Machinist leg animations... cemented to the ground?

[Tolmos]

So, I finally unlocked machinist today I was super excited. I normally play gun toting classes if they are available (Like Guild Wars 2's engineer) and so I felt I would be right at home with the machinist.

One thing I noticed, however, that is really bugging me for some reason are the animations. His upper body is VERY animated, with lots of waggling of arms and general excited motion, but his lower body is almost like it belongs to someone else; utterly and completely stiff. No matter how excited his upper body gets, or what sort of recoil he seems to show, his legs are in the same idle state they are in if he is reading a book in town.

Having come from Guild Wars 2, where my engineer uses his legs to brace against the recoil of his gun in a very natural looking and fluid movement, this is seriously messing with me lol. Is it some kind of bug with the animations, or is this just how animations work for the machinist?

Thanks!