MCH buffs!

[Lastelli]

Yeah, sorry Square but no. For the love of all that is unholy, Fix our total reliance on using 6 cooldowns at once.

This was the case for 3.4 MCH too. Actually it was even worse since wildfires were much more bursty and the skill had a longer cd so cd alignment was a little more subtle. I don't see the problem to be honest, that's how mch is supposed to be. Of course it was fine back when mch was top dps in most turns of creator savage.

[Sylve]

This was the case for 3.4 MCH too. Actually it was even worse since wildfires were much more bursty and the skill had a longer cd so cd alignment was a little more subtle. I don't see the problem to be honest, that's how mch is supposed to be. Of course it was fine back when mch was top dps in most turns of creator savage.

Well, You're welcome to like it. Opinions are Opinions after all.

They could make machinist far more engaging if Wildfire came with Gauss Barrel and you dumped heat from the Gauge into Wildfires instead of a recast.
Reassemble and Rapid Fire (in their current effects) would be better as procs off either Turret attacks or Split Shot.

As it stands, i find Machinist DPS outside of dungeons to just be long periods of nothing followed by a short burst of damage and then another long period of nothing.

[AbelArchaniEA]

lol job chaser

[Elnidfse]

This was the case for 3.4 MCH too. Actually it was even worse since wildfires were much more bursty and the skill had a longer cd so cd alignment was a little more subtle. I don't see the problem to be honest, that's how mch is supposed to be. Of course it was fine back when mch was top dps in most turns of creator savage.

Subtle? The CD alignment was NOT hard to work out. And there was surprisingly few instances in creator that required custom wildfire timings. What's more, you could hold on a CD for a few seconds and not eat massive potency losses. Moreover, because our CD's were longer we had fewer opportunities for fight damning screwups. Not to mention:
Every odd wildfighter only demanded 4 CD's two damage buffs, WF, and RF.
Reload wasn't something you spam for dear life.
And pre WF workup was as simple as applying hotshot and lead shot as opposed to 10 seconds of ammo prep.

[Sunako]

Dismantle buff allow mch use it for every single almagest in v4s. After omega there is like 1min before next almagest that help little healers life.

[Osmond]

It went from using overheat, to not using overheat, to now using overheat. MCH is just a clunky mess as a job right now.

[Lastelli]

Subtle? The CD alignment was NOT hard to work out. And there was surprisingly few instances in creator that required custom wildfire timings. What's more, you could hold on a CD for a few seconds and not eat massive potency losses. Moreover, because our CD's were longer we had fewer opportunities for fight damning screwups. Not to mention:
Every odd wildfighter only demanded 4 CD's two damage buffs, WF, and RF.
Reload wasn't something you spam for dear life.
And pre WF workup was as simple as applying hotshot and lead shot as opposed to 10 seconds of ammo prep.

Where did I write that cd alignment was hard?
Are "a little more subtle" (than how it currently is) and "hard" synonyms?
Considering you also had to use raging strikes, b4b and hawk's eye, it was way less trivial than it currently is.
And again, less trivial =/= hard.

[RLofOBFL]

So let me get this straight, every 1 minute i must:
-Reload
-Rapid Fire
-(Hypercharge every 3rd minute)
-Wildfire
-{Overheat}
-Ricochet.

Flamethrower? Reassembled? Quick Reload? Gauss Round? Rook Overdrive? Hypercharge is a 2 min CD. And you don't use them all at once you spread them out between CDs. Wildfire is literally like 3.x openers for every dps except you do it once per minute. It's not difficult. It was a bit hard in 3.x I'll admit but as of now it's nothing. To me it just sounds like you don't really know how to play MCH. If you want to complain about an actual frustrating oGCD filled rotation, try SMN. Wildfire is hugely improved over 3.x

But I agree MCH feels kinda plain in between WFs. The procs seem to only exist to keep you on your toes so it isn't just 1 2 3 1 2 3 Gauss Round 1 2 3 1 2 3 then the class really would feel extremely boring.

[s3ystic]

Well from this I see: MCH is supposed to be DPS, period. No extra utility, just straight up damage. Ill re-think my cross role abilities now. The rotation got dumber, oh well. At least we are getting an idea of where they want to shoehorn us. However if we are supposed to be pure DPS now, these changes are not enough, we need just under the physical equivalent of BLM damage to make this likable (I say under BLM because BLM still doesn't have the luxury of mobility we have.) MCH stays my main, but I am still sure I will need to swap in a Bow for raids in the future. I dont know why they are being so overly cautious about potency changes if we are supposed to be more DPS than Utility.

[Elnidfse]

Where did I write that cd alignment was hard?
Are "a little more subtle" (than how it currently is) and "hard" synonyms?
Considering you also had to use raging strikes, b4b and hawk's eye, it was way less trivial than it currently is.
And again, less trivial =/= hard.

Unless waiting 10 seconds after an offensive CD comes up for another offensive CD to come up is the height of hidden depth, "subtle" is not exactly what I'd use to describe 3.x CD timers;
You didn't use all three offensive CD's every single wildfire.
You used your entire suite of offensive CDs less often.
That WF happening ever 90 seconds for a longer period of time giving a larger fight leeway for cooldown delaying.

The statement was to your comment "this is how MCH is supposed to be" which wasn't true then, and I listed the reasons why that was so. Burning every single button, every single minute was not how MCH worked. Not for the rotation, and definitely not for wildfire.