Machinist Main who's bad at consistently doing a full 6/6 wildfire here. I'm a fan of the changes for the class. It probably could use a minor potency buff to help it keep up in DPS since it's supposed to be the selfish ranged class but otherwise, I'm pretty happy with how the class is atm. Having Full Metal Field and Excavator make it easier to do my 2 minute burst since I don't have to worry about having any other big buttons ready when wildfire comes off cd, don't have to deal with drifting gcds as much which is nice. I do still want a defib melee ranged res skill if only because I find the idea funny. Also please figure out what to do with flamethrower, Square! It feels like such a pointless skill atm. Give it some synergy with Bioblaster or Auto-Crossbow or something.
@Larryzaur2 ай бұрын
5/6 wildfire gang :D Oh man I'd LOVE a defib res, it's perfect thematically for MCH!
@crowofrevelry2 ай бұрын
Turn flamethrower into a big ol' fireball-spitter that generates more Heat so you can Autocrossbow more.
@tyrior42942 ай бұрын
Maybe make the queen use flamethrower for aoe, or make flamethrower usable when heat gauge reach 100.
@jacobybarra9072 ай бұрын
@@crowofrevelry Before Shadowbringers Flamethrower actually USED to build up heat gauge! I was a wee sprout still in Heavenward at the time, but I read up on level 70 MCH and I was SO confused by it XD
@rjc5232 ай бұрын
defib melee ranged res skill?
@austinblades89032 ай бұрын
one thing i love about machinist from a lore perspective is that our job stone is virginal, meaning were the first person to hold it. theres no ancient knowledge from previous masters helping us learn how to be a machinist. meaning post level 70 all our new gadgets and techniques are invented entirely by the WoL. plus all the little flips and stuff we do while firing is entirely just the WoL being extra.
@xiphosura4132 ай бұрын
I saw somewhere that it's suggested since we picked it up in Ishgard the flips n shit are inspired by dragoons, which I like the idea of!
@prettycutegirl51672 ай бұрын
@@xiphosura413 That's genius!
@ekian1112 ай бұрын
I also like the idea that the WoL is taking ideas from all over the place to advance the profession, like taking Mustadio's sniper attack as the PvP LB.
@SolotheHawk2 ай бұрын
What is happening?? So many new videos. I feel like I've crossed into a dimension where he never stopped XIV content or something.
@kyotheman692 ай бұрын
when he was active in FF14 he still took awhile on videos lol
@wakazimaru2 ай бұрын
Dawntrail contents are so good it brought people back. My friends who never tried EX and Savage are actually trying them because the normal mode itself is fun.
@vasilias79872 ай бұрын
The world is healing, fkin finally
@affielyx2 ай бұрын
@@wakazimaruagreed, also every expansion is where friends are back together to play 🎉
@v77z2 ай бұрын
He has something to advertise: his game. ;)
@Gryphon132 ай бұрын
Full Metal Field is just Glock Morn.
@DoortoTwilight7772 ай бұрын
“… that I just triple weaved.” He’s just like me frfr!
@iaxacs38012 ай бұрын
Some say there are MCH mains out there that can learn this forbidden art without clipping GCDs
@CleopatraKing2 ай бұрын
He's still got that SHB smn muscle memory
@iszac75232 ай бұрын
"summoner to Machinist pipeline" took me out back and beat me lmao
@CleopatraKing2 ай бұрын
Ye lmao I personally went to BLM after ew msq
@arthurreitz95402 ай бұрын
Yep that's me
@dff80882 ай бұрын
Why are summoners switching to machinist? Asking as a former summoner main who switched to machinist.
@edwardking9359Ай бұрын
@@dff8088 fed up with cast timers
@DefensiveBalloons25 күн бұрын
My main Magical Dps was always Summoner and my Physical Dps is Machinist. But after playing for long enough throught this expansion, Summoner really feels like a less fun Machinist. So I decided to try Red Mage, oh boy I have no regrets. It feels different from Machinist, it have insane support with that insta Rez and actually feels like playing a Magical Dps. Overall I made a great choice switching to Red Mage...now my mains are Paladin, White Mage, Monk, Machinist and Red Mage. All of them feel quite different from one another.
