Positionals

[Mikey_R]

Tanks (9 role + 4 general)
PLD: 27 job, 40 total.

Just to ask, what are you counting as 'General' actions and do they need to be easily accessed at all times?

Higher Cast SPD should make them tick faster or do more damage or something, but they don't.

More Skill/Spell Speed does increase DoT potency (which means more damage).

I do think there are some changes they could make to positionals that would make them more generally popular though:

1) Update the tooltips from:
"Delivers an attack with a potency of 300. 400 when execute from a target's rear." to:
"Delivers at attack of potency 300 (400 from target's rear)."

2) Add additional signals that you hit them (per many people's request).

3) Make it more intuitive if an attack is from behind or the flank. Right now, it's difficult to remember which attacks are flank and which are rear, especially if you change jobs a lot.

4) Reduce random boss turns. In a 2.5 second window, it feels bad to miss because you're on the wrong side of a boss turn.

5) Grant positional bonuses if you have threat or using some other mechanism when you're soloing.

1. I don't see how that changes anything. Wording on a tooltip isn't going to change whether someone likes or dislikes positionals or not.

2. Agreed, one example that does pop in my head is Monk's old positional on Bootshine, which auto crit from the rear. Very clear indicator there. Of course, you cannot make everything auto crit just from a positional.

3. How would you go about this?

4. This is where fight knowledge comes into play and used to be a much bigger factor in how good a melee DPS was. True North solves most of those issues now though.

5. Sure, if it really matters that much. Pretty sure most don't care that much about solo though and most content that has some degree of difficulty already has omni directional enemies anyway.