Quote Originally Posted by mythicrose View Post
How is his post wrong? You lose potency, for sure. But you can stay at the rear and still maintain GL3.
He says:
Quote Originally Posted by Exstal View Post
But you can just sit on the rear the entire time on Monk and never lose Greased Lightning stacks. Thus there is no mandatory positional for Monk. Now do that with Dragoon.
Out of position MNK loses 75 potency on Boostshine; 50 potency on dragon kick; and 40 potency on true strike, snap punch, twin snakes and demolish. DPS loss ranges from a whopping 50% to a still really terrible 26%.

Out of position DRG loses Heavy Thrust buff (15%) and jaw dropping 70% and 80% from Heavy Thrust and Impulse Drive respectively, however the rest of their rotation doesn't suffer aside from the flat loss of 15%. There's also the matter of how often each of those moves show up within their rotation...blah blah blah.

Just eyeballing it I would guess that the DPS loss for both classes is actually around the same. But guesswork aside, it's just flat out wrong to state that MNK loses almost nothing being out of position because "GL will still be up". A MNK does not need to be in position to activate their buffs but the trade-off is a DPS loss on all of their abilities when done out of position (with the exception of Touch of Death and...Haymaker )

Neither are "mandatory", but you'll probably be out-DPS'd by a BRD if you ignore all positional requirements for both classes.