Just Nerf Picto

[Supersnow845]

They can do that, but only up to a point. It exacerbates a couple other problems. First, increasing the potencies of various abilities can greatly upset the balance in lower level content, and while that content mostly "doesn't matter," it does impact the experience of new players when story trials just get obliterated before any mechanics happen. And there are old Ultimates.

The other problem is that they seemingly can't decide how they want to balance some roles vs. the others. RDM, SMN, and the Ranged jobs all pay a hefty DPS tax for their support abilities and I know players who favor those jobs are already unhappy with that. That will only get worse as SE isn't going to buff those jobs as much as their precious BLM and melees. They're also unlikely to buff tank damage- what happens when the DPS do 5x or 10x more damage than tanks? Will "Additional Effect: Increased Enmity" need to be added to every button a tank has?

Inadvertently making one slightly OP job and then buffing others to match it just creates a never ending cycle. It doesn't seem sustainable to me.

Tank agro isn’t a concern here in any way, a tank generates 10* the agro of a non tank and 20* the agro of a heal. A “increased enmity” move generates 15* the ago of a non tank

Tanks who are unable to hold agro against any class with an inbuilt 10* bonus while only doing 70% damage is simply a bad tank

[hydralus]

Tank agro isn’t a concern here in any way, a tank generates 10* the agro of a non tank and 20* the agro of a heal. A “increased enmity” move generates 15* the ago of a non tank

Tanks who are unable to hold agro against any class with an inbuilt 10* bonus while only doing 70% damage is simply a bad tank

15* seems like a lot until you realize your AoE is 100 potency and then you have the overeager picto dropping 3300 potency attacks in 3 seconds.

That said you're still a bad tank if that matters.

[FuturePastNow]

15* seems like a lot until you realize your AoE is 100 potency and then you have the overeager picto dropping 3300 potency attacks in 3 seconds.

That said you're still a bad tank if that matters.

I'm not saying it's a problem now, but it may become a problem if they fall down a never ending spiral of buffing every DPS to catch up to whatever the developer pet DPS was last patch

(also it clearly was a problem in the very recent past since they had to add +enmity to the tank AoE due to pictos in dungeons)

[Supersnow845]

I'm not saying it's a problem now, but it may become a problem if they fall down a never ending spiral of buffing every DPS to catch up to whatever the developer pet DPS was last patch

(also it clearly was a problem in the very recent past since they had to add +enmity to the tank AoE due to pictos in dungeons)

It wasn’t a problem it was just lazy tanks who didn’t understand classes that could front load burst, it was exactly the same as SMN and DNC in 6.x if you used tech step or ark mohn.

It’s got little to nothing to do with PCT and everything to do with squares never ending goal of baby proofing the tank role