On the Removal of Positionals

[Arkrayven]

"careful positioning" can simply refer to avoiding AOEs while staying close to the boss

Every class gets a DPS increase by standing close to the boss, and "avoiding AoEs" could be considered harder on hard casters.

[Kaedys]

Every class gets a DPS increase by standing close to the boss, and "avoiding AoEs" could be considered harder on hard casters.

Wat? If you mean raid buffs, every single one of those has a 30 yalm range, which is further than the maximum range of any ranged attacks. People stand close to the boss because it's safer, mostly for staying in range of heals, but also for dodging things like cone attacks. It has utterly zilch to do with doing more DPS, for ranged jobs.

Also, that magical ranged DPS tooltip says their movement is restricted by spell casts. Um...summoner? Heck, Red Mage also spends less than half their time using abilities with cast bars.

Honestly, I don't think that tooltip is really going to be a terribly persuasive argument. The existence or removal of positionals must, and will, hinge on whether gameplay on the whole benefits or suffers for their existence, not whether a random tooltip mentions "careful positioning".