Add an equivalent of Mage's Ballad to MCH.

[KaiSunstrider]

I think the issue here is that the OP wants a buff to his own personal dps and believes that the machinist only cares about his own personal dps and therefore uses the physical resist down rather than magic resistance down. The primary issue isn't the mch being greedy but that a majority of comps have at max 1 caster and 1/2 healers that can do magic based dps while you typically have 2 melee a bard or even another mch in the group along with 2 tanks one of which is heavily physical based. If the group meta moved to a more magic based % of overall raid dps then I think the mch would move to using his magical debuffs instead but as this game is more physical damage heavy, MCH will always pick to use physical resist down. Bards only use for req because they have no other choice for raid dps songs. If they had a physical foe req equiv, they would likely favor it as well.

[Mavrias]

I know that. But you think that the mch will prefer buff the caster, over himself the melees and the tanks?. And i talking about maximun caster dps. Im main smn, and with a brd in the party i do 2900dps on a12s. But with a mch i do 2500dps. I dont want to be dependent of the brd to maximise my dps. Thats why I want an equivalent something from mch that buffs equally to foes and that buff the party also. I want to be able to maximise my dps, no matter the composition.

Why would he boost 3 magic damage users over 5 physical damage users? The party's total dps is more important than your individual dps.

[KaiSunstrider]

Why would he boost 3 magic damage users over 5 physical damage users? The party's total dps is more important than your individual dps.

Again, the op seems to be more concerned about his personal dps than the group dps.

[KaiSunstrider]

Why would he boost 3 magic damage users over 5 physical damage users? The party's total dps is more important than your individual dps.

Again, the op seems to be more concerned about his personal dps than the group dps.

[Maero]

I am sorry but i cannot agree AT ALL with the comment without Bard it is pointless to have a caster. Myself and other fellow casters do great damage wise, just having a Bard around is nice is all.
As for machinist it does in fact have the support toolkit similar to that of Bard. Can we wait until Stormblood to see how things are?
SE even if the slight chance someone does see this post (very doubtful) it is not like they will make changes from what they have already been working on for sometime.

[Nekopaul]

they already have, back in 3.O! and 4.0 they getting Refresh as a cross role.

people complain about bards not playing songs, 90% of MCH don't know they meant to fill the same role as bard yet no bats a eye...