Greeting, i am playing this game for about two years now and still this is bothering me from time to time, i got used to the controls but at the beginning this was a major problem and still can screw you over.
This is mostly a problem for people who don't play with Legacy.

Allow me to elaborate.


Your character has an attack angle of ~90° in front of you, so you can only attack enemies that are directly in front of you.
I made this little diagram to visualize it.



I order to solve this problem , you need to turn on the option that your character automatically turns to the enemy when you attack, or you will often not be able to attack anything at all (Enemy is not infront of you)

But this creates another problem, when you are running and attack an enemy , your character turns to the enemy and you start running the wrong direction, this can cause you to run into AOES or fall of edges by accident, only because your character turns the wrong direction.

So here is the solution to this clunky mess:

1# Increase the angle of attacks to 180°, most Tab-Targeting games have it that way.
2# Using the option to turn your character towards the enemy should only work if you face away from the enemy, if you can already attack the enemy, your character shouldn't turn around at all.
or add a sub option to "always turn towards enemy on attack"

This will make the combat a lot less clunky in general.