alv - Today at 4:19 AM
i'm livid about the MCH buffs
but the AST nerf (and buff) are in the right direction
the MCH buffs are SOOOOOOO bad
alv - Today at 4:19 AM
no bad as in fucking horrible
what the fuck were they thinking
it's clear that SE has no direction AT ALL when it comes to MCH/DRG/SMN
alv - Today at 4:21 AM
well we were told that they were going to increase potencies across the board
they didn't
they also didn't increase the base damage like they said they would
so even though hot shot is better, we don't get to spam cooldown nearly as much which was a huge part of our burst
because the heat gauge changes are stupid
and quick reload no longer dumps 15 of our heat
alv - Today at 4:22 AM
meaning we no longer have a button to lower our heat without having to use a GCD
and we will have to break combos just to fucking keep ourselves from overheating
alv - Today at 4:22 AM
we had no problem with alignment before because we could use QR to realign misaligned things since it was oGCD
now we need to use a GCD ability to lower heat
so if we fuck up our alignment
we're fucked for a minute
it's REALLY bad actually
alv - Today at 4:23 AM
harder to play with a slightly higher reward
alv - Today at 4:24 AM
they buffed MCH in all the wrong ways
they also reduced the cooldown on barrel stabilizer but made heat easier to manage
like ???
alv - Today at 4:24 AM
the idea of MCH before was we could overheat on the drop of a hat if we wanted to
get some crazy burst out with WF
and then barrel stabilizer after
now we need to set ourselves up to overheat and if something goes wrong then "lol fuck you, you just spent all that time setting up and the boss jumped away"
we now need 9 GCDs to set up our opener
alv - Today at 4:26 AM
9 GCDS
TO SET UP OUR OPENER
alv - Today at 4:27 AM
i'm SO mad
guess i'm on BRD for 4.05
alv - Today at 4:28 AM
The japanese forums machinist thread is on fire right now.
everyone is livid
alv - Today at 4:29 AM
they have NO idea what they're doing with MCH
this person is saying "isn't the heat management change a good thing?"
NO
MCH is proc based
alv - Today at 4:31 AM
cooldown is a major part of our burst damage, and while 1 + 2 + 3 combo (as long as 2 has ammo, 3 just does more potency across the board) does more damage, we're reliant on it procing while with cooldown we get a guaranteed bursst
burst*
2 only did more dmg than cooldown with ammo
otherwise cooldown was always better
you ALWAYS got more out of cooldown than 2
i used to fill a GCD with cooldown if reload/QR was close to being off cooldown so i could guarantee a 3 proc
but i can't do that anymore
i'm SO mad
i mean i guess the best thing is that we can overheat every wildfire now besides opener
which means we can still fit a bunch of CD burst in during WF because CD always takes max potency during overheat
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