Machinist (Final Fantasy XIV)

Machinist
機工士 (Kikō-shi?) Abbreviation: MCH (機, Ki?, lit. Machine)
Classification
Type	Disciple of War
Role	Physical Ranged DPS
Starting city	Ishgard
Job master(s)	Stephanivien de Haillenarte
Abilities
Primary attribute	Dexterity
Arms	Gun
More information
Recurring appearance

Machinist is a job in Final Fantasy XIV, introduced in the game's first expansion pack, Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward. As with the other three Ishgard jobs, Machinist has no base class and begins at level 30.

Profile

The war with Dravania rages on. Brutal and unrelenting. With no end in sight, the Holy See grows desperate. As her dragoons lay down their lives in defense of their home, Ishgard turns to technology to protect her sons and daughters. Great cannons and ballistae now line the city walls, plucking dragons from the sky.

Following the example of Cid Garlond, who has demonstrated the potency of magitek, the Skysteel Manufactory works tirelessly on the development of advanced armaments. As new and devastating weapons are brought to the fray, a new class of champion arises to wield them ― the machinist.

Lodestone

The job is a mobile, ranged DPS class using guns as their main weapon. Machinists focus on dealing ranged damage using a combination of firearms enhanced with various attachments and can deploy mechanical turrets to help them on the battlefield.

Story

History

Through the centuries of lshgard's endless conflict with the Dravanians, the city-state's engineers have devised and improved upon myriad dragon-killing contrivances. This inspired the construction of the Skysteel Manufactory in the year 1483 of the Sixth Astral Era, where resident artisans to this day continue to invent weapons such as the ceruleum-propelled giant ballista, and the quad-barreled Bertha cannon. Many of these modern advances can be attributed to Stephanivien de Haillenarte, the manufactory's brilliant chief, who has welcomed the assistance of Garlond Ironworks with incorporating imperial magitek into traditional Ishgardian craftmanship.

Stephanivien's primary achievement has been the creation of the aetherotransformer- a device which converts the wearer's innate mana into the lightning-aspected energy suited for powering the chief's revolutionary inventions. In addition to instructing volunteers in the use of the transformer, Stephanivien has employed a master of marksmanship from Limsa Lominsa to train an ever-growing number of recruits. Armed with their signature firearms and a repertoire of technological marvels, these soldiers of a new age are known as Machinists.

Heavensward

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Stormblood

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Equipment

A roegadyn machinist with the Outsider and Gunner's artifact armor.

Machinists wield guns as their weapons. Their armor is primarily made up of "Aiming" gear, light armor with average defenses that they share with other ranged physical DPS classes.

The primary attribute for machinists is dexterity, which boosts their attack power, and should always be prioritized over other attributes. As a DPS discipline, they draw the most benefit from the critical hit, direct hit, skill speed, and determination secondary attributes, which all improve their damage dealing capabilities in some way.

Lists of machinist equipment
Machinist's Arms
Head Body Hands Waist Legs Feet	Earrings Necklaces Bracelets Rings Soul Crystal

Job Gauge

The Job Gauge was introduced to players in 4.0 Stormblood. Currently, the Machinist uses the Heat Gauge and the Battery Gauge.

The Heat Gauge─indicating a firearm's temperature─is displayed upon execution weaponskills. Using Hypercharge allows the use of additional skills at the cost of the Heat Gauge, requiring no cooldown or cast down.

In Shadowbringers 5.0, the Machinist was heavily reworked, removing the Overheat, Gauss Barrel and Ammunition mechanics entirely. The Split Shot combo becomes permanently heated after learning the corresponding traits. Now, the Battery Gauge fills up when completing the Split Shot combo and is used to summon the Rook and Bishop Autoturrets as well as the Automaton Queen learned at Level 80. They remain on the field until the gauge depletes.

