Isn't "Artist" a better name?

[Eisi]

Get ready to be mad about the names of their moves, too.

What? Those are great! Especially Sub-Job BP Saver.

its not an artist, an artist creates, it only copies, your inherent argument is flawed and incorrect

All artists copy and create, including the new job, your argument is invalid.

Whether you're talking about the spelling or concept, XIV has several jobs that are just like..what? Viper? Reaper? Sage? Even Blue Mage...Those are not classes you can just tell someone by name and they can just guess what it is in this game. You are implying there is some kind of consistency here when there really isn't. What is consistent is that most of them are former FF jobs and that's where the understanding comes from.

Also as others have pointed out, Pictomancer may be artistic but that doesn't make it an artist.

Those are all very easy words. Pictomancer is way too fancy.

But still, no reason to object to having the distinct concept of pictomancer over generic artist.

The reason is it's too distinct. Artist is nice and simple. Like Warrior or Summoner or Black Mage. Pictomancer is super sophisticated and not even intriguing. When learning about it people will go "Oh, so it's just an Artist. Like in Lost Ark but more snobbish."

[Mostly_Raxus]

so i guess a printer is an artist now.

also pictomancer is not really complicated at all, its 3 syllables.. elevate yourself.

[Turtledeluxe]

Those are all very easy words. Pictomancer is way too fancy.

So is it about understanding or is it about syllables? Becuase I've already proven that not all names are easy to pronounce and I've also proven not all names are easy to understand. So your post doesn't work, I'm sorry.

Also Pictomancer is not an artist, period end of story. It is not predicated on creating art. It is a fictional painter that instantiates things they've observed into life. The job has nothing to do with traditional ideas of art, which is another reason why all the whiners trying to hold it to some kind of strict artistic standard sound incredible dense. A real life painter cannot paint stones into a 3D earth attack, nor is combat their motivation.

As others have pointed out it's impractical as well. If you want to say this class is an artist well then virtually all of them are, not just BRD or DNC.