Quote Originally Posted by SnowVix View Post
Every subrole of DPS has a "selfish" job. MCH is the physical ranged selfish job. Unless they strip all the utility away from DNC or BRD (or make a new physical ranged), you're not getting utility.
We're two expansions in now and this philosophy has completely failed. They completely gutted all the nuance from Bard only to stare back with a Surprised Pikachu face when the community abandoned it wholesale. Machinist existed last expansion but it was pretty much the Dancer show by a country mile. Now we're in Endwalker and Bard utterly dominated until the 6.08 buffs made Dancer not a troll pick. Unfortunately, Machinist remains more or less worthless. So this is three years of them not being able to balance selfish/hybrid/buff jobs in the physical range role. And a good number of people don't want them to. They want old utility like Refresh and Palisade to come back.

What the devs envision just hasn't worked.