Am I only one who finds autoattack so slow ?

[Synthesis]

battle ts better in general since patch, more ballanced and so on.
But auto attack is so slow, that is less playable than it was before patch ( I had more fun with 1key spamming, at least my chara did something).

I think battle could be a bit faster, so player actually feels he is playing. I think I am just standing sometimes and I find this very boring. I dont know how new players will, especially these on PS3, will welcome this. Some might but some might not as well. But you cant please all. At least I think "A bit" faster battle could be enjoyed by more ppl (not hyper fast, as it was before update was quite ok).

Please discuss if you have got similiar opinion on auto-attack spd rate.

Edit :
I am refering from my experiences as MRD or LNC. And from what 2 friends told me, they both quitted in first two days of game at ranks 12 and 24. Because of battle, they said. (they bought game and tried it after 1.18). I am used to game since collectors, so I am dealing with updates myself.

[Antanias]

I believe a previous letter from the producer went into detail as far as the battle system goes. We currently have the groundwork in place, and improvements being not too far from now.

[Falcus]

I just don't like auto attack at all, it's slow and it can be a pain in the ass at times.
I've had times where I've been buffing, then I'll start scrolling through mobs and I'll randomly auto attack one that's next to me even though it was only targeted for maybe 1/4 of a second. (Playing as ARC and it's usually something that I don't want to fight)

Personally I wish we could turn it off altogether if we want to.

[miqokini]

Autoattack is slow because you're supposed to fill in the down-time by actually selecting abilities to use. I have a r45 MRD who hardly ever ISN'T doing something during a battle. I am almost constantly hitting or buffing.

[Ashaylin]

This subject has been brought up before, so I'll paraphase what the dev's answer was.

At this time, they have no plans to change the speed of AA, however, they do have plans to add skills (such as haste) that will change the speed of AA.

For mages, a passive casting mode is being considered.

For a more elaborate answer, you can read the entire dev post and previous thread HERE

[DoctorMog]

Yep, Haste and multihit weapons will fill that empty time in nicely.

[darkstarpoet1]

trust me Synthesis you are not the only one that feels at times it is way too slow and boring.

[Arcell]

Autoattack is slow because you're supposed to fill in the down-time by actually selecting abilities to use. I have a r45 MRD who hardly ever ISN'T doing something during a battle. I am almost constantly hitting or buffing.

Correct, in Aion a lot of people referred to this as weaving. Auto-attack, skill, auto-attack, skill, etc... I'm also bringing up my Marauder and despite one of the slowest (if not the slowest) auto-attack speeds in the game, I manage to fight at a pretty decent pace.

[Hubert]

That speed feels fine. Once they add double-attack, increased accuracy, more varied animations, and haste it will only get faster. If it feels slow you might need more accuracy so you gain more TP, leading to increased skill usage.

[Xatsh]

I honestly do not feel it to be any slower then other mmos I played WoW, aion, rift.

People need to use more abilities and such... I usually do not auto attack that much on any of my jobs.