Lock and Load: The Reassembled Machinist Guide

[Komoritane]

I was checking out the gear of good players and I noticed that some players opt for Primal/Aug Primal rings instead of Midas/Aug Primal rings. What's the reason for that?

Secondary stats. The midan ring has a bunch of skill speed, and also accuracy. The primal ring has crit/det. So if you don't need the accuracy, might opt for the primal.

[Komoritane]

How do you guys handle cooldown usage on A8S during the transition to the final justice/gavel phase?

I've got no idea if it's optimal, but in Aiurily's clear video it looks like he popped the wildfire right away and used everything except raging strikes. He didn't have to do regulators, and held raging all the way until his next WF which was when the boss was doing his flaming tornado spin thing. I wondered why he held raging, but based on what you're saying maybe it was for the regulators just in case? The only other reason to hold it might've been since you'd only get 1 more use of RS out of the fight, and he paired it with a WF that included a hypercharge...so I don't know. Rianchu Nau already had RS on cd from prior usage and held the wildfire. He had to do the regulator, and popped B4B/HE for it. But, his clear was not as good as Aiurily's. My group hasn't progressed past A7S yet so I can't give any personal feedback at this point, but I'm glad you brought it up, I'll post if I come across any good strategy info on it.

[Myon88]

Holding RS seems like a good call since you only get one more anyway, and you may as well save it for the portion of the fight with a guaranteed burst window.

For now I've just been doing a full opener (minus RS) and swapping over to the regulator midway if necessary. I'll still have half of the offensive cooldowns and half duration remaining on buffs (since Verdict finishes casting midway through the opener) which is enough to tide me over.

Will have to get more pulls in to see if I can optimize it a little further. It sure feels bad though! What a terrible time for that mechanic for MCH.

[Empty-handed]

Aiurily vids are removed from his YouTube channel. I don't know what's wrong.

And info says "bye".

I hope everything is alright with Aiurily, your contribution to the mch forums has been very helpful to a lot of us. I hope you are ok

[jack891]

hey guys, does anyone have advise for killing the dps orb during first phase of a8s? our mch occasionally struggles to kill it in time. is there any cooldowns or skills he should be saving for that bit?

[LinowKitty]

Aiurily vids are removed from his YouTube channel. I don't know what's wrong.

And info says "bye".

I hope everything is alright with Aiurily, your contribution to the mch forums has been very helpful to a lot of us. I hope you are ok

Gosh just saw it, hope everything is fine, and thank you because, it's really thanks to your video that i improved so hard on my MCH, take care of yourself Aiurily

[Myon88]

hey guys, does anyone have advise for killing the dps orb during first phase of a8s? our mch occasionally struggles to kill it in time. is there any cooldowns or skills he should be saving for that bit?

The steam regulator? What I do is start the fight with an opener on Onslaughter using only ~half my cooldowns or so, and I save the other half for the regulator.

Stuff I use for the opener:
Standard Hypercharge, BFB, Hawk's opening sequence (no Raging cause you need it for p2)
Quick Reload instead of Reload before the usual wildfire
Rapid Fire (will cover movement nicely during seed of the sky AoE)
It's going to be pretty shitty with no Reload so you'll have to react to procs/no procs as needed

Stuff for regulator:
Ricochet, Reassemble, and Reload. Usually kill it in 6 GCDs, sometimes 5, sometimes 7.

You may have to save more or less depending on how geared you are, so everyone's opener is going to be a bit different here. You know what you're using on the pull and what you are saving, so you just need to construct a ghetto opener around that.

[Greedalox]

Gosh just saw it, hope everything is fine, and thank you because, it's really thanks to your video that i improved so hard on my MCH, take care of yourself Aiurily

Twitch is gone too :<!

[RLofOBFL]

So....what's up with the damage difference between MCH & BRD now? I did the Nid Ex dummy & finished in 14 seconds as BRD. I did the dummy as MCH using my good ol aiurly rotation & finished with 3 seconds left. I used the calculator & it's almost a hundred point difference. They wore the exact same 220-230 gear with the 210 esoteric weapon. Something isn't right and I'm angry since MCH is my main dps D<, did they screw up the balancing? Or is it bc MCH is more "mobile" they're weaker?



P.S I saw aiurly's YT too, I hope they're okay :/

[LinowKitty]

From what i saw in the patch note, the BRD buff is really high, maybe too high, i've seen some PF refusing MCH just like last year... but imo, it migh be not well balanced...

Have you guys begin the new state of your relic ? Or any idea on how you're going to dispatch the point ? i have to admit i'm still unsure... and it's my first relic so i don't really know how it'll advance after, i don't want to spend time on a weapon that would be really bad :<