[Machinist] What is going on?

[CKNovel]

MCH can bring a DPS far superior than DNC and BRD on his own. (In under normal circonstance, He will replace DNC/BRD because of the ranged slot)
DNC/BRD Heavily rely on the team. If the team isn't good, they won't be either. (People who dies constantly, who don't do their rotation correctly, who don't keep uptime, etc etc... Many factor goes into account)

Obviously if you remove DPS provided by the buff don't act surprised that MCH is above.
BRD and DNC don't depends on their team, you're getting the whole thing backward.
BRD and DNC provides buffs, they did their job. How the team makes uses of these buffs doesn't impact BRD&DNC performances.

In a scenario where someone bursts outside the raid buff, it will only impact the whole group DPS and the colored numbers on FFLogs.
And we all know that FFLogs isn't a representation of skill.

Why is that ? Can you compare the rDPS of a DNC linked to a SAM with a 615 Weapon, against the same DNC but with a SAM with a 635 weapon ?

No you can't !

Yes you can.
Even more, you must compare those.

DNC is the only job that can gain rDPS because their dance partner has a higher ilvl.
It's a unique advantage that will always make DNC superior to MCH&BRD.
MCH scales better with gear than BRD or DNC but still remains lower than all the melees.

Which means MCH is the best candidate of the ranged role to receive gear but the worst candidate of the DPS role to receive gear.
DNC doesn't care, if the SAM is getting fed, the Dance Partner will have increased value for free.
This is a strength of DNC we can't ignore if we want to make MCH a viable choice.