My Thoughts on Machinist So Far in Dawntrail

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[@smeagi1]

As a heads up, when Happy says Wild Charge he's referring to the Wildfire skill.

[@albiedo391]

Flamethrower still a limsa party skill 😂

[@CrimlyKoo]

I've said it once, I'll say it again; MCH is being balanced and adjusted each expansion by people who don't actually use the job. I don't know what capacity the combat team enjoys the game or what jobs they play, but it sure feels like they've never touched the job a day in their lives.

[@kakarrot5115]

First. I love the new update just wish they'd leave viper alone it doesn't need to be changed

[@Erivenn]

I've been a machinist main since Heavensward. I wasnt a huge fan of the rework but i still enjoyed it and i think now we're at a point where the new direction they're taking the job is thriving. I love it so far just hope they fix the weird aoe.

[@coloradostatesenatorsteven7443]

ABSOLUTELY FUMING, A BLOODY BARD AND DRAGOON OUT DPSING ME!!!!!!!!!!

[@Mrlaged]

Just admit it happy at heart you will always be a gunmage. That being said mch will always be my main even if its not meta, so i am very bias.

[@pocket5783]

As a Machinist player my only complain outside of the obvious AOE stuff has to be that Double Check and Checkmate are a bit too flashy and end up being distracting as hell during hypercharge windows

[@IchiExorz]

At this point I think they're purposefully keeping MCH aoe awkward af.

[@Kommodoak1]

At least based on FFLogs for the two EX Trials currently Machinist seems to be about even with Bard on average and is outperforming Dancer. The like 95th-99th percentiles are lower but like you say, Machinist is naturally low variance on these damage charts with several auto CritDH, a high damage DoT, no internal buffs to keep aligned, and no rDPS component. Not sure you need to be as concerned about the job's damage as you are - it's certainly looking a lot better than it did for most of Endwalker

[@Tyberes]

for Wildfire what I'd do is that I'd set it up so that if you hit with an AoE skill (Scattergun, Chainsaw, Excavator, Auto Crossbow) it spreads like a secondary bomb to other targets. Put wildfire on the big target, hit it with a bunch of Auto Crossbow shots (as a bonus this gives Auto Crossbow a unique role) and then watch a bunch of secondary explosions got off after a few seconds like "BOOBOBOBOBMOBBOM" generating both damage and serotonin.

[@oldmanfranks8191]

I'm just glad I'm leveling MCH through the MSQ so that way I don't have be even MORE sad when I get downsynced and lose Double Check and Checkmate's animations.

[@Spicynugz223]

I like your idea to make flamethrower ignite bio blaster along with auto crossbow reducing the cd of the OGCDS. I think having both would be a cool change, though it may take some time to know what to prioritize pressing first given all the AOE you received the past 2 expansions.

[@psyonicpanda]

I think part of why tools are fun is that their CDs are all over the place. This is kind of what makes BRD fun also with Empyreal Arrow being such a low CD. I think they should make more jobs have 2 OGCDs that have a 15 second CD and an 20 second CD or something where they float around your rotation.

[@mrdarkstar3756]

It was so amazing that a drill charge and chainsaw combo made the job feel even busier. I always had a sift spot for this job, and i love it.

[@SuperHexer123]

I've been a MCH main since StB and honestly it feels PHENOMENAL right now, with my main complaints being what you listed. Genuinely have no idea why they are keeping Auto Crossbow from refreshing skills as it would immediately allow MCH to work for both AoE and ST. Also Flamethrower still exists, I do not know WHY it still exists or why they think it's a good skill especially with it being the Stormblood capskill. Delete it or change it at this point please yoshi-p, I will keep saying that if you are going to change Flamethrower just turn it into a more potent Bio on a longer cooldown. This way at least MCh can apply a DoT during things like trials since you dont really use bio in single fights.

[@RockR277]

Here's a couple ideas I had responding to someone else's comment.

[@jameysotelo540]

Honestly started playing and actually learning mch last tier and ive been loving the heck out of it. The changes in dt at least for single target ive also very much enjoyed just sucks that it does less damage than dancer at this point in time but probably wont stop me from giving it a go

[@dminoffxiv4431]

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[@Draylin41]

My idea of how to fix queen is to not actually change what it does but just add a reflect ability to it. Like any time its in range of one of your aoes it just triggers a second aoe on top of it. Simple, fun way to get it to help you with large trash packs without having to change its single target function.