3. Wildfires, from job core identity to afterthought

Wildfire got neutered and I don't even understand why. Maybe the reasoning was that it made too much of MCH damage dependent on raid buff windows? Either way, it got increased to 2 minutes and it feels ridiculous to me. The ability isn't even impressive anymore, and we barely get to play with it. Even a Reassembled Drill, Drill being a very common ability in our kit, deals way more damage than any Wildfire.

Wildfire isn't even remotely rewarding anymore.


4. The job became a literal stress generator

For not to waste casts of Drill or Air Anchor, you have to make sure to fit your hypercharge windows properly between every Drill instance (every 20s). This makes you constantly have to watch the timer remaining on Drill and Air Anchor not only to refrain from using hypercharge at the WRONG TIME, but also not to miss the moment when those weaponskills (Drill and Anchor) come out of cooldown. They are not Off global cooldown abilities, so you don't just have to press them when they come out of cooldown. You have to watch carefully WHEN THEY WILL come off CD to be ready to use them at the next GCD. This is made unclear by the visual feedback we have, but will always feel unclear and require a lot of brain processing power and attention, constant babysitting to watch a timer ticking down.

This is generating A LOT OF STRESS for players that have to constantly stay glued to their hotbars when fighting instead of paying attention to the actual fight itself. Not only you have to watch for those when they come off cooldown at the risk of desynching all your rotation, but you also have to watch the timers left on your charged abilities as well, especially since they get recharged VERY FAST by overheat windows, that are sprinkled literally all over.

Then since Wildfire is now on 2 minutes cooldown, and reassemble still on one minute, you now also have to watch carefully the mark when reassemble gets out of cooldown as well. If you're unlucky enough to have some amount of skillspeed, you might also see all your GCD structure be desynced completely with the reassemble, barrel stabilizer and wildfire timers. This is an absolute nightmare and makes the job punishing you for no reason other than that you're going too fast.