basically; 1296.4 dps. that's with still playing paeon, ballad etc.

i don't like looking at 70th to 99th percentiles because in a way, i feel like that's not top level play. in a way those runs can be padded/cheesed too; not effectively enough to be 100th percentile and higher, but still padded. so i'd rather just view the bests of each encounter in the most "fair" environment and compare the current best results of each job against that. a1s/a2s as you said, unlikely to be repeated; but even a3s for example. the old highest mch parse was 1283 with nin/drg no ast; the current highest brd in that same condition (no mch also) is 1341. fair amount of difference there, for a3s, which has a fairly low amount of multi target uptime compared to the rest of the gordias fights (split hands/equal conc, add phase that's barely relevant because it dies fast, kidnap that dies pretty fast esp with caster lb3)