there is a bug going on rn where if you are in melee combat you can not use your ranged auto attack at all again unless you leave combat and then use ranged auto attack
I just tried n Live and Test servers.. I enter auto attack .. pull put to range, switched to range and then moved back into close range and auto-attack.. all worked fine. Did not have to stop combat.. just switched. Monk and necro and brigand and paladin. What was your class and specific detaals to help understand?
Might want to report that in the beta server forums then. It could be a beta specific bug. https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq2/index.php?forums/general-discussion.366/
Actual automatic autoattack works fine for me, but some days ago it seems there was an autoattack hickkack at the live servers Autoattack switching doesn't work | EverQuest 2 Forums (daybreakgames.com)
Seems like this goes both ways, my husbands guardian can't press the melee attack button to start his melee auto after he uses ranged auto to pull. He can get it to switch using combat arts but it takes 2-3 CAs for the switch to happen. He's already tried changing the auto attack mode and that has no impact on this issue.
have to turn melee off and then ranged on now after patch or vice versa, cant just go from one to the other directly now its very annoying
I see a "Fixed internally" header with this but I cannot still change from Melee Atack to Range Attack with a press of the Ranged Attack "button". Same if I go the other way. My assassin when ranged is bouncing from ranged to melee when i perform CA's and this makes it a pain! I am in "automatic" not any forced mode.
They have just patched the fix to test Friday. If it doesn't break something else, it will probably be pushed live the next Tuesday with an actual patch, not just a reset/commerce thing.