Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[Judge_Xero]

I'd like to know about cooldowns. People say to save cooldowns for certain phases and I get you can save hawk's eye, blood for blood, etc., but what about reload and quick reload? If I save those im stuck with rng.

Interested in this as well. The point of Machinist seems to be to use your procs for your typical damage with the high burst phase each time Rapid Fire and Wildfire are up to maintain your higher dps amounts.

Quick Reload @ 30's intervals for your guaranteed procs (i.e. if you get a Split Shot Proc then you would pop Quick Reload for the Guaranteed Slug Shot into Clean Shot)

Reload @ 60s seems like it should always be saved for the Rapid/Wildfire phase.

Hot Shot - Gauss Barrel - Lead Shot - Wildfire - Quick Reload - Split Shot - Reload - Rapid Fire -> Slug, Clean, Split, Slug, Clean (+ oGCD skills etc for the most burst during Wildfire) - Turn off Gauss Barrel

Has it been tested whether auto attacks are included in the Wildfire damage? Is that the portion of 25% of "most" damage that isn't included? (indicating that you should only use Wildfire under the use of Gauss Barrel.)

2300 Burst Potency every 90s + 580 Potency Wildfire charge?

I don't think it's worth going into Gauss Barrel at any other point other than AOE, due to losing AA damage.