Machinist needs help.

[CKNovel]

When I look at FFlogs, the second EX for example.
MCH is just bellow MNK in Ndps and in the middle in terms of raid dps.

Looking at most of the other fights they seem to be around the middle just bellow BLM which is pretty dumb all things considered.

I think you should filter a bit your data.
If you use every data, it would be like mixing the rich and the poor from a country, making an average and saying the poor don't need better salary.
Plus you are looking at an EX where you can literally pad your damage through the add phases.

So I'm not sure where this low damage rumors are coming from but based on data from certain websites, MCH isn't in a bad place DPS wise. My problem is some of the skills just don't make sense anymore and Physical Ranged DPS Role has really lost it's meaning. It's nothing more now than an extra sprint and minor Defense buff which job in other roles have too.

This is agree with.
IMO, ranged should have a lot of supportive actions, hell I even hoped Peleton would be reworked into something like Expedient...
Mitigation and party survival should be their secondary role, that would explain the ceiling forced upon the ranged role.

[Kolsykol]

I think you should filter a bit your data.
If you use every data, it would be like mixing the rich and the poor from a country, making an average and saying the poor don't need better salary.
Plus you are looking at an EX where you can literally pad your damage through the add phases.

Everyone can pad their damage on add phases and I didn't only look at the EX fights.
Only the third raid fight has adds.

On the fights without adds MCH is still only VERY slightly bellow MCH ( in a matter of 10 dps ).
Granted to some extent this is also probably because the average BLM player isn't that great and doesn't have as high uptime as they should but MCH doesn't look bad at all to me.