Blazing Machinist

[Rakith]

Hi,
I love my MCH but i get so frustrated when I see the animation of certain SMN or AST capacities. Do you think Square Enix will improve the animation/imagery of MCH abilities (wildfire for instance...).
Have you heard about any changes that would be made by SE to improve MCH as it is a new job ?

[ShaolinMike]

I kinda feel the same way. MCH is just not that exciting to look at. Then again, MCH is a gun class. There's only so many ways to pull a trigger <shrug>

[myahele]

Yeah, the regular attacks I can understand being underwhelming, but Wildfire? Yoshi P said that MCH is centered around Wildfire ... yet once it goes "off" it's not even noticeable. You barely hear the sound (which sounds like SMN's Fester) I would think I'd see an explosion, especially for something with a relatively long cooldown.

[Torunya]

I would think I'd see an explosion,

I would want this as well. Something akin to a Smn's Bane that clearly shows the skill going off, just in Mch's case it would be an explosion instead. It's just a little hard to imagine that the miniature *punt* of our current Wildfire is causing so much damage with such a tiny blast. If it can even be called a blast. A tiny blast...

[Kelevra]

It would be nice if it had an explosion like Fire III/IV...and leave a DoT on enemies that are close when it goes off. It is hard to notice as it is now, when it does detonate.

[Rakith]

Let's make a petition for a f***ing blazing Wilfire ;-)

[Inuk9]

Not only wildfire. Granado shot have a shitty animation too. Just a smoke...wtf...

Some animations like clear shot or head gaze have cool animation tho

[Rakith]

Do You think SE wil do something to improve that one day ?

[TheValiantOne]

Grenado shot has more than just smoke, if you cant see the shrapnel shards then i guess you are blind

[Caitlyn]

Actually, as I heard they bring a gunner-like class to the game, I ve expected something different than a simple Bard-clone. I really love to play MCH, but there could be a bigger impact on most skills. Some skills are fine, but other skills are looking boring.

I totally agree, that Wildfire should end with an explosion or something. Most skills are just lame animated or just a sound effect with smoke. My suggestions are:

1. Gauss-Barell: Remove that ugly rotating thing and give a silencer or some kind of effects (glowing, sparkles, whatever)
2. Wildfire: Wildfire should end with a huge explosion or shockwave.
3. Gauss-Shot: Change it to a small laserbeam or smoke line. Just make it look a bit more devastating.