No Auto Attack- good or bad idea

That would be nice, but I read somewhere that the devs don't like stuff like that because they don't want macros.


Sounds nice huh =p. Anyway, my main motivation for having such an option was to allow players to kill targets just by engaging them with right-click - it would save lots of time when farming or when you're not needed to max dps.
All such an option would do is to mimic how a player would right-click (or hit the key on the keyboard) repeatedly.
It could be in the form of an ability or just an option in the interface, whatever, as long as it does what it's supposed to do; although I imagine it would be more convenient as an ability than an interface option.

Not really anything to do with auto attack. Most games don't target for you and turn it on for you.

That is alot more then just auto attack.


You can easily make a game with auto attack that won't keep fighting mobs while not at the keyboad

Just sayin. That's the main reason they didn't incorporate it here, imo. If you hadn't noticed, this entire game is a money sink if you don't play the Market and do some crafting. Especially the repair bills at higher levels. lol

uh no..

in WOW i can stand there and kill an NPC without even touching my keyboard. i just need to initiate the original attack and watch the show.

and if i want IN BETWEEN those auto attacks. after i finish chugging my Red bull i can press the 1 button or the 2 button for more damage.

Most of the time I don't even use the "auto attack", and I'm a Juggernaut so yes, it's a good thing that we don't have one, especially since the standard attack isn't off the GCD. Everyone should be doing their best to not even use it because of how the resource management system works in SWTOR.

I think it was a good idea. Nice to get a new way for attacks to work, makes it more interesting too and feel more special.

I was a bit skeptical at first, but I think it's worked great. For JK/SW, the "basic" attack moves doubles as a resource generator. For Gunslingers/Shadows, you weave them in to maximize damage while managing your resource. Can't speak for anything else.

I think the point was to get away from a rotation of 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3.......until your resource is depleted. As someone said, there's no ability that I just *have* to press every time it comes up without considering the situation. Such as, hitting Precision Strike on cool-down without having the focus left over to make it worthwhile, or hitting Zealous Strike on cool-down even if you're at 10 focus.

lol, yeah ive had that moment

Door bell goes and do you leave and die as your not attacking (to answer door) or do you stay and win the fight!

Been allot of disappointed door to door salesmen I must say!

Great idea, auto attack = letting the game play for you a little bit. And i HATE that the MMO (d)evolution have going in the direction of interactive tv-shows instead of actually having to play your game.

Until the auto targeting closest target works correctly... erm.. no.