@mannydani91802 ай бұрын
"I like the defensive utility Machinist has" Dude, every time I'm playing with my friends on VC and I use dismantle, I ALWAYS, and I do mean ALWAYS, say "Lemme throw a wrench in their plans"
@ranmazokuable2 ай бұрын
You know its a Larry vid when theres at least a SMN mention, even if its a stray bullet against them LOL
@melissagodwin15942 ай бұрын
FACTS. Giving himself side eye. 😂
@Jazzjecht2 ай бұрын
The fact autocrossbow does not recharge checkmate/Double Check is insane. (also reassemble does nothing for bioblaster. Use it for Scattershot/chainsaw) I do believe they need to up the MCH dps, as it is a selfish dps. And for people saying "Its not selfish you have wrench" I'ma throw the wrench at you like a dodgeball.
@elixir4782 ай бұрын
It's not 100% selfish compared to the other selfish dps but also compared to dancer and bard it should do more damage to make up for the insane difference in buffs and mits
@Shadow.Darkraven2 ай бұрын
no raid utilities, does my wrench mean nothing to you?! WOE DISMANTLE BE UPON YE
@Electric0eye2 ай бұрын
Look I'm no hardcore raider but 15% party damage taken reduction and 10% boss damage reduction surely has to count for SOME utility???
@Zoltri2 ай бұрын
@@Electric0eye pretty sure its just a meme, Defensively, their utility is interchangeable with the other Phys range, and the offensive utility is balanced off by Mch just doing more damage. Personal damage doesn't mean anything in this game, from an overall perspective, the damage profile of all three jobs is like, a 2% overall difference, so it really doesn't matter. The only thing you can really point at is Esuna on Bard, but Dancer also doesn't have it, and with the general fight design philosophy, it'll never be required, its just a nice tool to have to be a good guy and help the healers out so they don't lose a GCD. I've seen posts of people trying to push for rejecting Mch spots in PF groups, and its just... really silly. I really dont understand why people have such an issue with the job, because the outcome is literally the exact same, they just don't make other peoples numbers higher, which doesn't even matter for parsing since buffs provided are reduced from your overall damage anyways, so logs try to avoid the idea of a parsing group influencing outcomes as much as possible. Its impossible to get it perfect, and at the super, super, super high end, it matters, but for 99.99% of players, it literally won't make any difference.
@clairhibiki2 ай бұрын
@@Zoltri curing waltz replaces esuna and improvised dance god tier for downtime.. dnc has it all
@omegaxtrigun2 ай бұрын
@@ZoltriPeople are just way too obsessed with where their job ranks on fflogs. Everyone wants to be at/near the top when thats literally impossible. Like omg mch is in the bottom half! Ya and the difference between mch and the top is like 5% or something like that. It’s not behind. It’s just lower by an amount that’s not a problem at all.
@ShikiRyougi052 ай бұрын
Have we EVER gotten this many Larryzaur vids in this short of a time span!?
@NeFlorence2 ай бұрын
The real Machinist Dilemma is wanting to play such a cool job but unable to make the ugly lunch box that don’t match any of my glamours invisible
@shiryushini73212 ай бұрын
You can... with illegal stuff 👀
@edin49122 ай бұрын
@@shiryushini7321 its so pointless though.. yeah its great that it doesnt show for me but i dont want others to see it either :((
@azteriot2 ай бұрын
One day over the rainbow, we might get similar treatment to PCT's paint palette with our clanky lunchbox.... Doubt that the older weapons will get it though. Still love the tactical bento for steampunk aesthetic.
@bellamango67082 ай бұрын
it makes no sense cause even the card sleeve matches weapons on ast!!!!
@azteriot2 ай бұрын
@@bellamango6708 Come to think about it, you're right, a lot of guns are not so-victorian steampunk but it all shares the selfsame metallic lunchbox but at least AST got different colored card sleeve LOL oh my god...
@treedude42462 ай бұрын
I kinda miss the old richochet and gauss. It went very hard But the shift from "dude with gun" too "tech inventor dude" rules
@corigamble56522 ай бұрын
GIVE. MACHINIST. A. GUNDAM.
@Jeezes7182 ай бұрын
Or, at the very least, Wing Zero's buster rifle.
@bluetell12 ай бұрын
I second that.
@Electric0eye2 ай бұрын
Look all I'm saying is give MCH their own reawaken at lv110, except instead of going super Saiyan for 4 moves they get to ride inside automaton queen mk2!!
@snowdrifter61872 ай бұрын
110 outta be an install with the queen
@NanoElite6662 ай бұрын
Well we have a Heavyarms button now, so maybe we'll get the rest of the mobile suit sometime in the future.
@queenmika60492 ай бұрын
As a WAR -> SMN -> MCH main.....truth. every bit. Except the part about overcapping drill by accident, nope, I'd never do that...
