The identity of Pictomancer is being destroyed

[Sequora]

I'm pretty sure moving the hammer outside burst window wasn't their intention on this, just an awful oversight. They could have gone into the nerfs differently like making motifs less potent and lowering the painting time to 3.5 or 3 seconds instead of 4, but what do I know, I only mentioned this would be the worst way to implement these changes almost a year ago. Picto doesn't need to do the damage it does, it can sit comfortably between red mage and black mage.

It should be much closer to black mage than red mage unless they make significant changes to Rez tax. It should be doing black mage levels of damage once you take into account their raid damage buff.