Positionals vs Damage over Time

[Lyth]

Let me rephrase the answer you received: The framing of the question is flawed and ordinarily wouldn't be engaged with, but the devs still need to know that the playerbase is opposed to both options.

There are jobs for all personality types and skill levels. If you would like to play a job without positionals or DoTs, you could play WAR, RDM, or SMN. I think if you're asking that question, playing a melee job is probably antithetical to your needs and capabilities. That's not a bad thing. Variety exists for a reason.

Rather than designing every job to please everyone and alienating all your players, it is better to design jobs and roles specifically for the players who enjoy playing them. That may mean that you are gated out of some roles, but that's better for the health of the game overall (so long as you still have options that you can fall back to, like Botanist or Warrior).

[kashi11]

I refuse to answer that. I think you are shifting the Overton window into even worse territory by proposing the question in the first place.

This and similarly thoughtless threads asking jobs operate identically or be "streamlined" is why the game sucks so hard right now. I swear, a lot of the chatter from people with "ideas" online is the utter bane of FFXIV. Maybe think about how your ideas might actually impact the game if they gained any attention/traction before publishing them.

This.

I refuse to entertain an idea that may negativly impact my experience with the game

[Battler-Ushiromiya]

You're probably being sarcastic

I'm not, I think 99% of what this forum spits out is so god awful that it deserves me ruining threads and making bait threads to draw dev attention away. Positionals are stupid, you have the right of it.