Just Nerf Picto

[LibitIncarne]

So the thing they tried to do with the limit break didn't even matter lol.

because Pandora's Box doesn't require a Tank LB to survive, and even if it did then it's at the final phase and you have enough time to rig the low hp heal/survive with barely any hp mitigation LB gains for that

[Kandraxx]

This is not a competitive game and no one in the gaming world cares about clears in FF14, so why would you?

How about they first kill the plugins so people can't do Ultimates with a one-button-rotation and screen overlays?

[CVXIV]

so uhhhh, 4 picto FRU just happened https://x.com/takomi_82_96/status/1872903535735828526

was this any faster compared to your standard run or something?

[LibitIncarne]

was this any faster compared to your standard run or something?

Due to the phases ending at the cast of a skill that's an enrage unless you get to below 10% HP, no.
But this means that 4 Pictomancers are able to deal enough damage despite:

- Having 0 passive LB gain (And no Melee LB)
- Only having 3% VIT/[Main Stat] party bonus instead of the usual 5% that full parties will give you if you have a melee and a physranged
- Their buffs not stacking in the way that, for example, Dragoon, Monk, and Bard's would
- Not having stackable mitigants (No Feint, no party mit from physranged, etc)

This is on-par with the 0 healer TOP clear in its disregard for basic game design that the developers are showing.

The "no natural LB gain if there are duplicate jobs" mechanic that was added to Ultimates to prevent people from doing THIS EXACT THING turned out to be completely pointless. People have already done duplicate job clears of UWU after the change, but "that's uwu lol". No, it's FRU and this just shows how broken PCT is in any fight with downtime that you don't need to move in.

[Daralii]

was this any faster compared to your standard run or something?

It's mostly just comical that it's possible. 7.1 added an LB generation penalty to ultimates if you stack a single class specifically to try and prevent things like that, and yet it's still possible.

[St0rmy]

I can see it now...

"ATTENTION FFXIV PLAYERS.

We have heard you concerns regarding the current state of job balance, we are aware that some jobs may be preforming better than intended.

Thus, coming in 7.5, We have plans to buff other jobs to the higher preforming jobs level. Please look forward to it."

Realistically I was content if their party buff got changed to a selfish buff but honestly I think that they're just gonna have to cut the potencies. This job just has everything. It has good mobility (like who seriously thought that smudge, needed such a low CD AND free Sprint?), Mitigation, and Party Buffs. If they want this job to contend with the top dogs like SAM and BLM it shouldn't offer support options.

[Nasigno]

I can see it now...

"ATTENTION FFXIV PLAYERS.

We have heard you concerns regarding the current state of job balance, we are aware that some jobs may be preforming better than intended.

Thus, coming in 7.5, We have plans to buff other jobs to the higher preforming jobs level. Please look forward to it."

Realistically I was content if their party buff got changed to a selfish buff but honestly I think that they're just gonna have to cut the potencies. This job just has everything. It has good mobility (like who seriously thought that smudge, needed such a low CD AND free Sprint?), Mitigation, and Party Buffs. If they want this job to contend with the top dogs like SAM and BLM it shouldn't offer support options.

SAM isn't top dog though? Its been towards bottom of all the jobs as of late. That is why DRG/MNK has been the top melee DPS for most the tier with a few trades with VPR, Cause again. rDPS matters more than how much non-buff damage you provide to the group. So I do hope you are joking about SAM being top dog, as it is not even in top 5 of all the jobs, least of all I can understand poking at competing with VPR/BLM, which is what is happening as intended.

It is how it is designed, which is the ironic point cause if you remove the raid utility it will not perform to their designed intention is compete. So unless you want to see it get even higher potency skills? Cause that is what would happen, they would instead buff its potency to compete, as right now without that potency buff with removed utility, PCT would be doing in realm of SMN/RDM making it pointless to bring compared to something that can rez.

[BillOverdoer]

I really wish they just nerfed Picots crazy potencies. I'm literally not even seeing gaols on PA in TEA even with 2-3 deaths because Pictomancer damage is just way too high, Alexander just dies in the middle of almighty judgment. I can only imagine how abysmally easy the dps checks are in UCOB and UWU nowdays when you have Pictomancer and Sumonner in your parties. The power creep really set itself in, and it will only get worse for the older ultimates. It'll also be straight up bad for the game if they actually buffed every single dps to compensate for Pictos dmg.

They really need to stop with this job homogenization and the blatant attempts to make the game even more braindead.

[Altera]

It's funny that Yoshida and Devs said they wanted to make Dawntrail more harder than Endwalker, but now just 1 job is making things easier than before. Savage was made easier as they tuned savage to 7.0 damage numbers, but PCT was overtuned, but rather than bring that 1 job back in line after they buffed it at launch compared to how it was during the media tour and forgot to recalculate the fights themselves, savage became easier xD

At this point is clear Dawntrail and its design for boss fights cannot be balanced due to PCT. So remove the Job until 8.0 when all others gets their so-called uniqueness reworks xD

They can now just as well remove Limit Break as a feature as people do not care about losing their gauge generation.

[Supersnow845]

It's funny that Yoshida and Devs said they wanted to make Dawntrail more harder than Endwalker, but now just 1 job is making things easier than before. Savage was made easier as they tuned savage to 7.0 damage numbers, but PCT was overtuned, but rather than bring that 1 job back in line after they buffed it at launch compared to how it was during the media tour and forgot to recalculate the fights themselves, savage became easier xD

At this point is clear Dawntrail and its design for boss fights cannot be balanced due to PCT. So remove the Job until 8.0 when all others gets their so-called uniqueness reworks xD

They can now just as well remove Limit Break as a feature as people do not care about losing their gauge generation.

They specifically changed the media tour potencies because the job was basically non functioning in the media tour

Unless you consider spamming rainbow drip in AOE and never pressing hammer or starry below 92 as “functioning”