Auto-attack ranged attack

[Fae]

This is still relevant today. My view is what should be done is what the dev response described, but have a way to stop attacking while still engaged:

Greetings,

We definitely understand the desire to have automatic ranged attacks and/or a toggle to switch it on and off. As the system is now, if we were to implement auto-ranged attacks, characters would be unable to use weapon skills or abilities during the ranged attack animation and the auto-ranged attack would interfere with the priority of the other abilities/WS. To address that issue would take a huge overhaul to the core system, so unfortunately it's not as simple as you might hope. However, we do understand there is a desire for an automatic ranged attack, and if it should change, we'll be sure to let you know.

I think you could get by with just a toggle on/off, with the current system. Have people toggle it off when they want to get ready to weaponskill or use job abilities, this would be a large improvement. Also, while it's toggled on, your ranged weapon should stay out full time like Semih Lafina's trust. There'd also need to be a way to define and equipset for both snapshot and midshot of each shot.