Abilities

Job actions

Ability	Level	Type	Cast	Recast	MP Cost	Range	Radius
Split Shot	1	Weaponskill	Instant	2.5s	—	25y	—
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 140. Additional Effect: Increases Heat Gauge by 5 Upgrades to Heated Split Shot.
Slug Shot	2	Weaponskill	Instant	2.5s	—	25y	—
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 100. Combo Action: Split Shot or Heated Split Shot Combo Potency: 210 Combo Bonus: Increases Heat Gauge by 5 Upgrades to Heated Slug Shot.
Hot Shot	4	Weaponskill	Instant	40s	—	25y	—
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 240. Additional Effect: Increases Battery Gauge by 20 This weaponskill does not share a recast timer with any other actions. Upgrades to Air Anchor.
Reassemble	10	Ability	Instant	55s	—	—	—
	Guarantees that next weaponskill is a critical direct hit. Duration: 5s This action does not affect damage over time effects. Maximum Charges: 2
Gauss Round	15	Ability	Instant	30s	—	25y	—
	Delivers an attack with potency of 120. Maximum Charges: 2 ( 3)
Spread Shot	18	Weaponskill	Instant	2.5s	—	12y	12y cone
	Deliver an attack with a potency of 140 to all enemies in a cone before you. Additional Effect: Increases Heat Gauge by 5 Upgrades to Scattergun.
Clean Shot	26	Weaponskill	Instant	2.5s	—	25y	—
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 100. Combo Action: Slug Shot or Heated Slug Shot Combo Potency: 270 Combo Bonus: Increases Heat Gauge by 5 Combo Bonus: Increases Battery Gauge by 10 Upgrades to Heated Clean Shot.
Hypercharge	30	Ability	Instant	10s	—	—	—
	Releases the energy building in your firearm, causing it to become Overheated, increasing the potency of single-target weaponskills by 20. Duration: 8s Heat Gauge Cost: 50 Overheated effect only applicable to machinist job actions.
Heat Blast	35	Weaponskill	Instant	1.5s	—	25y	—
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 180. Additional Effect: Reduces the recast time of both Gauss Round and Ricochet by 15s Can only be executed when firearm is Overheated. Recast timer cannot be affected by status effects or gear attributes.
Rook Autoturret	40	Ability	Instant	6s	—	—	—
	Deploys a single-target battle turret which attacks using Volley Fire, dealing damage with a potency of 70. Battery Gauge Cost: 50 Duration increases as Battery Gauge exceeds required cost at time of deployment, up to a maximum of 15 seconds. Consumes Battery Gauge upon execution. Shuts down when time expires or upon execution of Rook Overdrive. Shares a recast timer with Rook Overdrive. Upgrades to Automaton Queen.
Rook Overdrive	40	Ability	Instant	15s	—	25y	—
	Orders the rook autoturret to use Rook Overload. Rook Overload Potency: 320 Potency increases as Battery Gauge exceeds required cost at time of deployment. The rook autoturret shuts down after execution. If this action is not used manually while the rook autoturret is active, it will be triggered automatically immediately before shutting down. Shares a recast timer with Rook Autoturret. Upgrades to Queen Overdrive.
Rook Overload	40	Ability	Instant	—	—	40y	—
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 320. Potency increases as Battery Gauge exceeds required cost at time of deployment. The rook autoturret shuts down after execution. If this action is not used manually while the rook autoturret is active, it will be triggered automatically immediately before shutting down. ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar.
Wildfire	45	Ability	Instant	120s	—	25y	—
	Covers target's body in a slow-burning pitch. Action is changed to Detonator for the duration of the effect. Deals damage when time expires or upon executing Detonator. Potency is increased by 100 ( 220) for each of your own weaponskills you land prior to the end of the effect. Duration: 10s
Detonator	45	Ability	Instant	1s	—	25y	—
	Ends the effect of Wildfire, dealing damage to the target. ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar.
Ricochet	50	Ability	Instant	30s	—	25y	5y radius
	Deals damage to all nearby enemies with a potency of 120 for the first enemy, and 50% less for all remaining enemies. Maximum Charges: 2 ( 3)
Auto Crossbow	52	Weaponskill	Instant	1.5s	—	12y	12y cone
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 140 to all enemies in a cone before you. Can only be executed when firearm is Overheated. Recast timer cannot be affected by status effects or gear attributes.
