Picto makes the game less fun

[Supersnow845]

I can't even process this sentence. What?

I remember the WAR party line from Heavenward was 'WAR is just better designed than other tanks. Don't nerf WAR, buff the other jobs into equality.' Which of course was blatantly false, because every time someone advocated for equality they were then told 'Don't homogenize the tanks.' But at least that circular argument was superficially coherent to the point that it could fool some people.

This is like trying to hide in plain sight.

Seems pretty clear to me

PCT is overpowered in the 2 minute meta but doesn’t change it’s a really well designed class

Don’t get rid of what makes PCT a well designed class remove the 2 minute meta instead because you’ll nerf PCT by proxy of doing this anyway

I don’t think this would actually work given it would 8.0 at the earliest that they would get rid of the 2 minute meta but the thought is sound

[Carighan]

PCT is overpowered in the 2 minute meta but doesn’t change it’s a really well designed class

Don’t get rid of what makes PCT a well designed class remove the 2 minute meta instead because you’ll nerf PCT by proxy of doing this anyway

Yeah, like this. Assuming the frankly silly 2-minute meta stays, Picto is overpowered due to the nature of that, and the medium~long-CD burst skills ought to be nerfed by medium amounts (so actually lose a whole lot of damage). OTOH, only mess with the potency, because the rest - the design - actually works much better in the context of modern combat-design in FFXIV than other jobs do, in particular other casters (so comparing Red Mage and Black Mage, Summoner is phys ranged if we're being honest).

[Supersnow845]

Yeah, like this. Assuming the frankly silly 2-minute meta stays, Picto is overpowered due to the nature of that, and the medium~long-CD burst skills ought to be nerfed by medium amounts (so actually lose a whole lot of damage). OTOH, only mess with the potency, because the rest - the design - actually works much better in the context of modern combat-design in FFXIV than other jobs do, in particular other casters (so comparing Red Mage and Black Mage, Summoner is phys ranged if we're being honest).

Red mage is another class that doesn’t get discussed often as to how they made it worse to try to fit it into a design it doesn’t match

Back in SB it had a very flat damage profile and it’s middling burst (which required a lot of setup since it was 80/80 and was much shorter ending at Verholy/verflare) could be put basically anywhere because it wasn’t available often and you basically gained nothing to ever hold it

To try to shove it into the 2 minute burst they made it so you just bursted 3 times in a row and added a tonne of finishers on top which were just more powerful to shift its prior towards bring burstier

PCT’s strengths lie in it playing to the modern encounter design better than them retroactively refitting wonky changes into the legacy jobs that dont work well in that design