Final Fantasy XIV Auto-Attack Video

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More garbage in garbage out. Ranged classes should get ranged auto attack. Ignoring it makes no sense.

Why would it make sense in the first place? taking Archer for instance, most of its Burst DPS comes from buffed up 3 nocked multi-shot.
Imagine nocking up 1 arrow and then it auto fires, not letting you nock up the 2nd then buffing and releasing. It would kill a heavy part of Archer damage and without full buff multi-shots, Archer(which is typically one of the highest single target dps in 'some' games) would really have nothing going for it.

GLA has Tanking()
MRD has AOE
PUG has speed
LNC has a mix of AoE/Speed - (skewerII for example, and speed surge/invigorate)

these are just generic examples, ofc each class has other things to bring to the table.

As for mage, if auto attacking messed with casting speed. Then letting them have ranged AA would/could probably kill some people in fights lol.