Pictomancer Appreciation Post

[fulminating]

If your rotation is playing itself, just uninstall the third party mods. Not complicated.

edit: I actually think this is probably shockingly common in this community. People tell themselves that the job design is so far gone that it's pointless to engage in, then they say that content design has become too complicated, and they use these two factors to rationalize cheating.

"If I don't like the job design, and I think the content design is too hard, why wouldn't I just cheat?"

The problem is, once you use third party mods, you are not allowed to have an opinion on the job design anymore since you've stopped engaging with it completely.

Were you not vocal about disliking the state of dragoon before your 2024 uwu clear? This just seems like an awfully strange tangent to take us on if you’re not trying to say anything.

[HikariKurosawa]

Were you not vocal about disliking the state of dragoon before your 2024 uwu clear? This just seems like an awfully strange tangent to take us on if you’re not trying to say anything.

Yeah and now I think it is way better. Dealing with eyes was annoying for my uwu clear too. What is strange about my perspective? Look at my position in the dragoon thread currently.

Gonna need you to elaborate on what you find inconsistent about my position.

[Hesitate89]

I honestly very grateful for state of Picto & the Balance of FRU.

1. It's saving me millions gil on pots esp. for Ultimate, allowing me to help people in PF prog more, without worry of gil spent.

One of the biggest reasons i've noticed or felt others would slowly surely tilt during prog of a fight, esp. in Party Finder, during Prog there's a underlying Gil requirement per pull, now some of you may feel like gil is nothing, sure if you played for long time, even for me who has been around for while, eventually... the gil adds up over time, we have many new players jumping into the game recently, and the time it takes to gather the gil to prepare for this Ultimates requirement to prog an Ultimate outside of a static, is tremendously high.

This job & Ultimate fixed this subtle key issue, letting me help others for Free, that is massive QoL improvement from DSR & TOP prog.

During DSR and TOP i was spending millions gil per Week on pulls, sometimes up to 5mil per week just to help others get through phases and filling parties, this Job is going to save me so much time, and gil, and I will finish leveling it just so i can help people save gil as well. Honestly sincerely grateful for the decisions they made for this balance.

2. Provides flexibility, not only is the job fun but it provides flexible comps, during DSR and TOP there were many times where as a Caster main i would have to wait hours, or even days just to find specific phase to work on a raid or helping others due to limited Caster slots in PF, but now due to state of Pictomancer and Ultimate Balance, i am able to join more Double Caster comps WITH a Prange as well to prog this ultimate FREQUENTLY, with possibly spending gil as a Option to see later phases, thankful for this possibility.

This increases the potential for me to join more parties and spending less time waiting for fills during my brief periods of availability between work, with restrictions on DCT as well, allowing me to spend more quality time on RL, support others, and study before i sleep, and allowing me to plan my schedule easier, knowing it will take less time, now with Chaotic otw I can gear more jobs to help fill parties faster?! looking forward to update in couple weeks! Devs are cooking dude, they fixing many issues with prog, and gearing with these changes making game more fun and enjoyable without question.

I sincerely hope they change NOTHING, maybe give SMN a little love, as RDM main I don't mind RDM being lower on DPS than them, RDM rotation for this ULT already feels amazing as is, even better now with Picto. I feel like every time i open PF i can easily find a slot to join as Caster, Fake Melee or even swap to DNC to assist Picto further even joining as Double Caster comps with SMN or BLM. The DPS check in FRU can be rough without Picto, but it's really not that bad either, it's tight, but due to state of the boss enrages in FRU compared to TOP being more responsive to seeing P2, this allows more possibility of seeing later phases more frequently providing well needed buffer that is better for all levels of players. As well as allow players like me to hold damage and drop my DPS in order for others to build resources, win win!

Going to level picto soon just to help more people in FRU i got the weapon and gear from RDM, please don't change it, i can help so many ppl save gil and time with its current state, i just need lil more time.
Devs, and who ever designed Picto and FRU Balance together, i want to say thank you!!!!! hope you have amazing Holiday you all made incredible decision that's healthy for prog, and makes Ultimate more enjoyable for me, and others.

Fru prog may be my favorite prog and possibly fav Ult, hopefully clear it soon!