The argument"MCH/Bard have utility so their damage should be lower"

[Ryaz]

Personally, I think the label "Support DPS" is just really stupid. My ninja has five abilities to help the group (Goad, Trick Attack, Dancing Edge), and the two enmity abilities. My MCH has six, of which the physical and magical are mutually exclusive, meaning only three can be used at any one time.

So, I say we look at damage. I know everyone decries MCH and Bard's low potency. Players also seem to forget our increased action damage trait. That makes that 200 potency Cleaner Shot equal to 240. Slap on ammo and it's 244. And I'm not sure how Gauss Barrel interacts with Action Damage, whether it's additive or a multiplier (the latter would make the ability even worse), but if additive, Cleaner Shot is then equal to 288% potency, which is actually pretty damn good. Add in your 94 potency from rook turret (it also gets the 20% damage increase from action damage) and damage on paper looks pretty good. 382 potency with.

The problem with MCH, though is that GB is supposed to be our "positional". We give up mobility for extra damage. However, the loss of auto attacks, which are about 70 potency is not made up for by the low potency and extra attacks that Gauss brings. If we had auto-attacks, I think we'd be almost fine. The other issue is the RNG. There's too much down time between ammo and the RNG nature of our procs kills us during that down period. And if Gauss barrel is multiplicative with Action Damage, then that's a problem as well.

With a few changes I think we'll be fine.