Quote Originally Posted by Ferrasper View Post
Why would you ever hard cast verthunder? You start off with Jolt 2. Hard casting something like that is foolish. You also don't have to move to auto-attack range. You are a caster mainly. You only get in close to melee when you corps-a-corps.
The hard cast verthunder is only done pre-pull when you have a countdown. That way, you can make sure it goes off just as the battle starts, allowing it to be done without any wasted cast time.

As for the auto attacks, as far as I'm aware you do get some during the GCD from dual cast but not during hard casts. As such, it is a dps increase to stand in melee range, but can be fairly dangerous since we're squishier than actual melee classes.