Future Pictomancer Mains out there!

Hello fellow painters,

So I am totally gonna main pictomancer this summer. I am an artist irl so this fits me oh so well. Anyway, to my other fellow future pictomancer mains and pictomancer dabblers out there.

What do you think the abbreviation will be. I think it will either be PIC or PCT I can’t see PCM

Lemme know :)

PCT I reckon! I doubt I'll ever main anything other than BLM but I'm really excited that finally there's a second caster I [hopefully] find appealing! I'm hoping for a complex kit but IDK what that would entail and I'm not gonna get my hopes up. I am very excited to make some cute glams tho! And I'm hoping the caster gear in general will be designed more with them in mind so we're finally free from the endless robes.

i cant wait to see how it plays, if its a static caster or more like rdm or smn, the look has me excited, im just so hyped to see its play style tho, guessing closer to blm, as red and smn both fell in to support, so here hoping its a blaster -excited rambling over-

Abbrev will probably be PCM or PTM.

Class at a glance looks fun but it might turn out to be a Augmentation Evoker where it's just a buffer/debuffer class and it's bulk of the damage comes from the party that benefits from your buffs and not just you.

But it's too early to draw conclusions at this stage.

I doubt it will be a support class, we already know that won't fly because a pure supporter would be essential for any raid and the playerbase will have a shitfit if they feel there is a meta forming

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Originally Posted by MagiusNecros

Abbrev will probably be PCM or PTM.

Class at a glance looks fun but it might turn out to be a Augmentation Evoker where it's just a buffer/debuffer class and it's bulk of the damage comes from the party that benefits from your buffs and not just you.

But it's too early to draw conclusions at this stage.

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Well, yoship straight up said it wouldn't be a support class during the keynote, so there's that.

It'll likely have a single raid buff tho.

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Originally Posted by OgruMogru

PCT I reckon! I doubt I'll ever main anything other than BLM but I'm really excited that finally there's a second caster I [hopefully] find appealing! I'm hoping for a complex kit but IDK what that would entail and I'm not gonna get my hopes up. I am very excited to make some cute glams tho! And I'm hoping the caster gear in general will be designed more with them in mind so we're finally free from the endless robes.

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Yeah I’m looking for something paint funky style you know lol. I hate we don’t have overalls lol. Though I have my pictomancer glam ready :)

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Originally Posted by Mostly_Raxus

i cant wait to see how it plays, if its a static caster or more like rdm or smn, the look has me excited, im just so hyped to see its play style tho, guessing closer to blm, as red and smn both fell in to support, so here hoping its a blaster -excited rambling over-

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I think they are gonna remove rez from summoner so the only caster that will be able to rez is rdm. I also believe pictomancer will be more support than damage. I see it being slightly above rdm since rdm will still have rez.

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Originally Posted by MagiusNecros

Abbrev will probably be PCM or PTM.

Class at a glance looks fun but it might turn out to be a Augmentation Evoker where it's just a buffer/debuffer class and it's bulk of the damage comes from the party that benefits from your buffs and not just you.

But it's too early to draw conclusions at this stage.

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So sorta like dancer?

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Originally Posted by Roda

Well, yoship straight up said it wouldn't be a support class during the keynote, so there's that.

It'll likely have a single raid buff tho.

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Yeah there are no purely support jobs in ffxiv. Even dancer isn’t purely support. I think it will have a bit of utility like bard. Basically it will be the bard of the casters. Because bard is in between mch and dancer. Pictomancer though I feel it will be slightly above rdm. I can also see it being in between blm and summoner. It won’t be damage focus like blm but will have support and utility.

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Originally Posted by SweetPete

Yeah I’m looking for something paint funky style you know lol. I hate we don’t have overalls lol. Though I have my pictomancer glam ready :)

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Will level it up to the level cap but probably won't main it. There's definitely going to be a lot of groans irl when people see PIC/VPR in their parties though.

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Originally Posted by OgruMogru

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Oh you’re the angry artist lol. I’m scared of you

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Originally Posted by NekoMataMata

Will level it up to the level cap but probably won't main it. There's definitely going to be a lot of groans irl when people see PIC/VPR in their parties though.

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Why groan? Haha

We'll see. Wanna get it my hands before I make a decision. RDM has been my main since Stormblood, might be time to change things up. I'll miss chain rezzing, though...commendations going to the WHM after I single handedly rezzed 6 people off the floor preventing a party wipe? Twice?...not so much.

Oh, and to answer your question, my fiver is on PCT.

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Originally Posted by SweetPete

Why groan? Haha

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New toy syndrome. There's going to be a lot of casuals coming to play through the MSQ and pick up the new jobs. Most of them will not read their tooltips, and even if the job quests start off holding their hands with a slight walkthrough like the RPR and SGE quests do, there's still likely to be a lot of people who will get to endgame with PIC/VPR while having zero idea of what they're doing.

