Quote Originally Posted by LunarEmerald View Post
The only thing that's going to fix machinist is potency increases. Nothing else is going to help because they will be inferior to bard. Machinist needs to have dps that always suprasses bard since bard has more far more utility. On fflogs, top bards are parsing 300-500 dps higher than top machinists. They need a massive damage buff to achieve this.
I don't know if this is realistic because BRD is a slot machine and can spike really high with good RNG. The max value for BRD is always going to be high but shouldn't be taken at face value. The average value should be higher though.