AUTO ATTACK!!!

[The Ban]

<div>Why dont us wizzies and warlocks get it? its unfair that that every other class gets to?</div><div> </div><div>wht i would like to see is a ranged wand that does wht every dmg its imbued with, for ex. a prestine poison imbued ironwood wand would ack like a one handed or two handed (staff) but do poison dmg instead of crushing</div><div> </div><div>i dont knw wht the public thinks of it but i think its a good idea</div><div> </div><div>( i dont want to stoop to WoW but their mages have auto attack)</div>

[Senen74]

<div></div>I wouldnt mind so much for raids to help our dps out but, for soloing this would have to be toggled, as to not break roots. 

[betterji]

<div>auto attack a raid mob? talk about riposte. also then we would have to joust.</div>

[Poochymama]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>betterjimi wrote:<div>auto attack a raid mob? talk about riposte. also then we would have to joust.</div><hr></blockquote><p>Why would you get riposted from ranged auto attack.</p><p>This is a really neat idea. Take a flame imbued wand for example, it could hurl fireballs at the enemy every 1.7 seconds (or whatever the delay is).</p><p> </p>

[Darkcreat]

<div></div><p>To be honest it would only be fair. We're the only classes in the game that can't do anything once OOP.</p><p>Two thumbs up for ranged autoattacks from wands!!!</p>

[Worrick]

<div>Guild Wars had wands that shot ranged blasts of energy which i thouht was a great Idea. I would deffinately lke to see soemthign liek that in EQ2.</div>

[Burnout]

<p>why do melee's have autoattack? cause it's theire base dmg. they power it up with styles - if timers are up. so, autoattack is the melee way to do dmg between 2 styles up</p><p>why casters don't have autoattack? cause our base & peak dmg is done by spells. so our way to do dmg between two main spells are up - are other spells</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>

[Purg]

<div></div><div></div><div>buy an imbued want, and then chain cast it, its not auto attack but it is near enough.especially if you add it to your hot bar</div><div> </div><div>also you do have auto attack, if you choose to run up to the mob and melee it! <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></div><div> </div><div>I don't really see the need. Part of being dps is being aware of what you are doing, hate gain etc, and i would rather be in charge than have some auto attack even mid damage spell going off.</div><div> </div><div> </div><p>Message Edited by Purgle on <span class="date_text">01-30-2006</span><span class="time_text">01:37 AM</span></p><p>Message Edited by Purgle on <span class="date_text">01-30-2006</span><span class="time_text">01:38 AM</span></p>

[wesbarlow]

<div>As crazy as it sounds i do auto attack with my warlock. i nuke from  a distance while the target is rooted like everyone else but i hit the ~ key for the melee attack inbetween spells. with that auto attack turned on i dont do crap from a distance (using the prismatic rod btw) but when the target breaks i VI it and go through my normal stun combo's and for a few seconds the mob is right on me but he's either pacified or stunnedand definately within melee range. Funny thing is with that melee auto attack on i can still do melee damage with my wand while i'm in mid cast with a spell. adds a little extra dps when soloing and that prismatic rod procs pretty often too. it's not a lot of damage but it does help on a single target encounter. not sure if anyone else does this trick but i do it all the time</div>

[Darkcreat]

<div></div><p>My main concern is when OOP.</p><p>Like I said, wiz/war are the only classes in game that can't do anything when OOP. The castable effects of imbued items takes 10 seconds to cast... um thats not even worth it. Plus it cost prohibitive to a LOT of people. Every other class in the game has some way to defend themselves when OOP why don't we? I'd like to see you get a wand to go off if you're getting beat on when solo and OOP. We die faster than that to solo mobs :smileytongue:</p>

[Korpo]

You can convert health to power when you're OOP <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />.<div></div>

[The Ban]

<div></div>ok so u use one of the contract line spell yay one more spell and u only have so much health and yes there are healers but hey dont want to have to heal us and its just fair that we get it any way ya

[Korpo]

We have two conversion spell lines, not one, and they're on different timers.Since we're so brittle, I pretty much assume that if I get agro on a raid, I'm going to die. I also assume that if I'm getting hit with AOE spells from the mob, I'm going to die. Given those conditions, our HP are pretty much just there to be converted to power. My masters of my two power conversions give me something like 500-600 power (I'm too lazy to look it up and do the math), plus I can use my Vessel every half hour, plus a manastone if you have it, plus the power regen from my items, plus power regen from the troub and/or chanter in your group, and I never stay OOP for very long <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />. Really, I don't think I've gone OOP on a raid in a looooooong time.<div></div>

[Spag]

<div></div><p>I like this idea.  Not only would it give a bit of base damage but also allow us to change which type of damage we want to do on auto attack, much like fighters can choose crushing, slashing or piercing, we can choose flame, frost, poison.. etc.</p><p>This is an excellent idea.  They can even make these weapons do damage based on INT and allow anyone to use.  It will be less effective for a fighter to use this vs a mage, just like it is less effective for a mage to use a physical damage weapons than it is for a fighter due to them being based on STR.</p>

[The Ban]

<div></div>exactly...

[Purg]

<div></div><p>you do have an auto attack its called mellee. same as all other classes, some classes are lucky enough to have a range auto attack too but not all.</p><p>I do kinda agree overall though,</p><p>power conversion is a good point.</p><p>Wands are slow the damage is good, and you can move whilst casting! and whilst ur casting your power is regening so you may have enough for a quck smite.</p>