It's frustrating that positionals have been reduced to minor optimisations, that can't be detected during actual play. Did you in/correctly execute the positional? Who knows.
If there was some visual feedback, some hud element, some resource tied to correct positionals, it would revitalise a good game mechanic, and make it feel more meaningful and interesting for content.
Make the flank or rear of the boss lightly flash gold for a correct positional, and red for an incorrect one. Clearly explain to the player where the positional cuts off, when it snapshots, play some audio when the positional is successful, just anything.
I really love positioanls as a mechanic, and it's really engaging as you better learn and understand the fight, to start greeding and going for harder to get positioanls, and giving some kind of feedback or satisfaction would really go a long way in improving the melee dps role as a whole.
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If there was some visual feedback, some hud element, some resource tied to correct positionals, it would revitalise a good game mechanic, and make it feel more meaningful and interesting for content.
Make the flank or rear of the boss lightly flash gold for a correct positional, and red for an incorrect one. Clearly explain to the player where the positional cuts off, when it snapshots, play some audio when the positional is successful, just anything.
I really love positioanls as a mechanic, and it's really engaging as you better learn and understand the fight, to start greeding and going for harder to get positioanls, and giving some kind of feedback or satisfaction would really go a long way in improving the melee dps role as a whole.
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