Thread: 5.0 Machinist Launch Feedback

Things I would like to see kept going forward, but improved:
Flamethrower should build heat, It should also allow movement, albeit slowed as well as be manually aimed. I don't see how shooting flames out of your gun wouldn't build heat, and standing still while you flail around just feels like an arbitrary restriction. I think flamethrower would have a particularly good spot as an AoE opener to quickly build heat to transition into crossbow, and also as a damage boost when used with overheat on. (make it blue high-pressure flames) - This could only be used after the initial pull as flamethrower would still be on cooldown obviously.
Autocrossbow spamming the button and the animation resetting so soon looks and feels rather jarring. I think it would be better if this was a long cast thing like flamethrower that just continually fires until overheat is over or you override it with another ability. See Monster Hunter Heavy Bowgun Wyvernheart ability for inspiration. I also feel it should also provide the cooldown reduction heat blast does, atleast for Ricochet.
Bioblaster should be available at the same time as Drill. AoE low level feels terrible as all you can do is spam Spread Shot and with how much power creep there is most content devolves into AoE slug fests.
Reassemble renamed Reload/Charge-Shot and the old reload animation used instead of current one. Maybe make it cost 50 battery instead of a cooldown.

Personally enjoying new MCH a lot, only thing I really don’t like as others have said is hypercharge. The window of error is so small (like 0.5 seconds) and even if you have ricochet and gauss round 100% on cooldown before you pop hypercharge (not likely) you need to use both at least once to prevent wasting recast.

I think if at least one of ricochet or gauss barrel had a 3rd charge it would alleviate this issue or even if they just made hypercharge last 9 seconds instead to add a little bit of leeway.

Other than that, AoE feels a bit bland. The difference in power between spread shot, auto-crossbow and flamethrower is so minimal they might as well not have bothered.

Rook auto-turret, wildfire and to an extent barrel stabiliser all feel kind of tacked on. As much as I didn’t like Stormblood MCH, everything felt like it fit together, but now these moves don’t really feel like they flow with the meat of the rotation anymore.

MCH feels a lot more like a pure dps than a support, which I’m ok with, I just worry about our raid utility when all we have is tactician which both BRD and DNC bring a version of while offering other utility on top. While we don’t even have dismantle anymore.

Originally Posted by Sentinillia

I urge you to open your spellbook and have a look at the level 74 trait. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

I’m still only at 71, I’ve never really liked their whole “fix it with the level cap rise” mentality, it leaves the jobs still in a sorry state in older content. And while yes you don’t do older content that much and it’s usually trivialised by our increased ilvl, it still leaves them feeling less fun to play in old content when they’re constantly trying to encourage people to keep old content alive...

I can agree its gone from a "burst" class to a "sustain" class, & a near spamy one at that, I mean I only just yesterday started to get my mind around what is needed/required to do & spent a fair time smashing my brain against built-up Muscle Memory from MCH's very release in HW (rotation-wise it didn't change much from 3.0-4.0 just got a new gimick that was clunky to use right) & I feal its become something I might have to shelve like I did PLD a few months back, shelved PLD cause I was done being a Tank not cause I couldn't use it. Drill/AA really should have been eather a 2nd rotation at less pontency or an oGCD cause atm their really hard to remember due to how they act when rdy (as OP pointed out).

at lest SAM's core rotation mostly survived so I'm just probably gona change to that when I shelve MCH after a few more tries, honestly wish I wasn't as I loved MCH since 3.0 but I'm not gona force myself to play a class thats so radically different then before & feals off-putting to play

I'd really like them to remove Flamethrower and just push up the potency of "Bioblaster" to 100/120.

This would allow Bioblaster in all of his ticks to exceed the damage of an default Drill, without Reassemble, and may result in some little rotation changes as you can now cast Bioblaster instead of Drill (same cooldown timer) whenever Reassemble is not active and/or use Anchor with Reassemble as they share the same potency.

And it would help with overall AoE DPS.