Machinist needs serious attention

[LittleArrow]

Well, Gauss Barrel is not longer instant while under Rapid Fire...

That's just peachy...

Lol, love how they put those changes in without even addressing the other concerns to this class.

I am surprised how you can bash on the class so early. We haven't even seen the end-game raid content. Ranged DPS have significant advantages over melee in real-fight thus i am not even mildly surprised that on pure dummy test the machinist is rather low.
I assume that MCH does piercing damage? Anyone taken disembowel into account in case you have DRG in pty?

You're just repeating the same arguments that are constantly parroted throughout this thread without even reading the responses... heck without even reading the front page. I understand as DRG you may feel like this is acceptable, but it's not. In all of my groups, melee is compensated. With this latest coil and even second coil, ranged no longer has an advantage considering 1. all of my parties will adjust the fight for melee and put all of the grunt work on ranged, and 2. most of all the mechanics is on ranged, and if it's not they're both on ranged and melee.

We don't need to give the class more time. The very basic potency numbers doubled with RNG - in other words just how the class plays basically is showing in weakness compared to every other class. Not to mention if the whole ranged vs melee argument had any weight then SMNs of all classes would be doing low dps, they're not, they're being recorded with parses 100 - 200 dps better. That's an insane margin and totally unacceptable.

Also, please don't come back with the 'support' argument. All of these arguments are addressed on the original post. If you disagree with them, please read them and disagree with the points already brought up.