Originally Posted by
Kaia
My biggest gripe right now is the lack of auto-attack. The purpose of an MMO is to get together with friends, meet people, and have adventures together. The lack of auto-attack means that if you want to talk to somebody while fighting ("nice WS!", "throw up a Taunt so I can attack from a different angle", etc), you literally have to halt your damage output by 100%. Auto-attacking to get TP was one of the best times to talk to people... granted, it would be concise, to-the-point talking since you'd have to interact pretty often, but that was part of the charm.
Thinking of this in endgame terms - if I didn't have auto-attack while I was running a salvage LS in XI, I wouldn't have been able to call cells/paths/etc without completely stopping my TP gain, which, in the long-term, would cost probably 5+ minutes over the course of a run. Vent is not an option for everybody, and some people (like myself) find it difficult to focus on the game while physically speaking/listening to people. SE shouldn't build a game that has to rely on 3rd party software like Vent to allow basic communication without completely stopping your damage output, anyway.
I know this won't get changed since it's the very core of XIV's battle system, but at the very least it'd be nice if they added something like a "repeat last action until I say otherwise" button for combat.
For all I know it already exists in the game, but with the complete lack of tutorials/etc I haven't been able to find it.
Sorry for the stupidly long post about a single issue, but I felt I needed to justify my position rather than just say "add auto-attack", which just makes me sound like I wanna be an AFK figher D: