Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

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Changelog

06/20/2015 - Guide created, some wording was changed for clarity. Google document displaying cooldowns lining up also linked.
06/21/2015 - Opener edited, Reload used much earlier as well as Quick Reload. AoE rotation math added.
06/22/2015 - Use of Gauss Barrel adjusted based on in game results. Gauss Barrel not worth using outside of AoE pulls/when Rapid Fire + Wildfire is up. Fixed couple of typos. Added user tips to section.
06/23/2015 - Some formatting changes. Yuri's Opener for starting with 1 ammo added. Added potency simulator for testing out Machinist Openers. Highest potency machinist opener simulated added. Old opener removed.
06/24/2015 - Added how much RNG affects this class, and that the damage of Machinists is Piercing. Fixed typo in opener. Edited Introduction, fixed simulator to not provide inflated numbers.
06/25/2015 - Added how latency can affect opener, as well as the impact of Gauss Barrel on Feint.
06/26/2015 - Added where you would fit in Quick Reload/Reload.
06/28/2015 - More formatting stuff.
06/29/2015 - Added opener from Masterchef, and some stuff about the usage of Hypercharge. Removed Yuri's post about ammo management as it hasn't been updated over a week.
06/30/2015 - Rapid Fire + Gauss Barrel patched out, openers drastically changed, simulator code updated to reflect changes. Changed opener again, thanks to arctic for giving the idea of having Gauss Barrel pre-pull and using Gauss Round just at pull. Also, with the addition of crit seemed that higher crit skewed the results in favor of having Gauss Barrel active; it means that higher iLvl will result in quite a large gap between not having Gauss Barrel active and having it active.
07/04/2015 - Updated Potency Simulator to simulate DPS instead, changed variance on DPS accordingly to the results. Added tentative stat weights, added BiS pre-Alexander.
07/06/2015 - Added simulated DPS, stat weights with Gauss Barrel.
07/07/2015 - Square Enix listens with the Gauss Barrel % increase from 20% to 30% in patch 3.01. Ricochet and Gauss Barrel are nerfed. DPS is now higher with Gauss Barrel active. Feint is now recommended over Quelling Strikes.