Quote Originally Posted by ForsakenRoe View Post
A friend and me were trying to work out 'how much damage could you remove from PCT's Muses, to make 'the damage it gains by painting in downtime' lower, while keeping the overall damage output the same'

I think my maths came out as 'if you have an OGCD that can be used after Star Prism for 1200p, and remove 200p from each Muse (plus Mog and Madeen), it works out as roughly equal overall output' (ofc, raidbuff window means that 1200p is boosted somewhat and the maths gets wonky but I wasn't in the mood to get super-nerdy about a job I don't really care for)

The fact that you could knock 200p off of each of the Muses and they'd STILL be worth painting in full uptime, over a Subtractive Combo, shows how bloated the Muse potencies really are. They have no business being that strong



I think it's more likely at this point for SE to go 'hey SCH has Fey Illumination, and SGE has nothing as an analogue. Also SCH has button bloat issues, so let's delete FI to make the two more comparable. Also, I know we said SCH has button bloat issues, but remember to keep Repose as a button, it's very important. Also keep Summon Faerie as a button to press instead of making it auto-summoned as a passive, it's very important that a SCH who dies in raid has to spend a whole GCD to resummon, as well as losing their MP, their Faerie Gauge and their Aetherflow'
I think that the muses are also a matter of potency perception by the playerbase. I’ve seen many people lose their minds that the subtractive pallet combo is whack because it’s 4 hits in a row of an attack that has an on hit potency rivalling xenoglossy not understanding that the subtractive combo’s PPS is actually very low. I’m assuming the muse potency is partially to compensate for this, the perception of “if this was weaker I wouldn’t “feel” like casting this even if I know it’s a gain” because PCT is one of those rare classes where your perception of its relative PPS really doesn’t line up well with reality

As for SCH I can 100% see them acting like deleting illumination would be an incredible buff for SGE considering it’s the easiest thing to point out as a clear “advantage” SCH has if you have no idea why SCH is actually better and we all know Square has no idea why SCH is better