Quote Originally Posted by Dualblade View Post
While I highly doubt it would be such, I will laugh if it turns out all the new positionals are actually just back ones like Trick, with similar large increases to potency, in part because that would give a very good reason for the aggro dump too: Do lots of damage, dump on tank as soon as it turns around, do more big damage since its back is turned again.

Again I doubt it would be that simple, but would laugh.
Honestly, i have been and continue to laugh at the reaction myself.

I mean seriously, where do the majority of non-tank physical attacking classes usually hang out during a fight at present? The positional req being added to some NIN moves won't be from the front-which leaves either flank(the side) or the rear-again where we are standing anyway.

Which in actual gameplay means all a NIN has to do to hit the positional req is stand in one of 2 spots(the breaks in the mob targeting circle-which, for the 3rd time now, is where most of us should be standing anyways to avoid frontal and rear cleaves) and make a single small move back or forth into either the flank or into the rear.

And that's gonna 'destroy the spirit of the job' or 'homogenize' the job or <add catchy forum euphemism here> NIN as a job...

So yeah, still don't buy it. And still laughing at the continued groupthink overreaction.