Quote Originally Posted by Zojha View Post
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It is subjective though its a shared opinion of a majority of players I've spoken with in game that have actually played and lvled MCH to 70. There are a lot of thoughts on what could be tweaked slightly to make it better and more fluid but its not being abandoned by almost the entire player base because of playstyle and aesthetics like the other person is claiming it is.

Maybe this person just doesn't encounter many of them. Maybe this person's server just doesn't have many. However this person's claims to the causes of MCH being viewed as unpopular come off as fabricated data to cover up that they wanted a pirate themed gun user instead of an engineer based one.

As far as guns go there could easily be another gun user later that causes a split in guns to be rifles and pistols. 1handed swords and knives were both GLA/PLD weapons until SE added ROG/NIN and pulled all the knives from the GLA/PLD weapon list and replaced them with equivalent 1 handed swords. Something that might be warranted as the animations and gauss barrel have issues with the smaller guns currently in game. IMO I think MCH would be the pistol user in this case as the skill animations and attacks utilize the gun 1 handed which makes the run animation seem more out of place.