Quote Originally Posted by Renryuu View Post
I know it's still too early to say anything, but I'm just hoping y'all could offer some insight or advice on which to go with for the whole of the expansion.
I havnt tried the new Machinest yet, but i have been playing the ever-loving-Kweh out of Dancer.

I'll say this. With Machinest (even pre-5.0) you have more 'skills/abilities' to use full-time, than Dancer does.

I love Dancer, it'll be my main class. BUT, its rotation can get a bit dull if you 'focus' on the rotation itself. You only get 2-skill chains. Ones AOE, ones Ranged Single-target. Each of the skills in those 2-shot chains have a chance of proccing their own 3rd skill, which then has a chance of procing a 4th. But if you get no procs, your stuck doing only 2 attacks (be it the AOE chain, or the Single-target Ranged Chain). Beyond that, you have the Standard-step you can do every 30 seconds-ish, which does a nice burst-damage to a close target + aoe damage to other surrounding targets. But the 'main' Damage boost skill (The 4 step skill) has a long cooldown so is only ever used once or twice per encounter.

With Machinest, i see it having more 'to do' constantly, whereas the Dancer has that bit of RNG to contend with in order to 'not' simply hit the same two skills over and over again.

As i said.. i LIKE Dancer, because i can still enjoy the class, despite it sometimes turning into a 2-button class. But it may not suite you

Only way you will 'really' know, is if you give each a fair shot. Level Dancer from its starting lvl 60, to lvl 70, and level Machinest up to whatever the next 10th level is for you, and see which you like better.