Positionals vs Damage over Time

[HikariKurosawa]

Unfathomably based

You're probably being sarcastic but it actually is. I prefer to focus on mechanics of the encounter and the flow of the rotation itself. I never found the positional part of the game to be engaging in an enjoyable way. It's either easy, messes up mechanics, or results in lost damage because the boss gets turned randomly or from a mechanic.

If more players just ignore positionals and don't use true north, they're more likely to remove them from certain if not all jobs. Maybe they can do something to make them feel worthwhile, but the amount of boss spinning that happens in hard content makes it just feel like a nuisance. There is no different animation or sound, there is no feedback at all, it just feels like a pointless optimization that gets in the way of encounter design.

well True North let's you ignore the skill's positional requirements but granting you the positional bonus damage^^
so True North may contribute to boost your damage^^

Sure, but 1) I play with damage numbers off, 2) I don't care about 40 potency enough to add another button to my rotation every 45 seconds at specific timings. If I am doing mechanics and my rotation properly, I am already contributing more than enough. Especially as dragoon where you only have 1 flank positional. I am missing 40 potency in 10 gcds, which is 2070 vs 2110. 1.9% potency lost. Big whoop. "It adds up!!!" that's fine. People will randomly parse me and I'll do slightly less better than people who are using addons like noclippy or alexander to cheat their parse at the top.