Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
It hasn't been a "ranged" tax in a while. It's a "somehow far simpler than even the average FFXIV job" tax atop rez perhaps being mildly undervalued relative to TacticalSambaToir (though that balance is difficult to pin down, since rez has no value until things go wrong). Note the accordant differences between Bard, Dancer, and Machinist. The Physical Ranged role is no monolith despite their shared relative hypermobility.
The primary wall I run into with Machinist is that all the buffs people want to put into it means I start destroying literally everyone but the max parses they refer to when pointing out how weak Machinist is, and frankly to me that feels wrong. Maybe it's stockholm syndrome, but I don't consider myself good at the rooty tooty run and shooty, just practiced, so even something that sounds mild like "Just removing the ranged tax" or "Increase to be the same as X melee" or something similar seems excessive, and grossly so.

Insert blah blah role system needs to be revamp blah blah shove the problem children into one role blah blah.