We need an Eastern themed caster

[Destati]

If only they could've made Pictomancer Hingan in origin and with a traditional inkbrush aesthetic vs. the goofy magical girl-esque nonsense we ended up with.

God this is what I was hoping for when people were speculating Pictomancer as the next job. While I don't mind the colors, I am not a fan of the silly cutesy moogle/spriggan motifs it looks like we're going to be painting. :/ Makes me wish they would implement an "animation glamour" feature where we can change the aesthetics of the VFX.

[Raikai]

God this is what I was hoping for when people were speculating Pictomancer as the next job. While I don't mind the colors, I am not a fan of the silly cutesy moogle/spriggan motifs it looks like we're going to be painting. :/ Makes me wish they would implement an "animation glamour" feature where we can change the aesthetics of the VFX.

If there's one thing to invest resources, this would be it.

Imagine if more jobs, not just Bard, had some nice 'side fluff system':

- Dancers getting their own performance mode where you improvise live with different steps against a track. Could even add some different styles;
- Pictomancers getting an interface to let them customize what they paint style;
- Summoners getting a 'Book of Eikons' (stolen idea from another thread) where, after they get 3 new gemstones in DT, they're able to customize the elemental summons from each respective stones;
- Astrologian getting a cool built in minigame interface where you can do divination readings with the cards for another person;

[WantlessYoYo]

It always amazes me how people paste NEED on almost everything, not a "Would like", not a "Would be cool", no, we NEED it

[sindriiisgaming]

There is literally a land of the far east, and not a single eastern caster. Western and European themed magic is cool, but its time for the east to get a caster next time around.

Geomancer
A mage with paper seals floating around them (love those class types in RPG)
Onmyoji
Oracle

There are so many themes that could be used to make an eastern caster a reality in FFXIV.

everybody allways wants doubles of jobs we already have meanwhile whenever i cry for 'nother gunner class I'm ignored

[Avoidy]

That's what I hoped we'd get in DT, but instead we got pictomancer.

It always amazes me how people paste NEED on almost everything, not a "Would like", not a "Would be cool", no, we NEED it

Yeah, hyperbole's wild and infectious like that. Much like people who say they're "amazed" by fairly mundane things, it's just something we have to get used to in 2024.

[Astrus]

The only way I see them adding GEO as a Job is them pulling a reverse-SGE and giving us a Job that evokes the classical GEO (with the necessary changes to make it work in the confines of XIV's combat/party design) but has a different, unrelated name, kind of like a lot of people look at Reaper and take it as the DPS Dark Knight. Or Thief getting rebranded to Rogue.

...which seems like a feasible solution if they can make the Job work mechanically now that I think about it.

[CVXIV]

Honestly when I heard pictomancer thrown around I thought it would have been neat if it were from Kugane.
In my mind I imagine Okami and the Byakko weapons remind me of the effects in that game.