Quote Originally Posted by CKNovel View Post
The turret, or Automaton Queen today, feels bad I agree. It should have more presence and more different usages.
For now, it's fill the gauge and empty it. The only good interaction with the Queen is that we choose when it is summoned.

SB Wildfire... Itself it's not interesting, it's the context in which it was used.
Doing the combo at 1.5s GCD was fun and satisfying. The problem was that everything was cramed into that combo. Rapidfire? Always for the combo. Reassemble? Always for the combo. Only ammos, GR and rng procs were outside that window from memory. ShB rework was necessary as you pointed out, the heat gauge was not a good gauge and ammo gauge... You would need quite the imagination to develop upon, maybe new types of ammos?
I think this was the point, but I agree even then MCH had fat to its kit, Gauss barrel could’ve very easily been a trait, rapid fire removed and tied to overheating and Heartbreak and Blank were scarcely used.

Going back to SHB, Heat is much more shallow being a generic 50 point affair and being a lot more restrictive with its imagination (alot of people like the weave phase, I for one find it incredibly toothless) it’s speed is essentially gone replaced solely by heat blast and mashing ogcds. And it’s downtime is the most boring loop in all of FF14 with nothing to do but 1-2-3 until
Heat is up, or one of many press-it-and-forget it skills

SB was more on preparation and set up with a phase centered around wildfire, SHB has no center and the defense that “it’s not complete” is a stupid argument, at the very least they could’ve tied Auto-Cross to the spam phase or have flamethrower fine heat instead of twinddling their numbs for 2 years.

Maybe it’ll all change in EW, the radicalness of Sb gone and the reductiveness of shb erased for the best incarnation....or it’ll get worse or stagnate while other jobs get improved, ima take a guess on which is more likely and just hope the blight that happened to MCH stays with MCH and doesn’t spread to other jobs