@Larryzaur2 ай бұрын
yeah, never :) me either
@autisonm2 ай бұрын
For me it was ShB version SMN -> ShB SAM -> literally everything else after 6.0
@Sllandre2 ай бұрын
For me it was SB SMN > DNC > now both DNC and MCH.
@Killinshots2 ай бұрын
to be fair, MCH has dismantle which just makes the boss deal 10% less damage, and it has a funny "dink" sound effect
@iaxacs38012 ай бұрын
Which is awesome since it means you aren't minimizing usage when stacked with Tactitian and similar mitigation tools. It does fight with Feint but who uses Feint
@cold_ay_2 ай бұрын
@@iaxacs3801It’s the same diminishing returns as any other party mit, since everything stacks multiplicatively. It just doesn’t interfere with the other phys ranged mits (troub/samba) specifically.
@WMFawn2 ай бұрын
Woe, wrench be upon ye
@Professor_Utonium_2 ай бұрын
@@iaxacs3801everyone in Savage uses Feint, my dude lol
@OsakaLover2 ай бұрын
Ratchet from Ratchet and Clank always proved that throwing your wrench is fantastic too! WOE, WRENCH BE UPON YE!
@KurodoDragon2 ай бұрын
All robots are queens? IF SHE BEEPS, SHE'S A BOT!
@StormhawkeRose2 ай бұрын
I still like the idea of giving them defibrillator and letting them have a raise ability.
@zeening2 ай бұрын
especially if we're going to be BELOW FUCKING BARD ON FFLOGS
@Anbob6582 ай бұрын
"Reassemble is MCH Kaiten please don't take it away square" You're so real for this Larry
@diamondmagus2 ай бұрын
I've mained Machinist ever since they removed the cast bars and really started leaning into the whole Edgar cosplay. I love it for the freedom while learning new content. Watch me run all around the boss lair, so much room for activities! Plus it was unique among our companion NPCs.
@boobah56432 ай бұрын
You sometimes see some gunners, but not really anybody else with the magic lunchbox. It's one of the nifty things about summoner, too, although like mechanist you do see some other summoners in the job quest lines.
@VentrexTheXVth2 ай бұрын
You got me wanting to list them. Dark Knight, Warrior, White Mage, Viper, Bard, Dancer, and Summoner. Excluding job quests and side characters I think that covers it.
@TheOptimistDelusion2 ай бұрын
@@VentrexTheXVthGosetsu becomes a white mage (or eastern conjurer?) after quitting the samurai life :3
@VentrexTheXVth2 ай бұрын
@@TheOptimistDelusion Y'Shtola too now that I think of it she can use both White and Black magic
@Slythistle2 ай бұрын
@@VentrexTheXVth G'raha is WHM for his healer option. And, well, this expansion there was a warrior in every Duty Support. XD
@universalsinewave75592 ай бұрын
Flamethrower needs a burn dot.
@universalsinewave75592 ай бұрын
Or enhance the damage of Flamethrower.
@Geekezf2 ай бұрын
Machinist: -Cool weapons ? Check -Cool outfits? Check -Fun job? Check. -Cool looking skills ? Check. (Blasting a big shotgun is BADASS to only name one of them). Utility in raid? None. Damage? Too low. Square, you know what you must do.
@JustShimothy2 ай бұрын
I've mained machinist since stormblood and have loved the level 100 version, there's so much more flexibility than in level 90 content being able to save drills for burst windows and only stress about keeping air anchor and chainsaw on cooldown, its so good right now, just needs major buffs honestly.
@JustShimothy2 ай бұрын
Gun for life
@alchemi80852 ай бұрын
MCH is my favorite class. What other class can you throw a wrench at existential threats? Three things would make it perfect: 1. Wildfire crit and AOE (it's an explooosion). 2. Queen AOE. 3. Autocrossbow generates heat. Flamethrower is already balanced because it's the best emote in the game.
@Larryzaur2 ай бұрын
true, I do use flamethrower as mostly just an emote
@thed4rknss6732 ай бұрын
@@Larryzaur wait, is not a emote?
@derpzone74252 ай бұрын
flamethrower generating heat would make sense, id much prefer that to actually make it usable but autocrossbow generating heat I think would be weird.
@alchemi80852 ай бұрын
@@derpzone7425 Yeah it would. Honestly forgot about it because I never use it haha.
@JetBalrog2 ай бұрын
@@derpzone7425 Y'know I've realized that they could make it a big ol' flame blast that generates a large chunk of heat instead of the uh....... nothing it currently feels like it does. There's like next to no opportunity to actually use it for literally anything with how many cooldowns we have anymore- you're better off just using a GCD while waiting for something instead of it ._.
