Please change BLM's new auto-attack.

[Darxer]

BLM was given a short range melee auto attack in this recent patch. I'm asking for a change because the current form doesn't make any sense.

BLM is a ranged class, they wield a delicate, elegant weapon meant for casting. Similar to a Bard, who wields a delicate, elegant bow, meant for firing arrows from range.

Why does Bard have a ranged auto attack? But BLM is melee? It really makes no sense to me. Do Bard's hit monsters with their bow? No, they use arrows, like a BLM should be using magic.

I suggest a ranged auto attack, similar to Scathe, but significantly weaker. Damage will depend on the weapon stat and delay, the damage would be non-elemental, like Scathe.

[PArcher]

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

[Darxer]

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

[Ashgarth]

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

Blm has had autoattack since it was implemented back in 1.0

[Shioban]

Blm has had autoattack since it was implemented back in 1.0

BLM has had an auto-attack since Final Fantasy XI.

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

[NyxNoughtNothing]

Melee auto-attacks for casters are functionally pointless, and yet they all have them anyway. i only knew they existed because i was belatedly filling some old hunting log entries and happened to be close enough to the critter to watch my Arcanist smack it with a book when i clicked my mouse.
Oddly enough Archer's auto-attack doesn't require being close enough to smack enemies with my bow.
Why the disparity?

[Felis]

Melee auto-attacks for casters are functionally pointless, and yet they all have them anyway. i only knew they existed because i was belatedly filling some old hunting log entries and happened to be close enough to the critter to watch my Arcanist smack it with a book when i clicked my mouse.
Oddly enough Archer's auto-attack doesn't require being close enough to smack enemies with my bow.
Why the disparity?

Because bows shoot arrows. Books and staffs not.

BLM has had an auto-attack since Final Fantasy XI.

There was once a time where mages and every other classes didn't had auto-attack in XIV. Every attack needed to be manualy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmio...tailpage#t=146

There were also once a time where mages also used some skills that needed TP.

[MurakumoMillennium]

There was once a time where mages and every other classes didn't had auto-attack in XIV. Every attack needed to be manualy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmio...tailpage#t=146

There were also once a time where mages also used some skills that needed TP.

That doesn't make what he said any less true.

BLM has had an auto-attack since Final Fantasy XI.

[Shioban]

There was once a time where mages and every other classes didn't had auto-attack in XIV. Every attack needed to be manualy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmio...tailpage#t=146

There were also once a time where mages also used some skills that needed TP.

Correct!

However I was referring to FFXI and 1.23 not 1.0 release (although it is notable)

I actually kind of miss 1.0's old combat system it was rather interesting at first (albeit very broken I wish they'd simply adjusted it at times).

[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 )