On the Removal of Positionals

[Aco505]

My Point of the Removal of Positionals is backed by the fact that They removed Positionals from Monk! And Sorry but Monk is the Last Job to remove Positionals on.

DRG had 50% of its GCDs as positionals and now it's 30%. MNK wasn't the only positional heavy job. Additionally, DRG cannot introduce extra GCDs in the rotation to move them around; they're static in the GCD loop.

Now that's an (false) accusation^^ like who asked Monk's Positionals to be removed? Not me, that's for sure.

There's a new discussion thread on removing positionals every once in a while both in the official forums and other platforms such as Reddit. It comes up often.

In fact, you actually made your own thread not too long ago asking players to choose what to remove: DoTs or positionals. Whether your intention was to actually remove them or not is another matter but you did open it up for debate.

This kind of talk does happen often.

Yet as I said you don't see this with cast times and Swiftcast, because no one would be asking for those to be removed from casters considering it's part of their identity and it becomes a point of contention amongst the player base when they have too little management (e. g. SMN).

Those against positionals tend to not play melee jobs and want them removed so that the jobs are more appealing to them, despite the fact that missing positionals is not a big deal when it comes to DPS.

Whether they should be a bigger deal or not is a different question but positionals provide a way of increasing engagement and APM without increasing button count.

Until SE gives melee jobs something else that makes their rotations more involved, positionals should stay.

And the reason is simple: every time they remove something, they don't give something else in return. The recent reaction to the proposed VPR changes for 7.05 should be proof enough of this.