Are positionals a outdated thing?

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MNK can do more damage yes, but it has a very high skill ceiling due to having a constant 2s GCD instead of 2.5s. It is common to lose damage due to missing a positional and knowing when to greed and when to disengage. MNK can easily get killed for this reason and lose damage massively, or disengage too early and lose a hit or two while BLM is still casting. Due to the recent changes in MNK as well, you have to go through some rather fast and on the fly adjustments for your various Perfect Balance uses. Between the two, MNK is far more complicated, so it's understandable why it can do more damage, it's a lot harder for MNK to do that level of damage due to the multitude of issues it can have.

Okay then let’s go with NIN or SAM, SAM lost Kaiten and a lot of its janky loop filler rotation is gone because of it and NIN is basically 123 outside of the trick window, they also do almost as much damage as MNK and also destroy BLM (to say nothing of the 5 ranged classes which are barely even in the equation anymore)

That presents 2 questions, if MNK is so gigabrain why do these two melee do almost the exact same damage, and still my original point remains why do they all do so much more damage than the ranged classes, you can’t tell me 6.2 SAM is more complex than BLM