Quote Originally Posted by Kabooa View Post
One would consider 1:2.5 compared to 1:8 a more favorable position, but then, I suppose that's asking too much.
Currently, there are 43,744 Bards. Thus, you're insinuating a 5% nerf to Bard would make Machinist the second most popular range job in the game. That just isn't going to happen. Even when it was decidedly better than Bard in Heavensward, people simply weren't as keen to play it. Machinist just isn't popular. It never has been even when it was meta.