Hmmm, reading everyone's comments is pretty painful. Yes this job does need a slight buff but not nearly as much as everyone is saying. I'm i177 with my Machinist with Ravana weapon (have cleared Ravana Ex like 26 times with my FC). I can tell you from raiding with skilled players that Machinist is not as far behind as everyone says. While I don't beat anyone who plays on the same skill level as me I am generally within 100-150 dps of the jobs and that's just on Ravana Ex. For everyone saying we have no purpose we do... It's just the same as Bards pretty much which I don't mind and was pretty much a no brainer from the start that It would be. I can pretty much bet that a lot of our utility will be put into play in Alexander/Alexander Savage. Mostly I just see people complain about 1,1,1,1,1,1 spamming but that is hardly ever the case unless I'm the luckiest machinist on earth (doubtful) so please stop over-exaggerating guys. I do agree our stance sucks ass right now and hopefully they fix that but yeah, any competent machinist (saw some machinist on a stream pulling 900 on Ravana Extreme fight) can keep up. So why don't you guys actually gear up, learn the job, and do the higher content available. We will get to see how machinist performs in Alexander tomorrow and If they get blown away by other dps than I'm sure we will get a buff (and hopefully they fix gauss barrel).