Considering of how many people these days posting on the forum and Balance discord about how "useless" MCH is, I feel like there's some clarification that needs to be properly communicated to the dev team on what actually is the problem with MCH and not just saying "IT NEEDS MORE DAMAGE".
To begin with, no. It doesn't need more damage nor any potency buff will fix the problem with MCH. The overall issue with damage is not an inherent problem with MCH but a problem of the Phys Range class in general. Phys Range are supposed to be bottom of everything else because of the "mobility tax". You can disagree with this concept all you want but that is the fact and that is the current situation of Phys Range. MCH being a selfish dps should always be put in under quotation because it simply just means selfish dps for the Phys Range. I.e., It will always be the highest ADPS job compared to the other 2
So where does this high ADPS role in phys range puts them into?
- Consistency. If you played MCH well, you are guaranteed to always do X amount of damage minimum regardless of your party comps. And this minimum amount of damage is ALWAYS more than enough to clear any content. Including Ultimate. Including Dragonsong. This is a fact and if any of you saying that this is not the case: Either you are just not good enough with the class or your party members are not good enough on their class. Changing to DNC or BRD will not solve your dps problems. Because both DNC and BRD value only shines on teams that can actually line up their burst properly. That is why most high-end groups are running DNC or BRD, because you don't need to question whether they are able to properly do rotation or not. It's not going to magically gives you an advantage if you suddenly change to DNC or BRD. If your dance partner dies, there goes your contribution down the drain for the fight. MCH doesn't have this problem. It's only a problem if you died or you mess up rotation. So if you're saying that people who are taking MCH is grieving people in Ultimate, look at your own job and see if you yourselves are pulling the weight or not.
- Flexibility. Especially for ultimate, you have the ability to adjust and hold your burst timing depending if you need more burst or not. DNC and Bard simply do not have this flexibility to a degree because all you can afford is just pressing your 120s on cooldown. Example would be on Nidstinien phase where MCH don't need to completely waste every single resources on Nidstinien and can enter eyes with more resources. If there happens to be a damage down on a healer or weakness, then the MCH has the ability to then burst more in in nidstinien by using 100 robot, 3 heatblast during the buff timing. You can't save a run with technical or radiance because well the ones receiving your buffs are down in their damage by 25% at minimum.