@voxinsox64502 ай бұрын
Larry: "I like to help when things are going to shit,...,[because i'm the cause of it]."
@Larryzaur2 ай бұрын
NOOO CMONNN MY SECRET
@vineveer43582 ай бұрын
Lary, your machinest glamour is fantastic. Actually accents the lunchbox well. I'll let everyone else try to figure out if I'm talking about the outfit with, or without the chipmunk head.
@striderincident2 ай бұрын
Autocrossbow, and then I autocrossbow, maybe a little autocrossbow to spice the pull up, oh and look another autocro-
@MrCDM62 ай бұрын
No don't tell them about flamethrower being our secret snack break
@IKMcGweeАй бұрын
Legit, Everytime I flamethrower I either drink or snack
@Sarixis2 ай бұрын
Maybe I'm crazy, but I thought even after Shadowbringers Yoshi-P has referred to phys ranged as the "support" role in quite a few interviews, yet MCH has no utility outside 2 forms of mitigation. If that's true and they plan to keep MCH's DPS so low, maybe they should add some more utility since it fits with their use of gadgets anyway?
@xL0stKIlah2 ай бұрын
Game just lacks depth. Anything complex would break it
@Sarixis2 ай бұрын
@@xL0stKIlah I mean that is true too, and the super binary nature of combat really only caring about damage output doesn't help with that.
@ReksNuadiah2 ай бұрын
I love MCH because it still feels damn good to play I would love it if MCH did more damage than the other two phys ranged Squeenix *actually why.* Edit; Gundam lovers AND FF6 fans. My mom always named Edgar after me, so seeing all the tools has that special place for me and I feel giddy every time I use them
@JetBalrog2 ай бұрын
Especially when it has the least party support :')
@pyro51592 ай бұрын
@JetBalrog same with blm doing barely any more damage than rdm and smn...with no utility and way harder to optimize...why
@alexmaganda58272 ай бұрын
it is crazy how my dnc dps is just slightly worse then my mch dps its silly
@hideharu-xiii88522 ай бұрын
Wait does freaking Bard do more?
@Larryzaur2 ай бұрын
Why is dilemna spelled dilemma?
@itsyaboymarcelluswallace2 ай бұрын
Reassemble drill
@3xodus2 ай бұрын
Limna balls
@ReksNuadiah2 ай бұрын
Not anymore 'cause you can Reassemble both Chainsaw and Excavator
@ketsuekikumori91452 ай бұрын
Only you can answer that.
@Guurzak2 ай бұрын
What even is the dilemma, though?
@Atamusk2 ай бұрын
Have autocrossbow refresh OGCD's, because honestly that feels like an oversight, reduced AOE to Air Anchor for consistency, and add extra damage to Flamethrower while Bioblaster DOT is active, and that'll do 'er
@christianpazzas2 ай бұрын
Larry weaving in new vids left and right....or forward and back. Don't lose the squirrel mask ever.
@Cerorororo2 ай бұрын
Went from Summoner to Ninja and got the good chemicals from it. Now I'm very tempted to play Machinist too. I love me my piano/fast paced jobs.
@reykas_2 ай бұрын
Mch is my fav job, so seeing it so low hurtssss 😭 I still do okay (usually top dps unless there’s a picto) because I’m very experienced, but man… Knowing that I don’t make up for the lack of team buffs with damage makes me 😔
@xuto26932 ай бұрын
LZ - "Job is fun" SE - "Good enough, job fixed"
@pixiesnakes4293Ай бұрын
Ah, Machinist. The "I have no idea what I'm doing but somehow everything is fine" job
@Prim4Veras2 ай бұрын
No no the SMN to MCH pipeline is real because it happened to me when I wanted a class that felt and looked cooler than SMN (Don’t blame me, I was just starting Heavensward..) and MCH descended from the Skysteel Factory to bestow me with a gun. I still love it after I finished Dawn Trail and was really excited for EVEN MORE GUN in its kit
@thereal_chris_2632 ай бұрын
THANK YOU LARRY FOR TALKING ABOUT GEARING ISSUE
@BiggsBarrelOfBuffoonery2 ай бұрын
Air anchor could have a little 15y group up mechanic, like it just pulls everything in for your bio blaster or other small range AOEs to be a little more useful
@tyler50132 ай бұрын
It would be cool if they made the flamethrower do extra damage to targets affected by bioblaster since they are both for are anyways and it would act as a buff for both tools
@m.a.dmatt66892 ай бұрын
At this point we might as well be using Pandora from devil may cry 4 with all the weapons we are pulling out lol
@Tiglath-Pileser32 ай бұрын
MCH is great because you throw a wrench at a cosmic horror that wants to wipe out all life, and it is like "Did lunchbox bro just throw a wrench at me?" and it is so distracted that it does less damage.
