Game should display grey numbers when you miss a positional

[Rongway]

It's irrelevant because nobody is asking where the flank or rear is at.

It was a direct reply to

I still don’t have a clear idea of the cutoffs for positionals relative to boss size (how far inside a large boss’ hitbox can I be and still land it etc.)

so yes, it's relevant.

[whiskeybravo]

Ok, so you know where you're supposed to be. Do you know if you actually hit the positional or not?

Should have? Maybe? Not sure?

Would like more feedback from the game concerning those considering I’ve been playing for awhile now, and I still don’t have a clear idea of the cutoffs for positionals relative to boss size

Sorry all you get is an MS Paint job. Git gud

[wereotter]

I would love to have this happen. With how much the this tier of savage punishes trying to hit positionals (at least in so far as I've progressed) I'd love to know if I'm actually getting it or not while having to be inside a boss ring or whatnot. Any kind of indicator that you've either hit or missed a positional attack would be good information to have.

[SHLunchB0x]

I guess I was more talking about how the game handles latency and my weapon skills firing rather than not knowing where hitboxes are for positionals. I'm thinking about stuff like tsunami or blaze in O9S where stacks are required. I'll go off, fire my weapon skill in the flank or whatever and then go back. However, because I have no faith in the server latency I'll often wonder, "I wonder if that registered there or if the game tracked me a few steps back". I'm sure I could educate myself more on when weapon skills firing vs being registered, but wouldn't it be nice to know in the moment from the game? It's just nagging uncertainty when trying to optimize dps.

I usually don't have the time to think, "Ok fang and claw direct hit for XXX that means I must've hit the postional".

[Exiled_Tonberry]

This is a great idea. Really this game tries way too hard to hide a players faults that it ends up creating bad habits. Stuff like this would help a player improve in a natural way, I don't see why it's not a thing.

[whiskeybravo]

I guess I was more talking about how the game handles latency and my weapon skills firing rather than not knowing where hitboxes are for positionals.

I knew that's what you meant

[Yui_Tenshi]

When I first tried out SAM (my first DPS melee class), I had no idea what positionals were. Then I noticed my gauge charged (or charged faster) in certain positions. That was my only way of determining positionals and whether I was in the sweet spot or not.

[Shamox]

Right now the only way is to know the damage you're doing, makes it pretty easy to know which positional you missed.
But yeah, good idea tbh, and that's not the only kind of colored text we're missing.

[Zerathor]

But people missing positionals already show grey numbers
:^)

But this is a pretty good idea.

[Yanyami]

Great idea ! +1