It’s wild to me that they’ve spent since Shadowbringers trying to force square Machinist into the circle hole for melee. Like it doesn’t matter how many bits you cut off it’s never going to fit properly.

Yet they insist on making it ‘pure selfish dps’ as if it’s somehow ever going to compete with the likes of Samurai, Black Mage (if properly balanced) or probably even Pictomancer. So it can’t compete in its own sub role because literally 0 support (Dismantle barely counts lol), can’t compete in other sub roles because of the ranged dps tax.

They desperately need to commit to either giving Machinists dps commensurate to the ‘pure selfish dps’ title, or give it support to compete with Bard and Dancer within its own role. Because otherwise it just kind of fails at everything lol, similar to Bard