Increase range/change animation of Auto-attack with Staves/Rods/Books

[Jonnycbad]

Please increase the range of auto-attack with THM,CNJ,ARC,BLM,WHM,SCH,SMN weapons. Instead of being melee swings, let the player shoot tiny little balls of aether from their weapon at the target. For those who don't know, auto-attack on mage jobs, while seemingly impractical, is not an insignificant amount of DPS. In fact, look at the DMG rating on Midan Grimoire (3.12 Delay 84.24 auto attack), compared to Midan Spear (2.88 delay 77.76 auto attack). This is pretty significant, except 98% of the time a mage would not be in range to deal any autoattack damage. Letting Books and Staves have a 10-15' auto attack animation would be awesome! Hells, in FF Tactics, Books had pretty good range for attacking!


Besides, it looks dumb to swing a Book at a mob, and would make more sense if a little ball/beam fired out of it instead, and no, Ruin doesn't count.

This is how BLM/THM/WHM/CNJ's 2handed auto-attack animation could look, taken from Dragon's Dogma: