MCH buffs!

[Fannah]

(sorry had to afk, some people wrote what I thought before, but I still want to post what I've written)

Do everyone really just random everything for those 50 sec between the end of overheat and the start of the new one?
You still have to optimize your actions to prepare this burst with the most optimal combination of proc you can get to be able to use it exactly every minute without waiting a single sec, like pressing every CD everytime you can get them to align with the overheat system, and to know the fight to don't waste this burst phase.
Reading you it's like you all are always easily 100% optimal every 60sec to just use it exactly when it's available.

Something is wrong here, almost everyone complained about overheat not being worth enough, and now it's done, community complain about it to be too viable and only focusing about this. You should just see it as a step in the right way, as it is now viable, and we just have to keep providing feedbacks (more than just fresh emotional opinions) in order to keep going in the right way.
Also, less Hot Shot means one more Combo shot to try proc something (so a potency gain).
It's done, the dps is higher, overheating is way more worth. It's not over and they can certainly do better, maybe the DPS will still not be enough. On top of that, Flamethrower will make it easier to overheat when you will have the best proc (Slug + Clean Shot) to do the CD-3-2-3-CD combo.

The question is "what's next?", stop being just like they said it was perfect already. They make change and still will adapt if something is wrong.

[KalinOrthos]

wish we could edit on phone

My problem isn't Wildfire. I actually have a lot of fun preplanning cooldowns and ammo usage around Wildfire. My problem is that, now, everything, Overheat, cooldowns, oGCDs, EVERYTHING has to revolve around Wildfire now. And that makes everything between Wildfires frivolous.

[Dianoia]

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Crazy mashing of buttons for a short period of time and then spamming Split Shot hoping for a combo proc until WF comes back up. That's the gameplay I remember from HW, and I loved it. It took a lot of skill to know all of the different variations of which abilities to use to maximize WF damage based on CDs. If you did it right, you could do some big numbers. I agree, I feel SE has made it clear with these buffs that that's what MCH is: living one overheated WF to the next. I love it.

I do still have some minor criticisms I hope they address. I wish Split, Slug, and Clean still gave 10 heat instead of 5. I wish FT had a higher potency. I wish we had some raid wide utility beyond Dismantle. Otherwise, I'm liking it.

[Petori]

After doing hours of testing, I've grown to like the changes. Certainly a nice buff overall. Still don't get the Hot Shot duration though but whatever.

[Jonnycbad]

Large scale buffs to jobs and their playstyle will probably come out in 4.1 according to their midstream recently. These mini patches only have bandaid fixes because the devs have to program and implement and test larger changes to job gauges and synergy etc

[Darian]

After doing hours of testing, I've grown to like the changes. Certainly a nice buff overall. Still don't get the Hot Shot duration though but whatever.

Look at the hot shot duration in the total package. Say 1 fight was 6min. You now only need to use it 6 times vs 12 if it was the old 30 sec. This means 6 shots can now be used for better dps options when they would have been used on hot shot if it was still 30sec

[Alchemii]

My input at this time: Bring back the 4.0 heat from shots, at least on the heated shots. That's it, that's all i want right now, but it's probably not gonna happen.

[Zayedan]

Seen a MCH do over 4k dps in o1s and o2s which is insane for a "Utility" class

[Petori]

Look at the hot shot duration in the total package. Say 1 fight was 6min. You now only need to use it 6 times vs 12 if it was the old 30 sec. This means 6 shots can now be used for better dps options when they would have been used on hot shot if it was still 30sec

Yes I know the benefits :P Just don't see how we needed that.

[Ppj_Ninek]

Seen a MCH do over 4k dps in o1s and o2s which is insane for a "Utility" class

Bard can do 5k and has more utility.
Pick your poison.