Would A Rifle Job Ever Be Possible?

[Ghastly]

It is subjective though its a shared opinion of a majority of players I've spoken with in game that have actually played and lvled MCH to 70. There are a lot of thoughts on what could be tweaked slightly to make it better and more fluid but its not being abandoned by almost the entire player base because of playstyle and aesthetics like the other person is claiming it is.

Maybe this person just doesn't encounter many of them. Maybe this person's server just doesn't have many. However this person's claims to the causes of MCH being viewed as unpopular come off as fabricated data to cover up that they wanted a pirate themed gun user instead of an engineer based one.

As far as guns go there could easily be another gun user later that causes a split in guns to be rifles and pistols. 1handed swords and knives were both GLA/PLD weapons until SE added ROG/NIN and pulled all the knives from the GLA/PLD weapon list and replaced them with equivalent 1 handed swords. Something that might be warranted as the animations and gauss barrel have issues with the smaller guns currently in game. IMO I think MCH would be the pistol user in this case as the skill animations and attacks utilize the gun 1 handed which makes the run animation seem more out of place.

At least I'm providing solutions


All you're doing is providing personal encounters instead of real data. Real data like the census the dev team conducts every year which shows machinist as the least popular class every year.

If it's not playstyle and aesthetics that is holding machinist down then what is it? It's not raid utility and class effectiveness. In HW they were better than bard and were used for some of their utility as well in the savage content. But outside of savage it wasn't used (according to the dev's official census). In general it's not even something to be disputed, logically it's visible that machinists are rare. Go into any alliance raid, raid, and hunts. You barely will see 1 here and there and could go days without seeing one completely.

But I put the question to you now, if it's not aesthetics and how fun it is to play to then what is it that keeps machinist unpopular? Again, mch was better than bard in HW yet more people played bard so your raid utility excuse holds no water.
Just because you think you're right and like mch doesn't mean that you're right.