Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
MCH is your selfish physical ranged.
It doesn't have any utility besides the Role skills and Hypercharge (which is a semi-selfish utility like Trick Attack or SAM's slashing debuff anyway) and it deals significant damage, if you get your wildfire rotation off ok.

When they decided to make the Bards utility Role skills they eliminated any chance of a purely selfish physical ranged DPS.

Oh and MCH should totally get a Bazooka as a +70 ability in the next expansion. XD
It should be a 180s oGCD that ends Wildfire when used, so it's used as a finisher.
Excuse me if I am wrong, but in my knowledge machinists have not parsed nowhere near the top in stormblood, in fact they are one of the lowest. As for utility yeah they don't have as much as bard, but you forgot to mention dismantle which is not insignificant. Hypercharge and dismantle take machinist more to a debuffer kind of support and both of those are very strong support abilities.