Samurai have positionals?!

[Kolsykol]

Someone actually did a test, and yes in eth vast majority of content and ways of playing, they do not matter. They only matter if want to the highest parse possible. Everything, and I mean everything can be cleared easily with ample dps from the Sam without giving a lick about them.

If you ignore positionals then yes they do matter and they do make a big difference...
No one here is talking about literally getting yourself killed just to hit one positional it's really disingenuous to try and spin it that way.

No missing a positional isn't going to annihilate your dps, ignoring them will.
Count the amount of Shintens ( and possibly Kaiten depending on what you're doing ) you're missing and then add all of that potency up and you'll see that it actually is a big deal to ignore positionals...

And if you're the type of player to ignore positionals then quite frankly you're probably doing a lot of other things wrong too because you clearly don't care about making an effort at that point.
Ignoring positionals I'd say is indicative of a lot of other low effort and bad things too.