Quote Originally Posted by Jopo-Gray View Post
Be careful what you wish for, removing melee positionals would destroy the skill ceiling. You miss 10-20 out of 70 positionals (on a trial....) and want them all removed? I have a feeling that's not actually the reason you want them removed. Hitting positionals is the hardest and most rewarding part about playing melee dps. If I could think of one way to turn melee dps from challenging to braindead this would be number one on the list.

I've never felt compelled to post on this forum before (at least as far as I can remember) but (I'd hope) this would piss a lot of people off who care and understand how much gameplay value having positionals adds. I and many others went through the effort of learning how to deal with positionals for different fights, taking them all out would remove something so rewarding/ challenging while making the class boring to the people who learned how to do positionals before. Case in point o6s.

Not like anyone will care but the day they remove positionals is the day I quit this game. I love raiding in this game and especially on Monk, giving up positionals just so others have an easier time picking the class up is so backwards. Be careful what you wish for. The same thing happened to Warrior, they improved the job in 4.1 only to give in to the small outcry that the class was too punishing. Only to now have everyone complain that the class is now braindead (which I hold the opinion of also). I honestly wouldn't be surprised if SE did this positional thing though, sadly. I feel all the opinions against positionals come from a background of total ignorance by taking something like this for granted.
I'm just speaking for myself but I don't find positonals rewarding or challenging. SE could even throw more mechanics at you that make you move more while trying to keep your rotation going without positionals.