Why do the devs hate MCH so much?

[Ranaku]

That relies on the bail-outs of arbitrary sub-role assignments, which in turn essentially means that Physical Ranged are the only sub-role a party is discouraged from taking two of.

Granted, that also belies the whole mess of physical ranged being, these days, a wholly arbitrary sub-role in the first place that makes no more sense now than, say, randomly splitting NIN and DRG from MNK, RPR, and SAM.

I wouldn't even react to him, he is just trolling all over the forums.

[Shurrikhan]

I wouldn't even react to him, he is just trolling all over the forums.

He's not wrong, though, that --for the time being, at minimum-- MCH only competes with DNC and BRD.

That "role" has been given protections that push one Physical Ranged to be taken, but that has then allowed the devs to care so little about their balance against anyone else that parties going for performance would never take two.

It's the devs offering incentive to the effect of "Take however many Physical Ranged you want, but the number must be >0 and <2."