Complete MCH change…

[Valence]

Current flamethrower deals 80 potency every second, for a total of 11 ticks with 880 potency over 10s. Scattergun alone deals 750 potency over 10s for 5 GCDs, then you can add the value in heat gauge (50 gauge so a full ACB hypercharge ready to use, and ACB alone blows FT out of the water in damage output).

ShB FT was very, very barely above the standard AoE rotation, and had niche uses in dual targets where it had the edge (barely). With the introduction of scattergun, the general AoE rotation gained weight while FT stayed the same. I really do hope they did something to FT for Dawntrail because opening the job trailer once more with FT without changing anything would be a joke of very poor taste after so many expansions.

FT used to be incredibly powerful in AoE for the expansion it got introduced in, when used in combination with overheat (+20% damage snapshot covering the whole 10s debuff of heat gauge lockout).

[UkcsAlias]

Current flamethrower deals 80 potency every second, for a total of 11 ticks with 880 potency over 10s. Scattergun alone deals 750 potency over 10s for 5 GCDs

A bit unfair, since those 5 GCDs when averaged out end up taking more like 12.2 seconds, which might not appear as much, but is enough to reduce the damage portion effectively by 20% for same duration.

Not that it matters in the end result, since the 50 gauge allows you to wave in a lot more damage.

2 things they could do to improve flamethrower:
- Make it charge the heat gauge faster. Maybe 1 gauge per tick and target it hits (with 5 enemies this will then beat the GCD charging). This makes the comparison with other GCDs easier, and will guarantee it to be the stronger dps for mobs.
- Allow flamethrower to be affected by the hypercharge to increase its potency further like 150 (at a cost of not charging the gauge then). This damage then could also be for just a single target and be significantly higher (to make it better for most trials), for example 300 potency for primary, 150 for anything else.

Its niche use is fine to me, but at least it should be clearly on top then so people want to use it. Being forced to stand still is often a hazard on its own, and the current gain is not big enough to realy be worth it, especialy since its range is a lot shorter.