Guild Wars 2

Hi all,

I asked this question in another thread but I think it deserves it’s own thread.

Auto-attack. Watching some videos, I have noticed that some have it turned on and others have it off.

Are there pros/cons to leaving auto-attack turned on for the Mesmer in PvP or PvE?

Pro’s: You don’t have to spam the button, leaving your fingers free to have movement much easier without handcramps.
Pro: You don’t miss any times when you should be attacking but aren’t.

Cons: Someone pulls out a skill block (Riposte) or reflect skill, you hurt yourself.
A bunch of stacks of Confusion are on you, or Retaliation is on your target. Possibly both. You’re killing yourself by auto-attacking.

It’d be good if one could stop attacking, without disabling auto-attack (i.e. having it turned on, and already attacking, pushing the button again would just stop swinging). But as of this point, if you want to be doing high level PvP play (these are the situations where it comes up more than PvE), turn it off and find keybinds that don’t restrict your movement or give you handcramps to spam it.

Good points, thanks.