@TheImaggine2 ай бұрын
the problem with machinist is..... THEY DONT LET YOU DUAL PISTOL TRIGGER HAPPY!!!!!
@zirilan33982 ай бұрын
QoL stuff for MCH: Airanchor->aoe Autocrossbow->give recharges like the single target Wildfire->aoe Flamethrower-> while the Bioblaster-dot is on the target the damage of flamethrower is doubled Queen->aoe
@iaxacs38012 ай бұрын
How does MCH PVP have better AOE cause most of this list is literally in PVP MCH. My only suggestion difference is Flamethrower is reworked to a placeable Flame Turret sharing resources with Queen so you have to decide which you need
@leonardoprado22202 ай бұрын
@@iaxacs3801 That's a really good idea!
@ValbrandrLeonhardt2 ай бұрын
@@iaxacs3801just give me the pvp LB as a normal skill in pve. The sniper is so cool
@Gamemaster-642 ай бұрын
Add to this, separate spread shot and scattergun for a 1-2.
@AmellsGrace2 ай бұрын
"Thats just numbers. We can fix them" Larry I think I read a romance novel with that same plotline.
@Emperor_Couscous2 ай бұрын
I'd have loved to see flamethrower turned into a flame turret aoe battery spender that acts exactly how it does now, except on a placeable turret
@MrFoundryguy2 ай бұрын
I loved Machinist's Overcharge for the 'slow to fast/Dragon Install' burst style. I love slapping buttons and going super quick. Unfortunately, Queen just feels like a very, very hollow summon attack, and I have had an on-again-off-again relationship with Wildfire as a concept for the job over the years since I started in SB. I'm currently having the time of my life since we now have two melees that have an install-style burst in Viper and Reaper that just ran in and yoinked everything I loved from Machinist and gave you charges on their tool equivalents way earlier than MCH gets them. It's really odd that you don't get charges on Drill right when you get it, but I guess they don't want Thordan or Shinryu parties just shooting two drills into the guys face the second the pull timer ends.
@arthurreitz95402 ай бұрын
I like it better now that we generate even more charge, I really feel like I'm in charge of summoning her, so it feels less hollow
@Demilak2 ай бұрын
"I went to school for electrical engineering. I didn't graduate, but I did some calculus and stuff!" You're not the only one! I'm in the same boat!
@xeno9422 ай бұрын
Liking the 100 MCH (in single target anyway) My wishlist: 1. Let wildfire crit/dh, and give it aoe damage 2. Queen aoe damage 3. Auto crossbow should refresh ogcds 4. Make flamethrower a normal gcd, let it combo with bioblaster to set the gas on fire and do more damage. Give it enough potency that it's worth using in single target, so you have to have a drill charge for bio blaster every minute too. This would give you a bit more variety every minute. Also should probably generate heat. 5. Buff ranged and caster dps across the board! (Not you picto)
@frozentranscended2 ай бұрын
The fmf buff from 7.05 goes crazy seeing 150k direct crit feels good
@Brahmsonite2 ай бұрын
The way you laughed at "blast" was everything. Never change, Larryzaur.
@VideoHostSite2 ай бұрын
I really cannot remember the last time I saw a Machinist in a Dungeon or Raid.
@KZorander2 ай бұрын
As a healer, I'll tell you that they're in the raid, but they're flipping around like crackheads JUST outside of my healing range.
@thrashinuva2 ай бұрын
Okay but just increase the potency of Flamethrower so I can actually use it
@Scerttle2 ай бұрын
2:25 I've been called out as part of this pipeline.
@Scerttle2 ай бұрын
10:10 Ah yes, the continuation of the end-game gearing BS into DT. I swear everyone I get into the game is like "Why would I do that?" when I explain how end game gearing goes lmfao
@krausier2 ай бұрын
I'm so happy to see you making videos again, bud. Keep up the good work.
@Sammysnows2 ай бұрын
5 videos in 1 months ? the legend has returned ?
@blackh9604Ай бұрын
The way Larry moves the camera around his character as he talks is so fun to watch lmaoo
@scullzomben2 ай бұрын
Lol YoshiP flat out said "NO" to even raising the tomestone cap that hasn't been touched since mid ARR. Aint no chance we are going to be gearing 2 jobs. Lock in what you want to play in the 7.11 ult at 7.05 and pray.
