Quote Originally Posted by Sleigh View Post
My guesses as to BRD vs MCH:

- BRD will hopefully, in a comp with strong healer DPS and a good caster, bring more raid DPS due to Foe's. If MCH beats BRD even counting Foe's then there's no hope for BRD in 3.0 because that basically makes MCH a melee level ranged DPS with debuffs.
You cannot use the DPS provided by other classes when determining which class between Bard and Machinist will provide more DPS to the raid group. Yes, Bard's Foe's Requiem is a huge benefit to a raid group, but in terms of raw DPS output, the Machinist will be providing more raw DPS because the Bard suffers innate DPS loss when channeling Mage's Ballad and Army's Paeon, and Mage's Ballad tends to see more use than either Foe's Requiem or Army's Paeon in most cases due to groups needing it to keep their White Mage's operating. From what we can tell the MP and TP regeneration of the Machinist does not reduce the overall DPS output of that class.