Do you think that Picto needs a nerf?

[Supersnow845]

The reason muses are so high in potency is because of the GCD time, much like ninjutsu or dances. If you nerf them that far then they become not worth using, unless it's auto cdhit like hammers, but then you end back up at the same numbers above 1000 effective potency anyway.

The real problem with PCT's design and which makes me say that PCT's is NOT a perfect design of a job, is precisely because muses follow the exact same pattern than MCH tools (but worse), being that they do NOT interact with anything in the kit at all. They just stand there as additional tools that not only break the current game model (which I actually applaud because the current game model needs to be shown for the sham it has become), but also don't even build anything in the kit. You could actually reduce their potency a lot more if they were required for other things to happen in the job's toolkit, but alas, they don't.


Edit since people seem to be repeating the same mathematical mistake: the way to nerf PCT without changing the motif design is to force down the motifs to interact with the rest of the kit, which could for example mean removing the cdhit on Hammers and turn it into a movement tool more than a full burst damage tool, but more importantly move the unlock of Holy/Comet behind creature motif casts rather than RGB filler completion (which would still grant palette gauge though). Increase Holy/Comet potency accordingly, reduce motif potency quite strongly, they'd still be required in order to build up to Comets. Comets would become the de facto highest burst tools of the kit. Perhaps alternatively motifs would unlock Holy stacks, and using Holy stacks under RGB would grant Comet stacks to use under CMY.

That would incidentally probably make the job a lot harder to play, that's for sure. Open to suggestions there.

If the motifs generated resources within the aetherhue combos that would reduce a lot of the flexibility of the job because it would basically be required to say always paint a creature part before moving into a reversed combo

MCH could benefit from PCT’s design honestly if the tools had more stacks (now that drill drift as a skill check is dead) and more internal interaction similar to how every muse plays into the optimal starry window

[Valence]

If the motifs generated resources within the aetherhue combos that would reduce a lot of the flexibility of the job because it would basically be required to say always paint a creature part before moving into a reversed combo

MCH could benefit from PCT’s design honestly if the tools had more stacks (now that drill drift as a skill check is dead) and more internal interaction similar to how every muse plays into the optimal starry window

You could still store a crapload of holy/comets like you can right now, but I do see your point. Perhaps you could have an already existing ability giving you some of those for free especially to help with the start of the fight, or after specific shenanigans or downtime. Either way, perhaps it's not good, perhaps it is, but I still do think that is the way to make it fit into the mold, else they can also well... make every job in the game behave like PCT with strong downtime tools (and probably trivialize every already existing encounter ever in the process). But I do believe that having some parts of a toolkit, especially important ones that are strong like motifs, not interacting with the rest of the kit, is... not great. I've seen it on MCH and even on MCH some of them somewhat do with battery (which is bland and boring but they do).

Or you know, just kick over the whole battle system and start from scratch but that's 8.0 talk and it's not gonna happen anyway.