Originally Posted by
vp_cmc
A lot of people switched to mch at february 2016, when he got some boost (including me). Before it was a new job, that required some learning, so many people continued to play brd. After boost mch became too good to ignore. Later brd got some boost too, but by that time people already leared mch and it turned out to be more mobile job that is better suited to raids, so I don't think that many machinists switched to bards back at that time.
I'm really interested to watch 2016 census by the end of the year.
P.S. I'm playing machinist now, so I'm biased in this discussion, can't give advice to OP. (try them all)