Positionals

[Nothv13]

Frankly, if I were a serious progression raider, I wouldn't want to go into a savage/extreme with anyone, regardless of their chosen melee DPS, who thinks of their positionals as something that's "nice to hit" when they feel like it. Yes, all content is clearable with minimum effort. Better groups of players who hit their positionals more often will clear faster and more consistently than people who don't even bother to get everything out of their job that they can. It's not even asking for perfection, it's simply asking for effort, and your posts have consistently been about whining that some additional effort is required for some of your weaponskills.

If SE balanced the game entirely around people who just want to be able to hit buttons on the boss without worrying about potential interruptions to their rotation, the game wouldn't have made it past Heavensward. I'm convinced if they did make landing positionals more meaningful by giving them a serious damage buff, the complaints in this and other recent threads about them would barely change, because at the end of the day there's a lot of players who don't want to do them and don't want to feel "punished" for not doing them.

Yet that is what they are for pretty much all the melee classes but monk. Nice to hit. They account for such little dps. The SAM for example, the positional account for less than a percent of the dps, so small crit variation can and will completely hide it.

[ItMe]

Yet that is what they are for pretty much all the melee classes but monk. Nice to hit. They account for such little dps. The SAM for example, the positional account for less than a percent of the dps, so small crit variation can and will completely hide it.

Oh my god is it really that little?
Has SQEX been nerfing positionals all this time and I'd never noticed?
They reduced Protect's mitigation down to about 2% before fully phasing it out in Shadow Bringers.
I'm kind of alarming myself with this train of thought but should I/we consider the possibility we're losing positionals in 6.0?

[Dzian]

Oh my god is it really that little?
Has SQEX been nerfing positionals all this time and I'd never noticed?
They reduced Protect's mitigation down to about 2% before fully phasing it out in Shadow Bringers.
I'm kind of alarming myself with this train of thought but should I/we consider the possibility we're losing positionals in 6.0?

It's somewhere in the region of 0.5% on Samurai and Ninja. People have also said Dragoon is in the same boat but thats a job I havent touhced since 1.0 so I don't know about.

If your interested I mathed it out in a different thread. (Click links)
Samurai & Ninja

And if the same is indeed true for Dragoons then it's really not suprising so many people want to see them scrapped. At the very least on those 3 jobs.

[IruruCece]

Yet that is what they are for pretty much all the melee classes but monk. Nice to hit. They account for such little dps. The SAM for example, the positional account for less than a percent of the dps, so small crit variation can and will completely hide it.

Except you're wrong about Samurai's positional contributions yet again (by ignoring other people's posts, no less), because you're ignoring that landing positionals results in more Kenki, which results in more use of Kenki, either during burst phases or mixed in throughout their combos, which adds up to more than "just" "less than a percent" of our DPS.

If I could choose, every time, I would still have the Samurai who uses positionals to maximize their meter gain and use more of their OGCD skill than the Samurai who thinks they're ONLY "nice to hit", doesn't try to hit them at all, and then complains about them on the forums.

I'm hardly the best Samurai, I don't even raid for Savage/Ultimate, and I still try to hit those positionals whenever I can because I understand that they help me do that little extra bit of damage. If I'm helping the boss die that little bit faster, I'm helping contribute to the team that little bit more. It's not about my own numbers alone, there are 3 or 7 or 23 other players whose own time in the game is as valuable to them as mine is to myself.

In my mind, there are two types of selfish DPS. There's the Jobs that contribute little to others mechanically beyond hitting hard, and then there's the DPS player that slums it because they know someone else will pick up the slack and they want the game to conform to their preferences every patch. The game shouldn't be catering to or balanced entirely around the latter.

[Nothv13]

Except you're wrong about Samurai's positional contributions yet again (by ignoring other people's posts, no less), because you're ignoring that landing positionals results in more Kenki, which results in more use of Kenki, either during burst phases or mixed in throughout their combos, which adds up to more than "just" "less than a percent" of our DPS.

If I could choose, every time, I would still have the Samurai who uses positionals to maximize their meter gain and use more of their OGCD skill than the Samurai who thinks they're ONLY "nice to hit", doesn't try to hit them at all, and then complains about them on the forums.

I'm hardly the best Samurai, I don't even raid for Savage/Ultimate, and I still try to hit those positionals whenever I can because I understand that they help me do that little extra bit of damage. If I'm helping the boss die that little bit faster, I'm helping contribute to the team that little bit more. It's not about my own numbers alone, there are 3 or 7 or 23 other players whose own time in the game is as valuable to them as mine is to myself.

In my mind, there are two types of selfish DPS. There's the Jobs that contribute little to others mechanically beyond hitting hard, and then there's the DPS player that slums it because they know someone else will pick up the slack and they want the game to conform to their preferences every patch. The game shouldn't be catering to or balanced entirely around the latter.

Pretty sure in one of the other threads, someone mathed it out and it was a tiny percent

[ItMe]

Pretty sure in one of the other threads, someone mathed it out and it was a tiny percent

Do you remember which thread?

[Nothv13]

Do you remember which thread?

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post5517824

[ItMe]

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post5517824

Thank you for the information.

[Sqwall]

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...nd-Suggestions

This has a perfect explanation of why positionals are stupid and a relic of a by gone time in FFXIV. It's also very well put together and a good read, but the bit about postionals being useless is SPOT ON!