machinist main crashing out

[CVXIV]

Wait, is that why they nerfed Scattergun? Because they want me to use my MCH-exclusive emote during combat for some reason?

Nah it's mostly me joking about how randomly they'd buff the flamethrower skill throughout several patches despite it generally being pretty useless

Granted I'm not a machinist main but I do like the job, at least aesthetically
It's kind of a mess and has been for awhile, it desperately needs to be reworked

For instance, your autocrossbow doesn't refresh the timer on your other AoE skill like the single target one does which makes it clunky imo

[ZXN]

All the machinist mains screaming as Yoshi-P himself drags them behind the shed to "politely" try to convert them to Bard/Dancer with the recent buffs/nerfs.

Physical ranged jobs are essentially the "support" jobs due to all the buffs they have access to. That combined with their much higher freedom of movement means the devs keep ranged DPS weaker then the Melee/Casters DPS jobs via the good ol "ranged tax" so they don't overshadow them in terms of raw damage. In Machinist's case though, it's support IS it's DPS output. But because the devs seem to still have this mindset of "Ranged DPS are support jobs so they need to stay weaker then the main Melee/Caster jobs DPS wise" they don't give Machinist the bigger DPS numbers it should have, and because Machinist is suppose to be the "You support your team by dealing much more damage then Bard/Dancer" job, they don't give it that many support buffs compared to them, leading to job that's kind of just...exists.

Machinist really is in a shitty spot balance wise when compared to Bard/Dancer, and at this point I wouldn't be surprised if it's because of some old school mindset Yoshi-P and the devs REALLY want to keep upheld at all costs for some reason, even though the balance between all the jobs was torn to shreds long ago.