Quote Originally Posted by Poppet View Post
BLM was the most used caster in Eden's Gate up to the point they fixed 5.0 smn and gave it more damage. This was back in a era where having less people alive made the mechanics easier not impossible and damage that much more important as a result. Picto does enough damage to warrant not taking a melee dps and possibly use two. Fights with bad melee uptime in particular will see picto as the top dps. Consider they're using smaller hitboxes again for Black Cat this will become an incredibly realistic outcome.
Yeah as long they don't nuke pico dam but most of the ppl who wants nerfs to pico wants it to be nuke to rdm/smn levels. If that happens they wont be picked over a 2nd melee even if melee uptime is bad. Thats the point most of us are trying to make here that for pico to have a chance going forward it need to do dps close to a nonSAM/VRP melee dps. Meaning it needs to stay near MNK/RPR/NIN/DRG levels of damage. If it gets knocked down to RDM/SMN levels no one will want it and just take a a rez mage for the rez and BLM/2nd Melee for the flex spot. Im fine with picto being slightly nerf and BLM getting a deserve buff but Im not fine with nuking the picto to be worst smn/rdm. We finally have a caster who doesn't have to deal with the whole rez tax and be a good middle ground between RDM/SMN and BLM but ppl want to ruin that bc they don't want a another caster have similar numbers to a melee. I said it once and I will continue to say it...caster is the worst balance role in ff14 all bc of the dumb rez tax. I still want ff14 to delete smn/rdm rez so balancing this role is better. You don't see this issue with melee bc melee doesn't have to deal with a rez tax.