Pictomancer is insanely overtuned and needs to be fixed before savage drops.

[MrJPtheAssassin]

Right? It has a damage up (NIN, RPR, MNK all have), and a shield. RPR has an AoE heal, MNK has increased healing.

Then you compare it to SMN and RDM. SMN/RDM both has buffs that are the same as Picto, SMN new heal is the same pretty much as picto's heal, and RDM has a magic reduction ability which is kinda like having a shield. The only thing they have that picto doesn't is the rez. So if Pico can't do the same dps as a nonSAM/VPR Melee but also doesn't have a rez then it has no place in parties. There is nothing it brings that other jobs don't have already. I don't understand why that is so hard to understand for some ppl. I feel ppl are just threatened by the idea of a non-BLM caster doing similar numbers as a melee. At this point why even add another caster...seems no one wants to change things up and just have the same meta teams as always.

[Supersnow845]

Then you compare it to SMN and RDM. SMN/RDM both has buffs that are the same as Picto, SMN new heal is the same pretty much as picto's heal, and RDM has a magic reduction ability which is kinda like having a shield. The only thing they have that picto doesn't is the rez. So if Pico can't do the same dps as a nonSAM/VPR Melee but also doesn't have a rez then it has no place in parties. There is nothing it brings that other jobs don't have already. I don't understand why that is so hard to understand for some ppl. I feel ppl are just threatened by the idea of a non-BLM caster doing similar numbers as a melee. At this point why even add another caster...seems no one wants to change things up and just have the same meta teams as always.

I feel like people in EW got way too comfortable having the melee be stronger just……..because. Take something like P7, the melee in that fight are literally just playing physical ranged as it’s almost impossible to not be in her hitbox (1, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 12 weren’t much better and vali is similar this expansion) while doing 15% more damage than the physical ranged who are getting taxed for their free uptime with it actually being of no benefit

Melee are designed to do 10% more damage but then have to fight for more than 90% uptime, so their ceiling is higher but they don’t get it by default

PCT 100% should be doing melee damage

[Sequora]

Well fingers crossed that the balance team doesn’t think we need nerfs based on their post about 7.01 and 7.05. Truthfully I’m glad for the change to aetherhues as I hate when people abuse systems for optimization.

BLM will hopefully have higher aDPS with PCT dealing similar rDPS.