State of Machinist 7.2

[Absurdity]

Eh, that's no difference than hardcasting.

The skill is in prepositioning so the time between casts is enough to slide-move into position for the next mech, and/or pacing your instant-cast tools to be available and last you through extended movement situations.

/shrug

It's entirely normal to do?

Alright, I don't know how often I'm supposed to rephrase why it doesn't work.

Go into the game, switch to machinist, put your walk button on a hotkey, go into a dawntrail fight (normal raids would probably be ideal) and switch to walking speed every time you do your Split Shot-> Slug Shot-> Clean Shot filler combo, importance on actually trying to do a proper rotation and not just sitting on your filler for like 5 seconds doing nothing.

Then come back and tell me how well that worked.

It isn't anything like hardcasting. There is no period of no movement transitioning into normal speed and Machinist isn't as freeform as BLM, RDM or Picto where you can save instant casts for movement heavy phases.