Picto makes the game less fun

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Honestly, I have tried since launch to wrap my head around the balance decisions regarding this Job, and I simply cannot. Was the intention to phase out Black Mage altogether?

The damage output for Pictomancer is comparable to what EW non-standard Black Mage rotations would be doing, if they had survived into Dawntrail. So, my personal theory is that PCT was balanced around non-standard BLM first, then they decided later in production that they would remove / heavily nerf non-standard (and either overlooked the need to give PCT a compensating nerf, or didn't realise just how damaging the BLM nerf was)