A Middle of the Road Guide for Machinist (FFXIV)

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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:38 - Selfish Job
1:01 - Something about the meta game
2:18 - The Machinist Condition
3:40 - Where to unlock
4:20 - The New Experience
5:37 - Self Promotion
6:09 - The Real Reason I played this job
6:37 - The Look
7:14 - Very Shallow Leveling Recommendations
8:19 - Some AOE
9:47 - An Opener
11:37 - Very Surreal Rotation
12:14 - The Battery
14:37 - Beat the Heat
17:22 - Wildfire
19:27 - All Together now
20:32 - GCD Jank
21:05 - Some Last Cooldowns
21:15 - Off Brand Utility
21:53 - Concluding Thoughts

[@WhitePilledSanctuary]

This deadpan humor is great. “Even if they miss a few GCD’s, this class still underperforms below them.”

[@slymcfly123]

He's so good

[@SuperMagicUnderwear]

Chair: **talks about Reassemble Drill** Video: **DRG backflips off E8N platform**

[@wsunlimited5000]

yeet

[@2Syndras1Cup]

classic

[@Seanana_]

lmfao just saw that.

[@kokayinewsome9308]

Why do people say dont use Reasemble with Bioblaster? Seems good to me when I do it.

[@SuperMagicUnderwear]

@@kokayinewsome9308 I'm not a MCH, but I think Reassemble doesn't affect the DoT?

[@egirlSkeletor]

This auto played while i was really high and was just incomprehensible

[@coolguy-qu2su]

14:21 "And At this stop here if you look close enough you may be able to catch a glimpse of what actually is the first Dragoon!"

[@SolPhantasmagoria]

14:25 A moment silence for our Dragoon Brothers.

[@Some2somewhere]

kinda fitting that the tech savy job is the one that require good ping. ture immersion there

[@trevorwalsh7196]

Exactly, if you can’t get your own internet working optimally how are you gonna use a giant mech and flamethrower ?

[@robertoneto3897]

@@trevorwalsh7196 what about good internet on a different country? FeelsBrazilianMan (Thankfully I found an -illegal- third party tool/plugin/program/injector that allows me to double-weave and play MCH without feeling like shit, in case any of you reading this wanna know more about it, it's called XivAlexander)

[@PeninatorSS]

But mechanic has an E, not an A

[@maddukex5717]

Thank you!! Came to post this exact thought!

[@din0chickennuggets]

the true bloodborne weapon is the cryptlurker manatrigger

[@KHMaster56]

As someone who's real life actual job is a machinist, a person who makes things on machines, that pronunciation is very painful

[@sabiantajbakhsh]

Maybe you should start making things on makeens instead.

[@powerfulsamuel1565]

do you actually play macheenest?

[@danm2084]

Its because hes heard of Deus Ex Machina and gets confused.

[@socklips7655]

Mockanest lol.

[@NoBrainah]

Machinery

[@TheQueenOfRedLions]

thank you for all your job guides to initiate my 30th crisis over which job(s) i want to main ❤️

[@RagnellAvalon]

last time I was this early I clipped my GCD and got locked out of casting for 2 seconds

[@TheDancingBastard]

Name checks out

[@hamptonwooster]

Also learned a lot of good tips I had no idea about, thanks for the quality vid king

[@thinkhiro4811]

Why does the way he say machinist trigger my inner wakka?

[@HayTatsuko]

"Gauze Round"

[@lexiconwaffle]

That DRG suicide at 14:25. xD

[@SlayPlenty]

Walk animation is the most painful and so true. Then you start sprint and you're rushing into battle like it's the edge of tomorrow..

[@NaitomeIya]

Picked up MCH because friend said it’s easier than BRD (BRD main here). Ended up having Gurren Lagann glamour because of Drill.

[@Zadamanim]

4:49 or just enter palace of the dead which starts you at level 60 from the checkpoint

[@timrift]

Thanks for the reminder to like the video thanks bro

[@nuvestrahl7555]

Nice guide! Just about covered everything and that's pretty rare these days!

