FFXIV 5.0 MACHINIST Lv.80 IMPRESSIONS - Better than Before?

[@iBluairJgR]

I LIKE IT. There's a lot of buttons to press and I press them in the wrong order ALL THE TIME but I'm getting better with every dungeon run I do. I'm gona have a good time getting acustomed to the 5.0 Machinist. There's plenty more FFXIV: Shadowbringers content coming soon so stay tuned! edit: By the way. . . it's not Destiny 2 Gameplay. Fu*k my life. I need some sleep lol. ► Gunbreaker Overview kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJzLaZyGms2IZpY&lc=UgxFQm0YxosfhIgkusJ4AaABAg ► Gunbreaker Impressions kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmTIpndmmbh6g8k ► Warrior Lv.80 skills kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5fKip5sbZZqhsk

[@ralphso5567]

If I get bored of clicking all the time I just press flamethrower. They will never know

[@iBluairJgR]

This. . .is a valid strategy.

[@siffumetsu271]

Lol when I want to take a drink I always hit flamethrower

[@ralphso5567]

@@siffumetsu271 ikr. It's like we're dpsing w/o doing anything

[@siffumetsu271]

@@ralphso5567 my mindset "everything else is on cool down I have 10 seconds or less to take a drink"

[@SimonParadis338]

I feel what you said about the Automaton Queen so much about the temporary pets, especially with the DRK level 80 ability. It lasts 24 seconds, but takes a full 5-6 seconds to appear, if the boss moved it throws a low DPS ranged attack before using it's gap closer and it's like it needs to think about doing that (even if you're currently attacking), so it ends up, most of the time, attacking only in the last 14-15 sec of duration.

[@Full_of_Tarkus]

MCH has been my favored class since heavensward, and I love what they did to it in SHB. It is even more aesthetically pleasing to play and even with drop of the majority of its support abilities (which is great because now it can focused on raw damage, like the ranged counterpart to SAM) it still kept its identity as a burster. I do definitely agree about the Automaton Queen being a tad clunky but god damn is it such a treat to summon it to battle. All in all, never been happier though it does have some issues that need to be worked out.

[@iBluairJgR]

This 100%. I figure within a patch or 2 they'll sort out the Automaton Queen and iron out some of the other issues.

[@Full_of_Tarkus]

@@iBluairJgR its mostly the animation. I know it looks cool but if they cut that and just have it do the charge attack the moment its summoned, maybe stack an few more seconds on the timer it should be good to go.

[@JohnnyRaven69]

I'm a main Dancer and I can't decide Machinist or Dragoon? 😭

[@nicolerichardson7688]

I LOVE that you play the game with the camera like that. It looks like an entirely different game. I always play all the way zoomed out and birds eye view for tanking but I’m definitely going to try this now! Thanks!

[@iBluairJgR]

Ha, yeah. I like the way it looks zoomed in a bit closer. For some fights I still have to zoom out to see everything but I like it.

[@CTN404]

I been a MCH main for about 3 years now. The complexity of the role keeps me coming back. I leveled up to 80 in an insane speed just having fun with the 5.0 version. I love to play it and time just flies with it

[@iBluairJgR]

Nice. The complexity draws me into it as well. I usually never end up playing one class for as long as I would like to because I make videos for multiple classes but if I had to pick one DPS to play for 3 years, it'd probably be MCH.

[@thismarxtheendforjoo2298]

I love wildfire because it reminds me of combustion mage from WoW that I played a shit ton of. Great video and glad I’m not the only one really enjoying it.

[@ThatNiueanGuy]

This Marx the end For Joo you thE mvp for mentioning this. Defs gona lvl MCH up after my BLM. I was fire mage for years

[@thismarxtheendforjoo2298]

Vilz MauT - I loved fire mage and the absolute monster that was rolling huge fireball crits into combust ... man those feels!

[@Link9164]

Just wish it did any damage.

[@kasp7674]

One of the many things I would change is to make barrel stabilizer generate battery instead of heat. I don't think the turret and queen is used enough while I think Hyper charge is used kinda too much and often feels very spammy and repetitive. Let flamethrower be the one to generate heat instead.

[@iBluairJgR]

Ya know, sometimes I do feel like I have too much heat. This is a change I wouldn't mind at all. Flamethrower generating heat would make our AOE insane and I'm 100% down for that!

[@mechagojira2977]

Excellent editing and commentary as always, love when your new videos pop up! And the chat @3:44 haha...

[@iBluairJgR]

Cheers m8. Glad it was enjoyable.

[@DP-fq7iy]

“That can be frustrating.” Imagine having one service provider option. Now imagine it’s so bad you clip *everything.* Welcome to my world.

[@iBluairJgR]

Sounds like a nightmare lol.

[@Mounthuapleb5890]

Time to switch bud

[@birdie9464]

Neat! I love being able to set off the bomb early when you know you’ve dealt enough damage, i’m a Paladin main myself and the damage on paladin now compared to SB is insane, the instant casting while you’re doing magic DPS now is great, god i could go on forever about the changes but i won’t, anyways! Amazing video as always ^^

[@iBluairJgR]

Ha, cheers. The manual detonation on wildfire is a nice touch. Also, paladin looks very strong now. I'm curious to try it.

[@Diggums]

Your videos are pretty nice to watch, dropping a sub! Gotta see more. I’ve been in love with MCH. Looking for other classes to get into and your videos are so informative!

[@iBluairJgR]

Thanks man, glad its helpful! There's plenty more coming so stay tuned!

[@slow393]

Loving shb machinist, always feels so engaging, even if my muscle memory keeps tryna click the old reload button every so often

[@iBluairJgR]

Rofl I had that experience with reload a few times too.

[@paulmerry7982]

I have the problem of still using the crit on the third hit and not the drill/anchor sometimes by accidental muscle memory.

