I'm sorry but I've noticed a lot of issues/design flaws with machinist, Gauss barrel not lining up may be small but..yes it looks bad, another is the lower determination My Machinist is geared better than my bard (neither is melded mine you) Bard is in Void ark, Machinist was in a mix of eso,Alex Midas and Lore, and had 100 less Determination than my bard...I don't think that's supposed to happen.