Auto attack: A complete battle system

[Alcide]

/sarcasm
oh you can?......

On my ability bar I have my first bar filled with my most commonly used attacks. On my #2 bar I have my enhancing and buff abilities on bar #3 I have my AoE attacks.

(keep in mind " > " is right button press " < " left button press in this post. )

I usually stick to my first bar Unless of course Protect wears off, or Shock Spikes or I need Speed Surge back up then It's:

Full Thrust (up) > > > Protect > Shock Spikes (down) < < < < Full Thrust > Skewer II > Feint < < Full Thrust

21 Button presses for 6 actions

Even is all these skills are in a row it looks like this:
Full thrust > Protect > Shock Spikes < < Full Thrust > > > Skewer II > Feint < < < < Full Thrust

to do 7 actions it takes 19 button presses. Thats with all the skills lined up in a row.

What would Auto Attack do in this situation?

Basic attacks (Light Thrust Heavy Thrust and Full Thrust) will become your auto attack

SO it now looks like this
(auto attack) Protect > Shock Spikes (auto attack ) > Skewer II > Feint (Auto attack)
7 button presses for a total of 6 actions.

Dealing with a mouse and K/B and pressing 1 2 3 4 5 1 is fine and dandy, but you aren't dealing with just keyboard gamers with this game. In the future You'll have PS3 users who will be complaining of this as they will use the controller as their #1 input.

Adding auto attack to create a less hectic system is the best middle ground solution for controller (PS3) users VS K/B mouse users.

You can use macros for buffs, when you press the macro button on the pad the position of the cursor is resetted so you get rid of most of the unnecessary movements.
Also as a Lancer I don't need all of my skills equipped all of the times (actually being able to equip everything you have is one of the biggest issues imho, but that's another topic) so I use to set my action bar in different ways for different occasions trying to lower to the minimum the movements.

For Instance on NMs I never use Feint, so there's no need to equip it. I usually equip only 2 or 3 we per NM, so my action bar looks like this:

Invigorate II
Full thrust - WS - WS - WS - Keen Flurry - Ferocity II - Hawk's Eye - Speed Surge
Comrade in Arms II

All the accuracy and attack buffs are on a singular macro, I put them in the middle so I can check their cool down, everything else is right next to Full thrust.