Quote Originally Posted by Odowla View Post
They have to.

Machinist holds the same raid slot as a Bard.

If one is /vastly/ superior to the other, the other just simply is not viable. AT ALL.

So in order to balance MCH/BRD, they need to do comparable damage (one CAN be better than the other slightly, ofc), with comparable raid utility. They currently have both - with the problem being that their abilities post 50 are kind of just.. not good enough to warrant taking away their assets. (believe it or not, safe, mobile damage IS utility in a raid setting.)

tl;dr buffing brd = mch buffs
-Looks at SMN's after thunder nerf- Took them a looooooooooooong time to deal with that.