Guild Wars 2

Hello.

What do you think about Auto-Attack in SPvP? (Talking about the #1 skill)

Is it something that everyone should disable and learn how to press their own skill at the right moment?

Could it be good to let it stay on so you don’t need to worry about it, and only focus on your other 4 skills?

Is it better to have it disabled and then learn to press it at the right time, or have it on and swing your weapon around to hopefully get a hit?

I know this changes from profession to profession, from weapon to weapon, but what is your overall experience, and what do you think is the best? (Let’s say for the profession you play)

I usually just spam it while waiting for other skills to come out of cd, so i have it on AA but i still press the button anyway.
I dont think theres really a “right” moment to get the perfect hit cuz you can just keep spaming it.
There maybe be some professions where its worth waiting for the 2nd/3rd hits of the auto attack to apply on hit effects.

Off.
Only time I’d like it on is for range attacks to make strafing less conscious but it isnot worth it, and I don’t need projectiles going off when if I’m trying to stealth or something along those lines.

Nor do I need it immediately going off, when I’m moving behind someone cloaked.
It’s also annoying for the Ranger Sword, when it won’t behave itself.

More control means less accidents hombre + the game feels more engaging.

Off. Autoattack works better on ranged weapons and some professions take good advantage of it while others (melee ones) strugle to use it. It should be off to all.

I think that the auto attack is an accident/oversight.
At some point during development, gw2 had mana. With this system you needed to have an auto attack in order to do damage while not using mana, but that dimension of combat doesn’t exist anymore so it’s superfluous to some degree. That said, I couldn’t imagine the game without it.

Your notion of effective skill use doesn’t really exist. As long as a player isn’t dodging or invulnerable you can’t really mess up button pressing. If it’s off cooldown, press it (unless you’re trying to do some kind of burst, in which case you should press them all at the same time).

Also; the idea that you need to reduce the number of skills to focus on absolutely silly. If you remove auto attack from your list of things to think about, you still have to worry about rotating your camera, dodging, not targeting pets or minions, trying to assemble a crack team of cryptographers to interpret combat, keeping track of your opponent’s boons, keeping track of your conditions, counting their dodges. You have 20 things to do at any given time, is reducing that to 19 really going to make a difference?

turn it off and spam your 1 harder then anyone else when everything else is off cd.

I just leave it on. There no swing timer reset or anything, and its not like it has to be managed. I see no advantage of turning it off IMO, happy to be corrected though.

confusion > 1 auto attack

Good point. I didn’t think of confusion or retaliation. There you go, a good reason to turn it off.

Auto attack baits out dodges for warriors attempting to burst.

Noctis Assassin.4035:

turn it off and spam your 1 harder then anyone else when everything else is off cd.

The harder you smash it the more dmg you do!

I throw it on when being lazy, if thier ez sitting ducks or if im too busy to keep watching.

Sometimes I have it on, sometimes off. But usually still mash the button out of habit.

The only time I don’t mash the button is when playing shortbow ranger. As every good shortbow ranger, I just press it once and go afk – make some coffee, paint the garage, take a trip to Hawaii etc.

Interpret Interrupt.3824:

Auto attack baits out dodges for warriors attempting to burst.

I like your signature.

Harrier.9380:

Interpret Interrupt.3824:

Auto attack baits out dodges for warriors attempting to burst.

I like your signature.

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