New MCH “Buffs” Are Insulting

[Reka_Aia]

Pretty short and sweet - overall dancer got a roughly 5% increase in overall potency output. Dancer even has a higher potency per minute output than MCH (including tech step here).

60 Potency between long cool down abilities means the difference between BRD and MCH is a minor minor DPS loss (like a fraction of a percentage) for Battle Voice, Minne, passive buff as well.

Either raise MCH overall potency output or give us some of our support skills from 4.x back or come up with new ones (Palisade equivalent, and healing received single target buff would be nice).

Because right now there’s no reason to bring MCH. As a selfish DPS it fails hard. We should be competing with some casters. RDM can wipe the floor with MCH in terms of dmg and brings a raise, magic barrier and addle.

[MidhoiHidmoi]

Why is the dev team so afraid of giving MCH actual damage buffs? BRD is still stronger than MCH, so why should i even bring it to savage/ultimate knowing that I'm griefing my team since BRD does more in terms of raid damage contribution combined their own personal dps? The 0.8% “buff” makes absolutely no sense. Hell, having a "selfish" ranged physical DPS in a category consisting of mainly support DPS jobs makes no sense either.

[CKNovel]

I don't understand this "buff".

They said they were stingy on pure DPS but 0.9% of DPS increase is not "stingy", it's simply doing something for the sake of doing something.
I was looking forward 6.08 but now I'm even more scared for 6.1.

If the dev wants "nicer feedback" they should also respect their playerbase rather than spitting in our face with barebone potency upgrade. This whole situation starts to feel like a "us vs them".

[Kolsykol]

Granted it's not 6.1 but it's a bit lel when others got much bigger buffs.
NIN buffs kinda lackluster too imo...

[Hammerhorn]

For the amount of things MCH doesn’t bring to the party it’s a pretty sad lil buff. They need either a lot more dps or some kinda raid dps buff.

[Keiisuke]

I don't understand the purpose of this buff either, this doesn't solve the issue at all and it bring even more frustration to see that the dev team or whoever design the job seems like they don't even know what they are doing with MCH.

[Commander_Justitia]

Maybe it is hard to not make them completely crazy strong in potd, as they are already the best class there. But then they could focus on post lvl60 abilities

[JungoBungo]

Sometimes I legitimately have no idea what they are thinking with regards to Machinist and the more patches we get where it's stayed in this state, the happier I am that I finally bit the bullet and just switched to MNK. I just want the job I enjoyed the most to have a reason to exist in a party, but apparently it's been far too much to ask for years now.

[CKNovel]

Maybe it is hard to not make them completely crazy strong in potd, as they are already the best class there. But then they could focus on post lvl60 abilities

There is a trait at lv84 that improves your 1 2 3.
We all expected that they would buff jobs through these traits to keep Ultimate and Deep Dungeon untouched but 6.08 touched none of these traits.

[Seraphor]

They could have at least reduced the cooldown on Reassemble as welln that would compound these buffs as it's used exclusively with these skills, and the 2nd charge it gained with EW is functionally useless outside of the opener.