Picto makes the game less fun

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Melees
They have Feint and personals. Mantra is very, very good but useless on its own.
Crest on paper and bump RPR's healing by a lot but in practice it most often comes after a raidwide and a long time with no damage.
Regen is massively overrated as it often runs when no heal is needed. Arcane crest by itself is 30% of RPR's healing and 30 to 50% is often overheal.

Pictomancer,
Yet despite a Reaper having access to Bloodbath, Second Wind, Arcane Crest and Feint, Pictomancer is able to outheal magical fight with only a Tempera, addle and Star Prism.
Reducing damage is also much more valued than healing damage and shields have the neat effect to not be impacted by the mitigation calculation.

It steps on the SMN/RDM territory, while BLM only had a personal, SMN has personals+healing, RDM Magick Barrier.
But Picto swoops in with 2 raidwide mitigations, the best movement tool of the game while not being taxed like RDM.

More Raidwide mitigation is something rare only PLD and MCH got and made them shine despite those jobs being on the lower end damage wise.
But Pictomancer swoops in and evade the tax. In TOP, it's by default the best caster thanks to all the downtime that allows it to prepare the sketch, its mitigation and the fact ressing is pointless in 3/4 of the fight yet SMN/RDM pays the tax.

You can clearly understand why other casters (and phys ranged by extension) feels cheated, Pictomancer has too much strengths for no downsides.
You can either buff the other caster utility/damage or nerf Pictomancer utility/damage.

You can’t just ignore that RDM and SMN both have raise, that is utility that far exceeds any other DPS by a wide wide margin. Phys ranged mitigation is stronger by 5% and they all also have a a secondary tool (and dancer has a third)

You also pointed out that PCT outheals melee in a magic heavy fight………because melee outheal it in a physical heavy fight. That’s not imbalance, that’s having different strengths and weaknesses

Downtime strengths is not utility and I fully agree PCT is concerningly strong in that category.

PCT needs to be nerfed somewhere (wow shocker I called for nerfs for a job I like, maybe you should try that sometime) but lyths comment that it’s destroying objectively superior utility from the support jobs is just excessive and pointless. Star prisms heal can go, that’s fine, I’ve already suggested ways to nerf PCT’s burst without flat nerfs to its potency but its utility is not overpowered