Quote Originally Posted by Kolsykol View Post
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.
No they really don't. People have tested this. The only class they matter for more than a percent or two is monk. That is not annihilating your dps. Why? Because even ignoring positionals you will still hit some. People struggle enough already with the much more complex rotations of the melee dps, no need to go on to pile on you must go for positionals on them. Hell even the Ultimate clears I've been watching, the the melee largely ignore positionals.