Quote Originally Posted by ForteNightshade View Post
Machinist can never pull Black Mage or current Monk numbers otherwise Melee DPS serve zero purpose. They're inherently at a disadvantage due to being the only DPS forced to entirely stop attacking based on range. While the solution is often janky uptime strats... why bother with those when you can simply run all range jobs and achieve the same overall damage without any drawbacks?
To play devil's advocate...

Stacking MCH (or anything more than two ranged) comes with a whole percent off of the total rDPS, which at 75k is substantial. There's a post right now theorizing you could double stack BLM over taking BLM+BRD and the loss means nothing; this is because of how much more damage BLM does than bard, but hypothetically if MCH and, say, SAM, did the same damage it wouldn't serve total rDPS well to just stack MCH over taking MCH+SAM. At most maybe you'd have people going 2r1m1c.