RIP Ninja

[Ultimatecalibur]

Actually the only skills that have any positional left on them at all for DRG are heavy thrust and chaos thrust, the others were outright removed.

Impulse Drive and Heavy Thrust were the only ones that originally had positional requirements. Heavy Thrust was changed so that the hitting flanks was not required to get the buff or give Ring of Thorns the combo bonus. Impulse Drive's positional was moved to Chaos Thrust. Dragoon's still have the same number of positional requirements.

[ChaozK]

Impulse Drive and Heavy Thrust were the only ones that originally had positional requirements. Heavy Thrust was changed so that the hitting flanks was not required to get the buff or give Ring of Thorns the combo bonus.

You actually still need to hit the flank for it to trigger ring of thorns' bonus for some reason. Maybe they forgot about it.

On topic: I am absolutely positive that NINs positions will work like MNKs or DRGs new system, rather than the old one. Having positionals per se is not a problem, when it prevents you from using your weapon skills, it is, which was the reason why they changed it for DRG.