Why is Machinist DPS SOOOO BAD?

[Fannah]

Also rook overload seriously need a buff. It is straight out a potency lost even under hypercharge and it crit during WF:

turret up for 30s: 80*10=800
crit overload with WF: 400*1.5*1.25*1.05=787.5

Unless combined with like trick attack, the balance, other 5% damage buff, it is still only ~200 higher, and that is when it crit. If it doesn't crit, it is a potency lost no matter what.

I agree the skill looks weak, but you still have to consider its burst utility in dps check phase. Thinking SE believe it to be a viable dps thing would be wrong. You need to dps, let the turret attack over time. You need to burst for dps check, blow up that turret at the end of this dps check phase. Then very often after such phase, there is a moment where to boss jumps/gets invulnerability/untargetable. So meanwhile a turret wouldn't have attack either. Don't look at what it doesn't do. Look at what it does.