MCH, still as bad?

[Sidra]

It's a percentile, so basically the DPS it shows would the the number you'd have to place 250th/1,000 or 25th out of 100 (using whatever volume of parses it has for the last 2 weeks). On the A1 for example, over the last 2 weeks there have been 365 MCH completions uploaded, and 1,319 Bard parses. Overall volume shouldn't make a difference in the comparison since looking at percentile is a good way to equalize them, as placing 150th out of 300 is about the same as placing 500 out of 1,000. The higher the number the more accurate it becomes. But that's a substantial amount of parses in both cases that while not perfect, it's pretty good data.

Now, you are also correct in that in each case, the single max best parse is a BRD. So take with that what you will. Regardless, on Average Machinists are outputting higher damage. Also interesting if you use 50th percentile instead of 75th (basically using the true middle performance as opposed to 75th which could be considered a very good performance (my wording, its just opinion)) MCH has a larger gap than it does at the higher levels of play.

eg A1 75th percentile: MCH 1,168 BRD 1,150
50th percentile: MCH: 1,066 BRD: 1,025

Considering MCH is generally seen as more difficult to play, that’s actually a bit surprising to me. I by no means claim to have all the answers, or be the ultimate analyzer of the data. I am just pointing out that with all the “Bards do higher dps” sentiment out there, the data is not necessarily clearly pointing that out to be the case.