A few concerns about Pictomancer

[Calysto]

Pictomancer is going to be the new meta ! Required to clear !

As foretold by ancient internet knowledge : PIC or it didn't happen !

Joke aside, it being a 'support DPS' to not touch BLM supremacy was to be expected

[sindriiisgaming]

I really like the concept of painting through aether magic. I think it has great potential. I'm happy for everyone who's excited to play the class as well.

I did have some concerns after watching the trailer for it and although I doubt much can be done to fix any of these by launch, I thought I'd post about them anyway to get others' thoughts and discuss it.

1) The neon is overkill - Remember when you changed the design of the Sage icon because of the concern from people who have a fear of things with small holes in them (I forget the name). I feel like a much larger number of people are going to have a visceral reaction to these bright, garish colors and goofy effects.

I get it, you guys just came off the Fall Guys crossover and that was bright and bouncy and lighthearted but there's a place for that sort of thing in game (like the Moogle and Sabotender weapons and mounts or people in frog suits) without it being too much. When you wrap the whole class in that aesthetic it's like being forced to watch Caillou 24 hours a day on repeat. If nothing else, can we (on the client side) tone down the colors a little?

It's going to affect caster gear in a negative way - You know how so much of the aiming gear is tailored toward Bard? You rarely see a dungeon drop that's machinist-themed or dancer-themed. It's always floofy pants or billowy shirts or feathered hats. Caster gear is going to go from robes to mismatched pajama sets (not that we don't already have those in game though...)

You already do really cool brush effects with the Byakko weapons - What happened to that? Those blend in well without being garish. I'm feeling like someone took a look at the Fall Guys assets and went "Wait... what if we shaved months off development time by reusing these??"

I have a feeling Pictomancer is going to go through a Machinist rebirth where it gets completely overhauled a couple times until it finds its place. And please for the love of Hydaelyn, cool it on the splurpy sound effects.

Literally saw another thread complaining it was matt and not neon paint so I just have to laugh at these

You have absolutely no way of knowing what future caster gear will look like and you're just assuming . I accept this us a fear but it's completely irrational

I don't understand why having byako weapons should mean painter shouldn't be a job...

[totalimmortal]

we live in a world where a job being cute, colorful and fun-looking is a cause for concern or complaint... tragic

[sindriiisgaming]

Looks like one of those jobs that'll be extremely popular with the casual folks who'll need to take a break from standing around in Limsa to run a dungeon or alliance raid to feel cute while playing.

I can't see anyone taking it to savage/ultimate progs cause watching those animations over and over will get very old, very quick.

Or artists like myself and a huge percentage of the community

[Rowde]

Looks like one of those jobs that'll be extremely popular with the casual folks who'll need to take a break from standing around in Limsa to run a dungeon or alliance raid to feel cute while playing.

I can't see anyone taking it to savage/ultimate progs cause watching those animations over and over will get very old, very quick.

fairly certain that anyone that is even semi-serious about raiding has animations set to limited, if not turned off completely
or how to tell me you don't raid without telling me you don't raid

[Burmecia]

I can't see anyone taking it to savage/ultimate progs cause watching those animations over and over will get very old, very quick.

I'm pretty sure the savage/ult progging folk have turned off the special effects long ago. If it does good number, they'll take it.

[MisterNublet]

fairly certain that anyone that is even semi-serious about raiding has animations set to limited, if not turned off completely
or how to tell me you don't raid without telling me you don't raid

Then as someone who raids, you must surely know what fflogs is, right?

I'm pretty sure the savage progging folk have turned off the special effects long ago. If it does good number, they'll take it.

Maybe I'm alone in that I leave my own battle effects up while progging as I enjoy seeing my own animations, since it makes me feel like I'm playing the job. While I do set the battle effects for party and others to none.

The numbers would have to be similar to blm's, but I don't see that happening

[Palladiamors]

we live in a world where a job being cute, colorful and fun-looking is a cause for concern or complaint... tragic

No, we live in a world where ascetics matter and pictomancer doesn't fit the ascetic style of XIV in the least.

[Saraide]

Then as someone who raids, you must surely know what fflogs is, right?

Do you want us to look at your logs?

[MisterNublet]

Do you want us to look at your logs?

Go ahead, it's not like I have them hidden. I already know they're trash and I don't care.

Just amusing to me that the one saying I don't raid, is the person I referenced in my initial post. Maybe I'm wrong and they prefer Quicksands and not Limsa.