I haven't read through all the posts since my last so I don't know if anyone else has mirrored by thoughts but:

The reasons I don't like auto attack:

1. I don't use it on ARC, and I feel like somehow I'm missing out on potential dmg by not closing in (getting rid of any sense of ranged class) to use it. I want to say most of the time I'm busy enough where it's not needed, but there's probably once or twice it would have gone off in between everything else i'm doing. But melee arc?? Boooooo!

2. When I was pug main, I was never 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 like everyone else seems to state was what they were doing, I was bouncing between flurry and pummel and my ws's. It was fun. There's nothing fun about auto attack, and some of the restrictions that came with it and stamina being gone are less fun.

3. I still can't really chat while fighting. Wasn't that the main reason auto attack was being called for? >.>

I'll work within either system, I just found more action oriented battle to be more fulfilling. Those people that were spamming 1 weren't really "playing" the game, much like people that just spam standard while synthing.