[@Shadow.Darkraven]

I've got to level my tanks and healers after my samurai but im so happy that machinist is back to a good spot, i missed playing it

[@iBluairJgR]

Same here dude. I always leveled it up since it was released because I enjoyed the aesthetic but the gameplay was always 7-out-of-10. Now its 10/10 for me.

[@fenris8364]

I've loved the look of MCH ever since I purchased the game and immediately picked it up upon reaching Ishgard. Been my main ever since and I haven't looked back. The style is undeniable and the moves all look so cool. Having to track all of my cooldowns and figuring out when to use abilities was daunting at first, but it's just served to make the class feel like a rocket on speed during combat once I've found my groove.

[@sewrtyuiop997]

I'm glad you're liking the MCH. This overhaul was long over due. We're streamlined but still have a high skill ceiling. And I do the same with my wildfire.

[@iBluairJgR]

Same. They did a solid job with the overhaul. I kind-of miss having bullets to load into the gun but I'd trade in bullets for a mega-drill any day lol.

[@markdavenportjr5129]

Im enjoying the hell out of it so far lvl 62 cant wait to get into shb content. :D

[@TheFurrLord]

I think the biggest issue with queen isn't the fact that you only get 15 seconds to work with since it appears to be the real time intended as the turret has that as its max duration. Its how that 5 second activation delay interacts with raid buffs. To get the most out of something like trick attack for example you need to effectively see into the future for when it's happening to get the most out of the debuff. I have seen a few people come up with different strategies for this like popping queen the moment you hear the splash go off in pug environments, or doing queen activations based on remaining cds for things like Wildfire to Guage when raid burst windows come up.

[@iBluairJgR]

Right. I'm hoping they do something to sort out the queens animation. I don't mind a summoning animation but it should take 5 seconds. 1 second at most IMO.

[@SomeGrumpyDude]

I love how busy it keeps me. It makes me want keep pushing to find the most optimal way to use the class and I love it. It is visually pleasing and fun overall. Been a MCH for a long time (SINCE RELEASE) and the only downside is that I have a hard time playing other classes now with how slow they feel in comparison.

[@iBluairJgR]

Same. It's tough for me to keep track of all the different things in MCH kit since I don't main it but I like the challenge of it.

[@Mounthuapleb5890]

It is all pleasing till you see that big space between your back and the gun (where he puts away his weapon)

[@RonOverdrive]

Leveled up MCH for the past month in prep for Shadowbringers because I wanted to try something different coming back to the game after a year or so hiatus. Got a good enough feel before and after 5.0 dropped, honestly really dig the MCH and have a lot of fun melting health bars while weaving in and out of Gaus/Heat/Rico.

[@iBluairJgR]

Yah. The constant weaving of skills is very fun!

[@ThisIsTheTruth34]

I thought for sure with all the changes to the MCH that it would be one of the main classes being played but I hardly see any around playing it... lol . A friend of mine mains it and absolutely loves it. Great video too!

[@iBluairJgR]

Same here-I expected it to be more popular. Still, a good number of people are enjoying it so that's a plus. Also, thanks for watching!

[@LookItIsHope]

I seem to always see MCH when I do duties. More than I had seen them the entire of SB, that's for sure. But the amount of people that main MCH is still probably low. I'm a proud MCH main since HW, and I really love the new changes to MCH. I say it's the best MCH yet. Though I did like HW and SB MCH as well, but this one tops both of those.

[@OhYeahNah]

If the latency issue wasn't there I think a fair bit more people would be playing it

[@ravingraven2522]

For the latency issue, I usually dump all of my Rico/Gauss Rounds at the start and then, during Hypercharge, I only weave one or two Rico/GRs in between Heat Blasts. I have been having annoying latency issues with the weaving too, but it seems only doing a couple will let you hit all your Heat Blasts without worrying about overcapping your charges. This may not be optimal on DPS (you wanna save your charges for moments when you need to burst, like during a NIN trick attack or an add needs to die immediately) but it keeps me rolling without messing up too much.

[@Kiobao]

I actually got carpal tunnel from MCH after a long binge in game haha. A change I'd like is possibly making Hyper charge make all of your weaponskills 2 sec GCD , Heat blast on a 4 second recast but reduces the CD on rico/gauss by 30 seconds and overheat last for 10 seconds to be slightly forgiving on heat blast. I feel it would be much more fluid with the class as a whole that way and a bit more lax on peoples ping. Makes it a bit more forgiving too in case drill comes off CD and you need to go into hyper charge. I also sorta like it because I get an immediate feedback from heat blast to auto give 1 charge of gauss/rico instead of every 2 attacks. flows a bit better.

[@iBluairJgR]

I was getting cramps when I was grinding from 70-80 too. I was doing 8 hour game sessions lol. Also, your change ideas are interesting.

[@joshieb2431]

I stopped playing it back in Stormblood. But just picked it back up and i will say im in love with the reworked version. I would recommend it if u haven't played it😎😎

[@natekong3596]

My solution for latency issue is exhausting GR and Ricochet before initiate Hypercharge so I can just spam HB during Wildfire window. I can easily perform 6-GCD Wildfire this way.

[@iBluairJgR]

This is the best way I've found to do it too.

[@MrWader76]

Hey man I'm really enjoying your videos. As someone who has been playing the game for about six years I was like to go back and see what new contact creators are making for the newbies in the community. I really dig it my man. I hope you're progging Eden well. What is your main job?

[@iBluairJgR]

Thanks man-glad you're enjoying the content. Unfortunately, I don't have time or a raid group to do savage with but its not a huge deal. I don't like to raid unless its with friends. I've had enough bad experiences with randoms over the years (I've been in FFXIV since 2.0 also and I've been playing MMO's since I was a kid) that I don't put myself into those environments anymore. BUT, I absolutely love the normal mode raids that they add. Challenging fights, clutchable, cool loot-good times.

