I'm really eager for another bow job.

[Eraden]

We already are supposed to have that.

In theory Machinist is supposed to be the selfish physical ranged DPS because it does not have the support capabilities of the others but due to how SE decided to balance things it also does not have the DPS of Samurai or Black Mage. That could change if we went back to the old HW gauss barrel and bow mage casting mechanics but those were removed. Considering how they took away most of SMN's casting spells, high mobility seems to be how SE wants to have the game played so I don't see that coming back at all unless all the ranged jobs got warps like BLM does.

That brings me back to "why would they add another selfish ranged physical DPS when we already have one?" and "what could a new job in this class of jobs bring that would make it different than the others?".

Thank you for your reply. I was somewhat aware of the Machinist class but I honestly don't know much about them. I appreciate that you took time to fill in some of these details. If Machinist is the class that fulfills the role of selfish ranged physical DPS then I believe you are correct in thinking that we probably don't need another one. However, I am curious to know as to why they do less DPS than Black Mages. Do they have more vitality, or damage mitigation or more mobility?