Quote Originally Posted by VentVanitas View Post
Picto looks like a caster that actually seems to be designed with modern encounter design in mind without leaning too far into braindead SMN levels. while it has a pretty straightforward kit, its weird pseudo-BLM stance has interesting implications for how it may potentially interact with fights. it's pretty much what I wanted Black/White Shift to be if it ever got carried over from PvP into PvE.
Only at level cap. Have a feeling they will repeat same mistakes and low level content will be terrible to play. Lvl 50 Reaper and Lvl 70+ Reaper play so differently from each other. Level 30ish content will be even worse.

Pictomancer which I plan to make my main class looks like the big winner in classes to play in Dawntrail with a rewarding builder spender component in it's casting rotation and very interesting ways to approach encounters with it's sketch rotation.

The ideas on what to do with Rainbow Road casts or Element Swap is a fun thing to think about or how to weave casting in with Sketch attacks will be fun to think about.

Viper on the other hand will feel like high APM but is just going to combo cycle for maintaining self buffs and becoming Reaper 2.0 during Awaken which is a 1 to 1 copy of Enshroud. The worry here is the same with low level Reaper in that it doesn't really come together until level cap.

And sadly from experience they design everything around level cap instead of level progression.