Quote Originally Posted by Taliriah View Post
You move into the danger zone when you need to hit a positional and out of it when you don't. And if you can't move in for the positional because of a mechanic or because the tail swipe is being telegraphed, you use true north instead. The whole point is that you have to move instead of comfortably sitting in one place.
I see this "explanation" all the time but it does not work outside of a vacuum (bosses don't just simply stand still). In actual boss fights there aren't enough TN charges to cover every positional you can't hit due to mechanics on like 90% of bosses now. I mean this is literally why they have been removing them more and more and reducing the potency lost over the years. Because even SE knows it's just not feasable and if they left it as it used to be melee would either be flat out the inferior role, or they would have to make the bonus so high that they would be insanely broken on the boss fights that remove positionals already.

I'm sorry, but it's just a bad system. Imo they should be removed entirely so boss fights can be designed entirely without them in mind. It'll allow for even more unique and interesting mechanic options. Which I mean already seems to be the direction they are going anyway.