whats up with the pictomancer hate

[Saraide]

Obviously: we have too many colorful, fanciful, playful looking jobs in this game already. It's time to put had stop on this nonsense!

Would someone please think of people exclusively interested in broody, dark and masculine aesthetics? It will be painfully hard for them to enjoy this job.

And I'm pretty sure pictomancer is genderlocked, too? Yeah, if you view the keynote in severse, slowed down by 50% you can see the message flashing in the background.
Says "GSRM only".

Yea it really just does sound like whining about "being excluded" while all other jobs try to appeal to those people aesthetically. I almost feel bad for them.

[PercibelTheren]

Obviously: we have too many colorful, fanciful, playful looking jobs in this game already. It's time to put had stop on this nonsense!

Would someone please think of people exclusively interested in broody, dark and masculine aesthetics? It will be painfully hard for them to enjoy this job.

And I'm pretty sure pictomancer is genderlocked, too? Yeah, if you view the keynote in severse, slowed down by 50% you can see the message flashing in the background.
Says "GSRM only".

I'm not sure gender has anything to do with it. I'm a woman. I main healers. Throwing glitter and flowers everywhere isn't exactly the peak of traditional masculinity. My biggest hope is we will have a druid/shaman type of nature healer or DPS some day in the future. Still doesn't mean I like Pictomancer.

[MitsukiKimura]

I personally don't hate the job but the effects and sound design needs polish. Gives off a very cartoonish feel like Im playing splatoon or watching Xbox gameplay of Naruto. I have several gripes on reaper as a Reaper main. One of them being why can't it show my hair in the enshroud form. Thankfully there's ways to combat that though I wish someone at SE would consider the small quality of life things.

[Merrigan]

Yea it really just does sound like whining about "being excluded" while all other jobs try to appeal to those people aesthetically. I almost feel bad for them.

Is this a troll? Or am I completely missing the irony?

Sigh. Please, before making accusations like that, list the jobs that are "broody, dark and masculine". Because really, either we're not playing the same game, or there's a huge dose of bad faith somewhere.

PLD? Meh, Gary/Mary-Sue. May villains perish under the yoke of my sacred light! So dark!
WAR? An axe-wielding fool. Goofy as hell. Curious Gorge's stupidity could be considered as a form of tragedy, I'll give you that.
WHM? A madman who talks to spirits and borrows the power of nature, not very dark at all.
SCH? Oh, a cute little fairy, what an edge lord!
AST ? Stars everywhere, azure blue and gold for most of the animations.
Sage ? Hm, serious type. Quite sexy, if I may. But "Dark and masculine" ? Meh.
Monk, Ninja, SAM ? Hmmm... Nope, again. SAM has a serious side, yes, but nothing tormented about it. As for the ninja... Remember the little rabbit that appears when you miss a combo? Yup, now that's testosterone.
BDR & DNC? Shake that ass, Dark Sasuke, and make those menacing musical notes twirl!
On the caster side then, perhaps? RDM... Yeah, still no, crimson everywhere, rather a female type or a light, agile male fighter. The summoner can call Titan. Titan is a real man, muscular and all that, for sure... The guy who hides behind it to cast his spells, a little less so. So, BLM maybe? Hm. Aight, I'll give you that. Because of the name. Forgetting that the whole quest doesn't really take itself seriously by waltzing us between the members of a family of half-portions.

I'm kidding, of course. The fact remains that this argument, if you're serious about it, doesn't hold water at all.

[Raikai]

Hate? I'm seeing pretty much a 50/50 division... But that's only social media/discord/forums, which is not a full reflection of the playerbase. We can only gauge that after DT launches and we see the number of people playing the job.

I have some beef with the splatter effects looking a bit low quality (I don't mind the style), but other than that I love the job! Can't say I'll main it yet without playing.

[Carin-Eri]

I don't know if the job will be wonderful or terrible or anything in between, I do know that the aesthetic and visual effects of it are not something I want to play as myself so I will not be playing it. I can also see how some of the visual effects, being quite large and very solid, could be bothersome to others in a party.

In the same way as having some of the large and quite solid visuals of the larger Egi-Primals can be bothersome to others in a party?

[Amenara]

I don't hate it, I just accept visually it probably won't appeal to me. That being said if SE makes it a unique and fun gameplay experience I will definitely try it (and probably turn off visuals). If not then I'll just pass.

[AmorfaVex]

No beef with the class, yet, need to play it first to have real opinion of it.

Like others have mentioned, its the Splatoon particle effects that people hate the most.

More than unappealing, im concerned about its practicality in boss fights. As it stands now it is difficult to see which arm is raised, or which part of the body a circle is lit up on through all the semi-transparent particle effects in a raid. Throw in these solid stamp looking cartoons and youll never be able to see mob cues.

We need a way to turn off spell effects.

[ReynTime]

At least pictomancer isn't creatively bland or with a crappy name like "Viper".

[Atelier-Bagur]

At least pictomancer isn't creatively bland or with a crappy name like "Viper".

Literally noboy will care about the name after a month or 2 of DT. Stop getting so worked up over a name