![]() Queen is the single most important action to align to raid buffs. A 100-Battery Queen deals 2660 potency (around 2367 player potency)! That’s over four Drills worth of damage, which also means that ![]() For this reason, you might just overlook how completely bonkers its damage is. ![]() It can be boring to press one button and watch your pet do the rest on its own. Let’s face it, Queen really puts the auto in “automaton”. Do you know exactly when the boss is going to disappear for downtime? If so, do you know which GCD you’ll hit the boss with last? Is there an opportunity for you to use a cooldown earlier in the opener (to gain a use) or, if not, later in the opener (to align with more buffs)? Battery When raiding, try to always be aware of which of the above cases you’re currently in. This enables us to be precise with our cooldown usage: we can use the delayed opener, or a rushed opener (which we’ll see shortly), or any number of tricks which allow us to maximize the two golden rules. In this scenario, we know exactly how long each phase is and we have a fairly good idea of what our kill time will be. The average case is a good framework for general theorycrafting, but when we’re optimizing an encounter we’re generally dealing with the fixed case. This is why the general opener delays certain cooldowns into raid buffs: on average you deal more damage by following this opener, even though there’s a chance that you will lose uses at the end of the fight. These are the situations where kill time is completely unknown. The general rotation is designed for the average case. The key to encounter optimization is therefore to identify how many uses you can get in a fight, and then plan those uses effectively. Delaying your cooldowns for raid buffs means potentially losing uses, and using your cooldowns as early as possible means potentially missing raid buffs. We’ll tackle opener optimization shortly, but hopefully it’s clear to you that the two golden rules work in opposition to each other. This is why the general opener calls for delaying Chain Saw and Wildfire into raid buffs, but is that always the right choice? What separates good Machinists from great Machinists is their ability to coordinate as many cooldowns and resources as possible into periods where there they have raid buffs, tinctures, or other fight-specific burst phases. Make your cooldowns deal as much damage as possible. However, there are also places in our general rotation (like in the opener) where we intentionally delay our cooldowns.Ģ. We use Wildfire at the same point in our GCD rotation every time, and we avoid overcapping as much as possible. ![]() In other words, “just press buttons”! This rule is baked into our general rotation already – we use tool GCDs as soon as they become available, Use your cooldowns as many times as possible. There are two simple rules for optimizing an encounter, which apply to every combat job in the game:ġ. Since these all have two minute cooldowns, in full uptime they should happen on every even minute (2:00, 4:00, 6:00, …). When it happens on purpose it’s usually called a “delay” or a “hold”.Ī window where multiple raid buff windows are active simultaneously. When this happens unintentionally or is forced it’s usually called “drift”. Not using an action even though it came off cooldown. 7:10 target killtime) or approximate (i.e. The time frame where you expect to kill a boss or end a phase. For example, since Wildfire has a two minute cooldown we would divide its total potency by 120 to get its PPS. The effective amount of potency you expect to gain per single point of gauge (Heat, Battery, etc).Ī normalization of how much potency an action does over how long it takes before you can use it again. Here are some common terms used when discussing job theorycrafting and optimization. If you are already familiar with optimization on other jobs, you can feel free to skip ahead! Terminology This section will introduce some core concepts for optimizing encounters in FFXIV. Read the Basic Guide and come back when you’re done. It assumes you are already familiar with the fundamentals of the job – if you need a refresher, please This guide is intended to give the reader the tools needed to approach encounter optimization as a Machinist.
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