No desire to play now

[SovereignAegis]

I am honestly sooooo glad that I lept off the Machinist boat at level 52.

I realized, fortunately, ahead of time, that the Machinist was doomed for complete and utter weakness. The class needs buffs EVERYWHERE. Damage, debuffs are pathetic, and their MP/TP from turret are WEAKER than the ones Bard provides LOL. Oh and it's harder to play because you need to stare at your hotbar for "RNG procs".


SO WHY PLAY MACHINIST? There are so many drawbacks and for what? Their debuffs which we were lead to believe they'd have? They don't have debuffs, the numbers are ignorable.

I am with you OP and I feel you, I know that feeling so well. I am so sorry no one warned you about it ahead of time, I am so glad I abandoned Machinist and now play classes that actually are viable/not in a horrifically weak state.

[MageBlack]

I am honestly sooooo glad that I lept off the Machinist boat at level 52.

I realized, fortunately, ahead of time, that the Machinist was doomed for complete and utter weakness. The class needs buffs EVERYWHERE. Damage, debuffs are pathetic, and their MP/TP from turret are WEAKER than the ones Bard provides LOL. Oh and it's harder to play because you need to stare at your hotbar for "RNG procs".


SO WHY PLAY MACHINIST? There are so many drawbacks and for what? Their debuffs which we were lead to believe they'd have? They don't have debuffs, the numbers are ignorable.

I am with you OP and I feel you, I know that feeling so well. I am so sorry no one warned you about it ahead of time, I am so glad I abandoned Machinist and now play classes that actually are viable/not in a horrifically weak state.

Hey, I played WAR from ARR launch all the way through till today. I stuck with it even when people were bitching about WAR and how broken it was (I had no troubles with it, not like what others were claiming) and eventually they "fixed" it. If you like the class, stick with it, they will end up patching it eventually. Shall I list the other jobs that have been tweaked? How about... ALL of them.

[Cherie]

SO WHY PLAY MACHINIST? There are so many drawbacks and for what? Their debuffs which we were lead to believe they'd have? They don't have debuffs, the numbers are ignorable.

They do have one actually, but you get it at level 58. It's vulnerability up (magical or physical depending on turret used). You probably never saw it cause the tool tips change for the turrets once you get hypercharge (that's the skill that turns on the debuffs) and you never took it that high. Even that buff wouldn't make up for their damage likely being less than bard, so you aren't wrong about that. It's really hard to say what damage it does since I don't think the game mentions what damage some skills are hitting for. If you just go by the threat meters in game though, and add 15% for the pet, it does seem that it's the lowest that I can tell though.