@Dharengo2 ай бұрын
Why do people care so much about being BiS on all jobs on day one? The game isn't hard.
@Toastbr0t13372 ай бұрын
@@Dharengothats not what they said? they said you have to lock in one job to gear for the upcoming ultimate, which sucks because its restrictive. and if you knew anything about ultimates at all its that going in with anything but bis on patch is trolling
@Dharengo2 ай бұрын
@@Toastbr0t1337 Who said anything about ultimate? Also that's all the way in 7.1. And why would you bring two jobs into ultimate at the same time?
@Toastbr0t13372 ай бұрын
@@Dharengo the ... person you replied to? you bring two jobs for flexibility because nerfs and buffs happen, certain comps will be better or worse
@Dharengo2 ай бұрын
@@Toastbr0t1337 Of all the reasons you could have cited you go for the unhealthy one?
@moonlitxangel57712 ай бұрын
What you said at the end about not being able to have multiple mains is literally my biggest gripe with this game lol I love so many jobs and I'd love to play them all in endgame content but it's hard. Especially with how costly crafted gear is. And by the time it's a somewhat reasonable price, people have mostly moved on from the endgame content. It's a big reason I've started to level my crafters/gatherers cuz then I can just make my own crafted gear.
@tj_chaosangel2 ай бұрын
Played machinist since HW, and have been maining it in ShB, EW, and DT. It's always the class I come back to, simply because it's been so fun to play! Even in the "gun-mage" days, lol. Do still miss the dot, Lead Shot, and the old turret placement tho. But still, it's fun and I love it to bits! ^^ Also seeing that old HW footage, wow, what a flashback! XD
@Balkzardan2 ай бұрын
for the gearing issue, why doesn't square just make it so you can double your weekly tomestone cap, with the restriction that you can only get one piece of gear for each type of job, it's not perfect, and some would just use it to get the chest/legs early for the higher gear, but it also allows for the freedom to split up your tomestones and gear two jobs at once, and then, just like with raid tiers, when the raid and tome cap restrictions fall off, so does the gear purchase limits.
@BubblingkettIe2 ай бұрын
The balance I've found is to run dungeons with SMN and raids/trails with MCH. Downtime between pulls means you can burn through summons quickly which feels fun (same on hunt trains) where as single target with MCH feels amazing firing guaranteed direct critical hits.
@justanothersonata2 ай бұрын
As a summoner main since 2013 who also adores machinist and has it as my second main, the summoner to machinist pipeline is indeed REAL!
@redgeoblaze37522 ай бұрын
I've actually noticed a lot more Machinists in Party finder for this Savage raid tier.
@LolJuggerNuts2 ай бұрын
It’s super consistent damage provided your mch can press their buttons, as opposed to bard and dancer which a lot of their damage contribution relies on your party doing their rotation/burst correctly and not dying
@daxindal85022 ай бұрын
I like the idea of Machinist being the 'defensive utility' opposed to Dancer being single target damage support and Bard being AOE damage support. It just needs to have higher personal damage and maybe one more party mitigation skill.
@MunkeeGamer2 ай бұрын
I missed you so much man 😅 so glad to hear your relatable commentary. I am the SMN to MCH pipeline too 😂
@PendragonMusicOfficial2 ай бұрын
I'm glad the best FF content creator is making vids again
@HiImFox2 ай бұрын
damn yknow when Larry talks about fflogs in videos the balance is fucked LMAO
@kilonovaaaa2 ай бұрын
A man of culture, I see. I'm completely obsessed with that class and IDC about its lower damage threshold. Bless. I ALSO REALLY REALLY REALLY LIKE ROBOTS. REALLY. REALLY LIKE ROBOTS.
@RyuuHawke2 ай бұрын
They could make it spending tome/token give u credit to buy the equivalent item for another job either first purchases, the first few weeks or always!
@baystorm942 ай бұрын
Glad to see you posting again Larry, you are the reason for me to spend half a year of my life in this game.
@Daniel-qt5ib2 ай бұрын
On that note of gearing multiple jobs - all I want is a tome discount system, wherein if you buy a helmet with tomes then all other helmets of that gear set are like 50% off. After your first set of gear, any other set you want comes a lot faster.
