Quote Originally Posted by Aelin_Ashryver View Post
I really dislike them removing positionals on form 2. Monk is the positional heavy melee, players asking for the postionals removed I don't get.. You have DRG, SAM, NIN and soon reaper to play instead. Why change a job you barely play to suit you and screw over the monk mains who love the movement the job requires? #
Aside from the capitulation to the woe is me too many positional ppl. I like the look of the monk now. It was one of my fave jobs in stormblood along with smn, ast and drk. But in shadowbringers it felt a bit less nice.. it got better and then got weird when they remove the 4th greased lightning stack since that was it's whole schtick for that expansion.
The new dash looks cool! I still wish it actually did damage though.. I am not likely to dash to allies often. I can position myself just fine!
Reaper has positionals, and I guarantee players who barely play it will call for their removal a year from now. Maybe less. People have been calling for their removal on jobs they barely play for a long time now.

Accessibility is tossed around as an excuse, and I find it increasingly harder and harder to take seriously. They've already de-emphasized positionals on every other job in the game to the extent where they have very few to worry about, and that missing them is barely a blip on their DPS. And yet they still complain, because they feel "punished" for missing them, and that's another line of criticism I just can't take seriously.

"I want to be performing at my best at all times" they say. If you tell them to land their positionals anyway, whenever they can, they find something else to complain about. They want to have the same output as players who actually put serious effort into the job, but they don't want to put in the same effort, and frankly that's a crap way to balance any game. This would be like me going into black mage threads and demanding that they perform a serious button cull, while turning the job into a more "combo" based system like other jobs I enjoy, like say Samurai or Monk.