Question about long range attacks...

rock7dmc · 08-03-2007, 11:51 PM

For long range people like people who use arrows is there a way to make it so when u double click the thing u wanna attack it shoots arrows instead of trying to use melee. This drives my friend crazy tht u cant use tht and u need to use a skill to shoot arrows. He prolly will never get away from wow unless i find away to fix this... thnx

Supernova17 · 08-03-2007, 11:57 PM

Hit K to bring up your abilities book, right next to the Melee Attack button should be the Ranged Attack button (which doesn't show up on the hotbar automaticall). Drag it onto your hotbar and click it for Ranged Auto-Attack.

rock7dmc · 08-04-2007, 12:05 AM

will tht make it so alls u gotta do is double click the monster to attack it with bow or do u need to use the auto attack skill?

DrkVsr · 08-04-2007, 10:08 AM

Why are you double-clicking? That just auto's what would be on the top of the right-click menu, which against hostiles is attack, which is generally the melee attack

As Supernova said, drag the rangedattack icon to your hotbar and select the mob you want and make sure the icon is not red (ie out of range)

Depending on the class, you will still need to hit the autoattack or a melee Combat Art after you stick the arrow in their butt or you will end up just standing there with an angry mob pounding you in the face

If you are using the rangedattack simply to pull, you can make a macro to let your group mates know who/what is coming, what ah use is:

/rangedattack
/Inc %t

That will bring the mob running and let anyone close to you know that the mob is incoming

Oh, and some classes can use other ranged weapons than bows (mah frog assassin is speciallizing in shurikans, frog ninja's ftw SMILEY )

rock7dmc · 08-05-2007, 04:38 PM

is there anyway to make it so auto arrow attack is on top of the right click menu so when i double click it i use my bow...

Norrsken · 08-05-2007, 04:52 PM

rock7dmc wrote:

is there anyway to make it so auto arrow attack is on top of the right click menu so when i double click it i use my bow...

wouldnt think so, but then again, I wouldnt put it past the realm of reality if you were to mod the ui.

Wilde_Night · 08-05-2007, 07:12 PM

There is no need to keep double clicking. Place Ranged Attack as hotkey #2. Tab your target, press 2. Double clicking can get you into trouble sometimes and is much slower than using hotkeys.

Gralthak · 08-05-2007, 10:56 PM

Alternately you could just use the default hotkey for ranged attack... shift+~ (just hitting tilde is the melee attack toggle) Double clicking will always default to melee, you shouldn't really be double clicking anyway since it's far to easy to attack the wrong thing by accident with that method.

08-04-2007, 10:08 AM	#4
DrkVsr Loremaster Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Land of the Short Brown Kiwi Posts: 2,041	Why are you double-clicking? That just auto's what would be on the top of the right-click menu, which against hostiles is attack, which is generally the melee attack As Supernova said, drag the rangedattack icon to your hotbar and select the mob you want and make sure the icon is not red (ie out of range) Depending on the class, you will still need to hit the autoattack or a melee Combat Art after you stick the arrow in their butt or you will end up just standing there with an angry mob pounding you in the face If you are using the rangedattack simply to pull, you can make a macro to let your group mates know who/what is coming, what ah use is: /rangedattack /Inc %t That will bring the mob running and let anyone close to you know that the mob is incoming Oh, and some classes can use other ranged weapons than bows (mah frog assassin is speciallizing in shurikans, frog ninja's ftw ) __________________ V`Wak N`Ron: Teir`Dassin of the 56th Order, Gods of Najena Htaed Ybdehcuotnu: Gnecro of the 40th Order, Gods of Najena Phoendi Phyres: Eru-Din of the 28th Order, Gods of Najena Kilitty: Kemplar of the 30th Order, Gods of Najena Zabisuto Zyhopic: Guktassin of 27th Order, Spirits of Glencoe on Butcherblock Tralgarth: Trollsionist of the 28th Order, SoG on Butcherblock {2nd on Server} Blacqphlag Killzphast: Arserker of the 20th Order, Spirits of Glencoe on Butcherblock Hwalgren N`Gareen: Faeden of the 20th Order, Spirits of Glencoe on Butcherblock Reynes: Wooden Mule of the 7th Order, Spirits of Glencoe on Butcherblock You can kill me, but you will not stop me Ah can be killed, but ah will not die!

08-05-2007, 04:52 PM	#6
Norrsken Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 6,450	rock7dmc wrote: is there anyway to make it so auto arrow attack is on top of the right click menu so when i double click it i use my bow... wouldnt think so, but then again, I wouldnt put it past the realm of reality if you were to mod the ui. __________________

08-05-2007, 07:12 PM	#7
Wilde_Night Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Kenosha, Wisconsin Posts: 1,127	There is no need to keep double clicking. Place Ranged Attack as hotkey #2. Tab your target, press 2. Double clicking can get you into trouble sometimes and is much slower than using hotkeys. __________________

08-03-2007, 11:51 PM	#1
rock7dmc Lord Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 4	For long range people like people who use arrows is there a way to make it so when u double click the thing u wanna attack it shoots arrows instead of trying to use melee. This drives my friend crazy tht u cant use tht and u need to use a skill to shoot arrows. He prolly will never get away from wow unless i find away to fix this... thnx

08-03-2007, 11:57 PM	#2
Supernova17 Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,317	Hit K to bring up your abilities book, right next to the Melee Attack button should be the Ranged Attack button (which doesn't show up on the hotbar automaticall). Drag it onto your hotbar and click it for Ranged Auto-Attack.

08-04-2007, 12:05 AM	#3
rock7dmc Lord Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 4	will tht make it so alls u gotta do is double click the monster to attack it with bow or do u need to use the auto attack skill?

08-05-2007, 04:38 PM	#5
rock7dmc Lord Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 4	is there anyway to make it so auto arrow attack is on top of the right click menu so when i double click it i use my bow...

08-05-2007, 10:56 PM	#8
Gralthak Server: Permafrost Guild: Without Remorse Rank: Cocktail Waiter Lord Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 86	Alternately you could just use the default hotkey for ranged attack... shift+~ (just hitting tilde is the melee attack toggle) Double clicking will always default to melee, you shouldn't really be double clicking anyway since it's far to easy to attack the wrong thing by accident with that method.