Quote Originally Posted by Azurarok View Post
Wasn't SMN not rez taxed in ShB and manage to be close to the top back then? I thought it dropped significantly going into EW and has been slowly falling further behind since. It's why I've assumed it's based off how easy it is to move/weave rather than having a rez automatically penalizing the job.

Also was ShB MCH ever overpowered?
Red Mage and Summoner were both quite competitive with Black Mage in ShB. It's Magick Barrier and the Summoner rework that seemed to be the tipping point where they decided both needed to do significantly less for no real reason.

And no, Machinist was never overpowered at any point since early Stormblood. Even that was mostly hold over from how ridiculous it and Bard were in Heavensward. Machinist's one niche back then is it was, technically, better for parsing than Bard due to how logs were pure DPS. But the difference was very small.