ARC Auto-attack = Ranged attack..

[Viridiana]

because if it wasn't, it would interfere with skills like shadowbind, (you'd lose bind the moment AA went off) I'm more surprised that ppl think that AA automatically means that arc will no longer be rooted when firing.

Pattern recognition: Name one more class that gets rooted during auto attack.

Yes, I've seen your arguments in other threads about the realism of firing a bow "from the hip." But, then, very few of the classes have realistic auto attacks, so what's one more?