We cannot achieve balance while DPS jobs have utilities

[Connor]

I still think this way of balancing things is stupid. Complex jobs should draw people to play them because they are fun and satisfying to play, not because they have bigger numbers.

I mean, I absolutely agree. Difficulty is always going to subjective to trying to balance jobs around ‘difficulty’ is hilariously misguided. Bard is one of the easiest jobs in the game to me by absolutely miles (literally just GCD-proc-GCD-proc), but that’s because I’ve been playing it since 1.0, not because of some inherent ‘ease’ the class has.

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I believe picto is as easy as summoner and red mage

Developer intended to keep summoner and red mage in bottom for 2 reasons: 1 utility / 2 raise

As for saying “Pictomancer is just easy as Summoner and Red Mage” , that’s certainly…a take. Somehow I doubt you’ll find many who agree though, since again Summoner is universally considered the ‘de-facto beginner dps’. The point I’m making is that even in the complete absence of both raise and utility Summoner (and Red Mage) are still going to be at the absolute bottom barely above Bard and Summoner. Because to the developers, these are both ‘easy jobs’ and their dps is balanced as such (devs openly admitted they balance dps output based on ‘ease of operations’). The only jobs that get to sit at the top are melee and sometimes Black Mage/Pictomancer