BRD/MCH having their own piercing?

[Zerathor]

If you're going to come out swinging, perhaps you should research beforehand. Looking at the top ten speed runs of each fight Summoner appears...

Four times in Phantom Train; three other groups run triple melee
Once in Demon Chadarnok; seven of the remaining groups run triple melee
Nine times in Guardian
Eight times in Kefka
Five times in God Kefka

Not only does this not represent a monopoly but Machinist has been benched almost entirely in favor Summoner or triple melee. In the event piercing is removed, Machinist will straight up die without some tweaks. It's decidedly unpopular and provides nowhere near enough to compete with Summoner now, let alone without piercing.

I'm so sorry. It must be so painful to only have mch in 5/10 top god kefka speed runs. Such a tragedy. This needs to be fixed immediately, why shouldn't they be 10/10? Come on squeenix, think of the poor gun bards. Why should a ranged physical ever have to think of needing to compete with a.... caster.... gross. Casters can't be meta right?