Quote Originally Posted by magnanimousCynic View Post
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.)