Picto makes the game less fun

[Sunako]

Because balancing is not easy. Even if you theoretically do "balanced" damage in 10 min dummy fight, some jobs can utilize raid buffs better than others. Picto happen to have insanely high burst and can utilize raid buffs better than many other job, which can result significantly higher damage in optimized settings.

[Reginald_Cain]

Empathy to black mage enjoyer from machinist enjoyer here. The way square balances us through our role is tumultuous. We're both pure dps getting out performed by every melee with utility and pictomancer xD

[ovIm]

"With the release of 7.0, however, we noticed that the DPS of the new job Pictomancer clearly stood out from the other classes. We could have nerfed Pictomancer before the raid, but since many people liked playing it so much, we decided to bring the DPS of the other classes into line with that of Pictomancer."
Interview it came from - https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxivdiscus...n_savage_tier/

They have a track record of this with RPR being released in EW. It was substantially stronger than the other melee in the 1st tier and after a few balance patches it became slightly behind them after they buffed the other jobs instead of nerfing RPR.

I have read this interview too. Honestly, that sounds like typical Yoshi-PR speak, really, and I don't believe a single word of it.

[rewd]

This feels unnecessary dramatic. No one is stopping you from playing BLM, aside from that rare PF that locks BLM out, which is in itself a big red flag so it's not a negative thing from my perspective anyway.

Do you enjoy playing BLM or do you just enjoy the idea of the job that is supposed to be strong and 'hard'? I'm not seeing the same drama coming from SAM players, despite MNK being overall better and with utility.

[george357]

they call them new jobs to try out and see how you like them and not be told by some who hates them not to play them.

[Atmaweapon510]

"With the release of 7.0, however, we noticed that the DPS of the new job Pictomancer clearly stood out from the other classes. We could have nerfed Pictomancer before the raid, but since many people liked playing it so much, we decided to bring the DPS of the other classes into line with that of Pictomancer."
Interview it came from - https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxivdiscus...n_savage_tier/

They have a track record of this with RPR being released in EW. It was substantially stronger than the other melee in the 1st tier and after a few balance patches it became slightly behind them after they buffed the other jobs instead of nerfing RPR.

RPR was an incredibly egregious case that led to the gigantic damage disparity between ranged and melee. They buffed the other melees so much that by the end of the expansion, they ended up buffing Reaper because it fell behind. That's right, after every other melee job was buffed ahead of the benchmark, the benchmark itself got buffed and ranged got crumbs inbetween this compared to melee. The disparity was originally 5% and went to 10% because of those buffs, which then caused the P8S dps check debacle where bringing enough "wrong" jobs like RDM/MCH was a near guaranteed dps check fail with bad RNG.

We're seeing shades of this again because melee got more substantial buffs than ranged again. The problem hasn't been made apparent because the dps check is so lenient, but if M4S had P8S balancing, Dawntrail would have been completely dead on arrival. So basically, not hammering down that one nail will cause a host of issues that cascade throughout the expansion and make them waste more time inbetween each patch trying to balance every other job and role.

[Maxilor]

Yoshi P mains Picto now.

BLM players got BTFO'd.

[GoatOfWar]

If it makes you feel any better, many melee players are being clowned on for not playing Vpr.
Tank dps rotation without any of the tank abilities, no resource management, no struggle with melee uptime due to uncoiled, no burst buildup, no job unique mechanics, you just press the glowy stuff, pop uncoiled during forced melee downtime and everything that comes off cooldown. The other 90% of the time you're pressing 121212121212.
All the other melees except maybe Reaper have twice as many buttons and actual job mechanics. But they all do less dps.
The highest dps job in the entire game is the easiest job in the entire game. Don't think i'll continue raiding if they continue this trajectory going into the next tier.

[GoatOfWar]

But I don't necessarily think that more challenging jobs should have better damage output than easier jobs.

That's a good way to make people abandon more challenging jobs which will then inevitably result in simplification, as we've seen before. If there's no reward for your efforts, why bother?
If you seriously think people just arbitrarily want to work harder for less reward, or equal at a maximum, i think you might want to talk to some people who actually play those jobs.
It's such a bizarre idealistic take, usually held by people playing the jobs that conveniently are notoriously easy.
What you'll inevitably end up with in practice is everyone flocking to the training wheels job instead. As people don't want to be penalised.

[Ramiee]

As an EW BLM fan. Meh they fucked the job so hard that Picto doing damage doesn't bother me as much, even if BLM did tons more damage than all other DPS it wouldn't make it fun.