[@sorijin]

Use an autohotkey script that allows you to hold down a key and have it press ultrafast until you let go. Very useful for MMO classes that have spammy/latency oriented action. Saves my finger joints! Makes it easier to get optimal input with little fatigue.

[@iBluairJgR]

Sounds like something that would make my MCH life much easier. Leveling it from 70-80 definitely cramped my hands a bit so having a script would definitely help.

[@sorijin]

@@iBluairJgR pastebin.com/8QYCK4gr got you fam, f1 toggles it being enabled or not. you can take all this code and replace it into the file. you can also add/edit your own keys if you find different ones necessary than mine. "sleep" is in milliseconds-ish, the smaller the number the faster it spams. Some games act weird with that excessive attempt at spam speed, hence it's current value.

[@sorijin]

oh and obviously you need autohotkey. lot of good resources there too, very easy programming language to edit my way through.

[@iBluairJgR]

This is interesting. Gona check it out dude, thanks.

[@roeflkoning8771]

For some reason people seem to be saying "MCH" is fine now. I mean, I really like how MCH plays now but it has some problems. 1. Wildfire is lackluster, what used to be our "Big damage" skill now deals an average of 3.5% of our total dps (lowest dps skill we got). 2. Hypercharge is not special, you spamm it every 15 seconds or so, making the job literally a spam 3 button fest. 3. As Selfish DPS the damage seems still kinda low, we're talking potential damage. But regardless, great video!

[@iBluairJgR]

Thanks m8! By my estimation, the developers wanted to shift the focus away from Wildfire being the primary source of damage and spread it out more evenly across the kit. Instead of having a moment every 60 seconds where you throw everything at the enemy for one massive payout, things are consistently high octane. For number 3, according to FFLOGS.com, MCH is in the top 5 DPS. Not bad if you ask me.

[@Kozutsami]

Top 5? What are the others?

[@yabiyabi]

With 230 ping I managed to do 5x in between the other 2 skills but this is 'by chance', I was told I should never touch machinist but it is my favourite... thank you for making me feel better and continuing to play. :(

[@iBluairJgR]

Rofl, yeah man-just play what you like. If you end up struggling because of ping then switch but play what you like.

[@lightdragoon88]

About the Queen 5 second start up time: The Rook Auto turret is only 15 seconds so the Queen would have to be 15 seconds as well. But it couldn't just appear without an awesome start up so they added the 5 seconds to 20 so that it actual combat time would be the same as the Rook Auto turret.

[@iBluairJgR]

This is probably the reasoning. It still feels odd / not responsive though. In that 5-second window, I'm always thinking to myself "If you could start attacking, that'd be great."

[@professorbean5791]

I liked MCH in heavansward, hated it in stormblood, and now LOVE it in shadowbringers. Hopefully this is the direction they keep with it moving forward.

[@jslaughter95]

high five!

[@iBluairJgR]

My fingers are crossed.

[@KiruMiru90]

Hey, I just discovered your channel and I'd like to let you know that I like both the way you present your thoughts, and the sound of your voice, subbed.

[@iBluairJgR]

Thanks m8 and welcome!

[@MixalisRed7]

Whats that action cameea and lock on thingy? Also how are your fights so clean in terms of abilities going on and stuff? Pls reply. Nice video

[@Edge9404]

You can turn off your party members' spell effects via an option in Character Configuration.

[@iBluairJgR]

@Edge9404 This. I turn off other peoples spell effects to get rid of the visual clutter & make the game a bit easier on the eyes @MixalisRed7 Set keyboard turn speed to 0 then lock on target. Camera turn speed is in Character Settings > General at the bottom of the menu. For “lock camera to target”, it’s in keybinds under movement. During normal gameplay I don’t use the slow turn speed for the camera.

[@iResonate]

I'm so glad you did MCH, because I mained it in Stormblood, but now I have no clue how to play it lol

[@Kasaaz]

I miss Reloading, not for any gameplay reasons. It was just weirdly satisfying... maybe the sounds.

[@iResonate]

@@Kasaaz I 100% agree with you! I definitely miss the reload sound. It was so satisfying lol

[@iBluairJgR]

@John Delaney SAME HERE!!! I think it was the sounds!!

[@Amocoru]

I had a MCH in my party with my DNC earlier today easily maintaining over 12k DPS on single target. I was blown away and immediately wanted to play it. Made my paltry 8.5-10k DNC dps look like trash.

[@iBluairJgR]

Damn, that's a lot of damage. I'm sure your dances were adding at least a thousand points to his/her dps.

[@scottishboy112]

My only change to MCH I would make? Allow the turret/queen effect wildfire. It’s a 2 minute cooldown so I don’t think it would be too bad to have a long cooldown nuke. Though the damage is already really nice so that may not happen.

[@iBluairJgR]

It probably won't happen but that would be dope.

[@davidyaconis7002]

I had to grind through MCH in 4.5 to get the Balthier gear so my wife could do screen shots with me once the Viera were released. I understood that there was a lot of RNG, and there were SOME ways around the RNG. I don't see the other issues people were complaining about, but then again, I never did BRD or MCH in 3.x or BRD in 2.x so I don't have much of a reference. Although I heard refresh is gone. As a healer main in 5.0, that does not sit well with me. Lose both DPSers in the middle of a heal check right after the impatient tank bullies you into more DPS output and you're gonna be hurting for that mana regen. And now, George R. R. Martin's A Dream of 5.2...

[@papapaulrocks]

Hey guys im enjoying machinist too but Im just confused on how we use Flamethrower now. Previous iteration wa it increased your heat gauge, but now it doesnt seem to be doing anything damage at all.

