Quote Originally Posted by EasymodeX View Post
Low positioning demands due to mechanics continuing to function at all positions.
I won't agree with this. Monk difficulty might be overrated but the positional requirements aren't low.
All attacks have a positional requirement even if it functions without it.
You should be doing all positions and at the highest level doing a standard rotation which includes Bootshine.

I'm not saying it's super hard to stay at a flank most of the time, but you've got a set place to be and you need to learn to stick to it like white on rice as much as you can.
And you've got to do that for every attack outside of dots and oGCD.

Every time you missed, you failed.
Every time you didn't Bootshine cause you couldn't predict it well enough, you could have been better.
To me, those are still position demands. Maybe we're defining it differently.
In that regard, there are literally more 'you have to be here' things for a monk.

NOTE:
I play on a BLM as well and the "position demands" are a lot.
Technically, you're only allowed to move on procs to be optimal.
However, the BLM is balanced around some movement interrupting you as monks are balanced around GL3 dropping occasionally.
A good BLM will move only during a proc (for a better position) or when they absolutely must.

Still, I put position demands in quotations because I think there's a difference between that and mobility.
I don't see the reason for putting them them as the same thing except to use it as a common denominator for all the classes, which is still misleading.

Position demands, to me at least, would mean you've got a predefined location.
Mobility would mean it's hard to move.

For my monk, my movements are predefined. I've got to be in a certain place at a certain time.
I would say its the class with the most positional demands cause most of their tooltips literally ask you to be somewhere.
My mobility isn't horrible though. I can sidestep a Titan plume without losing damage.

My BLM can't do that without losing damage, but I've got a lot more choice where to stand.
Fight to fight, there may be position demands that I work out with my raid but as a class I pretty much have none.

Might be semantics but your summary is misleading. Even for a summary.