Pictomancer animations underwhelming

[Supersnow845]

yeh, altough I'm slightly disapointed that there are only 1 canvas for weapon and landscape. Obviously it's better to leave some room for the job to grow, but still.

Definitely the second caster I level up.

I would have liked if weapon maybe had two different looking canvases that did the same thing (or maybe one was like a 3 instants the other was 2 instants with a longer GCD so they had the same effect) but I’m happy with landscape being a single portrait given it’s the raid buff

Maybe they could make the landscape a 1 minute where the “off minute” landscape just grants colour inversion and rainbow road but not imagine sky and the SPS buff that full landscape offers

Still it’s got a lot more moving parts than I imagined it would

[LynxDubh]

In terms of job flow and thematic design PIC looks to be the best class we have gotten since like SB when RDM was a flawless out of the gate caster

The animations are strong, thematic, fun without goofy and the skills look powerful

I honestly couldn’t come up with a criticism if I tried except maybe star prism and rainbow road I’d love to use more than once per 2 minutes

Meh, the motifs were underwhelming. Pretty bare bones for a job about artistic expression. I like the element and beast motif, but the single weapon motif and single landscape motif is lacklustre. It has not changed my opinion that the job fantasy would flourish more as a limited job.

[Raikai]

yeh, altough I'm slightly disapointed that there are only 1 canvas for weapon and landscape. Obviously it's better to leave some room for the job to grow, but still.

Definitely the second caster I level up.

SE is known for being really stingy when it comes to give 'toys' every xpac... I'm not surprised by the amount of features.

8.0 we'll probably get new stages for the weapon canvas (like the creature one) and maybe a second Landscape.

[MagiusNecros]

I honestly couldn’t come up with a criticism if I tried except maybe star prism and rainbow road I’d love to use more than once per 2 minutes

Rainbow Road has no CD. Just a long cast like Veraero/Verthunder.

Hardcast RR, Swiftcast RR.

During the 2 minute burst I can see Dark Comet chain, Hardcast RR, Swiftcast RR, Freecast RR, Star Prism happening. And then maybe some Holy Spam. Pretty sure cast times were reduced under the 2 minute AoE field for 5 actions.

Need to see potencies first of course.

Element Swap only seems to swap 1 Holy into Comet so that kinda blows when it comes to stacking up Holy charges.

As for the class I love the animations and sounds. Very unique compared to most jobs.

[Raikai]

Rainbow Road has no CD. Just a long cast like Veraero/Verthunder.

Hardcast RR, Swiftcast RR.

During the 2 minute burst I can see Dark Comet chain, Hardcast RR, Swiftcast RR, Freecast RR, Star Prism happening. And then maybe some Holy Spam. Pretty sure cast times were reduced under the 2 minute AoE field for 5 actions.

Need to see potencies first of course.

Element Swap only seems to swap 1 Holy into Comet so that kinda blows when it comes to stacking up Holy charges.

As for the class I love the animations and sounds. Very unique compared to most jobs.

IIRC they mentioned that Holy charges would be mostly useful for movement, but who knows if White Holy will have more modifiers during the buff window, to promote the usage of charges there. Maybe not, it feels like there's already too much going on.

[Supersnow845]

Rainbow Road has no CD. Just a long cast like Veraero/Verthunder.

Hardcast RR, Swiftcast RR.

During the 2 minute burst I can see Dark Comet chain, Hardcast RR, Swiftcast RR, Freecast RR, Star Prism happening. And then maybe some Holy Spam. Pretty sure cast times were reduced under the 2 minute AoE field for 5 actions.

Need to see potencies first of course.

Element Swap only seems to swap 1 Holy into Comet so that kinda blows when it comes to stacking up Holy charges.

As for the class I love the animations and sounds. Very unique compared to most jobs.

I can’t imagine it will be a gain to swiftcast rainbow road

I’m assuming rainbow road will only be used to
1) use the free proc you get under imagine sky
2) use it before downtime like SSS
3) open with it after downtime

If it was a gain to swiftcast rainbow road then it would basically just become mandatory to swiftcast rainbow road as soon as swiftcast comes back off CD which is messy design for a tool they dropped the CD of to encourage movement

I’d assume the 5 spells you want to use under imagine sky would be the inverted paint combo, comet and rainbow road as the inverted combo benefits most from the SPS reduction

[MagiusNecros]

I can’t imagine it will be a gain to swiftcast rainbow road

I’m assuming rainbow road will only be used to
1) use the free proc you get under imagine sky
2) use it before downtime like SSS
3) open with it after downtime

If it was a gain to swiftcast rainbow road then it would basically just become mandatory to swiftcast rainbow road as soon as swiftcast comes back off CD which is messy design for a tool they dropped the CD of to encourage movement

I’d assume the 5 spells you want to use under imagine sky would be the inverted paint combo, comet and rainbow road as the inverted combo benefits most from the SPS reduction

Odds are the optimal setup is probably a mix of spellcasting with your Sketch attacks. But right now we don't know how it'll play out because we don't have full knowledge on potencies and cast times on top of is a SpS build might be worth considering.

As it stands for using attacks for mobility it seems rather clear that Holy and Hammer are your mobility tools. But I also think the Fire/Wind/Water spells have a cast time that'll let you slidecast pretty reliably too.

It'll be very exciting to test.

Early speculation is Rainbow Road will be used in the burst with the proc and will be hardcasted at the beginning of a fight or prepull to generate 1 Holy charge.

I'm wondering while juggling the Sketch rotation if the Spell rotation is going to be build to 100 Rainbow gauge and use Subtractive Pallete 3 times for a super burst so you are doing the Comet Combo 3 times in a row finishing it off with Star Prism.