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    Shurrikhan's Avatar
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    Tani Shirai
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    Cactuar
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    Monk Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Mikey_R View Post
    HW has less positionals over the 10 step GCD than SB and later, 40% for HW as opposed to 50% for SB onwards.
    Tangential, but... is that really the best way to look at positionals though? If your every skill had positionals, but every one of those was Rear, would you say that the job is significantly more complex for it than a job that has to move between Rear and Flank, even if less often?

    That's not to say that movement is necessarily very large, but I would think the more appropriate metric would be the likely degree of movement required at any particular point.

    At present, we use Any-Any-Rear-Rear-Flank-Any-Any-Any-Flank-Rear. We move twice per 10 GCDs. And it's entirely reliable, with no particular points where you'd have to look down instead of just automating it.

    Back then, we had Flank[1]-Any-Any-Rear[2]-EITHER[2-3]--Any-Any-Any-Any-EITHER[2-4]. Per 10 GCDs, we could end up having to move up to 2 to 4 times, and with only the time after the skill's actuation to see which way we'd be moving following each 3rd-Step skill.

    That's the same floor (if you somehow lucked out and always got WT after Chaos Thrust and F&C before Heavy Thrust), but a higher ceiling, of movement, and with greater urgency.

    I would think that would be, then, the job with a greater emphasis on positionals even before accounting for the greater potency at risk per positional.

    * Those positionals follow from Heavy (Flank), Impulse, Disembowel, Chaos (Rear), F&C (Flank) or WT (Rear), Phlebotomize, True, Vorpal, Full, F&C (Flank) or WT (Rear).
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    Last edited by Shurrikhan; 01-14-2023 at 04:41 PM.