Are positionals a outdated thing?

[Supersnow845]

Again I’ll say if you can easily hit every positional without trying on a boss who’s hit box is half the arena wide what is the justification for melee doing so much more damage than the other DPS jobs

Melee damage is designed around disengagement and the occasional missed positional but then square basically designs it so that you never actually have to deal with that problem except in the most recent 2 EX’s (which still hit the casters harder)

If we are going to continue going down this road then melees either need to be nerfed or other DPS buffed, MNK does a whopping 1200 rDPS more than RDM on P8S, that is far too much variance for a job that doesn’t even have to try for uptime

[Kazhar]

If we are going to continue going down this road then melees either need to be nerfed or other DPS buffed, MNK does a whopping 1200 rDPS more than RDM on P8S, that is far too much variance for a job that doesn’t even have to try for uptime

I would be careful about using week 1 data since most teams who cleared funneled all their loot into their top DPS (especially the ilvl 630 weapon), which increases the gap between the top and the bottom by a substantial amount.

[Supersnow845]

I would be careful about using week 1 data since most teams who cleared funneled all their loot into their top DPS (especially the ilvl 630 weapon), which increases the gap between the top and the bottom by a substantial amount.

That’s true but even accounting for that melee do 10% more damage for what amounts to a disadvantage to melee that doesn’t really functionally exist