Machinist - New Headless Running DPS

[Aiurily]

interesting... didn't notice, did he actually parse his turret to check how big a drop in dps doing that caused.

no, but i did just now

turret toggling on cd til oom - 72.49~ dps @ 7% crit rate
turret damage fulltime - 116 dps @ 14% crit rate

so your turret with this method does 60% of it's original dps. still very good, considering that bards get 15% penalty, while your turrets on single target are like, 12.5%; 60% of that is 7.5%, so effectively, you get penalized with a 5% damage penalty vs bard's 15.

[Evane]

This is just like triple flare back in the day. SE will fuck the job's fluidity (if it had any idk) to fix this.

[Seravi Edalborez]

One solution would be to just put a MP cost on Promotion so that toggling it fucks over the MCH.

[Niiro]

Emergency maintenance to give it a 3 second cast time.

It'll be the same as BRD's song casting animation where they pull out a harp and everything, it'll get a proper animation a year later.

[Seravi Edalborez]

Real talk, if they put a generic "tapping invisible buttons on my wristwatch" sci-fi cast time I will not bitch at all. But then I'm not our static's MCH :3

[Niiro]

Or they could just give it like a 10s cooldown I guess to be able to toggle it, it would keep with the trend of MCH being well designed and comfortably mobile and BRD eating shit.

[Judai]

Real talk, if they put a generic "tapping invisible buttons on my wristwatch" sci-fi cast time I will not bitch at all. But then I'm not our static's MCH :3

fu

[Vuitton]

Or they could just give it like a 10s cooldown I guess to be able to toggle it, it would keep with the trend of MCH being well designed and comfortably mobile and BRD eating shit.

BRD's can't move when their combos are up like MCHs can (assuming both are in caster stances)? Honest question, I don't have BRD that high.

[Niiro]

Have you never played BRD?

They don't have combos.

Only thing BRD gets is a 15% chance of Straight Shot proc for a free movement cast.

[Vuitton]

Have you never played BRD?

They don't have combos.

Only thing BRD gets is a 15% chance of Straight Shot proc for a free movement cast.

I think it's 26 and haven't touched it since 1.0.

[Aiurily]

updated opener again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFm5WWJQEso

extra skill with RS up

[Judai]

NIN+5 Vuln Stacks is fun in A2S.

[Kirbyprime]

Do you guys macro Gauss barrel to anything? I had it macro'ed to split shot before so that it'd be used whenever it's off CD but it messes with my opener more times than not. Moving it to slug shot ( probably same with clean shot ) does the same thing as well. Thought about having it macro'ed with Ricochet but not sure if that would be any better.

[Spider-Dan]

Unfortunately, MCH doesn't seem to lend itself to stacked macros. The only things I have macroed on one button are RS/HE/B4B and Heartbreak/QR.

[AnnaMolly]

I used to have Head Graze, Gauss Round, and Ricochet macro'd but ended up setting it up to where I can just access everything and learned to swap around.

[Carth]

Level 33 MCH here, but enjoying the job already as a DPS class. One thing I'm confused with though is lining up Hot Shot with your cooldowns. AoE dps makes me feel like I'm flailing around because I'm Lead Shotting everything and delaying my Reload so I'm not wasting it, but the buffs don't last long enough to stay for all the spread shots.

So right now I'm doing Hot Shot(RS/HE/B4B) > Lead Shot ALL THE THINGS > Reload/Spread Shotx5

I'm wondering if it's better to hold the cooldowns for Spread Shots or if it's more beneficial to keep the Lead Shots buffed.

[Niiro]

Spread with Ammo is:
360 for 3 mobs
480 for 4 mobs
600 for 5 mobs

Lead is:
490 for 30s
355 for 21s

Personal metric:

3 mobs, living 20s+ -> Lead shot everything, then Reload+Spread shot

4 mobs, living 30s+ -> Lead shot everything, then Reload+Spread shot

5+ mobs -> Reload+Spread, don't Lead at all

If you're going to be using Lead, use your buffs for the Lead shots, if your guesswork is right the Leads will be doing more damage the Spreads.

[Spider-Dan]

If the mobs are going to live less than 30 seconds (and Invig is not already on CD) I use Grenado instead of Spread.

[Ratatapa]

Static member is looking for gear help on MCH and I know shit about it, so i'm asking BG for help!

Current gear

http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/R58B

He's parsing around 900DPS on A1S but he says he miss alot

any tips he could change?

[Niiro]

Go back to Asuran Neck/Ears.