Heated Split Shot	54	Weaponskill	Instant	2.5s	—	25y	—
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 180 ( 200). Additional Effect: Increases Heat Gauge by 5
Tactician	56	Ability	Instant	120s ( 90s)	—	—	20y radius
	Reduces damage taken by self and nearby party members by 10%. Duration: 15s Effect cannot be stacked with bard's Troubadour or dancer's Shield Samba.
Drill	58	Weaponskill	Instant	20s	—	25y	—
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 580. Shares a recast timer with Bioblaster.
Heated Slug Shot	60	Weaponskill	Instant	2.5s	—	25y	—
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 100 ( 120). Combo Action: Heated Split Shot Combo Potency: 260 ( 280) Combo Bonus: Increases Heat Gauge by 5
Heated Clean Shot	64	Weaponskill	Instant	2.5s	—	25y	—
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 100 ( 110). Combo Action: Heated Slug Shot Combo Potency: 350 ( 360) Combo Bonus: Increases Heat Gauge by 5 Combo Bonus: Increases Battery Gauge by 10
Barrel Stabilizer	66	Ability	Instant	120s	—	—	—
	Increases Heat Gauge by 50. Can only be executed while in combat.
Flamethrower	70	Ability	Instant	60s	—	—	8y cone
	Delivers damage over time to all enemies in a cone before you. Potency: 80 Duration: 10s Effect ends upon using another action or moving (including facing a different direction). Cancels auto-attack upon execution. Triggers the cooldown of weaponskills upon execution. Cannot be executed during the cooldown of weaponskills.
Bioblaster	72	Weaponskill	Instant	20s	—	12y	12y cone
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 50 to all enemies in a cone before you. Additional Effect: Damage over time Potency: 50 Duration: 15s Shares a recast timer with Drill.
Air Anchor	76	Weaponskill	Instant	40s	—	25y	—
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 580. Additional Effect: Increases Battery Gauge by 20 This action does not share a recast timer with any other actions.
Automaton Queen	80	Ability	Instant	6s	—	—	—
	Deploys an Automaton Queen to fight at your side. Battery Gauge Cost: 50 Duration increases as Battery Gauge exceeds required cost at time of deployment, up to a maximum of 20 seconds. Consumes Battery Gauge upon execution. Shuts down when time expires or upon execution of Queen Overdrive. Shares a recast timer with Queen Overdrive.
Queen Overdrive	80	Ability	Instant	15s	—	30y	—
	Orders the Automaton Queen to use Pile Bunker. Pile Bunker Potency: 800 Potency increases as Battery Gauge exceeds required cost at time of deployment. The Automaton Queen shuts down after execution. If this action is not used manually while the Automaton Queen is active, it will be triggered automatically immediately before shutting down. Shares a recast timer with Automaton Queen.
Arm Punch	80	Weaponskill	Instant	1.5s	—	3y	—
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 120. ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar.
Roller Dash	80	Weaponskill	Instant	3s	—	30y	—
	Rushes target and delivers an attack with a potency of 240. ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar.
Pile Bunker	80	Ability	Instant	—	—	3y	—
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 680. Potency increases as Battery Gauge exceeds required cost at time of deployment. The Automaton Queen shuts down after execution. If this action is not used manually while the Automaton Queen is active, it will be triggered automatically immediately before shutting down. ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar.
Scattergun	82	Weaponskill	Instant	2.5s	—	12y	12y cone
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 150 to all enemies in a cone before you. Additional Effect: Increases Heat Gauge by 10
Crowned Collider	86	Ability	Instant	—	—	3y	—
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 780. Potency increases as Battery Gauge exceeds required cost at time of deployment. The Automaton Queen shuts down after execution. If this action is not used manually while the Automaton Queen is active, it will be triggered automatically immediately before shutting down. ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar.
Chain Saw	90	Weaponskill	Instant	60s	—	25y	25y line
	Delivers an attack to all enemies in a straight line before you with a potency of 580 for the first enemy, and 65% less for all remaining enemies. Additional Effect: Increases Battery Gauge by 20 This weaponskill does not share a recast timer with any other actions.

