Quote Originally Posted by Reimmi View Post
Pictomancer is miles ahead of everyone else, at a degree i've never seen in this game. People will meme and say machinist is bad, but its never truly unplayable. Atm if you're bringing black mage over picto you are trolling your group for example
I hate this opinion with a passion. Saying that bringing a black mage over a picto is trolling is misinformation. This is the reason we have party finders locking caster to only picto. Ultimate can be beaten with any caster, that is fact. If your party is not meeting the dps checks and the non-picto caster is playing their job correctly, then someone else in your party needs to learn how to play their job.

Now if you said that bringing a picto makes prog easier because dps checks can still be met even with some small mistakes, then sure, I'd agree. But you know what other job does that? Red Mage, the premier prog job, just through bonus raises instead of bonus damage. Just a reminder, this only applies to Ultimate, because as been said earlier in this thread, pictomancer in a regular fight without all the extra downtime is balanced fine.