Fastest and most engaging class

[SaitoHikari]

There is a difference between "Poor RNG that dictates your whole gameplay" and "tricky and engaging RNG".

The hilarious part is, an example of both exists in this very game. Compare how MCH RNG works compared to BRD.

MCH RNG boosts the potency of their attacks, and it's based on a flat rate that the MCH cannot manipulate except by reloading.

BRD RNG lets them launch their attacks more often, and it's based on their own personal critical hit stat AND party buffs. BRD RNG is harder to control overall due to the number of factors being considered (gearing, how many mobs are being affected by DoT, whether or not there are any party members that can boost crit rate). In theory though, Bards can recover from bad RNG later in a fight since most of their RNG revolves around straight-up ability spam (turning a normally time-restricted resource into potentially unlimited and spammable via RNG - a strength no other job can wield anywhere nearly as satisfying as Bard can do now), while MCHs really cannot because their RNG is tied to mere potency increases on their GCDs, of which their GCDs can already be thought of as a time-restricted resource. That's not even mentioning that for Bards, since it's their DoTs that determine the majority of their procs, they get their bonuses triggering independently while the Bard is off doing other things, while Machinists have to do things in a very specific order while praying to the RNG gods.

What I mean is that Bards benefit MASSIVELY from their crits in a very exponential sense, while MCH wrestles with very boring flat RNG that is somehow simultaneously restrictive and makes all the difference in the world for them in the process. Bard straight up feels better because their RNG is designed better. Or, to also put it in simpler terms, if BRD RNG revolved entirely around the way that Straighter Shot/Refulgent Arrow procs (the only RNG Bards cannot manipulate in any way AND requires use of a specific attack to fish for the proc), Bards would be crying bloody murder. Because that's exactly what Machinist is dealing with.