Lancer better after 1.18

After battling some tough RNM's (solo) and tasting the ground a few times I've got the hang of Lancer pretty well.

"Normal Attacks" with Cooldowns are key to keep attacking constantly.

As you should know by now animations can be cancelled half-way through in order to cast something else.

If you time everything correctly by using "Full Thrust", "Heavy Thrust" and "Pierce" you will hardly ever wait for your slow auto-attacks to go off. If anything, let one Auto-Attack get in and quickly activate a WS, Spell or "Normal Attack" after it.
"Invigorate2" and "Comrade in Arms2" should be active at all times if possible.

The strategy to constantly attack requires you to be a r50 class in order to equip the max abilities possible. Whenever "Full Thrust", "Comrade in Arms" and "Invigorate2" were cooling down and had a few seconds left to be available i started buffing my defense with "Obsess", "Defender", "Featherfoot" etc. Then activate all my TP gain abilities and lay on the smackdown with "Moonrise", "Twisting Vice", "Doomspike" with "Bloodbath" or "Ferocity2" > Raging Strike" > "Hawk's Eye" > "Chaos Thrust" when mob is below 20%.

The only time i auto-attack is when the battle starts and when everything is in cooldown. An attack per second is much better than waiting 3-4 seconds for an auto-attack.

Anyone else find Lancer to be much stronger after inclusion of "Auto-attack" and the removal of Stamina?

I enjoy it alot and I use pretty much the same tactics as you. There are plenty of abilities to use inbetween the auto attacks.

yup yup same tactics and timing as well.

Indeed, and while I am not constantly at 3k TP like before, I do find that I have enough TP to get done what needs to be done. Plus, with the removal of stamina, I have found that some cross-class abilities have become much more viable for both defensive use and offensive use. All in all, I am very pleased with how lancer came out in the patch, even with the TP "nerf."

yeap, with Speed Surge your auto attack is much faster.

ya i agree, I used to main pug but now with auto attack lancer is king :P

While I'm only a r25 lancer, I've noticed battles have become much easier/fun since 1.18 and gives me more motivation to keep leveling lancer

I'm pretty sure the auto-attack timer never resets and you'll keep hitting in the background even if the animation isn't visible because of your constant ability spam.

It resets after every Weapon Skill finishes. You can test and count the seconds.

kinda off topic, but not so much as this refers to 1.18a but has anyone noticed the differences in damage post-patch? I think it's quite substantial.