No Auto Attack- good or bad idea

So the trade off would be you would auto-attack and your companion would do less damage and they would die at the same time. Your companion attacking is the same thing as auto-attack.

I like not having auto-attack. Especially when there are abilities that opposing players can use to where if you hit them with your default attack, you are actually doing yourself more harm and/or benefiting them.

To me, it is a question between more control or blind convenience.

Just want to add to this. I do think Bioware did a great job on some of the classes designing them around not having an autoattack, so the lack of it doesn't really matter. (Sage and whatever the sith equivelent is come to mind)

Most of the rest of the classes I've tried an autoattack could be good filler, but isn't particularly missed.

However the JK (and SW) classes, all their focus/rage building and otherwise 0 cost attacks, should have been replaced by some sort of simple autoattack functionality. Or removed entirely and they should simply slowly build up resource while in combat or something.

One could argue that the existance of abilities that I'd pretty much want to always fire whenever they come up is bad design. Either should be removed or replaced with an automated version.

thing is auto attack does exist, its just called basic attack and doesn't fire automatically... tbh i find myself forgetting its there more often then not...and on some classes like my jugg i feel like i have figer cramps at times from spamming that one key for auto attack to build up my rage... if you ask me... needs to be a toggle option and let those want it use and those that don't to not use it.

Functionally it wouldn't change overall gameplay... only difference would be you wouldn't have to worry about spamming a single key all the time. *shrugs* i just don't find it " fun " to have to hit one key all the time... call me lazy i guess =3

At level 50, it's a very rare occasion that I use the basic rage builder. I go for literally days at a time without hitting it.

That's close to my thoughts. One reason why I would consider autoattack is attack speed - something that can have big impact on gear selection, which is teribly lacking as it is.
But then, after considering, either abilities would have to be normalized so attack speed won't matter, or only selected few would be viable, so still no selection. It's really hard to find reason for auto attack in SWTOR(other than 20 hp left on mob), so it's fine that it's not here.


That's game playing instead of player. And there isn't single skill that you should want to use as soon as it's off CD without regard to combat situation.
It's like saying that in fighting game you should have auto punch.

Players that uses an auto-attack is a sign of a bad player.

Auto attack would be great cause i still don't think combat flows to well as of yet maybe 1.2 might help some.

Auto Attack would have been nice to fill in down-times in rotations and pressing the attack button isn't all that more challenging and engaging. That said this game could never manage to have auto attack they couldn't handle the animation requirements. Not having it isn't game breaking though.

So all players who are in MMO's which have one are bad players? You donot choose to "use" auto attack if it is a feature..it happens automatically. It can be useful if you are fighting a mob and lag or disconnect. If it was a option to turn on in TOR, I would do so in a heartbeat.