Quote Originally Posted by mosaicex View Post
Yes, uptime AND optimal rotation have always been the biggest factor in doing decent DPS.
YET
YET people in this thread act like missing few positionals during mechanic wombo combo and such will somehow murder their DPS. I mean, if it was pre-2.4/3.0 era DRG like I've mentioned earlier then they would have a point, but that's not the case anymore.
I suspect some of them had been called out for poor performance (due to aforementioned factors) but decided to blame it all on positionals.


Name some, I've yet to see anyone bringing up anything noteworthy in this thread to compensate for removal of positionals.
It's always 'UHH I don't like positionals, dev should just delete it!' 'Positionals aren't hard at all! I JUST have 'difficulty' doing them during certain part of the fight.', and my favorite 'There are better ways! (proceed to not name any)'

If they don't like positionals then there are 5 other jobs for them to move to (actually casters have to deal with position too, but positioning instead of positional. Range physical DPS can move freely but often have to deal with more mechanics due to it).
Every jobs in this game have upsides and downsides, but no, people want to have their cake and eat it too.
I literally named some. You even quoted what I named. This is the worst attempt at a strawman that I've ever seen.

The bottom line is positionals are a relic from the 1.X days when mobs were more stationary. And as they are in fights now they just cause you to have a loss of performance at no fault of you own, which is not fun and not a reflection as your skill as a player. If I clip my oGCD into my GCD that is on me. If I move into/out of an AoE or move too late/early for a mechanic to maximize uptime, that's on me. The mob spinning around on its own or mechanics that prevent you from being able to do positionals is not the fault of the player, and its frustrating.

And again, other games have succeeded and had fun melee jobs without positional gimmicks slapped onto all of them.