Am I only one who finds autoattack so slow ?

[Mikita]

I never run out of actions to do on my 50 lancer and 35 glad so far O_o it probably is kind of slow at low ranks but you get more abilities to kill time later on...

At higher ranks it's fine. When playing Conjurer (R50) or Thaumaturge (R43) there's always something for me to do.

But I've been trying to rank up Gladiator (currently R28) and it's pretty boring.
I'm probably "playing wrong" and would definitely appreciate advice from better players.

But most of the time I'm waiting for Auto Attack to kick in while watching the cooldown timer on Light Stab to reset. Even using Outmaneuver and Invigorate, it still takes quite a while for me to build up enough TP to have anything else to do other than Light Stab... and often by that time the monster is dispatched by someone else.

One up side is that I have time to play with the camera angle and take screenshots during battle. ^^;

[Murugan]

At higher ranks it's fine. When playing Conjurer (R50) or Thaumaturge (R43) there's always something for me to do.

But I've been trying to rank up Gladiator (currently R28) and it's pretty boring.
I'm probably "playing wrong" and would definitely appreciate advice from better players.

But most of the time I'm waiting for Auto Attack to kick in while watching the cooldown timer on Light Stab to reset. Even using Outmaneuver and Invigorate, it still takes quite a while for me to build up enough TP to have anything else to do other than Light Stab... and often by that time the monster is dispatched by someone else.

One up side is that I have time to play with the camera angle and take screenshots during battle. ^^;

At 28 you have been able to purchase an additional basic attack for 8 levels (and can purchase another soon). So the first thing you should do is go to the gladiator guild, do the quest they have available for and get that (you got an NPC linkshell alert at 20 alerting you to this btw you must have missed it, but it is glowing in the corner of your screen until you read it, and there is a chat alert).

Anyways what I think you should do during battle as a Gladiator, is start the fight out with invigorate (which all melee should do). Get guard up, and as soon as you get a block hit Phalanx. Then either use a 500 TP ability, or another basic attack to get more TP. Refresh guard, and put up outmaneuver (increased TP from blocks) and use a defensive ability (sentinel, featherfoot for example). At this point you should have plenty of TP use raging strike/ferocity and a 1k TP weapon skill.

This is just an example, you can use other abilities as well (though if you are tanking I would suggest to use Phalanx liberally), but you should be fitting in many more abilities than you seem to be currently. When I played Gladiator from 20 on I was never spending more than a second or two not actually using one ability. In fact gladiator is by far one of the busiest classes in the game in my opinion.

This isn't a personal dig, but all you people complaining about auto attack should really take a look at your class forums for ideas on what you can do rather than "waiting for TP" before coming to the general forums and complaining about the system. I understand it is easier to complain about something, and I certainly don't mind giving people tips on the forum or in game; but the best thing you can do for yourself in an MMO is to either try various combat strategies yourself or read what others are doing (or preferably both of these things). There will never be a good enough tutorial in any MMO to teach you how to play your class as well as doing those things will.

[Mikita]

At 28 you have been able to purchase an additional basic attack for 8 levels (and can purchase another soon). So the first thing you should do is go to the gladiator guild, do the quest they have available for and get that (you got an NPC linkshell alert at 20 alerting you to this btw you must have missed it, but it is glowing in the corner of your screen until you read it, and there is a chat alert).

Anyways what I think you should do during battle as a Gladiator, is start the fight out with invigorate (which all melee should do). Get guard up, and as soon as you get a block hit Phalanx. Then either use a 500 TP ability, or another basic attack to get more TP. Refresh guard, and put up outmaneuver (increased TP from blocks) and use a defensive ability (sentinel, featherfoot for example). At this point you should have plenty of TP use raging strike/ferocity and a 1k TP weapon skill.

This is just an example, you can use other abilities as well (though if you are tanking I would suggest to use Phalanx liberally), but you should be fitting in many more abilities than you seem to be currently. When I played Gladiator from 20 on I was never spending more than a second or two not actually using one ability. In fact gladiator is by far one of the busiest classes in the game in my opinion.

This isn't a personal dig, but all you people complaining about auto attack should really take a look at your class forums for ideas on what you can do rather than "waiting for TP" before coming to the general forums and complaining about the system. I understand it is easier to complain about something, and I certainly don't mind giving people tips on the forum or in game; but the best thing you can do for yourself in an MMO is to either try various combat strategies yourself or read what others are doing (or preferably both of these things). There will never be a good enough tutorial in any MMO to teach you how to play your class as well as doing those things will.

Murugan,

Thank you for the very helpful post! I'll visit the Gladiator guild (never been there before) to see if I can buy some abilities.

Reading the class forums and being able to learn from more experienced players is definitely helpful.

And I guess that is really the key. Having enough (including cross class abilities) on your bar so that you have something to do besides wait for Auto Attack -- which was really just meant to fill in the holes why players selected other actions.