Idea's for Machinist going forward.

[Garnix]

Minor thing, but that is really the only job for which this bothers me : make the battery gauge useful in AoE. Seriously...why is it not?
Flamethrower needs some help, as everyone as been mentioning for years.
Overall DPS should be quite a bit higher, and if they really don't want the job to have utility, then the job should get some animation lock or good ol' HW cast times to balance it out.
Or simply add FF6 Edgar's Debilitator as Machinist's trick attack.