MCH, still as bad?

[RiceisNice]

No... The former is statistically sound and the latter is not. There is no inaccuracy to the average. MCH is not underrepresented, there are actually more players playing bard (due to bard being out 4 years ago and machinist 6 months), if anything they over represent MCH since I'm sure there are more than 10 times the amount of players playing the older classes individually than the newer classes individually.

It's inaccurate to use as a comparison to something that has a much larger data sample, versus using it as an average for individual performance. And the fact that it's a "new job" isn't a good excuse for something to have a relatively smaller data to compare, looking at DRK:PLD numbers.

Managing CDs at that time becomes a little annoying. Instead of popping wildfire at the beginning of each leg you may have to wait until after adds if you want your wildfire to do much of anything. Takes some adjustment if you're not used to it. But it does for any job.

Wildfire is probably the only big difference between a BRDand MCH. It's both frustrating and satisfying to use, the very nature of it makes it very inflexible to when it can be done; burst damage on adds or trash is out of the question if they die too fast, and wildfire by itself is very ineffective, especially if you can't dedicate the full 15 seconds. It's different, and messing up wildfire (which in itself is less veristile and flexible in it's use) is more detrimental to a BRD missing an extra GCD or two during their cooldowns; you have that feeling of dying inside when you goofed up wildfire, but oyu'd have to actually try (or mess up cooldown timing big time) to goof up something like barrage empyreal.

BRDs in A1S should pull ahead of equally skilled/geared MCH with the same comp if they are keeping both Oppressor's dotted at all times due to BRD dot potency alone. If they're not doing this, then yea, it's not difficult for a MCH to pull equal or slightly better numbers. One 30s dot is easier to manage than two 18s dots. The dot upkeep on BRD, especially while handling adds, requires more thought to GCD management. And if you drop your dots on BRD 2 GCDs are required to correct the error. Much greater potency loss compared to dropping Lead Shot for a GCD. Things to consider.

As mentioned earlier, the percentiles are averages that are missing some context if you just look at it for face value. If you look at the maximum parsed performance, there's a whooping 100 dps difference between the best recorded BRD and MCH.