Future Machinist Rework

[Roxus]

That's a well thought out document. I've been gathering my thoughts reading various threads and I'd like to ask what you think about scaling potencies based on how close you are to the target? Without needing to be in melee range. Say something like 10-20y.

The thing that stood out to me was Blast Charge and Hypercharge. I think that's a really good idea. I think I pretty much agree with everything aside the role actions. Rather, they intended for those to originally be useful utility but then started scrapping encounters with CC. I think they should start having CC matter again instead.

[MikoRemi]

That's a well thought out document. I've been gathering my thoughts reading various threads and I'd like to ask what you think about scaling potencies based on how close you are to the target? Without needing to be in melee range. Say something like 10-20y.

The thing that stood out to me was Blast Charge and Hypercharge. I think that's a really good idea. I think I pretty much agree with everything aside the role actions. Rather, they intended for those to originally be useful utility but then started scrapping encounters with CC. I think they should start having CC matter again instead.

Nothing else particularly scales with distance like that so I don’t want to add that into the mix personally, Physical Ranged should at least have freedom of distance in all forms. It is certainly an interesting idea for maybe Marksman’s Spite maybe but it would be strange to be the only job with such a requirement. Not to discount the idea entirely of course, maybe the developers could make it work.

I appreciate the feedback, CC would be easy to pull in with Arm Graze at the least, I mainly just want anything else besides Foot/Leg Graze given how extremely niche they are in the kit.

[LeonKeyh]

That's a well thought out document. I've been gathering my thoughts reading various threads and I'd like to ask what you think about scaling potencies based on how close you are to the target? Without needing to be in melee range. Say something like 10-20y.

I had originally thought of this whenever I was thinking of the "positionals" version of ranged physical to try to add "more" to them. The problem with something like this is that there's no easy visual marker showing how close/far you are from the enemy. That would absolutely need to be added if they were to do something like this.

[Roxus]

I had originally thought of this whenever I was thinking of the "positionals" version of ranged physical to try to add "more" to them. The problem with something like this is that there's no easy visual marker showing how close/far you are from the enemy. That would absolutely need to be added if they were to do something like this.

Oh I agree that there must be an indicator for it, I actually forgot to mention that, apologies. I think it would be a great way to solve the issue of them hiding behind the mobility argument and at the same time add some depth to the job(s). I mean as it is now my static ranged just circles the arena as a joke for years now.