On the Removal of Positionals

[Galvuu]

The discussion around positionals feels like it has become what was the discussion on ammo in WoW / FFXI, and accuracy in FFXIV.

Yea, except these are nothing alike, because accuracy is a completely passive thing while positionals are about mechanical player execution. The former is rng, the latter is you pressing the right buttons at the right time. It's literally like comparing crit chance to aiming properly.

I find them annoying and it puts me off of the game because I play games to have fun. It's about begrudgingly engaging in a system I think is unfun in a video game, an activity designed for fun and nothing else.

Oh look. It's you again. This is like, you know, your opinion man (again). Clearly, by the thread and many career melees on it, people enjoy this aspect of melee gameplay, if nothing else to break the routine that are XIV heavily-scripted fights and rotations. And, like it's been said, you're free to ignore them. If it's unfun, don't engage with it- that's no reason to strip it from those who enjoy it and are invested in it.

I do them because they lead to higher dps and it's a team game.

Are you sure about that? And I was nice and picked your highest log. This is starting to be reminiscent of the BLM threads, where you barged in to spout some complete nonsense about how the changes would make it much more approachable for new BLM players and invigorate it in the endgame- turns out both of those were completely wrong and DT BLM was a disaster, heh? Maybe you should take a moment and reflect on what the career melee players are saying here, and be glad that if you hate positionals that much, you can always ignore them at a mere 1% loss that has no real impact in your ability to clear/perform.