How to attack a "friendly"? ...and a wizard shop? [SPOILERS]

[Ningengirai]

Am I the only one who really misses the radial menus? Maybe I still need more time to get used to the new dropdown menus, but I found the radial menus easier to use.

Which brings me to my question, sort of. In NWN1, you had to choice of attacking friendlies, and I'm missing that certain 'Attack' icon in the dropdown menu. Is it really not there, or am I not looking hard enough?

Second question for those who already finished the game ( spoilers welcome ): is there actually a merchant somewhere that sells good items for arcane casters? I'm missing the mage-related items, like Battle Robes and Staves (sp?). The only wizard robes I found so far were a Robe of Fire Resistance and a Robe of Scintillating Colours. Every merchant I found sells a metric ton of scrolls and crafting items, the latter which I haven't paid a lot of attention to yet. I don't really feel like wasting any skill points on the crafting skills, to be honest.

[Magrus]

I am pretty sure they disabled it on certain NPC's to be honest. I noticed that some I have the option of attacking, but others I do not. They probably did that to avoid people who have played through the game before just attacking NPC's they know will start a fight after a dialogue scene. Game designers don't like people avoiding the things they worked hard to script out.