Quote Originally Posted by Absurdity View Post
I absolutely agree that it is better to nerf the single outlier instead of bloating every other job's damage, but that's not what people are complaining about.

Because they didn't just nerf picto's damage to be more in line with other jobs but changed fundamentally how it's played, the nerfs they did were either never tested or they have no clue what they're doing.

It's probably both because you can't convince me that they intended to make the hammer absolutely useless.
My gut feeling is that they moved the numbers around the way they did to not only address PCT's slight overperformance in full uptime fights like last savage tier, but also to try and reign it in for FRU and future ultimates. But they did so without sparing a thought for how players usually tackle rotations, i.e. calculating the most optimal one. It really feels like it was just assumed PCT players would just continue doing the rotation they've been using for the past 2 months, that they'd just continue using hammer as they used to without caring that it was now a loss to use it.