@DisturbedM862 ай бұрын
I've been meaning to check if flameflower has any use what so ever for a few months now. Glad you answered that for me. 👍
@Larryzaur2 ай бұрын
It's a weird one, technically it IS a gain with enough enemies when otherwise you'd be doing shotgun filler. Minor potency changes also affect this so over the years it's kinda been that meme ability that you never really know when it's a gain
@ValbrandrLeonhardt2 ай бұрын
I find the general rule for a pull to be, use bioblaster, hypercharge auto crossbow spam while weaving both checks. If you get to a pull and your checks are on cd, you have no heat, barrel stabilizer on cd, bioblaster on cd, Then you can use flamethrower
@IKMcGweeАй бұрын
also, if you wanna drink something mid pull, flamethrower and do so, your still dpsing
@Mandoolin2 ай бұрын
Machinist has been my go to ranged job since heavensward and ever since the shadowbringers rework whenever I get any low level dungeon I slowly drift back to the memories of my one true aoe love - the Bishop Autoturret. I just want one more button to press for aoe. At least with shotgun the heat build up only requires it to be pressed 5 times then unfunny button (Auto Crossbow).
@migurusu-saint9160Ай бұрын
Wanted to say that this video encouraged me to pick up mch for alt raids. NGL it feels so satisfying to use compared to some of the classes ive been experimenting on.
@Sazandora6352 ай бұрын
MCH lacking an AoE battery spender and Flamethrower being borderline vestigial post-rework are the main things that bug me about the job aside from its DPS being low despite the lack of party buffs. Bishop Overload was really satisfying to use on big pulls back with its pre-ShB iteration.
@jeremiahbullfrog2262 ай бұрын
My FC put a static together again for this tier, and one of my buddies is a phys ranged main who prefers machinist, but has since gone dancer for prog. When we were progging the EX trials to settle into what we wanted to play, he started out as machinist, but got the dancer and bard weapon drops first, and by the time savage released, he decided that even though he can go any direction, dancer was probably our best bet because we have a samurai, and he's always complaining that MCH doesn't do enough dmg as a selfish DPS
@aerieleah5332 ай бұрын
I know flamethrower is awesome looking, but I really do think there is a place for it in gameplay. No spells really want to channel in 14, which I honestly think could open up a ton of optimization. Might really make the classes feel different. That's all. Thank you for attending my ted talk.
@zami0010012 ай бұрын
Comparing rDPS should always be the correct option since that will naturally be higher if you do more personal damage but accounts for the amount of damage you supply via buffs as well. using raw DPS as your point of comparison just doesn't give a good idea of the actual balance.
@Galemont19922 ай бұрын
I always had this idea for a ranged job to return to the "gunmage" in Sniper, uses a sniper rifle (given) but it's main gimmick is called bunker down, if your out of your bunker you have free ranged movement but lower damage, but in bunker mode your skills have a cast bar but deal much more damage like your focusing your shots at the cost of movement akin to blm but prema laylines.
@andrewhamilton13612 ай бұрын
Since the SMN rework in EW I've felt that if we can have a mobile caster then we can also have a ranged with cast times and I feel like that's the niche MCH should fill. If they're afraid of making it too strong considering its mobility as a ranged then just give it cast times similar to HW and let 'em cook.
@mahuk.2 ай бұрын
As an automaton engineer, I absolutely love the class for how it looks and the way it plays. Even the quest story was fun, going from a band of rebels lead by a rebel nerd, into a small militia, and see the job skills slowly evolve into matrix jumps with robot stuff was amazing. I absolutely love that part of the design, but being locked out from pf due to bad job balance and being the butt of the joke for too long made me not main the job for the first time in the 5 years I've been playing, and just went to main my second main class. the gun tank. I truly dream to see the day we're free to deal damage like any pure dps job, but the weird balance they do around raids will keep stifling this job.
@morangutan99962 ай бұрын
Machinist Main since 2018 here, went into Dawntrail blind to the changes. The noise I made when I unlocked the second Drill charge was strong and true to my soul.
@trichartfix2 ай бұрын
I been asking for a basically mch since stb thank you larry
@CarToOxX2 ай бұрын
As i picked up MCH seriously recently, i realized with the new stack feature on hypercharge you can use it with your chain, drill or chainsaw up. this doesn't consume stacks! (combo hit does) and you still have enough time to use your 5 stacks of hypercharge if you only use one of your drills. It feels so wrong tho XD.
@recino22 ай бұрын
For me, the pipeline was Smn until EW -> Mnk -> DT Nin for a tier. I've always loved how Monk can build their own combo, and now I'm realizing Ninja has some old Smn blood with a frantic burst and a relaxed mid phase.
