Wish there were melee DPS without positionals

[Shurrikhan]

This has nothing to do with positionals though.

You're the one making a huge deal out of an occasional stacking mechanic or the like, if mismanaged, possibly costing a melee some positional potency... when, yes, that risk was an explicit factor, even as far back as ARR, in melee getting higher output ceilings.

Again, if there's no point at which a Melee and its party cannot through optimal play get all of its positionals, True North becomes unnecessary. Deal with the boss-spins snapshotting before they're even visible to the player and with the boss moving to the arena's edge, and the rest is on the party. At that point, True North would exist only to degrade positional gameplay, rather than serving any purpose in covering over the problems in that system.

Better, imo, to just fix the polish of positionals themselves than just to rely on that bandaid. If we really want to give players the options to frequently skip positionals like they can skip knockbacks per 2 minutes, so be it I guess, but True North should never have been the answer to player concerns about, say, self-repositioning and forced-spinning bosses or the discrepancies between what we see and what we get in terms of mob positions/facing and their impact on positionals.

DRG has the lowest potency loss on missed positionals, and MNK/RPR have the highest outside of TA. DRG is scheduled for a 7.0 rework anyways, so I wouldn't be surprised if they move it more towards being an entry level melee for people feeling anxious about positionals.

But DRG also has the greatest frequency of required re-positioning, so it's not as if it's less engaged with or less dependent on positionals overall than other melee dps. It doesn't therefore seem to be leading towards any sort of "baby's first melee (positionals-wise)"; its current state could as easily imply the exact opposite.