Quote Originally Posted by Raikai View Post
So, why paladins can hide their shield with an invisible glamour? Isn't a shield integral to their skillset as well? Also before it was a thing, Machinists could hide that Gauss Barrel thing on top of their weapon.

I'd love to be able to hide not just the lunchbox, but the BRD's quiver as well, which in fact some quivers actually clip through the sheathed bow, which is wild to me.
It's a separate piece of gear that shows up on the character for starters. Beyond that it only goes into the Shield Bash and Shield Lob GCD skills (and used to go into Shield Swipe). All fairly minor and supplemental, much like the shield.

As far as Gauss Barrel goes, it wasn't always hideable when it still existed. It got requested to be hideable, and it became hideable later. This was due to them never designing the guns around it, causing it to clip and make almost all guns uniformly ugly. They eventually scrapped it wholesale when they got rid of the casting stances for Ranged physical. I miss it sometimes. Just another example in the ongoing Machinist reworks that go completely unexplained lore wise.

As for the Aetherotransformer... It is important to the class fantasy, because Stephanivien did not invent guns. He invented the aetherotransformer and brought in firearms instructors to have a gun as the mainstay in a Machinist's arsenal, because guns are easy to use. He does modify and make newer guns, like the Ferdinand, that rely on pressurized wind aether instead of gunpowder and the like, and for any such firearm, the aetherotransformer is how the Machinist has ammunition for them. You make bullets from your aether, using the aetherotransformer.