Pictomancer is insanely overtuned and needs to be fixed before savage drops.

[Sequora]

I beg SE adjust numbers on raid or savage patch and not wait for an additional month after savage for balance

I hope they only nerf it slightly. Pictomancer is in an interesting place. Caster has always been a problematic role in its balance philosophy.

Black mage has always struggled in the raid scene. Most groups prefer meleex2 caster ranged DPS. On top of this, despite the lower damage, groups prefer SMN or RDM for Rez.

Pictomancer joins black mage as another high damage caster without Rez. Despite having many instant cast spells and abilities, many of them need to be setup. It needs to be dealing nonSAM melee levels of DPS.

It should be below BLM in terms of raw damage, but only just below.

I’ve seen ridiculous comments of people thinking it should be slightly above SMN and below all melee DPS. Its utility is similar to other DPS jobs, it doesn’t have a Rez, and has to hard cast more than a job like summoner.

[CaedemSanguis]

I hope they only nerf it slightly. Pictomancer is in an interesting place. Caster has always been a problematic role in its balance philosophy.

Black mage has always struggled in the raid scene. Most groups prefer meleex2 caster ranged DPS. On top of this, despite the lower damage, groups prefer SMN or RDM for Rez.

Pictomancer joins black mage as another high damage caster without Rez. Despite having many instant cast spells and abilities, many of them need to be setup. It needs to be dealing nonSAM melee levels of DPS.

It should be below BLM in terms of raw damage, but only just below.

I’ve seen ridiculous comments of people thinking it should be slightly above SMN and below all melee DPS. Its utility is similar to other DPS jobs, it doesn’t have a Rez, and has to hard cast more than a job like summoner.

Well he have group utility, even with long cast, pct being behind drg/rpr/nin/mnk in rdps make sense