Quote Originally Posted by Melphina_Dragonfyre View Post
And they need to understand that dungeons aren't a good gauge for picto's performance in a raid scenario. Picto is really strong with its AoE, but its single target DPS is pretty in line with the other DPS classes. When you're fighting a raid with only one boss its DPS isn't nearly as high comparatively. Picto benefits more than any other job from the downtime running between mob pulls because the motif's are insta cast out of combat. You don't get that benefit in a raid, and swiftcast has a 40 second cooldown. It's really good at opening every trash pull with a salvo of strong AoE, but when you get to the bigger bosses it's not outpacing the crowd. The muse's don't do nearly as much work when they only hit one target instead of eight, and hard casting the motif's adds up. Blm will get some fixes and things will be fine. Picto isn't actually out of line like people think it is. They're just looking at the dungeon numbers without analyzing WHY those numbers are what they are. Context is important here.
yeah except...its not...on ex2 for example picto does about 2k more rpds than the melees 3k more than blm and about 4-5k more than rd smn