Quote Originally Posted by Sequora View Post
I think another thing people need to realize is many of the initial job trailers don’t really show the flashiest skills.

The sage trailer in particular was really boring from what we actually got. We saw their basic heal, and a few other skills.
This is true, and I'll throw in my own perspective here about PIC as a whole:

I like the concept, I like that it's a more whimsical job which is very on brand for Relm, and I'm curious to learn more about the unique aspects to how the whole "landscapes" thing will come into play. They dropped the word "Landscape" multiple times as well as showcased one action of painting a shooting star over a mountain, but there was no revealed effect. I wonder if that will play into the job's gauge, and I think there's a lot of potential.

On the flipside, I think I agree with some of the criticism that the actual spell effects themselves are underwhelming when comparing them to Krile's display from the trailer. Obviously the in-game visual effects are very different from the full CGI trailer effects, but Krile looked like she was painting with Aether. The paint from the teaser is very literal--as if they are painting with actual paints. The idea of conjuring strands of aetheric paint that transform into a wave of butterflies is very elaborate, interesting, and compliments this idea of whimsy. It further tells the story of PIC being this mage who's magic is built on their imagination and creativity, but the Stone and Blizzard effects we see in the teaser feel very disconnected from that identity. There's nothing particularly imaginative about them. They're very basic, and while they're no doubt very basic aspects to PIC's kit (like their general filler spells) I can't help but feel they could've done more to communicate this identity of creativity even with basic attacks. Additionally, the moogle that gets conjured just looks like an ordinary moogle, but the spriggan that Krile painted was made with her aetheric paint. Shouldn't the moogle also be made out of that sort of watercolor-y texture? Shouldn't it be dripping paint as a being born of magic paint?

It's entirely possible that these effects are a work in progress, but that's never been the case before, to my knowledge. So I can't help but feel like the execution of this idea is not nearly as strong as it could've been.