[@vipercrb5622]

I enjoyed the reload system however it's still there in a sense when you're refreshing Gauss barrel and ricochet with cooldown. Visually I'd have loved an upgraded version of Gauss barrel. Cooldown looks okay, could be better. One thing for sure is that auto crossbow should be refreshing ricochet at least, if not both, or just ricochet and cooldown only refreshes Gauss barrel. Just a thought.

[@iBluairJgR]

You're the second person I've seen mention auto crossbow refreshing ricochet. It'd be nice if that was a thing.

[@ngu0061]

I dropped my SMN main just to be a MCH main in 5.0 because I like the changes so much.

[@iBluairJgR]

That's saying a lot considering summoner got so many cool things this patch.

[@kevinismaximus7908]

But SMN has a lot of work with no pay off it feels like. I’m a SMN main and while I love the rework I still don’t feel the damage is worth the work.

[@dnbjosh]

I agree with you on the queen standing idle for the first couple of seconds but I'm guessing, overall, the first attack it does covers up for the potency lost during those couple of seconds. Might be wrong but just a guess.

[@iBluairJgR]

Probably. In any case, it'd be nice if they did something to smooth the summoning transition a bit.

[@kasp7674]

You forgot to mention how amazingly useful flamethrower is now!

[@ProlificPianist]

What's the useful part? It's the same old afaik.

[@kasp7674]

@@ProlificPianist Yep it's completely useless and serves no purpose other than perhaps taking a breather during aoe.

[@LookItIsHope]

@@ProlificPianist Channeling the full duration of Flamethrower does more damage than 5 Spread Shots in the same amount of time and Flamethrower puts out the damage more quickly than Spread Shot. The only downside to Flamethrower is that unlike Spread Shot, it doesn't add heat, which makes 0 sense to me, but they probably did it for balance.

[@ProlificPianist]

@@kasp7674 No, I just didn't realize that your comment was sarcasm. Flamethrower is significantly stronger than Spread Shot but still weaker compared to Bowgun/Bio. So AoE should be Bio-Bowgun-Flamethrower-Bio-Spread. Would be a great tool to the kit of it added heat, but it's not incredibly powerful or anything. You should be using it over spread when you can. I just failed to see the "useful" part. It's just an extra 10 seconds of higher damage output than Spread is all. Not the most useful thing in the kit by any means, but not useless lol.

[@iBluairJgR]

@Drawek I wanted to mention it but I didn't want to take up too much time in my initial impressions. I actually cut this video down from like 18-minutes lol. I rambled a lot since MCH is so complex. I'll definitely mention it in my full overview though.

[@Fangoram69]

They could so easily fix the issue.... Just make it so that you get 1 charge of gauss round and riccochet and up the potency to 300 and 450 after the trait and have a 90 sec cd... Problem bandaid but it would help out on the annoyance that is has right now.

[@PinePizza]

I waited for this one, looking forward to get mch to 80 after I'm done leveling my dragoon which I'm insanely bored of

[@iBluairJgR]

Awww man. DRG looks so cool at level 80. Has it been your main for so long that jumping around is boring now?!

[@PinePizza]

@@iBluairJgR it actually hasn't but there's this twist that's missing, I want more to think about while playing :D it's still really fun to play but a bit too straight forward at times.. I will continue to play it though since it's the first class I started getting comfortable with :)

[@iBluairJgR]

Ahhh right. That's understandable.

[@lightdragoon88]

@@iBluairJgR I actually have a rant about this if you are interested in hearing it. Might be something to think about when you level it and the other classes.

[@scootsmcdoots80]

MCH has been my favourite job since 1.0 I’m hipster to this shit.

[@iBluairJgR]

You were a Machinist before there were Machinists!

[@Xilibrius]

My gripes about Machinist is more nitpicks than anything: 1. I wish you had something you could spend the battery gauge on something for either team support (though I know that MCH is BLM of Ranged Physical) or an AOE damage (not that machinist is hurting for AOE damage). 2. I wish that auto-crossbow would at least reduce the cooldown on ricochet for more sweet sweet aoe damage when hypercharge. 3. Even though I love the changes with Rook Auto-turret since I would constantly forget to reuse it when moving to the next mob where as now I have a nice gauge that reminds me "hey you can use that thing". All that being said the rook (because i haven't hit 80 yet for the queen) feels disconnected from me. It's like I put it out and every now and then i'll notice the rook overload hitting but a lot of times it seems like i'm spending my battery gauge and not feeling its impact on the battle field. Maybe that changes with the Queen since you see it active and wailing on your enemies face. All and all I love Machinist to the point that it was the first thing i tried out when early access started and I got into it so much that it stopped me from progressing the MSQ on warrior till I had taken machinist to 70 and then continued on it.

[@iBluairJgR]

Nitpick number 3 stands out to me. I felt the same way about the turret. It didn't feel very prominent on the battlefield.

[@abdulazizalbelushi7005]

Can't wait for Ninja video

[@iBluairJgR]

Same here. I'm reallly hype to play it. SO MANY JOBS TO LEVEL!

[@alchemyst6589]

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm actually okay with the automaton queen's duration. The autoturret has a duration of 15 seconds and starts firing immediately, whereas the automaton queen last 20 but is only attacking for 15. Meaning to me that they added five seconds to the timer to make up for the animation.

[@iBluairJgR]

The duration is fine but design wise, it feels clunky.

[@DJGutz]

I am starting to come back to FFXIV, so learning what's up what's changed. However my question is how do you get you camera angle like that when on a target? Looks sick

[@iBluairJgR]

Nice. Shadowbringers is the best the game has ever been so its a great time to come back. For the camera question, I fight with my camera locked on target most of the time. For “lock camera to target”, it’s in keybinds under movement.

