Machinist needs some reworking

[CKNovel]

Alright so...

2 weeks since Dragonsong Reprise is out and there isn't a single MCH clear registered as of now.
Of course, there will be MCH clearing the content later on.

But I believe it's great to point out the MCH problems in DSR:
-Lack of utility or mitigation to compete with Improvisation, Cure Waltz and Nature's Minne and Warden's Pean that all proved to be valuable in Ultimate.
-Gauge based gameplay that suffers from long downtime, 13-15% comes from the AQ, a good 10-12% comes from heatblast.
-Crap damage that doesn't make it for its "pure DPS" status, especially against multiple targets where BRD and DNC will naturally cleave.

I believe it's important that SQEX aknowledge the state of MCH not being appealing.
If they still refuse to buff MCH, they should at least look into shifting the power from the AQ/Heatblast into non-gauge based.

The job feels worthless and unrewarding, playing it feels like griefing the party. Please do something.

[Tsumdere]

Alright so...

2 weeks since Dragonsong Reprise is out and there isn't a single MCH clear registered as of now.
Of course, there will be MCH clearing the content later on.

But I believe it's great to point out the MCH problems in DSR:
-Lack of utility or mitigation to compete with Improvisation, Cure Waltz and Nature's Minne and Warden's Pean that all proved to be valuable in Ultimate.
-Gauge based gameplay that suffers from long downtime, 13-15% comes from the AQ, a good 10-12% comes from heatblast.
-Crap damage that doesn't make it for its "pure DPS" status, especially against multiple targets where BRD and DNC will naturally cleave.

I believe it's important that SQEX aknowledge the state of MCH not being appealing.
If they still refuse to buff MCH, they should at least look into shifting the power from the AQ/Heatblast into non-gauge based.

The job feels worthless and unrewarding, playing it feels like griefing the party. Please do something.

I was progging DSU on MCH at first. I was becoming increasingly frustrated with the frequent boss jumps and my Tact barely doing anything when there is tons of raidwide damage.

I swapped to DNC for funsies, and suddenly my entire team's DPS skyrocketed. We met the Knights/Thordan DPS checks easier, I had more mobility to correct positioning mistakes in towers, and I brought more mitigation that actually made a difference to the healers so much they don't want me to go back to MCH.

This felt terrible. I've always cleared savage/ultimate on MCH as it's my favourite job. I've so much experience on MCH - I parse in high purples/oranges. I picked up DNC for a single day and two hours of hitting a dummy and I was already steamrolling over my MCH DPS and easing the stress put on my team to make up for my lack of damage and mitigation.

Please buff MCH. Please give it the selfish DPS that it needs.