How would people feel if they took positional requirements away?

[tdb]

what is an ability queue system in this context? Are you referring to being able to queue up a sequence of events before or during combat and they automatically execute when it's their turn, or something?

It's possible to press the button for the next ability up to about a second before GCD expires and have that ability execute the moment it's available. However this does not seem to work in all cases. In particular when applying two buffs or off-GCD abilities in quick succession it seems there's no queue slot for executing a GCD ability afterwards.

[Brightamethyst]

A vocal minority of healers wanted to simplify the dps rotations/options yet here we are. . . a 30 second dot and a filler spam.

It's actually the opposite. The vocal minority very much did NOT want that. SE did it to appeal to the general player base despite the complaints by the vocal minority.

[Nedkel]

Yeah, like combo skills, instanced boss fights, sprint, procs, loot and MP. Stupid, useless, outdated mechanics. Just remove them all, it can only make the game better!

Lets make the entire game being played with two buttons.
Play and stop, thats it.

If someone do not like positionals, then she/he has 13 different jobs to play with.
By the time SE simplify the entire game to cater to lazy people requests i am out of this wreck, i do already play the game less and less with tanks being made the way they are right now.

It's actually the opposite. The vocal minority very much did NOT want that. SE did it to appeal to the general player base despite the complaints by the vocal minority.

Sure, lets make entire game played with asdw and three buttons, will that be better for you? Are you really so short sighted to not see the changes SE is already implementing in place of the removed extra mechanics and gimmicks? They do not give us anything new, once they remove something its gone and our game becomes dumber and dumber, in fact we are receiving less and less. Tanks changes, healers changes, bard changes and even ninja changes it all went one way, by removing stuff, replacing it with nothing and making it "more accessible" to the people who cant press buttons. I will be impressed if this game will hold its own with this course for longer than 2-3 years before losing players to something new.

[Brightamethyst]

Lets make the entire game being played with two buttons.
Play and stop, thats it.

Literally no one is asking for that. No one wants a brain dead 1 button rotation, but there's also something to be said for not needing 3 hotbars worth of abilities on every fight. I agree that combos are mostly fine but let's not pretend that this game doesn't have an insane amount of ability bloat.

Edit: Spelling

[Adonan]

Because positionals become infinitely harder when you have a tank who is constantly moving. It's out of your control at that point.

Why I advocate for removing them:

SE has nerfed positionals to only be 10-20 pot gain and at the point, their effect is minimal.

I advocate for a Trance style personal Limit break system to make dpsing more fun but that's just me.

I've only seen tanks move often when they're brand new. Once you hit a certain level, you learn to keep still unless you're about to be blasted by an AoE. Even during the instances in which a tank moves more often than necessary, I've managed to keep up the DPS, albeit with more difficulty. Obviously, that's just my experience, and I have ADHD so that probably helps a bit. Positionals being more difficult to land because of player input isn't something SE should have to change. The community should try to fix the community's problems. Lastly, I agree that the potency differences between landing or missing positionals are pathetic, which is why I advocate for increasing the gap to a least 100, thus rewarding good players. It'll make the class harder, but much more fun in my opinion.

[RyuDragnier]

I've only seen tanks move often when they're brand new. Once you hit a certain level, you learn to keep still unless you're about to be blasted by an AoE. Even during the instances in which a tank moves more often than necessary, I've managed to keep up the DPS, albeit with more difficulty. Obviously, that's just my experience, and I have ADHD so that probably helps a bit. Positionals being more difficult to land because of player input isn't something SE should have to change. The community should try to fix the community's problems. Lastly, I agree that the potency differences between landing or missing positionals are pathetic, which is why I advocate for increasing the gap to a least 100, thus rewarding good players. It'll make the class harder, but much more fun in my opinion.

It actually used to be that big of a gap, but people complained for being punished too much for things out of their control, and the gap was lessened considerably. That was before the addition of True North, which has made positionals incredibly easy, especially for MNK who also gets Riddle of Earth to help with those.

[Powercow]

It actually used to be that big of a gap, but people complained for being punished too much for things out of their control, and the gap was lessened considerably. That was before the addition of True North, which has made positionals incredibly easy, especially for MNK who also gets Riddle of Earth to help with those.

Well yeah, aside from a couple (and I do mean like, two) fights where hitting 98% of positionals was impossible there wasn't anything out of the Monk's (or his party's) control. Yes that includes bosses who "randomly" spin to cast things on people.

[Malmstrom]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD69PAIqiYo

This is all I could think of.

[Kytrin]

It's possible to press the button for the next ability up to about a second before GCD expires and have that ability execute the moment it's available. However this does not seem to work in all cases. In particular when applying two buffs or off-GCD abilities in quick succession it seems there's no queue slot for executing a GCD ability afterwards.

Huh. I never noticed that. I'll have to watch for that on the practice dummies sometime. Mostly I'm too busy watching mechanics or thinking about the next part of my rotation to notice little things like that. Thank you kindly for the clarification!

[Khalithar]

I'd be ecstatic and my gameplay experience for all the melee dps would be drastically improved.