Please change BLM's new auto-attack.

[Darxer]

BLM was given a short range melee auto attack in this recent patch. I'm asking for a change because the current form doesn't make any sense.

BLM is a ranged class, they wield a delicate, elegant weapon meant for casting. Similar to a Bard, who wields a delicate, elegant bow, meant for firing arrows from range.

Why does Bard have a ranged auto attack? But BLM is melee? It really makes no sense to me. Do Bard's hit monsters with their bow? No, they use arrows, like a BLM should be using magic.

I suggest a ranged auto attack, similar to Scathe, but significantly weaker. Damage will depend on the weapon stat and delay, the damage would be non-elemental, like Scathe.

[PArcher]

All magic classes have had a melee auto-attack since launch. And they all hit things with their weapons.

Always funny watching ACN hit things with their books

[Darxer]

No, that is incorrect, BLM has not had an auto-attack until very recently. I play BLM every day.

[Almalexia]

BLM has always had an auto-attack. All mage classes have had auto-attack.

It is not enough to merely draw your weapon to AA, though. You have to "engage" the target so the auto-attack icon appears above the targeting reticule; it looks like two rotating arrows. There is rarely a practical reason to do this on mage.

[PArcher]

Its been there. You have to be in melee range and manually engage it.

[Ashgarth]

No, that is incorrect, BLM has not had an auto-attack until very recently. I play BLM every day.

Blm has had autoattack since it was implemented back in 1.0

[NyxNoughtNothing]

Melee auto-attacks for casters are functionally pointless, and yet they all have them anyway. i only knew they existed because i was belatedly filling some old hunting log entries and happened to be close enough to the critter to watch my Arcanist smack it with a book when i clicked my mouse.
Oddly enough Archer's auto-attack doesn't require being close enough to smack enemies with my bow.
Why the disparity?

[Sub-Xero]

Plays BLM "every day" yet doesn't realize there's an auto-attack... Someone find a clever meme! STAT!

[Crankysorc]

All mages, crafters, and gatherers have a close ranged auto attack. Just because you took a year [or more if you played 1.0] to notice does not mean they haven't been there the whole time.
Bards[and melee] get an auto attack because all their other attacks do less damage. BLM is more bursty and doesn't need those filler hits.

[Shioban]

Blm has had autoattack since it was implemented back in 1.0

BLM has had an auto-attack since Final Fantasy XI.

No, that is incorrect, BLM has not had an auto-attack until very recently. I play BLM every day.