[@LunaPPK]

the problem you stated with the queen is honestly the same issue with living shadow for dark knight it waste 3 to 4 seconds of its timer being summoned

[@ek9750]

i think thats the reason why queen has 5 more seconds duration than turret

[@iBluairJgR]

That's unfortunate. @E K if the extra duration is intended to compensate for the animation, that doesn't make it feel any better lol. The sensation is "CMON YOU STUPID ROBOT-ATTACK!!!!"

[@ZerkerZero]

Really fun class. Wayyy better witt the reload system gone.

[@iBluairJgR]

I might be the only one that misses the reloads lol. It's probably more the sound and the animation than the gameplay though.

[@ZerkerZero]

@@iBluairJgR same here

[@LunaProtege]

The reload system at least gave the class a rotation, the new Machinist doesn't even have a rotation. The ONLY thing they needed to do to make MCH more playable was change how overheat worked... Which to their credit, they did... And ruined EVERYTHING ELSE about the Job in the process by making it a glorified whack a mole.

[@ZerkerZero]

@@LunaProtege still more fun, in my opinion.

[@LunaProtege]

@@ZerkerZero Fun doesn't mean its functional; its pretty hard to see what the rest of the raid is doing when you're playing whack a mole with your hotbars... As fun as a game as Whack a mole can be when you're NOT trying to do something else.

[@zomgpeoplestolemname]

Ye my wildfire varies between 30k-40k and it's annoying, but I think this is the best iteration of mch we've ever had.

[@dragonmangames2523]

This is the best MCH has become so far. Everyone is loving it for the most part. It's still affected by piss for internet, but it's not near as bad as it used to be.

[@Black.Clover5]

100x better. And more fun.

[@iBluairJgR]

100x is a lot. . . but I agree.

[@soulsnatcher898]

Personally after playing MCH since HW and continuing to only play it sparingly in SB, ShB MCH has never felt better. I've found myself enjoying it and I agree with the HB-GR thing, I empty and then consume since my connection varies it seems, sometimes I'm able to do 5 blasts while weaving, other times 4 blasts while weaving. The dps difference was very minor and is nice, and nice to know I can squeeze 6 hits into WF now and not rely on it but see it as another form of dps rather than "If you don't your damage is garbage. As a whole I find it to be so entertaining, to the point it kind of makes other jobs feel slow/boring, but they're entertaining in their own regards too thankfully with their job identity. MCH AoE feels different but nice not to spam SS with Bishop. Now I can use bio blaster, flamethrower, auto crossbow and spreadshot is a last resort and that feels great. I found my main dps and can't wait to keep figuring out more how to manage the queen better as I seem to be able to pull it out 3 times per boss encounter in dungeons if I already have 100 gauge.

[@iBluairJgR]

Really solid points. I didn't talk much about the AoE in my impressions but having so many different ways to deal damage to groups is enjoyable.

[@LookItIsHope]

As a note, you can also use Reassemble in AoE situations (I usually do for pulls not near boss rooms), like say for Auto Crossbow, and it affects ALL enemies. Previously n SB, if you used Reassemble and then Spreadshot, the crit would only affect one enemy. In ShB, the Direct Crit affects the ENTIRE pull.

[@spencersantiago7263]

Do the actions from the Automaton Queen count towards Wildfire?

[@iBluairJgR]

That's a good question. Probably not but I haven't tested it.

[@thismarxtheendforjoo2298]

If it says “weapon skill” then it will work but I believe turret is an ability :/

[@spencersantiago7263]

Awwww shiet I looked at the official job guide and the Automaton's punch and dash are both weaponskills! Not the finisher though. Explains why they used the two in sync for the job action trailer! Still could use testing though.

[@RatchildUK]

They don’t line up anyway.

[@ProlificPianist]

After I got good at Wildfire back in 4.0 everything feels easy, lol. This version is a little easier imo. Only thing I would like to change is making Rook/Queen be manual rather than automatic for more active gameplay during the overheat downtime.

[@iBluairJgR]

My brain would explode if the Queen was manual lol.

[@ProlificPianist]

@@iBluairJgR Really it's not that fast, lol. Only fast part is alternating like two buttons for Overheat. Otherwise it's just 1-2-3 Drill/Anchor. Old MCH was harder because you had to time your support skills as well as that absurd Wildfire.

[@tannduckness]

We need to be able to hide our control box on our hip.

[@iBluairJgR]

Yah, that would be a nice toggle.

[@joltionunivers]

My only issue with MCH is the odd choices they made with its 5.0 version.I did the MSQ with it and I loved it, to make that clear. Like Drill and Bio Blaster sharing a recast timer because....? Let's be real you wont EVER use Bio Blaster for anything but add phases in raids so it feels like it's just sitting there most of the time taunting you. Air Anchor I love but I wish it was an AOE ability. Flamethrower much like Bio Blaster is just sitting there unless there are ads. Why not just let it generate heat and let Blue Screen, (brings you're heat gauge to 50% I never remember its name) bring you're Queen Gage up to 50 instead so you can line it up with youre opening Wild Fire. Also I think Richochet and Guass round need slight potency buffs, Not alot maybe just 150 to 200. Wildfire and Heat blast I like how they interact ngl but like you said unless you have no latency you will only be able to get 4 in if you try and weave Guass and Richochet. Though for me personally I've gotten around this a little bit by doing 2 HeatBlasts to start and then only weaving 1 ricochet and Gauss round. You still leave some damage on the table but it's better than just straight up not weaving. My closing thoughts are it's fun, I love seeing those big numbers pop up and getting to yell "GIGA, DRILL, BREAKAAAAA!" But I'm just hitting 11k while BRD and DNC are over there having a party reaching it with ease. Edit: I forgot to mention my stance on Queen, it's fun but it feels very clunky.

