Melee Positional Attacks

[magnanimousCynic]

At least we don't have situations like pre-2.45 DRG where you were REQUIRED to do the positional or the combo would prematurely end along with not activating any buffs or debuffs. DRG was easily a close case of being nonviable if a fight didn't let you do rear positionals, like Leviathan HM/EX when the tail was just front/flank instead of rear/flank.

[Temjiu]

At least we don't have situations like pre-2.45 DRG where you were REQUIRED to do the positional or the combo would prematurely end along with not activating any buffs or debuffs. DRG was easily a close case of being nonviable if a fight didn't let you do rear positionals, like Leviathan HM/EX when the tail was just front/flank instead of rear/flank.

I remember that. I leveled a DRG in 2.x ... those were dark days for the empire...

One of things they did do right with the positionals in 3.x + was to at least make then only mildy punishing (the monk may still be pretty harsh with the positionals...don't know don't play one.)

[Powercow]

(the monk may still be pretty harsh with the positionals...don't know don't play one.)

Missing a single positional isn't a huge deal on monk, and it's pretty much always better to hit a GCD than to delay it to get a positional off. The thing with Monk is that our two non-positional skills, Touch of Death and Fracture, were removed for SB. So *everything* that's no an AoE is a positional now, and if for some reason you can't do them (like certain stack mechanics, or bosses spinning like douchebags, or standing inside walls, etc.) then it can be mildly vexing. Not a huge problem by any means, though.

On the fights where positionals don't matter, like Royal Menagerie phase 3, I find myself still moving side to side simply because *oh my god* are melee boring without positionals.