What is something you want REMOVED from the game?

[hfang]

if you scrapped them entirely nothing would really change. especially with how many bosses already have none.

considering the current "endgame" bosses we have, let's see:

Savage: out of all 5 fights, only P2S has no positionals
EX Trials: only Hydaelyn has positionals, so okay, fair
Ultimate: DSR has two phases with no positionals (eyes, a very short phase that really doesn't need them, and double dragons). UCoB, UWU and TEA all have positionals in every phase, and they should obviously be still considered high end content

so, out of every single piece of high end content out right now, three fights have no positionals, i'll give you three and a half if you want to count the DSR phases. what do you make of this? are you sure "many bosses already have none"?

I'll agree with you that positionals have little impact and that they will hardly make a difference on whether someone clears a fight or not, I don't think the dps loss is as small as you make it out to be but it's not huge either, but still. IMO positionals should indeed have more impact so that one could show that they can play their job and have spent the time mastering over someone who doesn't. I don't think someone who just picked up Monk should be able to be pretty much on par with someone who put in the work to play it properly and learn how to work around the job's quirks (which, until Shadowbringers, was the fact that it had a positional on every single one of its GCD combos). sadly, it seems like square doesn't agree with this vision

[Dzian]

are you sure "many bosses already have none"?

yup. on top of what you've already mentioned..

6.0
Smiloton. 1st and lass boss no positionals
Stigma dreamscape last boss
Tower of bail. last boss
Atila scope. last boss

5.0
Castrum and DR (Bozja)
Paradigms breach big tree thing no posiitonals half the 3rd and 4th boss fights no positionals.
Copied factory second boss, third boss
Puppets bunker, 1st boss, part of last boss
Amareut, last boss
mt gulg second boss, mini boss,
cloud deck diamond weapon
e3s
e7s

thats what i can remember from current and the last expansion. there was quite a few in 4.0 as well.

[Avidria]

if you hate positionals so much then just don't do em. the damage loss is so low, right? then just deal less damage than people who actually care to learn how to properly play their job, positionals included

I mean personally my solution until fairly recently was to just not play melee ever because I find positionals so irritating and unfun. It's not as much of an issue on reaper because we have so few and so infrequently, but it's also hands down the least fun/most irritating part of my kit even now. I haven't even touched new monk yet because old monk was so godawful an experience for me to play anything close to correctly that I just associate the job with a bad time now.

So yeah I'd be happy to see positionals kicked to the curb entirely. Or at least to have one melee job that doesn't have to deal with them at all.

[Raoabolic]

So what's with this new hot take of positionals are fake difficulty? Why not go one step further and say that AoEs are fake difficulty? You have to stop your meleeing and that's anti fun, lol.

[anhaato]

I mean personally my solution until fairly recently was to just not play melee ever because I find positionals so irritating and unfun. It's not as much of an issue on reaper because we have so few and so infrequently, but it's also hands down the least fun/most irritating part of my kit even now. I haven't even touched new monk yet because old monk was so godawful an experience for me to play anything close to correctly that I just associate the job with a bad time now.

So yeah I'd be happy to see positionals kicked to the curb entirely. Or at least to have one melee job that doesn't have to deal with them at all.

Or better yet, just stay off melee. You seem to have found the solution already.

[Avidria]

Or better yet, just stay off melee. You seem to have found the solution already.

I like playing melee otherwise though. Reaper is my favorite class in the game currently. Positionals are the only aspect of it I dislike. So... no.

[Soge01]

Purrrrmanent Hrothgar hunch. Make it optional like Orcs in WoW to either stand up straight or slouch forward.

[Themarvin]

Miqo's at current state... they should be more furry instead.

Other things I would like removed: RMT, People who has paid their clears in whatever Legend based thing, it shows that they are not even close.

Removal of areas and them all merged into one gigantic map for each Region, Shroud, Thanalan... etc... and on top of that remove the housing wards... but let people set up houses in the wild on none contested areas.... and if enough houses at whatever location, be able to turn it into a city, that eventually would be upgraded to have an aetheryte... aetheryte traveling will make getting out in the wild faster.

Remove flying in multiple areas, it makes little to no sense, base speed on ground if have wings would go 25% slower on ground if no wings 25% slower in air... the Chocobos the only exception.

[Reinha]

Rescue, bots and the "limited" part of limited jobs.

[NanaWiloh]

Stupidity..sorry very allergic too it.