[@iBluairJgR]

Cheers man, thanks for watching. Hmm there's a lot to think about here. For Drill and Bio Blaster, I figure they didn't want people to have to worry about applying a DoT during single target fights so they made them share a cooldown. It would have also probably increased MCH dps too much. Flamethrower generating heat, I can see it, but again, it seems like the developers want a clear separation from AoE abilities and single target i.e. don't use AoE unless you're fighting multiple enemies. Ricochet is the exception to that rule.

[@jeremy4510]

how did you simplify your job guage

[@jacobfreed5060]

Are you going to do Bard? I love your reviews but that one seems missing still. Im trying to decide between MCH and Brd currently and would like your thoughts.

[@iBluairJgR]

Eventually, yeah. I've been playing it a little bit on and off so I'll have it leveled up. . . soonish.

[@AlterRaigo]

Since Wildfire does not calculate damage percentage but just potency per WS used, does it make a difference if I use Reassemble + Drill for that sweet crit during the rotation or should I just cram in the 5 Heat Blasts?

[@iBluairJgR]

You can fit 5x heat blast + 1 more weaponskill into the wildfire window (in my experience). The damage done by the weaponskills doesn't matter but you'll always want to get at least 5x heat blast into the Wildfire.

[@AlterRaigo]

@@iBluairJgR Thanks for that! I was not sure if I had enough time to fit the Drill or Air Anchor since their animation is so long.

[@AlterRaigo]

@Deviant Oreo Yo dude, thanks for that! I totally forgot the Automaton Queen's punches and Roller Dash were considered WS's!!!

[@TheUruzai]

The Queen does not count twards WF, but you should use Queen with other raid CDs like Battle Litany, Battel voice, Trick attack and so on. The moast important thing is to get 5 heat blasts in every WF ;) In my experience the 6th hit is too slow to register in WF (I haven't done a propper test with ACT and FFlogs). WF is only like 3-4.5% of your overall damage (depending on the length of the encounter), so it's not that huge of a deal.

[@ashlynnsmith7842]

You're voice is adorable ♡ well spoken

[@iBluairJgR]

Adorable? I'll take it. Cheers.

[@tetris5maste]

Uh, does the opening title card say "Destiny 2 gameplay" or is that just me?

[@iBluairJgR]

It does. The type-o's strike again.

[@Pikachu-qr4yb]

Would you say I would enjoy MCH if I like NIN? The only reason I wanna skip on NIN for now is cause it's a BIT too clickey to me. MCH has a lot of buttons to press but even if it's slightly less I would be interested. Moreso, it's the cooldown lookouts for NIN that bother me rather than clicking too much

[@iBluairJgR]

I would say there's a good chance. Machinist does a lot of clicking but it doesn't require as much work. No mudras, burst phase is simpler. I personally still find MCH to be challenging to play optimally because of all the different things you have to watch but ninja is in a league of its own.

[@danielg7216]

Are you doing one on Summoner? I love your vids

[@sts1031]

How do your target the boss like that? Like the lock on

[@iBluairJgR]

Look in your keybinds under movement > lock camera to target

[@VitorAlvesNutri]

man just loving your reviews of the jobs, i´m thinking about leveling a machinist since i ike complex classes do you think is it worth it and fun?

[@iBluairJgR]

Thanks m8. Worth it? 100%. The damage output is great-especially once you master it. Fun? If you like almost always having a lot of actions to use and keep track of then you'll probably have a good time with MCH. It's also got a good mix of Big damage numbers (Drill, Air Anchor & Wildfire all do ~40k damage at their maximum) and smaller, fast hits (Hypercharge, Gauss Round / Ricochet). It also has a really nice progression from 30-80 now.

[@Scoreman7769]

My only complaint about machinist is that you can't choose where the turret is placed and it only last however many seconds

[@jiskool1]

Hm was wondering if I should get to 80 since I have it had 50. What’s your thoughts on Sam and mnk?

[@iBluairJgR]

My Samurai is level 73 right now and It's amazing to play. Challenging & complex but rewarding. I think Monk is a hot mess. Over the years, the developers haven't done a good job of evolving the class mechanics to create something cohesive. The core of gaining & maintaining greased lightning is fine but the skills they built around that core don't feel like an enjoyable part of the package. That's my general feeling on Sam and Mnk.

[@jiskool1]

iBluairJgR yea I started out with mnk but i left it for ninja before leaving ninja for Sam. But after getting Sam to 80, my heart isn’t into it anymore. Thinking of going back to ninja but so far none of the dps jobs have that grasp. Might just go back to drk

[@Ainastrasza]

I love Machinist now. I couldn't stand it in Stormblood.

[@iBluairJgR]

Nice. I didn't mind it so much in Stormblood (though there were certainly things wrong with it) but Heavensward was my least favorite time with it. Caster gunner was not the best look.

[@jslaughter95]

@@iBluairJgR eh, i didn't mind the gun mage aspect since you had ammo and rapid fire to negate it and learning how to do that properly was pretty fun, but stormblood's to me just felt like a shit ton of work for very little pay off, as well as the whole you have a bunch of shit to do once a minute................then you are kinda bored till WF phase comes back. Current MCH to me though feels SUPER engaging, and i wasn't super hot on the Queen at first but once you find the rhythm with her she's actually out quite a few times in a fight. My biggest problem however, and i realize this is incredibly minor and may sound silly, is the Heatblast animation. It feels way too long for what its there for and makes your character violently jerk back into place for Ricochet/Gauss Round animations. It just looks so freakin stupid

[@crimsonwizahd2358]

I didn't mind MCH all that much in Stormblood, but then again I was still leveling it by the time Shadowbringers rolled around. And while I ADORE the ShB MCH, I kinda miss the ammo skill animation, if only because I loved how that animation looked.