[@thefailers2597]

14:22 just a random dragoon falling of the arena 😂😂😂

[@Joeyfield0]

can confirm: after heat blast, i can only press one of either gauss or ricochet before heat blast comes off recast. I only play the game for ricochet, drill and heated slug shot, because they look cool (only level 60 atm)

[@dinkumthinkum7763]

Love the content. The Algorithm will smile upon you one day : )

[@thismarxtheendforjoo2298]

I love Mock•uh•nist cause it’s like playing Cata era fire mage but with guns and way more style

[@TheGunz0001]

i love how dryly he just pronounce "maqeeness" and just rolled with it

[@bardvt4492]

I thought I was the only one trying to make a lady Maria cosplay but I’m doing it for red mage also thought flamethrower was a dot until I used the skill

[@turntapeover5749]

I think using Wildfire between shot 2 and 3 and THEN using hypercharge makes wildfire a lot smoother and a lot easier to land your 6 shots without clipping. Also I noticed if I used drill during wildfire sometimes made me lose a shot because the animation is a lot longer than combo shots and will make the game not register your last shot because of it....a bit like if you use your pets abilities too fast in succession on summoner or scholar and they'll skip one.

[@DaWoWzer]

These guides have been a god send, hope EW guides are planned

[@steweygrrr]

Makinist O Masheenist X This message has been brought to you by the Campaign To Add Quotation Marks To Automaton "Queen" So That People Know It's A Designation.

[@Mr0901]

"the only class that si borderline unplayable on bad ping" i mean I dropped ninja because sometimes mudras gets lagged and bunny'd

[@baliche]

The Mach part refers to machines, not the speed of sound

[@vlf345]

very true, you need really good ping to properly do the rotation properly and double weave, u get sore fingers from being so busy but rotation is braindead

[@RealRaslu]

The mechanic thing at the start was funnier than it should be. 10/10

[@ElfEnjoyer]

Thanks dad 🌟

[@GabeHighlander]

The "embarrass myself for your amusement" comment got my sub. Also nice guide I guess

[@KuruSeed]

* switches to mch * let's do this texas style

[@CptManboobs]

14:15 isn't the reason you delay Air Anchor in the opener by a GCD is so it lines up with Air Anchor?

[@altariarulaq848]

That's a really good tank at 11:37. >.>

[@sketch8077]

Commenting for the activity pogchump

[@markup6394]

Walking animations... you, my good sir, haven't see the red mage animation yet XD

[@NajxxTrebla]

Watching this from the future. AYO WE GOT 60 POTENCY AND A DMG NEUTRAL QUEEN NOW WOOHOO

[@Tehgreenz]

This guide helped me orange parse.

[@its_deer]

14:22 prime dragoon specimen

[@66maybe66]

Your pronunciation is real, it's just... a completely different word. "Machinist" comes from "machine". "Mechanist" comes from "mechanism". And the guy who repairs your car is a "mechanic", originally shorthand for "mechanical repair".

[@borisoldiernyc]

here's hoping he calls machine, a MaKeen

[@iaxacs3801]

Machinist is good for people like me who tunnel vision when a Job is "too exciting". Good example is I first played Ninja and I was on the floor more then a Dragoon and level 54 with not a single player commendation. Picked up Machinist and was able to learn things easier so that the only time I might tunnel vision now is when I'm in Hypercharge. Now in the middle of Heavensward patches I'm actually doing good DPS to the point I've ran into some instances of generating too much aggro when running with a new tank. In short it's a good class if you feel overwhelmed with all the stuff you have to manage with yourself and boss mechanics.

[@qixaqyx]

Just got my MCH to 71 in HoH last night. I was almost always the tank for the boss on floor 30. Only SAM and SMN seemed able to consistently out-damage me. But apparently I was generating more aggro than them due to ability speed. (Doesn't hurt that I was going into the battle with capped heat gauge so basically was able to get in 3 hypercharge phases in the 40 second fight)

[@madmulk9]

5:26 Man I remember when stormblood MCH was "you don't get to play the job right until you hit 70". It was a mess.

