The Letter is up

[Nix]

Guys, I know it's SE and all, but seriously. If you need to disengage to not break bind/sleep, then just go Passive. I'm fairly certain that along with the auto-attack changes, non-attacking abilities will stop putting you in active mode.

This would be a mega pain in the butt if you're trying to keep your distance from something and you keep stopping to go into passive/active.
If SE does turn around and say "Hey guys, actually we'll put Auto-attack on long range attacks for ARC too!" I wouldn't mind as long as they implemented some way to stop the attack chain, like through breaking line of sight for instance.

There are easy solutions to the pro AA and against AA arguments, but it'd mean compromise on both sides since it's essentially 2 different play styles

[Cutriss]

This would be a mega pain in the butt if you're trying to keep your distance from something and you keep stopping to go into passive/active.

I'm not sure what you mean.

My thought:

You auto-attack, someone calls out a Bind, everyone hits F or whatever and goes passive. Why would you be rapidly switching back and forth?

[Nix]

I'm not sure what you mean.

My thought:

You auto-attack, someone calls out a Bind, everyone hits F or whatever and goes passive. Why would you be rapidly switching back and forth?

If you're soloing on ARC you rely on bind like 90% of the time.

You do a multishotx2 + raging strike volley, bind, run away, mutlishotx2 + ferocity +hawk's eye volley, bind, rinse and repeat. so if and when you bind, and believe me it's pretty often lol (multiple times in the space of a minute), putting yourself in passive and active all the freaking time will suck, cut down the distance between you and the enemy and make kiting that much more of a pain in the arse.

[Cutriss]

If you're soloing on ARC you rely on bind like 90% of the time.

You do a multishotx2 + raging strike volley, bind, run away, mutlishotx2 + ferocity +hawk's eye volley, bind, rinse and repeat. so if and when you bind, and believe me it's pretty often lol (multiple times in the space of a minute), putting yourself in passive and active all the freaking time will suck, cut down the distance between you and the enemy and make kiting that much more of a pain in the arse.

Well, I think it's pretty obvious then that actions where a followup action would break the status of the previous action shouldn't put you in Active mode.

Now granted, I think that's obvious, and who knows if the Battle Team does. :P