[@jslaughter95]

@@crimsonwizahd2358 the animation was cool but the mechanic as a whole was more interesting in heavensward since it allowed you to bipass the cast times we used to have

[@crimsonwizahd2358]

@@jslaughter95 Makes sense, though considering I only started the game in the latter days of Stormblood, I only really got a feel for Stormblood MCH. But, as I said before, I MUCH prefer the Shaowbringers version.

[@TobiStarGaming]

But when to flamethrower? Is it useless?

[@iBluairJgR]

Stay tuned for the overview and all shall be revealed >=)

[@DriedPersimon]

how do you get your camera to look like that with kb+M?

[@iBluairJgR]

Just lock the camera onto the target. For “lock camera to target”, it’s in keybinds under movement.

[@kurisu1204]

As a NIN Main i can't w8 to try the New MCH

[@iBluairJgR]

If you enjoy pressing buttons, MCH will definitely be fun for ya.

[@arxswartz9377]

5.0 MCH feels amazing and fun to play, I love it, however, my main two concerns as you mentioned are the Automaton Queen startup time that wastes like 5s of it's duration which is questionable, and the Gauss Round and Ricochet being latency dependant with Heat Blast, I've kind of mitigated it by using Heat Blast plus one Gauss Round then Heat Blast plus one Ricochet then just spam Heat Blast for the remaining duration, but it's clunky and it might not work for everyone.

[@iBluairJgR]

Yah. If those kinks get ironed out then MCH will be close to perfect

[@OhYeahNah]

I've got my mch to 60 and was kinda demotivated by the clipping and not getting the 5th heat blast in. I'll give your suggestion a try

[@sleepytaco2507]

Oh shit another person from my data centre

[@iBluairJgR]

Maybe we'll meet in an expert roulette some day ;p

[@Mexicavillebrandon]

Playing 5.0 MCH feels like playing DDR it awesome 👍

[@iBluairJgR]

But what song on DDR though?!

[@TheKingOfN0thing]

​@@iBluairJgRThe Legend of MAX

[@caveman3461]

I just didn't like the gun mage variant in 3.X so I avoided the Gause Barrel during that time since I wanted to keep mobility instead of sitting through cast times

[@iBluairJgR]

The gun mage was my least favorite version of MCH too.

[@distantworlds3308]

Are you going to be doing all of the jobs?

[@iBluairJgR]

Not all but a lot. I don't have a plan of a specific order.

[@ImJustPeter]

I'm new to FFXIV, how do you get your camera to go like that when you target someone?

[@Britmadny]

Dont play like that, you are handicaping yourself

[@ImJustPeter]

@@Britmadny How come? and even for open world? also how do you do it ?

[@iBluairJgR]

@Peter Gray Its done by locking the camera onto your current target. For “lock camera to target”, it’s in keybinds under movement. Play however you want.

[@No_Preservations]

so finally wanting to dip my toes in range dps im stuck between mch and bard. kinda want to do bard cause everyone and their mother is mch now. but mch seems more fun what do?!

[@lightdragoon88]

personal opinion: with Archer and get it to Bard, then get Machinst. Both will be at 30 and you can use the Wolf Den PvP controllers to get a small test of end game combos. From there level up whichever one felt more fun to use.

[@No_Preservations]

@@lightdragoon88 hell ya man thanks i never thought of that i have them both to 30 right now. thats one gripe about this game dont really feel how a class plays until youve invested them up to like lvl 60

[@lightdragoon88]

@@No_Preservations I know. Hopefully this helped pick a class.

[@elliott8338]

This might just be me but instead of using drill off of cd I use bio blaster and I use air anchor with reassemble cos same potency

[@iBluairJgR]

Bioblaster is significantly weaker against a single target than drill.

[@elliott8338]

@@iBluairJgR ye ur right i guess im just used to keeping dots up

[@seanfeezor4575]

Do a Mage class next please

[@martinezloves1]

I like double weaving gauss and ric after my reg gcd actions its finger bleading sometimes

[@iBluairJgR]

You're a legend.

[@xeakpress]

Its weird because latency was worse for MCH before A 6 GCD wf is way more damage then a 5 GCD amd if you couldnt get it you couldn't ve competitive for damage numbers And to the heatblast issue i cant find a loss for using just heat blasts during overheating unless the fight will end before you can dump the OGCDs

[@Runeknight101]

They just need to add another second or so to overheat and it would be less annoying.

[@ItsGameOva]

Better then before?that's a dumb ass question .of course it is!!!😍

[@iBluairJgR]

Indeed.

[@ek9750]

i really like the new machinist but i wish we could regenerate battery with our aoe gcd and an aoe version queen and turret woulve been nice and turrwts schould be able to move

[@iBluairJgR]

I didn't know an AOE Queen was something I needed. . . until now.

[@ek9750]

@@iBluairJgR maybe next expansion ☺

[@LunaProtege]

I feel like everything people are saying about the new Machinist compared to the old one is wrong. The Drill and Air Anchor fight for attention in the entire setup, and force you to dip out of your main combo, AND you're not guaranteed to have enough time when both are on cooldown to activate Wildcharge, Overheat, and do all the heat blasts. ... And one may call this complicated, but no; this isn't complicated, this is chaotic. There is no rhyme or reason to it. The old MCH had logical rotations, which required very little to make them work at their best. And I have no idea how on earth anyone could call it a Faceroll in any sense; it was neither one where pressing random buttons would be appropriate, nor one where it was so easy that the other meaning of that would make sense... It was a rotation where you used the tools available to reduce the apparent "Luck" required to almost zero. The New MCH is just a constant stream of "I have no idea what's going to be off cooldown next, let me check", followed by desperate frantic scrambling to use up whatever is available as fast as possible. You're NEVER in control of this class, its chaos incarnate... You CANNOT create a smooth rotation from this anymore, its impossible.

