My long-standing gripes with MCH and physical ranged in general

[AxelDH]

I don't feel like Machinist needs any more damage buffs at the moment. Take a look at the Savage statistics for the last couple of weeks at the 95th percentile, there's barely any difference between the physical ranged now. Certainly not enough to blacklist the class.

But there clearly hasn't been much MCH representation in Ultimate so far. Perhaps people aren't bringing them for reasons other than damage, such as:

- A bad reputation. People have heard 'MCH Bad' so they believe this to be true
- Lack of alternative utility. Dancers can dash around and can heal. Bards have Natures Minne, Wardens Paean and even Repelling Shot I guess (Paean might be useless in this fight, but prog groups wouldn't have known that in advance)
- Less familiarity with the class / already switched mains. Because MCH was behind the other ranged DPS for months now, a lot of physical ranged players had already switched to BRD or DNC, and there's no reason to switch back to a class that they are less familiar on, just to have roughly equal DPS but less utility.

I think what Machinist really needs to make it more desirable is to gain some unique utility skills. And they could honestly double down on the utility side of things with the ranged physical role in general. Like... they could give a defibrillator tool to MCH for an in combat res, bring back Palisade, allow in combat Peleton, add a regen song. Those kind of things.