I am for auto-attack. And by auto-attack I mean, you attack using your short range weapon. (I haven’t played with long range yet at all, so I could be missing something, my apologies upfront)

I have a fairly selfish reason for auto-attack. Button mashing hurts after a while, and I get plenty of the mashing from my other non-MMO games.

After reading the prior posts I like the idea of having a on/off toggle. I would love it on while solo playing and off while party playing. I see party playing as requiring collaboration and auto-attack just doesn't fit in.

As for the stamina issue, there could always be a guard option to hold the attack.

And for those of you making the claim that wanting to be able to chat while fighting is lam..etc.., this is a MMO and one of the points it to be playing with other people, and establishing in game ‘relationships.’ Auto-attack helps to free up some time to communicate with others. But that is my take on things.