So, what's with the lack of Machinist in DF?

[Anienai]

Clunky and unfun. The class is starting to remind me of Warcraft's enhance shammy.

[OwlBlackX]

I'm now main machinist than ex-monk. But, if I'm mood play monk.
But, true I noticed players don't much play machinists. I saw more Dark Knights and Astrologians

[YeaniNah]

on my mech i do the combo alot watch DOT / Or buff on me that increase DAM use the buff of reload. switch turret from aoe to single depending on mobs there is ...each time i see many mob i DOT them all then hotshot/reload/buff/then AOE them all as quick as i can while i watch my buff and the DOT

Edit : the thing is that people when DF ... and see an MCH lvl60 ... the only think his ilvl is same as them. but that aint true not every one have end game gear did all alexander or farm alot just after update to get new gear. Some just start to farm and need to do lvl60 dungeon to get the new tonestomes for gear. And you don't learn your class by watching youtube but by playing it. but if people reject some player in team hard for them to learn how to play and get better at it. I know some don't care and prefer to let other do the job but don't put everyone in the same spot. i bought a naga mouse(12 button) to be able to place the right skill and have more chance to click and on each skill while dodging attack.

Right now seing that post and those comment : mech is bad ban it from every party .... humm we are allowed to play what we like no?? and i know some will say make your PF if you want to make party and dont DF ...but you can do that do if you dont like Mech. ..DF is random party so you end up with what the DF decide not you it made for everyone of everytype . i didn't see "Mech is ban from it cos of low dps" in DF youll do a better quick dungeon doing a PF with good people choose by you with high dps and when finish dungeon already have your party and restart it quick with no queue that logic no?

[Greedalox]

MCH is incredibly fun for me personally. To each their own I guess, I'll be the first to admit that half the abilities look bland but if you need shock and awe to keep you entertained, might not be the class for you!

[Velthice]

All the mch are in the feast, making people explode and generally being a pain in the butt.

[Jijifli]

Well, the game actually matches ranged DPS with melee DPS, so you'll see Dragoons and Ninjas the most when on your machinist. Monks aren't as popular by a big margin.
So next, you're going to see Bards, Black Mages and Summoners, because those classes are very popular, despite being the same "type" (ranged DPS -- For normal Duty Finder, the game doesn't distinguish Caster and Physical ranged DPS) as you.
Finally, since the game rarely pairs two people of the same class, you'll see Machinist the least.

This is false #Got4Bardsfromdifferentservers

[Adire]

Lots of MCH hate here.

I'm really enjoying playing MCH, doing pretty well with it.

However, I've been paired with awful melee DPS a lot since playing it.

Whine and complain about bad players, not about "bad" jobs. Jobs that the end game raiding scene, the most difficult content in the game, can't live without and that don't hold groups back in it.

Also, GB isn't nearly as bad as people are saying.

[ohmRICE]

Going by luckybancho's census: on Aether there are a total of 8571 players with level 60 MCH and 99252 players who have Heavensward.
Let's assume everyone who has Heavensward is at level cap and doing their thing. If everyone who had MCH at level 60 actively plays it that'd only be around 9% of the population.

But we all know that all those people aren't actively playing MCH, let alone sitting through DPS queue as one so the percentage only falls from there.
Personally, I enjoy MCH the most out of all the jobs in the game so I was a little shocked going through these numbers!

[Colorful]

This is false #Got4Bardsfromdifferentservers

It does prioritize finding one ranged and one melee, especially in dungeons but it won't delay your queue by a large amount to do that. If the queue is too long and it can't find your 'opposite', it'll search for whoever.

[Docent]

This is false #Got4Bardsfromdifferentservers

As far as I am aware, it doesn't do that for VoidArk and the likes. Not too sure for Trials or Alexanders, but seeing as 3 BRD + 1 MCH is a compo I stumble upon often enough, I'm willing to bet it doesn't.

So to clarify my statement; in 4-man party, the DF will try to make a tank - healer - melee - ranged group (preferably). Yes, I have seen double monk teams in DF, and I have seen MCH + BRD often, but sometimes it's because friend queue together, other times it's because there's just too many ranged playing at the same time.

Hence "you'll see MCH the least" not "You'll never get a MCH in your party if you are playing one."