Picto makes the game less fun

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There is definitely something that needs to change about PCT but I’m still not entirely sure what it is

Right now PCT has 3 particular strengths

-highest rDPS and a better potential to scale its rDPS than most of the jobs that are within its aDPS range given its relatively large 5% buff over smaller buffs like arcane circle or searing light
-strongest utility of the 8 “high damage dealers” with its closest competitors being MNK and RPR (however I still maintain my original point in this thread that PCT is not world endingly overpowered in utility given its utility is weaker than all 5 support DPS by a pretty wide margin, its closest competitor would probably be BRD
-really strong downtime potential to shoot it even higher

PCT needs to give somewhere or if they truly do think they can fix PCT by buffing literally every other job then they need to actually buff the jobs equally because the existing 7.05 buffs excessively benefitted the melee and BLM over the support DPS (though to be fair BLM desperately needed it) which just widened the gap between the two for no obvious reason given this was supposed to be a flat set of buffs as to rebalance PCT without nerfing it

However I strongly do not believe actually changing any of PCT’s mechanical design is the answer here. Motifs should continue to be castable whenever and be instant outside of combat. From this there is 3 main ways you can fix PCT

1) flat nerf its potencies. If you do it this way it literally doesn’t matter what you really nerf because the feel of the job isn’t changing, however it would likely be best to avoid nerfing hammer or reversed aetherhue as ignoring normal aetherhue of the 4 remaining components (creature, hammer, starry and reversed) reversed and hammer have the lowest PPS
2) move potency from the motifs to the aetherhue combo. This reduces the effect the motifs have as they no longer contain so much potency. This doesn’t really hurt it in full uptime fights except for a slight loss in how strongly it’ll scale with buffs over the course of the expansion but it will nerf how much downtime benefits it
3) reduce the potential scaling of its strongest attacks within in its burst window by forcing them to crit reducing how much PCT benefits from lucky crit fishing in its starry muse window

Whichever way you think is the best way to fix it doing something like actually changing the way motifs function such as requiring a target to cast really shouldn’t be in consideration as that changes the entire design and interaction of PCT and we know how well that went for VPR