[@LunaProtege]

I just found a way to describe the new MCH systems in simple terms... Its glorified Whack-a-Mole.

[@Lunar_Crescentfall]

Pew pew!!!

[@lokishoi7382]

Does US really have that bad of an internet? I hear a lot of people complain about the 1.5s GCD but on the EU server, unless I mess up something on my end like using the hypercharge right after a GCD not giving it some time to refresh I never find myself unable to comfortably use all 5 hit weaving 1 oGCD inbetween each shot. And I don't have that great of a connection. MCH feels great to play now, everything flow very naturally and it feels really impactful with the tools. To me it's waaay better that dump everything you have in a 10 seconds window and go back to slowly rolling dice until your next wildfire is up again.

[@iBluairJgR]

In general, no-US internet isn't bad. I'm playing in the US on a UK server for the moment so most of the time, as soon as I matchmake into something, I can't do the Heatblast Weave without lag.

[@lokishoi7382]

@@iBluairJgR I can see that being a problem, I still remember having to memorize fights to be out of aoe before they even show up to avoid them back when we didn't have servers in EU. To be fair, more stuff should be handled client side to make things run more smoothly but it open the gate for more cheating.

[@iBluairJgR]

Yah, the potential for cheating is probably the reason for it. Overall, its not a huge issue, thankfully.

[@lewsee5562]

It's not that they're bad, it's because a lot of players are from East Coast while the server is in California (West Coast), coupled with weird routing shenanigans from their ISPs.

[@Pikachu-qr4yb]

No ones mentioning the chat cattyness at 3:52? lol

[@iBluairJgR]

Ha. I should probably start turning that off during my recording sessions. i don't usually pay attention to it.

[@jhonrock2386]

Which weapon is that? The AF one? It looks like a scoped M1903 Springfield (don't ask me why).

[@iBluairJgR]

The weapon is the AF, yes.

[@CineGoodog]

hypercharge is a nightmare to me. I have 100ms ping to the servers minimum and I cant do oGCDs between heat blasts.

[@iBluairJgR]

Even with decent ping (sometimes), i don't like to weave in between 1.5s GCD so I just spend the charges of GR & Ricochet before Hypercharge. It's not a huge loss.

[@lewsee5562]

I have the same ping as you but I can weave no problems. It's not that consistent though. Sometimes I have less than 80ms but I clip so hard I only get 4 heat blasts. What I did I just use all Ricochet and Gauss Round charges, go Hypercharge, spam Heat Blast and weave a couple of Ricochet/Gauss Round. The DPS loss is minimal so I'm not losing out that much.

[@katsu_the_edgehog]

Isn't it mentionable that machinist lost almost all of it's utility? I mean it has the new damage reduction skill but to be honest.. most tanks and healers have enough skills to mitigate damage to the party So for an optimal party there would be no machinist :o

[@iBluairJgR]

Hmm, yeah that is noteworthy. But Machinist does really nice DPS now so even without their old utility skills, they're valuable. Optimal party setup, sure, you can skip machinist. But most of the jobs in the game get skipped if you're only interested in optimal.

[@katsu_the_edgehog]

@@iBluairJgR True that^^ I just wanted to point it out machinist tho fits in the same catergory as BLM and SAM with it's classes highest dps and ofc it's viable to play

[@iBluairJgR]

Cheers man. MCH support slipped my mind when making the video. I did think their original support was cool but it didn't feel as impactful as their current DPS output.

[@katsu_the_edgehog]

@@iBluairJgR well higher numbers are always nice to watch with the eyes :p let's just see how every job will play in savage next week and what changes we might get ^-^

[@iBluairJgR]

Savage should be. . .interesting. I usually don't savage raid much-not because of lack of skill or desire, I just don't have a full raid team and I've never gotten along well with the FFXIV raid teams I've had over the years-but I'll definitely be following the discussions surrounding it and the fights.

[@Jinny-Wa]

This was my main class before 5.0. I returned when 5.2 hit and i'm really saddened to hear they ruined this class. I'm so tired of that spam spam spam, 1-69lvl is really boring. Auto-turret is ruined aswell and no aoe turret either. I'm GLAD i started leveling my arcanist to summoner because i love it 56lvl atm. I'm still planning to give it a chance after i get this frustration out of my mind

[@ek9750]

i think the new machinist is much better than the old one but after reaching level 80 it felt too repetetive and the automaton queen is very dissapointing in my opinion she is only a dot and all she does are those boring punches instead of aoe energy blasts and i think flamethrower could use a new mechanic to make the rotation feel less repetetive

[@oukn6293]

The class name should've been better, if not a ff fan it would almost sound like something else.

[@SeasideUmiko]

Johnjs the class name pays homage to the machinist class in Final Fantasy Tactics, which is pretty much the same thing except in Shadowbringers they gave it some abilities that reference Edgar’s Tools from FFVI

[@agidyne9676]

Yoshi P gave MCH a mini gun. Thank you Yoshi P!

[@iBluairJgR]

He's a legend.

[@Bryan26Hawaii]

Lol i just wanna point that if your using the rounds between heat blast your using it wrong. You pepper it in both rounds in your normal rotations. It fits perfectly, not missing out on your dps. Machinist is by far the best class. You can attack while your dodging aoe mechanics, keeping up or doing more damage than most jobs :D have blast guys ;)

[@jarrettath9636]

Sigh...i miss reload

[@iBluairJgR]

Me too.

[@Maverick512000]

Fast pace with constant button pressing? Sign me up! As a former Wow rogue player FF14s slower pace is driving me crazy.

[@iBluairJgR]

That's totally understandable. Machinist will probably be right up your alley. You might also enjoy ninja too. It gets crazy at the higher levels.