MCH - Wishlist

[SkyEdge1]

I'm currently leveling MCH and I want desperately to love this class. But I find that the most fun I have with it, is in content where I dont really have to worry about Overheat or wildfire, Heaven on High or even leveling under 70. I find myself thinking man if this was just a fast paced gunner job focused on dmg it would be so much better. Like let me use Heat as a resource to keep balanced ala RDM. Use techy aesthetics like BS more to debuff and make me not worry about replacing turrets left and right constantly. I just think that without the gimmick of WF and OH a straightforward MCH makes more sense. A reliable Vuln up stack is more than enough utility. Let Bard have all its toys and let me Pew Pew big numbers without all the hoops dangit.

[Zolvolt]

Get rid of overheat
Make wildfire friendlier to use
Make flamethrower better
give new fun abilities

fixed it E Z

[Levy9]

*Give wildfire a manual detonation OGCD option. Your wildfire skill would simply transform into a detonate skill while wildfire is active, no additional hotkeys required. (Useful in situations where a mob will die before wildfire goes off or a telegraphed boss phase transition is about to happen before wildfire goes off.

[Dyvid]

So I just finally got it to 70 and to me it feels like it has too many gimmicks or mechanics that really don't feed into each other. You have Hot Shot, Wildfire, Ammo, Gauss Barrel, Heat Gauge, Turrets which means you have a lot to remember in terms of fighting. Furthermore you don't have the class support like you did in 3.0 which is going to hurt more when DNC comes along.

I don't hate Gauss barrel but maybe it's mechanics should work like this: Apply barrel adds heat mechanic and automatically changes normal shot to heated without any build up. Overheat is still a thing but rather than additional damage, it cause turret to do special buff/debuff for 15s depending on which turret you have. Ammo would still act as a proc device but won't stop the heat gauge from building.

Wildfire mechanic is still a thing but maybe change it from 12s instead of 10s or maybe have it as a special turret that is tethered to at a target that when a special amount of damage is reach it explodes damaging in AoE fashion?

Turret to me seem like they would work like WoW Shaman totems, place them on the ground and they dps / buff / debuff.