Saaru wrote:
I was having a debate about this with a friend of mine. He maintains that it is stupid for your toon not to retaliate when a mob comes up and starts beating on them. I repeated that all you had to do was hit a skill and it would start attacking, but he wanted to see it attack automatically.
The biggest reason for not wanting your toon to start swinging blindly is breaking mezzes, but it could also bring unwanted agro.
The raid leader I raid with asks that we all turn off auto-attack when raiding. I usually keep it off.
Btw, only hitting a with a melee skill will trip the 'attack' command. If I hit a mob with one of my songs, crys or ballads, I'll still have to manually hit the attack button to start swinging. I'm habituated to it now, but for awhile there I'd be meleeing a monster but forgetting to swing at them;D