Quote Originally Posted by Kiote View Post
It's not a reasonable solution because Auto-Attack initiates when you target your opponent. That means, to stop attack you will have to Untarget the enemy, do whatever it is you need to do, then retarget your enemy to begin fighting again. The other solution is put away your weapon. The short time that either of those actions take will make you gimped as a Damage dealer. Your role will be officially be restricted to pulling and buffing.

Have you even considered what this is going to do to your ammo consumption? Or are you one of those people who thinks the magic infinite quiver should be implemented to?
Firstly, you can target the enemy regardless of whether u are engaged or not. All you do it hit escape, then you get the little circle target (and you aren't engaged) then you hit enter and you engage and the target symbol changes. This gives you full control over your auto attack without untargeting the enemy. If you're concerned about ammo consumption I suggest you play another class. The guys in FFXI who played COR without ranged attacking were useless as hell, I feel the same way about people like you playing ARC/BRD.