I think MCH needs more support tools because didn't they say MCH was supposed to be made into a support/dps, and that is why the DPS is lowest out of everyone? It does not seem to be made up though the limited support they do offer. My friend was on BLM (and to my understanding is one of the higher single target dps) trying to do light farm. even in a1s, they wiped once due to lack of DPS, once the 2MCH left it went fast again.

So point is there is a few issues here:
BRD and MCH need different gear sets, or... add more options then 1 item so people can pick the needed sub stat, or balance the sub stats completely while getting rid of accuracy (with only 2 sub stats and 1 gear limit, like only having one script option, means there is no room for accuracy to be in the game, it is too hard on healers, and accuracy matters in such a small amount of content, why have it?)
lower complexity or give tutorials on it.
remove the rng aspect on combos, dps seems to be too low when you are unlucky, make ammo just a damage buff.

Quote Originally Posted by Ghastly View Post
Really good discussion here.

As for me if they just drop hotshot that would go a long way to making MCH fun. It's incredibly redundant. We already have to prebuff blood for blood/raging/hawk's eye and wildfire (when it's there). So all this pre-buffing gets really tedious when you throw in hotshot.

Hotshot has no business being there. We already have to use gauss barrel and the buffs I mentioned above.

What say you machinists? Would you be ok with completely removing hotshot and giving its potency to the main "shot" skills by default or maybe to the ammo?
but you need hot shot to have respectable dps..