Quote Originally Posted by ForteNightshade View Post
That all said, I do believe the Range should be buffed so bringing two of them isn't such a massive loss. However, putting Machinist at Samurai levels makes it better than Samurai is every facet. It offers better utility, free mobility and now equal damage. Why would you ever consider Samurai? In fact, this pretty much makes Dragoon and Ninja the only melee groups would even look at because of their utility. Monk doesn't offer enough and Samurai is, as I said, a worse Machinist in this hypothetical.
For me a mch should be under a sam, dont get me wrong, but it shouldnt be under everything else either. Like if your team had a DRG, a BRD and a SMN (random pick): you have all 3 roles, thus last pick should be up to your heart content, and yet, if you bring a mch or a dancer, you will handicap your team more than bringing any other job in the game even tho you already have a baiter. That's where my point is, if you already have all role bonuses, if you take any jobs instead of the mch, you will have buffs, rezzes, and 600 to 1k5 dps more dps easily. In SB, brd was the most OP dps in the game technically, even tho their pdps wasnt the highest (even tho respectable) it was bringing so much no one ever wanted a mch, and it was competing against caster for the last slot, that's something I dont want to happen here, it just dont feel right that as long as you have all 3 roles, bringing a second ranged just make you lose that much.