Quote Originally Posted by Arcell View Post
Actually as long as you have an enemy targeted, your weapon is out and you're able to select actions off your action bar you should auto-attack. A little sword icon pops up near the enemy name/health thing when you're able to auto-attack and your character will do so automatically when within range.
Yeah, this. Think about it (if you played XI) that it's sorta like that, where you have to target an enemy, then click again to get the menu to pop up, then select "Attack" to start attacking, only in this case you don't have to deal with the extra click or menu navigation.