My thoughts on machinist (Up to level 42)

[Croisciento]

I'll just leave this here : Do not judge classes/job when they're first released. Everyone was crying over SMN in 2.0 saying how terribad they were. Yes it was mostly due because parsers weren't parsing dots correctly but still. ppl couldn't say wether they were doing damage or not while it was OP as hell and it got nerfed multiple time.

What if it's the same case with the machinist? We don't know so it's only normal that with the 3 new classes you need time to know if it's gonna do well in raid content.

[Zyrusticae]

I'll just leave this here : Do not judge classes/job when they're first released. Everyone was crying over SMN in 2.0 saying how terribad they were. Yes it was mostly due because parsers weren't parsing dots correctly but still. ppl couldn't say wether they were doing damage or not while it was OP as hell and it got nerfed multiple time.

What if it's the same case with the machinist? We don't know so it's only normal that with the 3 new classes you need time to know if it's gonna do well in raid content.

This is completely unnecessary. The parsers are picking up everything correctly and it's extremely easy to do the math yourself, or even just run a dungeon once with a MCH and then once with a BRD (since they share so much gear, it's easy to have near-identical sets for both) and see the HUGE difference in clear speeds between the two classes.

30-39 in particular is extremely horrifying for MCH as the class was obviously designed with the turret in mind, but does not have the DPS to keep up even with the turret.