Lock and Load: The Reassembled Machinist Guide

[Cetonis]

Foe gives an average of about +12.5% (after Battle Voice) damage, to around 25% of the group DPS, for around 30% of a fight. Give or take depending on healer DPS levels and consistency, how long the quality uptimes are, jumps/breaks etc. In any case, in theoryland it's something like a 0.925% increase to raid damage overall.

The old HC was about 0.6% (excluding the MCH itself), which was a problem. Now, it gives +10% damage to around 60% of the group DPS, for around 25% of a fight. Again, give or take, maybe needing to hold it for a burst phase or such, etc. But in a vacuum, we're looking at about a 1.5% increase to raid damage.

So now it's a decided advantage over Bard, and much moreso than the reverse was true in 3.0. However, Bard still has advantages in multi-target damage, so it's kind of a matter of whether we get a Midas tier that looks more like Gordias (mostly very BRD-friendly), or one that looks more like Second Coil (mostly MCH-friendly) or Final Coil (kind of mixed).