Machinist needs help.

[Rymi64]

Can't say I disagree, if the job don't change I'm not going to keep playing it for another 2 years of boredom.

There is many issues to fix and I just hope they fix one. It's boring, it has little responsibilities and casters have more utility than ranged, you know the role that was supposed to be the Support DPS.
We have the shotgun animation and we can almost be certain it's an AoE and it could be tied to Spreadshot as a combo or the AoE version of Air Anchor.

They started the reveal with another AoE, it's honestly not looking good. ShB is a good base but that's the problem, it's a base while other jobs like DRG, NIN, GNB, BLM have something built upon it.

The shotgun and bards new arrow attack are probably gonna replace spread shot and quick noct not combo with them. My only hope they give it back cast times and actually lean into its selfish dps of phys range nature. With hypercharge you can allow them to be able to bypass the cast times and possibly even gain access to new ability. Now that they actually have a good base for it i think they can make it less bland (even though they probably wont give the turret back to the way it was in hw/sb).

I'd also say shb MCH is in the same boat as MNK, both are good bases and can be expanded on very easily. Meanwhile on the other side of the spectrum BLM and DRG are starting to stagnate and is kinda at a breaking point when it comes to what they can add to it that's exciting or big. Of the two sides it's kinda better to be on the strong base with a lot of room to grow side even if its boring for a time. Though thats just my opinion as someone who plays all the jobs XD

What other aoe? I didn’t know this? From the Benchmark all I can see was the shotgun aoe (a loner skill that will blend nicely with bio/flamethrower/ricochet as the skills that don’t interact) somesort of heatblast and Clean shot for some reason.

Not that I’m interested, aoes aren’t somthing to be excited over, much less MCH since it’s issues with fragmented skills are very much a issue and adding more of them would be a massive waste of creativity

The heat blast is probably the same heatblast and the cleanshot animation is probably just an animation reuse