Please change BLM's new auto-attack.

[Sylve]

All magic classes have had a melee auto-attack since launch. And they all hit things with their weapons.

Always funny watching ACN hit things with their books

Dunno bout you, But i always envisage this when my SCH AA's:

[Sadana]

Mob has few hp left and just cast Silence?
You bet your butt I'm going to smack the shit outta him with my staff or book. :3
Hell, if I change classes for a FATE spur of the moment, I'll go and tag everything with my mage weapon until my spells get past cooldown.
Whack! Thwak! HOW YA LIKE THAT PAPER CUT?! lol

Auto-attack has been there since day 1.

[Rufalus]

Say you switched class because you noticed one of its hunting log targets in the field, but all of your skills begin on cooldown for some reason, so you run up and auto-attack it to claim the target before another player does. There's a use for mage's melee auto-attacks.

[DragonFlyy]

Melee auto-attacks for casters are functionally pointless,

The only function that I have found to smack something with my book, is to get my Chocobo to attack it first. (usually for fun :P )

[Pooky_Pasha]

BLM auto-attacks could be fireballs from their eyes, and bolts of lightning from their arse.

[KhalidTheGreat]

No, that is incorrect, BLM has not had an auto-attack until very recently. I play BLM every day.

I played blm at the last beta phase and I can confirm that I had a melee auto attack.

Edit: "beta phase" as in the one just before ARR was released for pc.

[Moheeheeko]

Melee auto-attacks for casters are functionally pointless

Except for establishing mah authoritah.

Why else do I have a hittin' stick?

[Velox]

Current auto-attack on casters is more or less there due to programming. That is, all jobs are designed under a singular base class, of which auto-attack is a function of that class. It would be MORE difficult to remove said function from just DoM classes rather than give it an animation and let it be.

[Zhi]

+50 dmg everytime u get a fire starter or thunderproc, quit complaining

[Rhindas]

I hit stuff with my frying pan on a daily basis.

Love doing this. It's very cathartic. ...and it reminds me of Super Mario RPG. Go Peach!