MCH completely useless

[Ryaz]

I posted this in another thread, and I feel the same way you do:

Agree with everything you said. We suffer a LOT of penalties for being ranged, as does Bard, but it makes little sense as to why. My ninja does ridiculous damage, constantly keeps a 10% slashing debuff up and once a minutse throw up a 10% vulnerability debuff for 10 seconds. Oh, and I can give a party member TP regen without losing 15-20% of my DPS. Not to mention the new enmity control mechanics. Heck, my ninja is a better support class than my machinist. Top that off with the fact that machinist and bard have the lowest base weapon damage in the game (again, no clue as to why) and you really see just how bad both jobs are right now.

As for the excuse of dodging AoEs making melee tougher-- I have to dodge AoEs all the time in most fights. Heck, just finished Reactor for the first time yesterday and I lost so many casts from Gauss Barrel having to dodge AoEs, I just said screw it and took it off completely. Wasn't worth it.

All in all, machinist has some good, fun stuff, but it's all made weak for absolutely no reason other than "we're a ranged class".