Role Actions

Ability	Level	Type	Cast	Recast	MP Cost	Range	Area
Leg Graze	6	Ability	Instant	30s	—	25y	—
	Inflicts target with Heavy +40%. Duration: 10s
Second Wind	8	Ability	Instant	120s	—	—	—
	Instantly restores own HP. Cure Potency: 500
Foot Graze	10	Ability	Instant	30s	—	25y	—
	Binds target. Duration: 10s Cancels auto-attack upon execution. Target unbound if damage taken.
Peloton	20	Ability	Instant	5s	—	—	20y radius
	Increases movement speed of self and nearby party members as long as they remain within distance. Duration: 30s Effect ends when enmity is generated. Cannot be used in battle.
Head Graze	24	Ability	Instant	30s	—	25y	—
	Interrupts the use of a target's action.
Arm's Length	32	Ability	Instant	120s	—	–	–
	Creates a barrier nullifying most knockback and draw-in effects. Duration: 6s Additional Effect: Slow +20% when barrier is struck Duration: 15s

Traits

Name	Level	Description
Increased Action Damage	20	Increases base action damage and autoturret damage by 10%.
Increased Action Damage II	40	Increases base action damage and autoturret damage by 20%.
Split Shot Mastery	54	Upgrades Split Shot to Heated Split Shot.
Slug Shot Mastery	60	Upgrades Slug Shot to Heated Slug Shot.
Clean Shot Mastery	64	Upgrades Clean Shot to Heated Clean Shot.
Charged Action Mastery	74	Allows a third charge of Gauss Round and Ricochet.
Hot Shot Mastery	76	Upgrades Hot Shot to Air Anchor.
Enhanced Wildfire	78	Improves Wildfire's potency increase for landing weaponskills to 220.
Promotion	80	Upgrades Rook Autoturret and Rook Overdrive to Automaton Queen and Queen Overdrive respectively.
Spread Shot Mastery	82	Upgrades Spread Shot to Scattergun.
Enhanced Reassemble	84	Allows the accumulation of charges for consecutive uses of Reassemble. Maximum Charges: 2
Marksman's Mastery	84	Increases the potency of Heated Split Shot to 200, Heated Slug Shot to 120, and Heated Clean Shot to 110.
Queen's Gambit	86	After executing Pile Bunker, the Automaton Queen will also execute Crowned Collider.
Enhanced Tactician	88	Reduces Tactician recast time to 90 seconds.

