Picto makes the game less fun

[nguyentri11]

I kinda doubt it really. If they were so afraid from backlash from nerfing a popular and new job, they would not have ignored the feedback and removed a core gameplay element from Viper.

From what I see the job design team is simply playing favorites with classes. Picto is the shiny nice FOTM and needs to be babied, its their golden poster child.

"With the release of 7.0, however, we noticed that the DPS of the new job Pictomancer clearly stood out from the other classes. We could have nerfed Pictomancer before the raid, but since many people liked playing it so much, we decided to bring the DPS of the other classes into line with that of Pictomancer."
Interview it came from - https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxivdiscus...n_savage_tier/

They have a track record of this with RPR being released in EW. It was substantially stronger than the other melee in the 1st tier and after a few balance patches it became slightly behind them after they buffed the other jobs instead of nerfing RPR.