Pictomancer is absurd

[Myrany]

Why would you want the painter class's spell effects to look like everything else? What's even the point of it being a painter then?

I would settle for toning down the painfully neon plasticy look of the splats. Make it look like paint and not a bad kids toy from the 60s

[Lunalepsy]

I hope Pictomancer becomes a limited job.

[Rekh]

We could've had Matoya's magic with realistic-looking summons.
Instead we got cartoon-network level mage with crayon drawings.

One is FF inspired
The other is ONLY inspired by that painter job in ffvi

[Emitans]

We could've had Matoya's magic with realistic-looking summons.
Instead we got cartoon-network level mage with crayon drawings.

One is FF inspired
The other is ONLY inspired by that painter job in ffvi

If you want realistic look summons you can play SMN and SCH

[Rekh]

If you want realistic look summons you can play SMN and SCH

They're not realistic nor realistic-looking, they're crystalized-aether summons and look like holograms.

[MikkoAkure]

We could've had Matoya's magic with realistic-looking summons.
Instead we got cartoon-network level mage with crayon drawings.

One is FF inspired
The other is ONLY inspired by that painter job in ffvi

Matoya animates/uplifts frogs and brooms and gives them sentience and summons a sentient water construct based on water just like how Carbuncle is a sentient construct based around a gem.

But I'm not sure how frogs with wizard hats, water drops with big ol' eyes, and brooms that look like they're straight from Disney's Fantasia aren't cartoony anyway.

[Rekh]

Matoya animates/uplifts frogs and brooms and gives them sentience and summons a sentient water construct based on water just like how Carbuncle is a sentient construct based around a gem.

But I'm not sure how frogs with wizard hats, water drops with big ol' eyes, and brooms that look like they're straight from Disney's Fantasia aren't cartoony anyway.

There's cartoony then there's kindergarten. That's the difference between picto and whatever Matoya is doing.

[SDaemon]

We could've had Matoya's magic with realistic-looking summons.
Instead we got cartoon-network level mage with crayon drawings.

One is FF inspired
The other is ONLY inspired by that painter job in ffvi

I'll take cartoon-network level mage with crayon drawings!

[Mcg55ss]

Picto just stings me because IIRC it was used on ONE character (that I doubt many people used much) in ONE game, and she really didn't have anything that a blue mage couldn't do. It's like sticking the finger to blue mage and saying "sorry, we can't work you into a proper job. Instead, let's bring back the walmart version of you and make IT a proper job"

Also, Picto being chosen over GEO kinda had me baffled. Every bit of setup GEO needed to be introduced is already somewhere in the game, and it's been more prominent throughout the series as a whole. I (probably foolishly) got myself excited to get back to using the elements and ringing those handbells from FF11, so I guess I've got only my expectations to blame.

Whatever. I'll probably end up leveling Picto anyway since I level everything. Whether I actually play it or not, I guess I'll know when it comes out. I just hope it has a few cast times.

Of course many people didn't use the character she was broken literally she would sometimes bug out the game or just corrupt your save file completely but it doesn't mean she wasn't well received

[Supersnow845]

I still don’t know why people are so adamant about GEO when 14 has gone to great lengths to make tell us that GEO is eastern AST

Unpopular opinion but I care about the lore of 14 in 14 more than final fantasy ixivvvlove heart re rein fantamazing the third that people seem to think is the canon version of x job so 14 should copy it entirely

In 14’s lore GEO and AST are the same class, that’s all there is to it