Quote Originally Posted by Underdog2204 View Post
Can you think of one reason MCH needed to have regen on the turret? Or why BRD needed their regen songs? I sure can't. Healers have tools for mp management, why was a class needed to give them mp instead of their own skills? I just cannot get my head around the choices they made.
If MCH was going to compete with BRD for a spot, they'd need to be able to fill in the same niche and become interchangable. They already shot themselves in the leg back in 2.0 when they made BRD the only job capable of giving other players tp/mp regen, whihc may or may not be necessary for the content at hand. The other was not make any jobs have it, and that BRD/MCH is interchangable with both casters in regards of a ranged dps.

For the record, I'm fine with them being the "support dps" niche or whatever they want to call it. They need to homogenize their utility and purpose if they're gonna compete with roles (hence both of them having regen). I'm not fine with them homogenizing their gameplay though, which is mostly the case in regards to BRd/MCH's general gameplay outside of cooldowns.