Combat art turning on auto attack?

Szai · 06-30-2008, 02:04 PM

Feel noobish for asking this but Is there a way to make it so when you use a combat art your auto attack does not turn on? IE using ranged auto attacks then use a melee CA and have ranged still be on?

Pokie · 06-30-2008, 02:18 PM

I think the annoying way might be to macro your melee CA's to add the line "/autoattack 2" which i think turns on ranged auto.

Kurazao · 06-30-2008, 02:20 PM

yeah /autoattack 2 turns ranged on

/autoattack 1 turns melee on, and /autoattack 0 turns both off

the_mo · 06-30-2008, 02:59 PM

this works, but it has 1 downside which has to be considered:

if you chain 2 CAs, both "/autoattack 2" macros will be executed before the 2nd chained CA is cast. so youll end up with both CAs cast and the autoattack beeing melee sadly

mafoe · 07-01-2008, 02:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kurazao

yeah /autoattack 2 turns ranged on

/autoattack 1 turns melee on, and /autoattack 0 turns both off

Noob question: if you hit the macro with "/autoattack 0" twice or four or 6 or whatever times, does it turn your autoattack back on?

the_mo · 07-01-2008, 02:36 AM

no, its not a toggle

0 --> off
1 --> melee on
2 --> ranged on

no matter how often you press a macro with one of those in it

mafoe · 07-01-2008, 03:53 AM

Thanks. Advanced question: Does using the "/autoattack 0" macro queue, or is it recognized by the game while a CA/spell is being cast/executed? I.e. against Drusella, do I need to wait till my queued CAs are all through, or can I spam it anytime and it still works?

Muraha · 07-01-2008, 05:28 AM

It does not queue, so if your combat art takes more than 1 second to cast it wont work.

mafoe · 07-01-2008, 05:34 AM

Ok, thanks.

rotax · 07-25-2008, 07:30 PM

Mmm Nice for a Swashy mez macro /autoattack 0 on the 1st line.
Been having issues w/ breaking my own mez if i dont switch targets back fast enough. lol

If now I could only find a way to add a gd "ATTACK IS ON" icon...like eq1... Why are games (WoW also) going away from indicating when your auto attack is enabled?? Or am I stupid and missing something?
I am aware of the "being attacked/aggroed" indicator...thats not what I'm after tho.

I really had an issue w/ my Assassin whos autoattack was so damn slow it felt like i really wasn't attacking..

Anyway.