[@wallybook4154]

Thanks for making me feel shitty about the only class I was excited to play :(

[@isugar15]

Don't feel shitty about it at all. I've been playing it a ton (currently level 65 on it) and I absolutely love it. It doesn't get stale or boring for me at all I always feel great about how much dps I contribute. In my opinion it's a fantastic class so please dont be discouraged from checking it out!

[@slymcfly123]

This guy is so funny. He says what I think lmao

[@dagonkiikari816]

Man says karaoke live stream at 10K. I'm in.

[@callmeobsequious]

4:11 I can confirm that this actually happened to me

[@snowf6307]

What MCH revolver was that :O I like how simple it is

[@zeehero7280]

Really depends how much lag. I get occasional lag despite a normal steady 80 ping, but that's probably server based or someplace in between messing up.

[@_ExTitus]

mechanics and machine mechanist and machinist

[@miqotesoulia8620]

14:22 for a giggle or chuckle.

[@user-xl5kd6il6c]

14:22 Nice Jump

[@Marquisdbeast]

I miss the mch old bullet mechanic plus the two drones one for aoe and the other for single targets ugh 😩

[@kokayinewsome9308]

I weave gauss and ricochet into my 3 hit basic combo

[@lubo4350]

Ninja punishes bad internet as well. As much as machinist I would say. Have fun trick attacking or using raiton with high ping. You bunny more than half the time. Btw great video as always mister chair

[@Marine_Abithel]

Ninja after the 5.1 rework is one of the most ping friendly jobs in the game, It was the worst before that but not anymore cause mudras are on the gcd and there's no mandatory double weaves in their rotation at all.

[@halapenopepper]

You no longer have to weave Ninjutsu since they're GCDs now, ping is almost a non-issue on ninja since 5.1

[@theresapebbleinmyboot]

My captions here said "mockiness" and I died 💀

[@unixtreme]

It's the only job in the game that cannot be played on bad internet. Because it runs on wow's GCD, lul. Not shitting on FFXIV but the only real annoying thing I found after moving from wow is that servers are just worse. Server ticks are longer, and I literally live in Japan with great internet connection to the servers next door, so it's a clear case of bad netcode.

[@nichow13]

hotbars are so different from player to player, how do you even work the basic 3 skill combos with Q E cE??

[@lastnamefirstname6949]

Mines Q E R

[@mareczek00713]

A mechanic handles mechanical devices. A machinist handles machines. It is pronounced "mashinist" Thanks you for coming to my Ted Talk.

[@hamptonwooster]

The Mechanic joke killed me

[@deltinum]

6:15 nice

[@Chibi34]

Ma-sheen-ist is the correct way to say it lol. Not sure how ppl come to think it’s pronounce mach-in-ist. It’s like what my brother does for work. He is a CNC ma-sheen-ist. A ma-can-ik repairs stuff. A ma-sheen-ist uses machines to build and or create stuff.

[@souldanny.]

14:23 Just wanted to add this timestamp

[@ozy83100]

Yes... washing Mach-ine

[@raechu_01210]

Why is chair's demand to hit the like button the only one that works on me

[@pole8740]

does he read machine as ma keen???

[@Bhalforii]

4:58 Dude, thats was real messy

[@strikingdummy8001]

You didn’t mention how not to drop your combo when using drill/air anchor and hypercharge

[@scoobiusmaximus9508]

You can do an entire hypercharge between hits of your combo if you don't put anything else in there. If you want to hypercharge during a combo you will have to delay Drill and Air Anchor if they come up, or you will break the combo.

[@Ntwolf1220]

@@scoobiusmaximus9508 is this something they removed recently because all the way from 30-80 neither hot shot, drill or air anchor interrupted my combo. I think only the spammable aoe interrupts the 1 2 3

[@scoobiusmaximus9508]

@@Ntwolf1220 i was saying of you Hypercharge in between hits of a combo you can't put Drill or Air Anchor in because Hypercharge is 5 gcds. You can get 5 gcds in between a combo breaking but not 6. So if you hypercharge during a combo and drill or air anchor come up you will either have to delay that, lose a Heat Blast, or break the combo.

