Some Sage Discussion

[Archwizard]

someone explain me why nouliths dont do range auto attack .-.

In short, they're just built different.

In other words, they're not actually gun barrels, despite appearances; no more than a White Mage's staff is a rocket launcher, Afflatus Misery aside. Since their only ammo is literal magic, they can only "fire" when you're spellcasting.

And from a gameplay standpoint, a ranged auto-attack would give SGE an unusual advantage over other healers in terms of its damage output, owing to being the only healer with one -- which would allow them to keep damage up at all times, provided they're not focused on an ally at that moment. (If anything, it would deter them from target-swapping to allies so they can keep firing, which makes having SGE heal with anything but Kardia and Soteria rather moot.)

Since healer spell attacks are set to a 1.5s cast to allow a window for oGCD weaving, even if ranged auto-attacks were reset by the spell GCD, it would still have a window to attack between casts... unless they increased the time between its auto-attacks, but that would have to be compensated with increased damage, which would then carry over to its spells anyway, and make the effort towards giving SGE a ranged auto-attack at all pointless.