Positionals

[HikariKurosawa]

"Removing positionals would alienate a portion of the melee dps playerbase" lool. You'd get over it in a day or less unless you wanted to complain. Then it's a good thing, because you have something to complain about and that's what you want to do.

If they remove positionals they can redesign the ugly target circle that is designed around positional indication on top of removing true north. Those two reasons alone justify it entirely. It would also make encounter design much more streamlined and enable them to put the "difficulty" of positionals in more meaningful areas of gameplay.

Positionals hold the game back largely and this is very understated in the community.

Removing positionals doesn't make melee spam attackers either. Rotations would still be as complex and rigid as they are currently. You could simply focus more on execution of the rotation itself and everyone would be playing at a higher level. Melee is melee, you hit the enemy with a melee weapon at melee range. Ranged is ranged, you're either a caster or using a ranged weapon to attack the target from range. There is no homogenization.