[Machinist] What is going on?

[CKNovel]

The first fix that has to happen is DPS Job Roles. You can't have a "Caster" that has 80% of its spells free moving insta-cast along with 3% Raid DPS buff and doing more DPS than the "Support" that has zero Raid DPS buffs.

In the short term, MCH abilities need a buff to bring it up to a rewarding level. In the long term they need to sit down and rethink the battle system because its current design isn't working anymore.

I agree, MCH as a pure DPS cannot work as long as SQEX remains this stubborn on the melee/ranged gap.

The only way for current MCH to be viable is for the job rDPS to be above Dancer and behind blackmage.
This is the minimum to make pure DPS MCH a viable pick but also cross the limits that will make MCH broken during the process.

In short, there's no in between for MCH. It will be either worthless or overpowered.

MCH also need a lot more:
-I'll never be tired of mentionning Flamethrower
being an emote better than Scattergun in some cases.
-Lack of support
I kinda wish BRD and DNC would be "regen ranged" and MCH + a futur job would be "barrier ranged".
I would be satisfied with almost anything, Dismantle and Palisade being back, rook and bishop back to respectively heal and shield the party...
-Ridiculously rigid due to heat.
-Automaton Queen and Wildfire being way too automated and therefore unfun after summoning it for the 100th time.