Do you think that Picto needs a nerf?

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PCT cannot be on direct competitive again BLM as Pictomancer is a hybrid. It doesn't have a raise like SMN/RDM, but it is not a selfish job like BLM. PCT has raid wide buffs, heal and shield. Remove all those buffs that boost the party and yeah it can compete with BLM, SAM, VPR. If you cannot understand that simple fact, you just want one Job to be vastly overpowered in all aspects, ease of play, buffs to party, and selfish damage that's beyond the pure selfish Jobs.

This is exactly the problem I’m discussing. Let’s ignore the fact that starry muse isn’t utility (it just makes others do damage) the idea that only the selfish jobs can be top DPS is simply a constrictive and bad philosophy because you are basically saying “PCT has a shield, BLM doesn’t so PCT ALWAYS has to be worse than BLM”. PCT can’t be a competitor to BLM if it’s never allowed to be better than it same as you currently have the problem that BLM isn’t a competitor to PCT because PCT is always better than BLM

And then you don’t even apply this to melee. The top 3 melee in savage for 7.05 are DRG (has a raid buff), NIN (has a raid buff), MNK (has a raid buff, heal and heal amp). What even counts as utility to make one not a selfish job these days. Does SAM’s monstrous tank level CD make it not selfish? Why are the melee allowed to bounce around like kids in a bouncing castle but BLM always has to be ahead because it doesn’t bring anything besides its damage

The fact that people cling to this balance philosophy is why BLM ends up being bad so often. Because according to said Philosophy it HAS to be the best or it’s the worst. The only reason BLM has been relatively stable for the last few patches is because after the 4.x into early 5.x patches with SMN the rezz casters haven’t been allowed to compete with BLM making BLM a functional pseudo melee. If PCT isn’t competing with BLM it’s competing with nobody for a spot that doesn’t exist. This doesn’t mean PCT should dominate like it does but it also has to be allowed to be better than BLM in some circumstances