The identity of Pictomancer is being destroyed

[Valence]

1) the nerf overly focusing on the balance of FRU at the expense of everything else

It is funny that they waited for 4 months and a whole patch where FRU was the only thing of note going on, and where PCT literally destroyed the competition, without doing anything, to suddenly bring the nerf bat out for 7.2, where FRU isn't really on the radar anymore. The balance team has such a funny way to miss their own train.

[MrJPtheAssassin]

It is funny that they waited for 4 months and a whole patch where FRU was the only thing of note going on, and where PCT literally destroyed the competition, without doing anything, to suddenly bring the nerf bat out for 7.2, where FRU isn't really on the radar anymore. The balance team has such a funny way to miss their own train.

The thing is, tho, even if they nerf the job for FRU when FRU came out, we would still be in the spot where the job isn't great in savage as we are now...you can't just nerf Picto every time a new ult comes out and then then turn around and buff it when savage comes out. The only major reason Picto did so well in FRU is bc other jobs just have problems in fights with a bunch of downtime, while Picto is kinda the first job that loves downtime. It was its niche, and what it was good at. Tier 1 savage Picto was never op, it was doing fine, ppl only complain about it bc of FRU. What the devs should've done was actually fix the other jobs and add some kinda mech to each to help them in downtime fights like Ultimates...


Now I just want to make a genetic comment about pct state now

The damage is done now, the ppl who wanted Picto nerf got their way, and now picto is now IMO one of the worst casters in the game. Like why bring a Picto now over an RDM or even an SMN? As I said in every "plz nerf picto" thread that was made months ago, if you nerf picto and it ends up near rdm or in the middle of rdm and the other melee, it would lose its spot on teams. For the caster spot, ppl will always prefer a rez caster and the flex spot will always go to the dps's that has the most value, mostly a 2nd melee or a BLM. Picto is now doomed to be the middle child of the casters, it doesn't do the dps to compete with BLM or other melees to give it the flex spot, and it doesn't have the battle rez to compete with rdm and smn for the caster spot...