PvP Actions

Ability	Type	Cast	Recast	MP Cost	Range	Radius
Blast Charge	Weaponskill	1.44s	2.4s	—	25y	—
	Delivers a ranged attack with a potency of 4,000. Additional Effect: Grants a stack of Heat, up to a maximum of 5 Duration: 15s At maximum stacks, become Overheated. Duration: 5s Requires casting time to execute. However, it is possible to walk while casting. ※Action changes to Heat Blast while under the effect of Overheated.
Scattergun	Weaponskill	Instant	20s	—	12y	12y cone
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 6,000 to all enemies in a cone before you. Strikes twice when hitting only a single target. Additional Effect: 10-yalm knockback This weaponskill does not share a recast timer with any other actions.
Drill	Weaponskill	Instant	10s	—	25y	—
	Delivers a ranged attack with a potency of 9,000. Potency is increased to 18,000 while under the effect of Analysis. Ignores the effects of Guard when dealing damage. Additional Effect: Grants Bioblaster Primed Maximum Charges: 2 Can only be executed while under the effect of Drill Primed. This weaponskill does not share a recast timer with any other actions. ※Action changes to Bioblaster while under the effect of Bioblaster Primed.
Wildfire	Ability	Instant	30s	—	25y	—
	Covers target's body in a slow-burning pitch. Deals damage to target and all enemies nearby it when time expires. Duration: 7s Potency is increased by 4,000 for each of your own weaponskills you land prior to the end of the effect. Landing 3 weaponskills will cause the slow-burning pitch to detonate immediately.
Bishop Autoturret	Ability	Instant	30s	—	25y	1y radius
	Deploys an area of effect battle turret which will deliver auto-attacks to enemies within range with a potency of 4,000. Duration: 10s Additional Effect: Increases target's damage taken by 10% Duration: 5s Additional Effect: Creates a barrier that absorbs damage equivalent to a heal of 2,000 potency Duration: 5s
Analysis	Ability	Instant	20s	—	—	—
	Grants additional effects to Drill, Bioblaster, Air Anchor, and Chain Saw when these weaponskills are executed. Duration: 10s Drill Additional Effect: Potency is increased to 200% Bioblaster Additional Effect: Heavy +75% Air Anchor Additional Effect: Potency is increased by 50%, and the Bind effect becomes Stun Chain Saw Additional Effect: 5% chance to deal damage equal to 100％ of target's HP
Heat Blast	Weaponskill	Instant	1.5s	—	25y	—
	Delivers a ranged attack with a potency of 6,000. Can only be executed while under the effect of Overheated. This weaponskill does not share a recast timer with any other actions. ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar.
Bioblaster	Weaponskill	Instant	10s	—	12y	12y cone
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 4,000 to all enemies in a cone before you. Additional Effect: Afflicts target with Heavy +75% while under the effect of Analysis Duration: 5s Additional Effect: Damage over time Potency: 4,000 Duration: 9s Additional Effect: Grants Air Anchor Primed Maximum Charges: 2 Can only be executed while under the effect of Bioblaster Primed. This weaponskill does not share a recast timer with any other actions. ※Action changes to Air Anchor while under the effect of Air Anchor Primed. ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar.
Air Anchor	Weaponskill	Instant	10s	—	25y	—
	Delivers a ranged attack with a potency of 8,000. Additional Effect: Bind Duration: 3s Additional Effect: Potency is increased by 50%, and the Bind effect becomes Stun while under the effect of Analysis Duration: 3s Additional Effect: Grants Chain Saw Primed Maximum Charges: 2 Can only be executed while under the effect of Air Anchor Primed. This weaponskill does not share a recast timer with any other actions. ※Action changes to Chain Saw while under the effect of Chain Saw Primed. ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar.
Chain Saw	Weaponskill	Instant	10s	—	25y	25y line
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 10,000 to all enemies in a straight line before you. Additional Effect: 3% chance to deal damage equal to 100％ of target's HP while under the effect of Analysis Effect cannot be triggered when targeting players riding machina or non-player combatants. Additional Effect: Grants Drill Primed Maximum Charges: 2 Can only be executed while under the effect of Chain Saw Primed. This weaponskill does not share a recast timer with any other actions. ※Action changes to Drill while under the effect of Drill Primed. ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar.
Aether Mortar	Ability	1s	1s	—	—	5y radius
	Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 4,000 to all nearby enemies. Additional Effect: Increases target's damage taken by 10% Duration: 5s Additional Effect: Creates a barrier that absorbs damage equivalent to a heal of 4,000 potency Duration: 5s ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar.
Marksman's Spite	Limit Break	Instant	10s	—	50y	—
	Delivers a ranged attack with a potency of 36,000. Can only be executed when the limit gauge is full.
Standard-issue Elixir	Ability	4.5s	5s	—	—	—
	Restores your HP and MP to maximum. Casting will be interrupted when damage is taken.
Recuperate	Ability	Instant	1s	2500 MP	—	—
	Restores own HP. Cure Potency: 15,000
Purify	Ability	Instant	30s	—	—	—
	Removes Stun, Heavy, Bind, Silence, Half-asleep, Sleep, and Deep Freeze.Grants Resilience upon successfully removing one of the aforementioned effects. Resilience Effect: Nullifies status afflictions that can be removed by Purify Duration: 5s Can be used even when under the effect of certain status afflictions.
Guard	Ability	Instant	30s	—	—	—
	Reduces damage taken by 90% and grants immunity to Stun, Heavy, Bind, Silence, Half-asleep, Sleep, Deep Freeze, and knockback and draw-in effects. Duration: 5s Movement speed is reduced by 50% for the duration of this effect. Effect ends upon reuse, using another action, or when the effect duration expires.
Sprint	Ability	Instant	1.5s	—	—	—
	Increases movement speed. Effect ends upon reuse or execution of another action.

