Samurai have positionals?!

[Nothv13]

I'll repeat to you what I said to another poster.

Please stop encouraging people to play poorly. Doing positional attacks is such a simple thing to do, and if you're too lazy to do them, then you shouldn't play a melee job. Not moving to hit from the proper side would be like saying you just want to delete dream within a dream, elixir field, or jump from your hotbar since you can still clear content without doing one OGCD. It's free damage, you move between doing your skills, and it DOES add to your total damage. If you're a samurai, you're not doing a thing to help anyone else in the party do more damage, so you better be doing every bit of damage you personally can so you're not useless, and that includes taking a few steps to the left and right every few moves to hit the enemy from the appropriate side.

Until they stop with the beyblade bosses your entire point is moot. You will lose more dps than you gain trying to hit positionals on a boss that is constantly turning. The positionals are literally the last thing you should focus on after rotation, pots, and mechanics. If you can hit them? Good, if not, it is not a big loss. They are only important if you are going for top parsing, and those are the very small minority of people in the game. Its not a matter of encouraging them to play poorly, it is a matter of prioritizing the parts that actually make up the vast majority of your DPS. The only melee class I'd even mention positions on as a major factor in performance is monk. All the rest? if you hit them, you hit them. If not no reason to get bent out of shape and think you suck. Even on Dragoon, just fucking around you'll hit a good portion of the positionals just by sitting on eth edge of the side and rear of the mob without really trying to actually hit them.

Missing positionals on SAM is just an "aw man" rather than a "NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MY PARSE!"

SAM isn't the kind of job where you should risk dying to hit positionals, but they're still very important if you want to be doing your best. They also make the job more fun by giving it a nice rhythm, so why not at least try to hit them?

Rythmn... on bosses that like to spin to their target for each attack. To you they make it more fun, to others it is just an annoyance. Also I've seen people lose dps by trying to hit positionals as they end up either out of position as the boss moves are delaying GCDs. So it really is ak hit if you can, but don't go out of your way for it, with the only exception being likely monk since he has so many positionals.