Spell Auto Attack

[Regholdain]

<p>How is spell autoattack supposed to work?  I was reading another thread from early August that said it was based on a wand being in a ranged slot (or a symbol maybe?), but as of yesterday in Live servers there are no wands that can be equipped in the ranged slot.  They are all still set as 1H crushing, and they compare to your primary slot rather than ranged when you mouseover for the tooltip comparison.</p><p>So I have three questions:</p><p>1) Is this supposed to be how it is going to work? </p><p>2) Is spell auto-attack live?</p><p>3) Are the tradeskilled wands being itemized to work this way - I.E. are they adding the ranged slot as a viable slot for them?</p><p>I just am very confused because between all the testing I could do on live with root and nuking I saw no autoattack damage whatsoever.</p>

[Terrius]

<p><cite>Regholdain wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>How is spell autoattack supposed to work?  I was reading another thread from early August that said it was based on a wand being in a ranged slot (or a symbol maybe?), but as of yesterday in Live servers there are no wands that can be equipped in the ranged slot.  They are all still set as 1H crushing, and they compare to your primary slot rather than ranged when you mouseover for the tooltip comparison.</p><p>So I have three questions:</p><p>1) Is this supposed to be how it is going to work? </p><p>2) Is spell auto-attack live?</p><p>3) Are the tradeskilled wands being itemized to work this way - I.E. are they adding the ranged slot as a viable slot for them?</p><p>I just am very confused because between all the testing I could do on live with root and nuking I saw no autoattack damage whatsoever.</p></blockquote><p>1) Yes</p><p>2) also Yes</p><p>3) no TS wands are primary weapons not rangedThe only wands for spell auto attack I've heard about come from a questline in Eastern Wastes, and are completely useless since they do maybe 500dps.</p>

[valavaern]

<p>I've found some of the wands in lowerlevel quests as well.  They're getting put in hodge-podge.  Also, they're all stupid and ugly, so if you have a nice staff or dagger/book combo you have for appearance, just keep a symbol in your ranged slot, since the ranged spell attack kicks in whenever you cast a spell.  <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Vaylan77]

<p>biggest problem i have on my mages is that nearly every spell is tagged as range and thus u always are in range mode when u fight even if someone stands right in front of you.in comparison to a ranger his arrow attacks are range, his other attacks melee and since u cannot use arrow attacks when you are too close to the target you don't switch your auto attack to range. a mage does that all the time. personally i like to have range auto attack not automatically switched on when you cast spells. you can always toggle it on manually anyway. before melee auto attack was not toggled on automatically neither when casting spells so this should also apply to the ranged auto attack.</p>