Issues with Machinist design

[RocciaSolida]

My biggest gripe with MCH? ShB Wildfire, it’s an absolutely unsatisfying skill: it cannot crit nor direct hit, it’s on a 2 minute cooldown, DEALING THE SAME DAMAGE OF AN AVERAGE DRILL OR SLIGHTLY MORE (drill being a 20 second cooldown GCD) and ping-dependant, get an unfortunate ping spike during WF? Enjoy your 5 GCD WF. It also contributes so little to your overall DPS (if you don’t believe me just look up some records of top machinists on THAT website) that messing it up or missing a GCD for bad ping actually impacts your performance almost 0%, adding more fuel to the “irrelevant skill” argument.

[CKNovel]

My biggest gripe with MCH? ShB Wildfire

Yep, that skill had a satisfying role but too much impact on MCH DPS on top of rng being too impactful.
Now it's an additionnal button with no satisfaction and little impact on MCH DPS.
Honestly they could halve its cooldown for more presence.

The heat gauge, in my opinion, is still a mess. High skillspeed is fun but not when it comes to spamming the same button.

[Kalise]

Yep, that skill had a satisfying role but too much impact on MCH DPS on top of rng being too impactful.
Now it's an additionnal button with no satisfaction and little impact on MCH DPS.
Honestly they could halve its cooldown for more presence.

To be fair, I've always wondered why they don't just bundle it in with Hypercharge. Given the way Wildfire works, you always want to use it with Hypercharge to get the most GCD's off in its duration.

Honestly, I also wonder why they don't simply make Wildfire into Hypercharge, so it boosts your damage (And/or fire rate) for the duration, then you eject your now overheated magazine and throw it at the enemy for the explosion. For not only a thematic approach, but also to consolidate the 2 burst CD's that typically get used together.

The heat gauge, in my opinion, is still a mess. High skillspeed is fun but not when it comes to spamming the same button.

Not to mention how it also makes the actual SkS stat really bad for MCH, meaning you're only allowed shorter GCD's during Hypercharge and nowhere else...