Dragoon only real option for DPS with 2h?

[Boocraft]

Hmm I'll probably give it another try at it and play at it for a couple of levels. As a summoner/arcanist.

What about machinist. I tried a bard but I didn't enjoy it because of the support abilties. Is machinist more aggressive of a job in terms of all like dps abilities. Don't mind the damage because I'm sure they will be buffed sooner or later since I heard about people saying the dps is bad.

Also does machinist have all instant cast skills?

[SovereignAegis]

Hmm I'll probably give it another try at it and play at it for a couple of levels. As a summoner/arcanist.

What about machinist. I tried a bard but I didn't enjoy it because of the support abilties. Is machinist more aggressive of a job in terms of all like dps abilities. Don't mind the damage because I'm sure they will be buffed sooner or later since I heard about people saying the dps is bad.

Also does machinist have all instant cast skills?

Machinist and Bard are extremely similar.

Bard and MCH are both burdened with WM/Gauss Barrel cast-times, they both are stuck on the fact that they offer "utility" (I find MCH's "utility" a joke to be honest it is so weak... 5% debuff for 10s on 90s cooldown sharing a timer with their other 5% debuff. Oh and it's magic/physical damage debuff restricted too). And their 5% damage increase is situational and shares a cooldown with their doubled MP/TP regain and can't have both up at the same time without some VERY tricky/fancy weaving (I tried) and that's stil only 5% and on a cooldown of 120 seconds.

They are both burdened by the same issues.

Only difference is BRD is a "priorty" dps system whereas Machinist is more RNG. They both play extremely similar outside of that.




If you want the truth I feel like
-Their damage is the same
-BRD offers more utility, flat out more, while offering the same MP/TP regain that MCH does.
-BRD is much simpler to play, less attention needs to be paid to RNG procs, reload/quick reload, etc.
-I think BRD honestly does more damage because you weave off-GCD abilities through your GCDs much more quickly. Like the execute = 12s cooldown for BRD, 30 for MCH. Difference feels even larger in actual gameplay. The BRD gets more DoT's (2) whereas MCH manually must place turrets.

However I feel that MCH offers more AoE damage if you want the truth. I feel that MCH stands out there. But realize both are burdened by the same burdens aside from that. MCH and BRD are burended with WM/Gauss cast times.


<- 60 MCH.