Pictomancer animations underwhelming

[HeyMcFly]

Not really worth thinking too much on the 'glow' on Krile's weapon (in the cinematic) since the same Brush didn't glow when we saw her use it in the cutscenes in 6.55. Unless it only does that for a LB or something.

While I realize I'm nitpicking with the glowing brush; I just felt it was a nice touch to the cinematic & disliked how it's not in actual gameplay. My thought process about it was: "Why include such a detail at all if it's not going to present?"
It made the gameplay reveal feel even more unfinished to me. Lackluster even

It makes me wonder if the DT trailer showing of Krile as a Pictomancer; what if her animations had looked just like what was shown in the gameplay class reveal; how people would respond if at all?

[TabrisOmbrelame]

You all realize that what you saw was probably the most basic spell the class has to offer right ?

We didn't even see the Lvl 100 action trailer. Why not giving it a chance until then ?

[NYCLouisGamer]

Could somebody please point me to the many threads where the player base demands more jobs? Yes, the idea behind Pictomancer is quite cool!

But we don't need more jobs. We want more jobs. We NEED better gameplay.

The developers focusing on a new job (though new jobs are fun!) seems like a distraction from addressing much more important structural issues. How about fixing healing so that it is actually required most of the time? How about fixing multiple jobs so that they have more fun and more identity, even if that means that some jobs will be stronger and more complex than others.

[Bad_Luck]

It's not out yet ya

[Mimilu]

It's not out yet ya

What? You didn't get invited to the secret DT servers where we're all playing right now? (つ≧▽≦)つ

[SweetPete]

What? You didn\\'t get invited to the secret DT servers where we\\'re all playing right now? (つ≧▽≦)つ

Lol now that’s funny

[Raikai]

I don't mind the style at all, but my issue is that it could use more of an organic animation feel - some of the effects that appeared have a 'stock vector' feel to it.


This splatter effect is the most egregious example. Not only it looks cheap, it's also the same graphic repeated and rotated with different colors.

I feel that in general a texture improvement can make wonders to the cheap looks that Pictomancer have now.

[george357]

will wait till jobs go live to try them out and see how they do new jobs always need a lot of tweaking to get them right time will tell how well these jobs do and not bitching about them before they even go live.

[Raikai]

will wait till jobs go live to try them out and see how they do new jobs always need a lot of tweaking to get them right time will tell how well these jobs do and not bitching about them before they even go live.

People are not complaining about mechanics, which we don't know a sliver of yet.

People are complaining by the quality of the visuals we got so far and providing feedback on that - which is a separate thing and perfectly valid, since we got to see some in practice, even without mechanical context.

[HeyMcFly]

You all realize that what you saw was probably the most basic spell the class has to offer right ?

We didn't even see the Lvl 100 action trailer. Why not giving it a chance until then ?

Absolutely! But knowing how SE has done things before, for example, leaving some races even half finished (while kind of improving some things later) I've learned it's better to be the squeaky wheel just in case