Removed

The following actions and information has been removed.

Ammunition and Heat Gauge

Ammunition Gauge

The Ammunition Gauge was introduced in Stormblood patch 4.0 and removed in Shadowbringers patch 5.0.

The Ammunition Gauge indicated the number of rounds of special ammunition currently loaded in a machinist's firearm. Special ammunition could be loaded to any firearm by executing the action Reload.

While the Heat Gauge remains in game after Shadowbringers patch 5.0, it has been heavily reworked from its previous incarnation. When the Heat Gauge reached 100, the firearm became overheated. While overheated, firearms would deal additional damage, but soon become too hot to use. At this time, the Gauss Barrel was automatically removed and could not until it cools.

Limit Break

Main article: Limit Break (Final Fantasy XIV)

Machinists' Limit Breaks focus dealing powerful damage to enemies in a straight line in front of the player. Machinist shares the same Level 1 and Level 2 limit breaks as Bard.

Ability	Level	Description	Image
Big Shot	1	Deals damage in a line to enemies in front of player.
Desperado	2	Deals damage in a line to enemies in front of player.
Satellite Beam	3	Deals damage in a line to enemies in front of player.

Other appearances

Final Fantasy Record Keeper

Gauss Round.

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Final Fantasy Trading Card Game

Machinist appears in Final Fantasy Trading Card Game as an Earth-elemental Backup card.

Behind the scenes

Musketeer's Guild icon from 1.0.

Machinists may be a re-imagining of the Musketeer class. Musketeer was a gun-wielding class planned in the early stages of the original game, but never made it past the alpha stage. Despite this, musketeers retain a presence in-game, particularly in Limsa Lominsa. The Musketeer's Guild shares its headquarters with the Yellowjackets and Marauder's Guild, and several gun using characters that are not strictly machinists appear throughout the game, using many of the same animations. It's possible that had the Musketeer class made it into the game that it would served as the base class to the Machinist job like the other original classes serve as bases to their respective jobs.

Gallery

Machinist render for Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward.

MCH Soul Crystal.png

Machinist Soul Crystal.

In-game render.

Machinist in the benchmark video.

Machinist in the benchmark video.

Machinist Sprite.

Victory pose.

Arms and Gear sets

Artifact equipment from Shadowbringers.

Actions

Split Shot.

Reassemble.

Spread Shot.

Clean Shot.

Heat Blast.

Wildfire.

Detonator.

Ricochet.

Auto Crossbow.

Heated Split Shot.

Drill.

Heated Slug Shot.

Heated Clean Shot.

Barrel Stabilizer.

Flamethrower.

Bioblaster.

Air Anchor.

Automaton Queen.

Arm Punch.

Roller Dash.

Pile Bunker.

Role Actions

Refresh.

Removed Actions

Reload.

Quick Reload.

Gauss Barrel.

Bishop Autoturret.

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Trivia

• Due to the Machinist profession being a recent invention in Eorzea, its Soul Crystal uniquely lacks memories for the Warrior of Light to draw from. Hence, the Warrior of Light is taught how to use a firearm and given several gadgets, and their experience and discoveries define the job from thereon.