Quote Originally Posted by HikariKurosawa View Post
At the end of the day, people should play jobs because they enjoy the rpg fantasy of it, not because it doesn't have an annoying gameplay mechanic. Alienating people who want to play samurai or ninja is far worse than alienating people who want to move left or right for half a second once or twice in their entire rotation.

I will just not do positionals regardless and the overall level of play will be lower in the community because it's simply not fun. I'm not going to play a job I don't want to play just because it doesn't have positionals. I will just pretend the job I want to play doesn't have positionals and nobody will notice because they are going to be too focused on their own gameplay.
It may be annoying to you, but enjoyable to others. That's what preferences are. Most people pick the job they want to play according to the playstyle of the job, like it or not, positionals are part of the playstyle of the melee DPS role. People who want to play samurai and ninja are not being alienated by positionals existing as they can completely ignore them, but a mechanic of a job/role being taken out will alienate people.

In the end, nobody sane is demanding that randoms in their party hit all their positionals or get kicked, so if you personally hate the existence of positionals, you can safely ignore them.