Would people have been happier if Pictomancer and Beastmaster had been switched?

If Pictomancer had been an overpower limited job that allowed people to kill mobs in silly ways and Beastmaster had been a regular job, do you guys feel the reception of both jobs would have been more positive?

I think a good majority of people want more variety in gameplay than this stale 2min meta that makes people lose interest. It's great new stuff is coming out but due to the current design of how the jobs work in FFXIV it will be limited to the same curse. It's a shame really.

I do think that if Pictomancer had been a limited job, people would be more forgiving of the cartoony style because it would exist as side-content.

I think if Beastmaster had been a full combat job, it would get a lot of complaints because there's no way it would have full "pet" capability. People want Beastmaster to be a pet job. In order to fit into party/raid combat, the abilities would need to be more like Summoner where the beast gets called in for an attack.

Regardless, any new job is going to get complaints because you can't please everyone even though everyone wants it catered to their ideas and playstyle.

We don't know how PIC (or even BST for that matter) plays yet... so we can't really fully gauge it.

Personally? Probably not, I hate pet classes. But I know that's just me.

Funny thing is Pictomancer is an offshoot of Beastmaster in it's original incarnation from FFVI. Relm had the ability to control the enemies when equipped with a specific accessory. So the idea of swapping them is funny, since it was theorized that using Pictomancer would be the best way to add Beastmaster to FFXIV.

Personally, based on the very minimal knowledge I have about Pictomancer from the brief clip, it appears to be identical to the other caster jobs we already have, with the exception of aesthetics.

If FFXIV could implement a Beastmaster class in which you have one specific beast at all times to make balancing easier, I'd be highly interested in trying it out.

I won't bother with it because it's a limited job, and I still believe Pictomancer would have been a better option, but I'd love to be shown wrong.

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Originally Posted by MitsukiKimura

I think a good majority of people want more variety in gameplay than this stale 2min meta that makes people lose interest. It's great new stuff is coming out but due to the current design of how the jobs work in FFXIV it will be limited to the same curse. It's a shame really.

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I feel the same way. That jobs of the same role have such similar kits that new jobs feel more like reskins than actual new jobs. Though because I feel that way, I can't really get worked up over what job they announce next no matter what it is.

It's the internet. People would find reasons to complain no matter what is done.

No because literally no matter what they do, people would still whine and complain. There is no winning with the internet