Quote Originally Posted by Supersnow845 View Post
I honestly don’t think it needs to be nerfed at all, if you get a random PCT in your party there is a 99% chance it will do less than a melee at a similar parse level (for example if both your PCT and melee parse a 66 the melee will do more damage) so for most people PCT is sitting in that space we expected of low melee+ utility

It just pulls ahead at the top end because its incredibly rigid burst has massive potential if you can align all your buffs properly. A difficult DPS (the spread on the two extremes show BLM and PCT are the two hardest jobs in the extremes) with a very high skill ceiling that is rewarded with top DPS is perfect balance in my mind.

BLM is undertuned 100% but PCT fighting for the top spot with the selfish melees is totally fine balance because while it has utility its ceiling is higher, for the average person who can’t reach the ceiling it will fall about where people expect it to fall- low melee
I don't like PCT being so burst heavy for two reasons:

1. Crit variance

2. Packing so much burst into its long cast prepared spells means that in any fight with downtime, PCT will be much advantaged compared to other jobs

The devs have to walk a tight balance here to make its paintings balanced for full uptime while not making PCT be the number 1 must have pick for ultimates (with their frequent downtime).