FFXIV moved away from auto-attack while WOW went without... how odd.

[ellohwell]

Wonder how many people are gonna be complaining about spamming 1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1 over and over again in WoW now...

you still spam actions in FFXIV because of lag and lack of action queueing.

Nobody complains about spamming anymore because the got their precious autoattack so they could go afk in combat which was the real reason they wanted it, tbh.

[Vackashken]

so they could go afk in combat which was the real reason they wanted it, tbh.

...... Uh huh

[Shipp]

Wonder how many people are gonna be complaining about spamming 1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1 over and over again in WoW now...

You already do this in WoW as any caster class and most of the melees. There is really not much difference.

you still spam actions in FFXIV because of lag and lack of action queueing.

Nobody complains about spamming anymore because the got their precious autoattack so they could go afk in combat which was the real reason they wanted it, tbh.

People wanted AA because this game's combat is too freaking slow to sit their and spam the same basic attacks over and over. It works in games like WoW because you have a 1 second global cooldown upon pressing a key. If it's an instant spell, you still have to wait 1 second to cast anything else. XIV had huge amount of combat lag before auto-attack and you'd press the key 3-4 times before it would even register as one hit.

Getting rid of auto-attack is only worth doing when you have combat like GW2, Tera, etc. If you are still in the archaic but proven system that WoW is in where you are not actually targeting a specific part of a target, manually aiming, etc, then there is absolutely no reason for not having auto-attack. You aren't mashing "Punch" in WoW like you were in XIV. You mash several different abilities and spells that do way more damage than a basic attack. XIV used to play more like a horrible and laggy fighting game as opposed to an action MMO. It never even resembled an action MMO.

[Davorok]

Perhaps XIV's Auto-Attack could be put on an activation timer?

You have to press your Basic Attack once to initiate AA which starts a Cooldown Timer of say...1 minute?

You could then open with a TP Move on the next Mob before you activate AA again for another minute.

Just a possible compromise anyway.