Seems like you didn't understood what i said or maybe i didn't phrase my thought properly. I didn't have Eod before the rifle rework because i didn't like melee mechanist, nor pistol/old rifle. If you didn't know, rifle skills got changed in June for mechanist and that's what got me in love with the class.
Once again it's not about dps but how good the skills feel(animations,sounds, etc...) and the gameplay(for the case of mech genius who makes playing with the mecha clunky and not fun at all).