They forgot Ranged Physical is a role in the game

[NightHour]

Either way, fights are designed off of a 2/2/2/2 principle. This has nothing to do with melee, and has everything to do with Magical Ranged completely dominating Physical Ranged in their respective category.

What I fail to understand is...


Why are Summoner and Red Mage ~5% ahead of Physical Ranged when they

- Have the best progression tool in the game - Ability to Raise
- Are as mobile as the Physical Ranged
- Also bring similar mitigation abilities to Physical Ranged


Arguably RDM and SMN should be below PRanged simply because they have the ability to raise.

ESPECIALLY RDM as it has the ability to raise without needing to wait on a Swiftcast cooldown.



They also need to stop being scared, admit Pictomancer is overpowered and nerf it.

This is an area where I think WoW trumps XIV big time - They aren't scared to nerf what's overpowered, nor do they power creep everyone else to try hide the fact something's overpowered.


This proves my point -

https://imgur.com/a/RVbChGs

And for anyone who doesn't play WoW - That's a sizeable nerf given Enhancement's whole shtick is building Maelstrom and spending it on their finishers like Stormstrike etc.



A little bit of backlash because the overpowered job gets nerfed is better than power creeping everything else to try hide the overpowered job.

[Carighan]

Are as mobile as the Physical Ranged

Summoner, sure, nearly as mobile. Essentially a non-caster.

Red Mage? The second-least-mobile caster and either the one with the most total time spent casting or second-most? Okaaaay...

[Carighan]

A little bit of backlash because the overpowered job gets nerfed is better than power creeping everything else to try hide the overpowered job.

It's not even a little bit of backlash, everyone expects and wants Pictos to be nerfed, and did so from the get-go. Instead we get continuous sweeping across-the-board buffs which in turn cause all PvE content to be seriously undertuned 1 major patch in already!

[NightHour]

It's not even a little bit of backlash, everyone expects and wants Pictos to be nerfed, and did so from the get-go. Instead we get continuous sweeping across-the-board buffs which in turn cause all PvE content to be seriously undertuned 1 major patch in already!

This perma buffing mentality is why this raid tier is so easy.


The tier was tuned with 7.0 numbers in mind.



It feels like Square doesn't wanna piss off the Picto players but is happy pissing off players of the other jobs.