Quote Originally Posted by Router View Post
Forgive me, for I am not a MNK main, but is it not true that when you have an orb you need to spend that orb? It's not like you can stockpile additional orbs i.e. like with NIN kunai, and MNK certainly doesn't have the ability to occasionally delay or rearrange positional GCDs like SAM can in filler. It's a rigid 1-2-3. Of course MNK even minute burst is mostly just opo spam with few positionals, but that's hardly the entire job.
Piggybacking off of you, NIN and RPR and VPR all don't really do positionals during their burst (optimally anyway). NIN is too busy with Mudras, Ten Chi Jin, and Raiju, I think they do, like, one Aeolian Edge at the very start (sometimes, depending on combo placement)? RPR is enshrouded the entire time, and double Enshroud pushes Gluttony out of Burst this expansion (and even if it didn't #literally just true north gluttony every time RPR doesn't have positionals I promise), and Viper aims to be double reawakened, which, again, helps them avoid positionals every time.

MNK is absolutely not the only melee that can avoid positionals during burst. On the contrary, most of the current job's burst phases seem explicitly built so you DON'T have to do positionals during burst, with MNK, DRG, and SAM being just a little more positional intensive. Still quite manageable though.

That said, I don't think jobs having different positional implementations is bad (spoiler if you haven't read my posts: I'm very pro positionals). All roles should have a spectrum of difficulty and positionals accomplish this nicely. Some have to do positionals a lot during filler, some have to do positionals during burst while others ignore it, and some have to do positionals all the time and require a little bit more careful planning and positioning. But we don't need every job to be the same! It's not a bad thing.