[@Ntwolf1220]

@@scoobiusmaximus9508 oh okay that makes more sense

[@MrWader76]

How have I never heard of you before? KZbin algorithm can eat paint!

[@vlf345]

i call it mark-in-ist as well

[@laustin07]

Everyone see that dragoon at 14:25 :D

[@wollyram6248]

Machinist, the American job, it has guns, drones, napalm and neuro toxins, FREEEEEEDOM! Snazzy hat tho.

[@whengrlstelephonebys9797]

I’d say Dragoon has the weirdest walking animation, it looks so stiff and awkward

[@SuperMagicUnderwear]

Book nerds are pretty awkward, too, but the Lalafell version looks actually okay.

[@SILVERONIN]

I hate dragoon walking animation with the weapon but it's sprint is awesome

[@htspencer9084]

See I'd pronounce it different still, like this: mack-in-ist

[@SwashBuccaneer]

Deus Ex Machinist

[@kugelschreiber5678]

D-did that NIN just.... use doton on the booba queen... mid fight? at 14:04? D: oh no lmao

[@J2982able]

"But you just bring guns." Ahh, you're American I see.

[@johnnyveng4014]

It's mech-anic, not mach-anic, that works on cars.

[@allie269]

where does automaton queen rank on the waifu tier list

[@bsgaming8864]

top tier that's why she is the queen

[@SILVERONIN]

Top along with Hilda

[@kokayinewsome9308]

I don't get it. When will the get rid of the lunch box and give us drones or a hi tech watch?

[@nickydee584]

does he call machines mackeens?

[@TheOrpheus1999]

We used to have party utility...

[@DekkarJr]

My ping to the North American data center is 80-85 :3 is that good enough :3

[@bellamango6708]

*stephanivien, that low cut top bro...

[@TomGeorgin]

14:22 Witnessed

[@shaun4676]

I love that the video still has that one dislike ;D

[@AwkwardBird]

Something something something.

[@snaipd2582]

Only borderline unplayable class on bad ping? Please have you ever hard casting on red mage because your dualcast procced too late due to ping, now that's pain

[@InfinitusMG]

_"When you go to get your car fixed I hope you aren't hiring a machine-ic."_ I mean, you're not hiring a mock-anic either, so that's kind of a moot point. Ideally the job would be pronounced "Mech-an-ist" like "mechanism", which would be way cooler, but they missed that opportunity.

[@kfourit]

If I'm not mistaken, the flamethrower hits every 3 seconds, which is the server tick. Not every second

[@nuvestrahl7555]

You are indeed mistaken. It ticks every second for a total of 11 ticks based on when it's cast. It is not a DoT effect operating on the 3 second actor tick timers, but a unique ground AoE implementation.

[@kyuketsuki5736]

But yeah machinist, is really bad for bad pings, the skill queuing tough, but guns. The physical range archetype is a lot of fun though, full movement with full damage.

[@akirachisaka9997]

I know I'm a bit captain obvious here. But of course I don't hire a "Machinic", I hire a "Mechanic". However you are pronouncing it as "Mechanist"... which is actually a thing from Fallout... TIL. Side note, "Machinic" is also a word lol, something something "Of or relating to machines".

[@aryssobral]

Well i have 220ping but still machinist

[@tsumetai3440]

im a simple man, i saw bloodborne, I click

[@jfalk6500]

0:36 estinien can get it

[@magboboterski]

YES. HILDA IS HOT. THATS WHY IM PLAYING MACHKEENIST NOW

[@zelianaveleti1679]

I feel the class needs a bit more intricacy. The pet autodestruct should be player-triggered, not automatic, and they should bring back ammunition for the 1-2-3 combo.

[@pancakeforge]

18:05 *ZA WARUDO*