Quote Originally Posted by brinn12 View Post
After 3 expansions of buffs and the job still being banned from PFs in relevant content, it's clear that MCH needs a raid buff to function. There's no other solution. Samurai does fine without one because it can be pushed to the top of the charts, and its counterparts have a 5% raid buff at most.
So long as no other role outperforms even the 1% stat bonus to every party member that taking at least one Ranger provides, MCH doesn't need to be able to be buffed up to topping the charts. It need only be able to compete in cDPS with BRD and DNC even when not being buffed by DNC (because it won't be, because it's not BLM/SAM/VPR).

Note that SAM also has to compete with a role (melee + BLM) that likewise leaves everyone else in the dust and yet it manages that just fine even when you remove the results of all single-target buffs from its meters. With Dancer being a non-factor, nothing separates the situation of MCH within its role from that of SAM in its role.

MCH getting a raid buff wouldn't be the end of the world by any stretch, but short of Savage 4-man content forcing VPR and SAM, too, to syphon some of their personal power into raidbuffs instead, there is zero need for MCH to give a raid buff.