@Deode-d4h2 ай бұрын
Honestly, I think what Machinst did to hook me was Overcharge. It's nice doing your rotation, but got dang do I love my WoL snorting some of the good stuff so they go crazy for 10 seconds. Then of course, since it's Machinist, we're the 'Murica job and if we weren't 'Murica enough before with guns and drills, now we are with missiles and our own airstrikes. Also please combine Airshot and Flamethrower to make Napalm Strike that does the flamethrower 1 hit per second, but without needing us to stand around. If we need to stand still for that 1 hit per second, buff it to high hell so it's actually useful, or combine it with autocrossbow so it does the crossbow then flame damage tick effectively making autocrossbow double hit per cast. Idk just make autocrossbow and flamethrower better.
@JennaFusion2 ай бұрын
I was Summoner up until Shadowbringers 5.1 when they put the pet abilities on the gcd. It felt so slow suddenly, so I went to Machinist for many button presses. Been enjoying both ever since.
@Rushifell2 ай бұрын
Have autocrossbow refresh ogcds, have bioblaster debuff enemies to enhance flamethrower damage. Give those 2 skills an interaction so using bioblaster is dousing the enemies with oil and light them up with flamethrower for extra damage on debuffed targets.
@Zezepo2 ай бұрын
Larry teaching me that Machinist is more than press button when available has done more for me than any of my friends.
@kencat26912 ай бұрын
I’ve played MCH for majority of my time in XIV (been playing since 2.1) and I completely agree with your assessment on the current state of the AoE rotation. This is personally how I would fix it: 1. Instead of just making Air Anchor an AoE, I would change Flamethrower into a single hit AoE cleave that deals 300 potency to all targets and I would make it share a recast with Air Anchor like how Bioblaster does with Drill. 2. Decrease the potency of Auto Crossbow but make it capable of reducing the cooldown of Double Check and Checkmate. 3. Make Wildfire AoE from the target it is attached to like how it does in PVP. If the target dies before the duration expires, then it automatically detonates with max potency of 1440. 4. Reassemble doubles the DoT duration and the intial hit potency of Bioblaster for a total of 600 potency per target. More AoE utility for Reassemble would make AoE rotation far more engaging.
@ocsanchez522ify2 ай бұрын
Very valid points about MCH AOE! Personally, I think it was done that way to force the use of Flamethrower.
@OneTallBloke2 ай бұрын
So here's the Flamethrower fix IMO: Have it be an actual OGCD (it currently is an OGCD but triggers the GCD for some reason), which has the effect of '150p instantly, then 80p per tick when channeled. If the target suffers from Bioblaster, initial potency is tripled.' Then, it becomes a DPS gain to use a Bio/FT combo in singletarget once per minute, in place of a regular non-Reassembled Drill (since Drill is 600, and Bio+FT would be 300+450, for a total of 750)
@dahZeee2 ай бұрын
I'm gonna say it. Flamethrower ticks every second, so it's 200 potency per 2.5 seconds of filler, higher than scattershot. When you think you're gonna scattershot for a while you can pop it for some extra damage. If the mobs are gonna live super long, Maybe the heat gauge is worth using scattershot instead. But the potency is there for Flamethrower.
@charlettmoon26932 ай бұрын
I was just running FATEs on my Machinist and I got to watch things three levels above me absolutely melt. It might have been because my gear was slightly better than my Dragoon, but I don't care. I love its burst, and no one can take that away from me. Plus you get to be EDGAR from FF6, the best Final Fantasy basically ever and the only real Machinist in all of FF (Mustadio who?) so really, there's no contest.
@Chels30132 ай бұрын
Absolutely agree with Auto Crossbow refreshing your Gauss Round/Ricochet (and their uptrait abilities). BUT, instead of making Air Anchor AOE, I would make Flamethrower a weaponskill that shares a cooldown with it, and be an AoE battery generator. A third thing that needs to happen is an AoE nuke off battery: Bring back Grenado Shot for this. (A fourth thing that should happen: Wildfire tracks Auto Crossbow hits and turns those into splash damage, so you 2m on trash)
@Muramusa7232 ай бұрын
For the past 9yrs MCH has been one of those jobs that has always felt to me like its just 1 or 2 little tweaks away from being my favorite DPS in the game. I still dont think it's there, but this at least convinced me to level it next so I can check it out bc honestly 7.0 MCH really just looks amazing
@wildwankers962 ай бұрын
Man I've been loving the constant content!
@mattcoughlin85272 ай бұрын
Honestly I'm loving the feeling of Machinist in DT more than ever.