Guild Wars 2

I haven’t leveled an engineer but I’ve heard that grenades have to be aimed and not even the first ability auto attacks. I then saw an engineer using his flame thrower and asked him if the flame thrower had an auto attack option for the first key….and he replied “no”. So do you guys manually mash your main attack 50000 times in a dungeon while at the same time trying to activate your other abilities? I’ve yet to play a class that didn’t have auto attacks. Can someone explain what weapons do and do not use an auto attack?

Flamethrower, Elixir Gun, Tool Kit, Bomb Kit all got “auto attacks” it’s just that currently they’re bugged n don’t save the Auto attack setting so we gotta Ctrl +Right click everytime we switch to a kit.

Elshagan.6342:

Flamethrower, Elixir Gun, Tool Kit, Bomb Kit all got “auto attacks” it’s just that currently they’re bugged n don’t save the Auto attack setting so we gotta Ctrl +Right click everytime we switch to a kit.

What about grenades? I do a lot of PvP and people never stand still…

So to reply to the question, atm Hand guns and rifles auto-attack. but non of the eqipable “kits” do

GrottyPie.7520:

So to reply to the question, atm Hand guns and rifles auto-attack. but non of the eqipable “kits” do

Thanks….that sounds very limiting….in PvE and PvP…..lots of lost damage.

Kaine.3501:

GrottyPie.7520:

So to reply to the question, atm Hand guns and rifles auto-attack. but non of the eqipable “kits” do

Thanks….that sounds very limiting….in PvE and PvP…..lots of lost damage.

Lol, actually its not really in PvE
Dunno bout PvP
Dont really care about it personally

Almost any skill can be set to autoattack. It’s just that kits don’t have the first skill set to auto by default, you have to CTRL+RMB every time you swap to the kit.

Grenades can’t autoattack because they’re ground-targeted.

Its because kits aren’t weapons. Kits are bundles. And bundles don’t have a remembered auto attack.

Its working as intended, till they make kits not bundles.

Lyuben.2613:

Its because kits aren’t weapons. Kits are bundles. And bundles don’t have a remembered auto attack.

Its working as intended, till they make kits not bundles.

Actually the only reason the Kits don’t have auto attack yet is because the Devs are too busy with other things to implement it.

DesertRose.2031:

Lyuben.2613:

Its because kits aren’t weapons. Kits are bundles. And bundles don’t have a remembered auto attack.

Its working as intended, till they make kits not bundles.

Actually the only reason the Kits don’t have auto attack yet is because the Devs are too busy with other things to implement it.

No, its not that. Its because kits are bundles, and bundles don’t have the auto attack option.

Its all working as intended really. Mechanically, the kits are flawless. Not a bug on them.

But, it seems that Arenanet want to change how kits work, without changing them from bundles.

Can’t have your cake and eat it too I’m afraid.

And busy? They’ve known this for months and since the first beta. And what is a beta for? Fixing and optimizing the game. You’d think they would find some time during several months to fix it, but nope. They didn’t and they broke their promise.

Theres no defending it. You just have to live with it.

Lyuben.2613:

DesertRose.2031:

Lyuben.2613:

Its because kits aren’t weapons. Kits are bundles. And bundles don’t have a remembered auto attack.

Its working as intended, till they make kits not bundles.

Actually the only reason the Kits don’t have auto attack yet is because the Devs are too busy with other things to implement it.

No, its not that. Its because kits are bundles, and bundles don’t have the auto attack option.

Its all working as intended really. Mechanically, the kits are flawless. Not a bug on them.

But, it seems that Arenanet want to change how kits work, without changing them from bundles.

Can’t have your cake and eat it too I’m afraid.

And busy? They’ve known this for months and since the first beta. And what is a beta for? Fixing and optimizing the game. You’d think they would find some time during several months to fix it, but nope. They didn’t and they broke their promise.

Theres no defending it. You just have to live with it.

We shouldn’t have to live with a poor decision.

When you switch to elixir gun,flamethrower, or tool auto attack should kick in.All 3 have autoattacks that need to happen. You need auto attack to constantly stack bleed/weakness with elixir gun. To constantly roast your opponents with flamethrower. And to heal your turrets or smash people with your wrench in tool kit.To have to switch it just so you dont have to be pressing the thing a million times is just silly.Oh forgot bomb kit as well.

If it is “working as intended” then whoever decided that to work that way was a complete moron.

It’s even worse in sPvP when you should be focusing on other skills rather than mashing 1.

So hearing ArenaNet wanting to change a stupid decision is very good.Free up a finger for other keys.

They will still be bundles, but they will have a simple function added that s hould of been there in the first place.For your argument to hold any water the ability to turn 1 into autoattack with shift+right click wouldn’t exist.