Quote Originally Posted by Kabooa View Post
I went Mach for my static in Stormblood since we needed refresh a ranged and I didn't have bard leveled.

Mach's "poor gameplay" was largely an exaggeration. The issue was it's irreconcilability with high ping. You need only look at Gunbreaker now and you can see Stormblood's Machinist loop, and it's being quite well received.
Excluding the fact that MCH had its main rotation be RNG and everything had to land during an unforgiving Wildfire burst window (which GNB's window is double the length and twice as often) and also had to work around an awkward buff window which had to be lined up just right since it triggered itself when you hit 100 heat automatically.

Numerically MCH was in a good spot, design wise it was in a terrible spot with a very large range of inconsistency. Hence why it got a rework which has been very well received with only minor complaints and feels powerful to play.