Quote Originally Posted by RArchet View Post
Honestly, they should just remove positionals entirely at this point with how often they force us into ignoring flanks and rears, such as the 2nd boss of The Dead Ends where it forces you to circle around it constantly. True North doesn't last long enough to cover these situations.
I don’t feel Positionals need to go away at all personally. But they do need better implementation if certain jobs are supposed to have a lot of them. I prefer Samurai’s softer approach where you can flex your basic Sen combos around how you will position in the next 25ish seconds or so to more static options like Dragoon, but I don’t think either is ‘Bad’, but the focus is misapplied. Heavier Positional jobs like pre-Endwalker Monk need to be designed in such a way that they are inherently more flexible by default to compensate for problems with their demand. This is why I’ve wanted positional based chakra generation for so long. With a tightly controlled gauge it would fit better with XIV’s fights overall.