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Actually, Machinist has fallen hard. While still technically meta, Summoner has eclipsed it the top tier speed kills—with Black Mage closely nipping on its heels. This is due to its clunky gameplay, high ping dependency and Hypercharge being lackluster. They cling to their spot almost entirely because NIN/DRG/BRD synergize so well with their rotation.

As for Samurai, the buffs offered are negligible at best. You will scarcely notice unless you're pulling nearly 7,000. At which point... you already had a better chance than most to get into a good group. Slashing, meanwhile, is borderline worthless. No one takes Samurai for Slashing because the odds are exceedingly low you won't have Warrior or Ninja. Furthermore, Slashing is actually a DPS loss on Samurai as it either has to gimps its own rotation by applying it early, thus Midare will miss all raid buffs, or the raid is forced to wait seven GCDs instead of two or three.