It's time to Lock Out Machinist from PF

[Valence]

I wouldn't worry too much about that. They'll do like they did in ShB and EW and buff it regularly every patch to play catch up with BRD and DNC.

[Emitans]

This reflects pretty well all jobs that are bad at downtime management. For instance, MCH, while able to pool and store a lot of resources, is totally helpless during downtime because it cannot hit any targets. DNC is in a similar state and at best can precast dances and I'm actually surprised that Improv never got to fill up gauge slowly. Only BRD does have some downtime tools, namely songs that continue to fill up repertoire even if there is nothing to hit.

It did. In Shadowbringers. They removed it for some reason???

[Azurarok]

Quickest patch fix they could do right now for downtime losses would be to make flamethrower charge heat gauge

Other than that, I really want to see them bring back turret mechanics, like place Autoturret Bishop as a beacon of sorts, have tactician originate from it, give it a skill that debuffs nearby enemy defenses (selfish or for everyone, whichever), let the user gap close to it, give it a skill to make it pulse a barrier like in pvp to help mitigate multi-hit stacks.

[george357]

you don't pay my sub so i will go on playing my mch.

[Morkel]

It did. In Shadowbringers. They removed it for some reason???

Because people were using it as a oGCD to try to server tick gauge rather then it's intended purpose.

[Valence]

Because people were using it as a oGCD to try to server tick gauge rather then it's intended purpose.

Yeah and in the usual SE fashion, instead of turning it into a total DPS loss by dramatically increasing the GCD recast (a bit like Honing Dance if you will), they just removed it. Genius.