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[Supersnow845]

You misunderstand my point, I’m not saying buff PCT’s mobility I’m saying that based on the difference in IQR PCT’s mobility is roughly where it should be for a damage caster it has a wide range and falls where it should fall

There doesn’t need to be a buff or a nerf either way because if you are looking at gold then the melee at that level are also barely even trying to achieve the uptime the have

On average people struggle more with caster uptime than melee uptime, that isn’t an indication either way of my support for buffs or nerfs to any classes tools (the only one who is significantly out of whack is BLM who is more immobile than PCT but does less damage, but that’s a matter of BLM being too weak not PCT being too strong)

[W00by]

Apologies, you said "you need to balance around [x]" so I thought you meant, when considering the inevitable balance adjustments the game will receive soon, with PCT at the forefront of this conversation. But I don't think it necessarily "falls where it should fall" right now. At the moment, its rDPS at not only a maximum, but in the upper quartile as a whole, is outperforming melee DPS like Dragoon and Ninja while providing as much or more utility and arguably more mobility (depending on the fight, mechanic, timeline, and circumstances). It's objectively quite powerful right now. I don't really mind if that's where Square Enix wants it, but in upper-quartile-to-max ranges you could argue it's overperforming.

It's definitely indisputably true that people struggle more with caster uptime than melee uptime, but it's also true that PCT is brand new and fairly technical compared to some of the other jobs in the game. As time goes on, I think the lower quartiles and minimums will increase as people understand the mobility they have access to, so it will be interesting to see where things land there.

Either way, I still think it's wrong to say Picto is immobile because people aren't using its mobility. I can accept the claim that people are not playing PCT perfectly right now, but if the onus of the conversation is "Picto is immobile," then I would need to hear someone explain why it is immobile rather than just dismiss my claims because its mobility is being underused at the moment. The original commenter whose take was described as insane just said PCT is highly mobile, and I still haven't had anyone explain why that isn't the case using the job's design and gameplay.