Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[RyuujinZERO]

This is going to sound like a stupid question but after your opener... what do you do? Do you save your cooldowns for the next wildfire? Do you pop them as they come up?
I know people talk about CD management but after the opener I just feel lost lol.

Same. I'd like to get a definitive answer with numbers to prove it, feels like all anyone wants to talk about it making huge opening parses on 2 minute combat dummies and Faust

If you pop your CDs on-cooldown, within reason (ie. you might not want to waste cooldowns when you're failing to proc anything on split shot, but wait until you get a proc or two along), then you certainly arn't going to hurt your DPS. Nonetheless I'd like to see some proofs to whether that is the best approach possible.