Machinist and Gauss Barrel - Toggle hide option?

[Amiaze]

Throughout levelling machinist, I wanted to know why some guns will animate their hammer with some moves (Slug Shot comes to mind) while others don't at all.

Though you are right... Gauss Barrel doesn't match most weapons, it's a real vanity shame...

My guess is time restraints led to cuts and oversights. I theorized in another thread that MCH underwent huge changes relatively late into its development. The number of oversights (strange animations, arguably low DPS that required two lists of buffs via patches, no self-heal, inconsistent barrel and hammer animations) would certainly make more sense if this were the case.

I understand that new jobs aren't going to be perfectly balanced in an MMO, but MCH feels more like it it got locked into questionable design choices that can't really be fixed without changing some of its fundamental procedures.