Picto painting potency should be readjusted

[Kishin12345]

If we were building for Ultimate, we'd still have non-standard rotations specifically to ease balancing in Ultimate, because they reduce the maximum unavoidable loss a job suffers in abnormal circumstances, such as those that Ultimate alone tends to have in any meaningful amount.

I don't give a damn about Ultimate and don't intend to play it, but you're in most cases barking up the wrong tree there.

It is probably a mix of savage and ultimate that dictates balancing. Most potency and balancing changes happen with a savage or ultimate patch.
In 7.3 melees got buffed because the devs were planning a lot of downtime in the coming savage tier. At least that was given as the reasoning back then.
Smn got an emergency buff because it was underperforming in this tier. Picto got nerfed AFTER the numbers from FRU were clear.

We also already know that they design the fight in the hardest version and then water it down for the normal version.
So obviously it makes sense to balance jobs for the hardest difficulty or change them so that they dont struggle in ways that gives them too much of a disadvantage.
Gnashing combo getting stacks was a change specifically for this tier so that it wouldnt drift away during a fight like m10s where you are just forced to take downtime sometimes.
M7s is very likely the reason rdm got ranged melee (after all the complaints about not being able to use 1 burst window). Also this tier has several occasions where rdm has to be disconnected from the boss during burst windows, which could turn the burst window into just spamming dualcast and that would feel quite stupid if any other job could do their proper bursts there.

Edit: forgot to mention the aoe nerfs/buffs to multiple jobs after m6s turned out that some jobs are very bad at aoeing