Do you think that Picto needs a nerf?

[Supersnow845]

I don't think I misunderstand anything. It seems you don't understand the root of the problem, which is the lack of job nerfs in FFXIV. You're implying it's hard to solve the situation. It is not. Any nerf is better than no nerf. Had they simply nerfed 5~7% of PCT's damage(on top of job buffs), we could have actual DPS checks in Savage and FRU. This is very easy to do with a calculator, and there is no need to overcomplicate the situation to solve it short term, which is what you are doing.

The short term solution to balance OP jobs WAS, and still IS, easy in this game. It was easy for RPR, it is easy for PCT. Fights and rotations are predictable, spreadsheetable. Increase and decrease numbers accordingly. The developers have been avoiding job nerfs for years, for the sake of "keeping jobs popular". Every expansion released now serves the purpose of scraping the work they were doing in the previous expansion. Multiple patches buffing jobs, until level cap gets increased and the game is broken again. The issue is much bigger than the toolkit of one job. PCT was not the first OP job by design, and won't be the last. Commiting to nerfs is more important than reworking PCT's toolkit.

It’s funny you mention RPR when RPR was never nerfed, everything was buffed over it. So your own “it’s so easy” is literally the suggestion everyone doesn’t want implemented

A 5-7% nerf puts it distantly behind the melee in full uptime which risks it falling into caster raise territory and still leaves if 5-10% overpowered in FRU, that’s like a worst of both worlds situation