Thread: Extremely disappointed with 6.1 MCH buffs

Please listen to your community on this, SE. There has been MULTIPLE treads made by people (including the OP) about the ping issues that plague this job. Multiple easy fixes exist like simply reducing the animation lock on heatblast, gauss round and Ricochet. I get MCH is probably your least played job overall but some people truly want to enjoy it.

It needs more damage. These buffs while a good start still aren't no where near enough to make them compete with their peers. Especially since both bard and DNC will scale better when their team gets better. Heatblast on its own is barely able to compete with the base combo action and only out edges it due to its reset mechanic on our ogcds. Giving more potency on queen isn't what was needed. MCH was about 6% behind both bard and dancer, this isn't even half of what the job needed. Wildfire is still a very small part of our damage that cannot scale with crit or direct hit and is still one of the weakest 2 minutes. The PvP changes to the job look fantastic and bring back an old favorite of some in the form of bishop auto turret. Would it be possible to have similar changes done to the PvE side of things or at the very least make it competitive with the others?

You claim your view on balance should be bring the player not the job, yet it feels disheartening when my raid group has better kill times when I raid on either DNC or BRD who don't even have their raid weapons compared to my MCH which I raided with since HW. And it isn't a skill issue, I constantly rank in the top 50 MCH players in online rankings. Most of us aren't asking to become as strong as BLM or SAM but at least put us in a better place than last as a DPS that bring nothing to its team.

I get that MCH is no where near as popular as SAM or RPR and such and so little time is given to it but this is part of the issue. The job never gets to shine or have a spotlight. It's always dismissed as a secondary thought, or at least it feels like it. The last time where MCH felt like it was thought of was in HW. Most of stormblood it felt like an afterthought waiting to be reworked and then ShB's issues never got looked at to this day.

I am lucky I have a more hardcore static that doesn't force me to switch off my personal favorite job. A lot of groups simply just don't allow MCHs in them.