I am actively convinced that they always want to make sure Machinist is bad and therefore isn't allowed to use his things unless he's made a free kill for the enemy.

Opening Bioblaster to THEN slap Wildfire was my favorite move on the class, especially if you follow it with a primed Air Anchor for a stunned low-health target. You could almost guarantee the kill with the LB at that point because even if it didn't kill and the guy went for a Purify-Guard, he would just die due to being low health on the DoT of Bio.

But instead... They increased Scatter Gun to 6k and made the Turret shield you more as if you're actually supposed to use it like that...

I hate balance guy so much...