Pictomancer on Gamepad feels bad?

[LilimoLimomo]

I agree that it is super weird that in an expac that seemed to introduce combining buttons to free up hotbar space, Pictomancer has so many actions where you have action A and action B, and B can only be cast when you can't cast A and vice-versa; they could be the same button! Hopefully they can address this.

I haven't progressed Pictomancer too far, so I'm not sure if this changes at some point, but in the 80's Picto seems to be a very macro-friendly class. So for now, that's how I've been making Picto feel better on a controller. If that sounds up your alley, I recommend giving the following macros a try:

Basic Cast macro
Casts whichever of the two spell combos is currently available. You can do the same thing for the AoE version. You could also use the same concept to make macros for all the Motif + Muse pairings if that's your speed.
Will cast if pressed anywhere between 0 to 11 frames earlier than the GCD becomes available. Loses an average of 0.5 frames per chained cast, or 1.5 frames if cast non-chained.

/macroerror off
/ac "Fire in Red"
/ac "Blizzard in Cyan"
/ac "Fire in Red"
/ac "Blizzard in Cyan"
/ac "Fire in Red"
/ac "Blizzard in Cyan"
/ac "Fire in Red"
/ac "Blizzard in Cyan"
/ac "Fire in Red"
/ac "Blizzard in Cyan"
/ac "Fire in Red"
/ac "Blizzard in Cyan"
/ac "If you want, you can put an OGCD here, and it will cast the OGCD instead if you press this button well outside of your GCD window."
/macroicon "Fire in Red"

Spell Preparation Macro
Charges one of your uncharged spells. It's hard for me to imagine a situation where I have time to charge a spell and really care about which one charges, so if you feel the same, this macro can charge them all. For additional convenience, I setup my HUD with a tiny hotbar under my crosshotbar that contains all 3 of these actual spells so that I can visually see when each of them is off cooldown and ready to cast.
Will cast if pressed anywhere between 0 to 10 frames earlier than the GCD becomes available. Loses an average of 1 frame per chained cast, or 2 frames if cast non-chained.

/macroerror off
/ac "Creature Motif"
/ac "Weapon Motif"
/ac "Landscape Motif"
/ac "Creature Motif"
/ac "Weapon Motif"
/ac "Landscape Motif"
/ac "Creature Motif"
/ac "Weapon Motif"
/ac "Landscape Motif"
/ac "Creature Motif"
/ac "Weapon Motif"
/ac "Landscape Motif"
/ac "If you want, you can put an OGCD here, and it will cast the OGCD instead if you press this button well outside of your GCD window."
/macroicon "Creature Motif"

Hope these help someone!

[Mikey_R]

To the OP, this is what I currently have it setup as as a Level 100 Pictomancer.

I try and keep GCDs on the face buttons, the exception here is Rainbow Drip and Star Prism, they are used once every 2 minutes so it isn't much for me to quickly do that every so often. If I were to change it, I would swap Ranbow Drip, Star Prism and Subtractive Palette from RT with the Motives from RT > LT, but I haven't played around with it much yet.

Spell Preparation Macro

I'm not going to say anything about your basic combo ones (though, to pre-empt things, you will probably make one for Holy in White and Comet in Black as those are also mutually exclusive at level 90), however I will mention the Motives. I have found you do need to have more control over which one you use. You might be after the creature motif, but your macro might paint the landscape motif or any other combo. Just something to bear in mind.