I'm looking forward to it. I main bard, and generally am most comfortable with ranged DPS, so machinist is pretty much a gimme for me to pick up. I'll experiment with the two at 60 to see which I'll settle on as my main DPS.

For those saying that machinist isn't a support class... well no, it is primarily a DPS class, but it's got pretty solid support, easily enough to at least rival bard songs. Assuming spoilers are correct, they pretty much have a shot that gives access to just about all of the debuffs currently possible in the game. Bind/Heavy/Slow/Stun/Silence/Phys dmg down/Mag dmg down/Knockback... granted apparently some of these share cooldowns, but that said a skilled machinist who can use the right debuff shot at the right time during a boss fight is going to be a boon to pretty much any raid. Add the TP/MP regen turret, and that's some pretty solid raid utility right there.