The new MCH is still a total joke

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Originally Posted by LibitIncarne

- Most jobs generate gauge from their 1/2/3 combo too, unless you're playing Monk, Paladin, or Bard.
- Fair point about the Queen, but considering our lower raw damage it'd be worth getting those extra punches in.
- Blazing Shot's potency is increased to 220 from 200 sometime after Heated Split Shot's potency is increased to 180 from 140.
Heated Split Shot now has 220 potency after increases at level 84 and 94, and Blazing Shot hasn't been increased to match.
The only reason why Auto Crossbow got buffed is because they realized that its potency was below Scattergun at level 90 so they made them match again.

The point I was making is, you're comparing apples to oranges.

- You're still not explaining why Blazing would need to be increased in damage. Comparing it to the main combo filler or to ACB doesn't magically provide an actual reasoning for increasing its damage. A good reason to increase it could be to make hypercharge total damage more prevalent comparatively to the main filler, aka making hypercharge spike higher in comparison, which would add more value behind generating heat and using it properly. I am actually not opposed to it, as I do believe one of the core precepts of MCH used to be that it was the highest burst job in the game (we need old Overheat back..), but it would come with caveats like making our AoE rotation even less relevant at low amounts of targets.
- ACB's potency being below scattergun isn't a problem, since ACB's potency per second was still way above scattergun's. I do not mind the increase though, as again, it puts more weight behind heat and resource spending (even if at the cost of Flamethrower).

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Originally Posted by saiklo

I love machinist now. Whenever I want to take a break and turn off my brain I just use the bing bing cowboy and look at all the cool animations.

Now imagine you could play this job and not make your group dps lower. And now, crazy idea, imagine all dps have the same DPS potential so you could choose your job based on fun and gameplay instead of meta!

I would like an increase in damage for the machinist. Since it has nearly no support abilitys (besides a short defensive cooldown for the party) it's only job is to deal damage. But also it has a pretty low skill cap and can move constantly wich is actually big on some bosses.
Either a buff to the overall damage or a proper form of support.

What annoys me the most is actually the AoE damage. That just feels sh*t and inconsistent.