Don't really main anything. I tend to play every job. However I think I'll probably end up playing Pictomancer more than Viper.

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Originally Posted by NekoMataMata

New toy syndrome. There's going to be a lot of casuals coming to play through the MSQ and pick up the new jobs. Most of them will not read their tooltips, and even if the job quests start off holding their hands with a slight walkthrough like the RPR and SGE quests do, there's still likely to be a lot of people who will get to endgame with PIC/VPR while having zero idea of what they're doing.

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Actually can’t even argue that lol. You’re 100% right.

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Originally Posted by NekoMataMata

New toy syndrome. There's going to be a lot of casuals coming to play through the MSQ and pick up the new jobs. Most of them will not read their tooltips, and even if the job quests start off holding their hands with a slight walkthrough like the RPR and SGE quests do, there's still likely to be a lot of people who will get to endgame with PIC/VPR while having zero idea of what they're doing.

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Yes. How dare filthy casuals not know how to play this job the moment it releases. Get gud and precognition, scrubs.

My first guess is PCT, and since people know what I mean at a glance when I use it in-game I'm going to stick to it until the expansion comes out and says otherwise.

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Originally Posted by RaideDuku

Yes. How dare filthy casuals not know how to play this job the moment it releases. Get gud and precognition, scrubs.

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Never said they should.

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Originally Posted by NekoMataMata

there's still likely to be a lot of people who will get to endgame with PIC/VPR while having zero idea of what they're doing.

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Kind of ironic that the full quote has me mentioning that people will most definitely not read their tooltips, and here you are proving that you will be among that crowd as you aren't capable of reading forum posts to their completion.

If Pictomancer paint globs affects being about to see ground AOE attacks I sure won't party with any. I will just have to wait and see.

I like PCT PIC is good but ? I'll play it and see of i like it better than blm I always hated blm

It sounds like it might be a bit more mobile? Granted this is just based on what YoshiP said about some paintings taking a long time so you can use your OGCDs while you wait. The picture it puts into my head is that you start casting something, but it doesn't interrupt from OGCDs so you're free to spam whatever you have available during the big cast until it goes off. And with that, it'd also mean you have a bunch of instants you can pop while on the move. Another pipe-dream idea I had is that there could be a choose-your-own-AoE, where you have to use the ability three times, and the target area becomes the triangle that's defined as you finish the third one.

Whilst Pictomancer isn't going to by my main job, it could end up being my main caster, depending on how it plays.

I am! I really loved the concept of the job... 100% sure just when I get to play it, but I can't think it would end up having a trainwreck playstyle, the recent jobs are pretty much polished when it comes to gameplay design.

Acronym is def. PIC... it just sounds better, but who knows!

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Originally Posted by SweetPete

So sorta like dancer?

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Probably like Dancer or Bard. But with all the information out at the moment they still have told us nothing about how it will actually play. Gotta wait for the media tour for that. They made things vague enough to where Picto isn't a support but also isn't a BLM DPS despite having no battleraise. And being considered a support job is classes that have a raise for some people.

I feel like they don't want to say too much as it might exclude other jobs from parties if Picto is "too good" at what it does.

The current description does point to being similar to FFXI Geomancers. Elemental Spells and supportive abilities just not as much damage as Black Mages.

However the current design philosophy is Casters with raise do low damage and Casters without do high damage.

Probably gonna be slightly below BLM but above SMN and RDM.

I don't think the game is capable of a support job. It's all about DPS here.

I don't know if I'll main picto or viper but I am definitely excited to try them out. They both look like a lot of fun.

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Originally Posted by MagiusNecros

Probably like Dancer or Bard. But with all the information out at the moment they still have told us nothing about how it will actually play. Gotta wait for the media tour for that. They made things vague enough to where Picto isn't a support but also isn't a BLM DPS despite having no battleraise. And being considered a support job is classes that have a raise for some people.

I feel like they don't want to say too much as it might exclude other jobs from parties if Picto is "too good" at what it does.

The current description does point to being similar to FFXI Geomancers. Elemental Spells and supportive abilities just not as much damage as Black Mages.

However the current design philosophy is Casters with raise do low damage and Casters without do high damage.

Probably gonna be slightly below BLM but above SMN and RDM.

I don't think the game is capable of a support job. It's all about DPS here.

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Yeah I don’t know. I think DT expansion we might see the casters lose their Rez. Summoner I can see but rdm I’m not sure about but then people will only take rdm for prog since it can Rez. Unless people run double caster but I doubt it. Unless they change the range tax. It’s so much we don’t know yet but yeah I have s bad feeling about caster Rez for DT.