Krile and Pictomancer

[Nononu]

I think its completely fine, she wants to contribute in her own unique way, seems like she will get a chance to do just that.

Don't get the why this should be a big deal, it's not like she had to stop being a serious character now that she is a Pictomancer.

so much this. the idea that artists have to be bubbly and vapid or something? what... does that even mean...

[Gordita]

We already have healer NPCs in our little group of companions, tatru already proven she's a failure at combat but better at running a business or weaving threads. If any of the scions were to be pictomancer, it would have to be Alphinaud, but he's super annoying and get away too much screen time as it is. I'm all for bringing krile onboard in any way , as she hasn't been doing a whole lot of combat stuff. I generally don't like the idea of pictomancer , considering how low quality and childish the aesthetic looks, like it's straight out of genshin or something. At the end of the day I'm fine with whatever, just let it be and see what happens before we go complaining about stuff when we haven't even seen what happens in DT yer

[Fyrebrand]

I think they just wanted to involve Krile in the story more, and she needed a combat job. Viper was clearly not it, so they went with Pictomancer. It's not the worst choice for her, I suppose. I could see her having an artistic hobby in her spare time, and perhaps the brightness and whimsy of the job aesthetics is a change of pace from her dry scholarly work. She's not without her sense of fun. She teases Alphinaud, and I mean... she's been wearing that adorable cat-ear hood the entire game. Clearly she doesn't take her self-image excessively seriously.

It's kind of funny that we already had an artist character with Alphinaud, but I think Pictomancer would have had a radically different style if they went with him. It's too bad we didn't get some kind of scene to set up Krile as a painter, maybe even comparing how her art style is so different from Alphinaud's or something. At least have it in her background somewhere.

Didn't seem any more forced than any other character's job changes over previous expansions to me. Like Thancred going from a stealth recon expert to a tank because....we needed a tank for Trusts and that's about it.

And yet they still give Thancred the stealth missions! Thancred will always be the "stealth recon" rogue dude to me.

He actually started off there as a gladiator before changing to rogue when ninja came out in patch 2.4

I feel like that's only because Rogue wasn't in the game at launch and gladiator was the closest "one-handed blade" job they had. Thancred absolutely would have been a Rogue from the start, if it existed at the time. And it's not even a case of "we need a character to represent the new job," because they already had Yugiri for that. They were waiting for the day they could shift Thancred over to where he belonged.

[TheMightyMollusk]

During the cut scenes where Leviathan is summoned and the Scions are fighting off waves of sahagin and Serpent Reavers, Thancred makes a comment about how he has to stop holding back while he picks up a second knife and switches from gladiator to rogue/ninja fighting stances. And the totally-not-Rogues' Guild members (looking back, it's pretty clear that they're stand-ins for Jacke and V'kebbe, but are very noticeably not them, for whatever reason) that you later introduce to Yugiri comment on knowing him from back in the day. So the clear intent is that Thancred was always supposed to be a rogue, it just didn't exist as a separate job yet.

[sindriiisgaming]

Would you ppl have preferred a big sourfaced Male Au Ra or Roe in a magical girl outfit brandishing a paintbrush as our new Pictomancer MSQ NPC?

hey.. i dont call you out

[Merrigan]

something about her personality.. its just not really the "artsy" kinda type, it lacks the lighhearted bubblyness that youde think would be needed to take up pictomancy.

This is potentially one of the strangest arguments I've seen on this forum.

[sindriiisgaming]

This is potentially one of the strangest arguments I've seen on this forum.

So are you going to counter it....or?

[Merrigan]

So are you going to counter it....or?

I don't know if there's really any need... "Artists" don't have pre-written personalities, that's all.

[Khryseis_Astra]

I don't know if there's really any need... "Artists" don't have pre-written personalities, that's all.

I’m an artist. I’m about as far from “light-hearted bubbliness” as you can get! lol Sometimes my artwork can venture into the whimsical realm, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at me. And I’d say for a lot of artists, even if you know them personally, you might be surprised by what some of their art looks like. You don’t need a certain personality to be an artist. Krile will be perfect for the role imo.

[sindriiisgaming]

I’m an artist. I’m about as far from “light-hearted bubbliness” as you can get! lol Sometimes my artwork can venture into the whimsical realm, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at me. And I’d say for a lot of artists, even if you know them personally, you might be surprised by what some of their art looks like. You don’t need a certain personality to be an artist. Krile will be perfect for the role imo.

it feels incredibly forced. a character with no artistic interest is now suddenly not only one, but taking on this wierd playful fake personality. it just feels convient.