New? Got too many skills? Made the mistake of using a level skip and have no idea what anything does? Just hate reading? Try this guide out!
This guide seeks to teach new Pictomancers how to Pictomancer properly, without getting too deep into optimization. I’ll be showing off and explaining some openers but not delving too much deeper beyond that and general skill usage. Endgame is a long way away and there’s lots to learn along the way. Start slow and work your way up one skill at a time! Then, graduate to more advanced guides.
General DPSing Guide: https://youtu.be/QV7gLorSweo
Mage Role Actions Guide: https://youtu.be/Hj7PpuSvCH4
Guide to my HUD: https://youtu.be/GgXOHas9GyY
Dictionary of Terms: https://youtu.be/Oi8-myAY-Uc
Rotation images: [To Be Added]
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Timestamps:
Intro: 0:00
Playstyle Summary: 1:53
Role Actions: 2:57
L1, 5, 15. Main Combo: 3:19
L25, 35, 45. AoE Combo: 3:59
L60. Palette Gauge and Subtractive Palette: 4:36
L60. Subtractive Combo: 5:00
L60. Subtractive AoE Combo: 5:55
Aetherhue Buff Overview: 6:34
L80. Enhanced Artistry and Holy in White: 7:27
L30. Creature Motifs, Living Muses, and Mog of the Ages: 8:46
L50. Weapon Motif, Steel Muse, and Hammer Stamp: 12:31
L70. Landscape Motif, Scenic Muse, and Starry Muse: 14:38
Painting in General: 15:41
L10. Tempera Coat: 17:54
L20. Smudge: 18:54
L80. Opener: 19:35
L80. AoE “Opener”: 22:00
L82. Enhanced Pictomancy: 24:37
L84. Enhanced Smudge: 26:19
L84. Pictomancy Mastery III: 27:10
L86. Enhanced Pictomancy II, Hammer Brush, and Polishing Hammer: 27:39
L88. Enhanced Tempera and Tempera Grassa: 28:57
L90. Enhanced Palette and Comet in Black: 30:55
L90. Opener: 32:20
L92. Enhanced Pictomancy III and Rainbow Drip: 33:04
L94. Pictomancy Mastery IV: 35:07
L96. Enhanced Pictomancy IV, Claw Muse, Fanged Muse, and Retribution of the Madeen: 35:28
L100. Enhanced Pictomancy V and Star Prism: 37:19
L100. Opener: 38:28
L100. AoE “Opener”: 41:46
Outro: 42:55
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I managed to get my skills set up thanks to this video. your way of explaining works well for my brain…not sure if I am feeling Pictomancer at the moment for my magic main but I am going to try it since I like it at least more than BLK.
I mean, buffing every other job is technically a nerf!
Yessss I was waiting with leveling picto until you made this video! Looking forward to it 😊
These guides are always great – god bless Wesker you always make the best stuff keep at it 💙
0:19 an absolutely legendary take
Definitely dodged a production time bullet with no changes in the patch notes!
lesbian seal of approval, thanks for all ur hard work over the years <3 also wanted to say i appreciate your mentality towards art from ur piece that u shared, very cool! 😀
Commeting for engagement metrics.
THANK YOU WESK!!!
I'm not sure if I'm going to pick up Picto. It's one of those jobs like Dancer and Ninja that I'm glad exist, and I like playing alongside of, but I don't think they necessarily fit my personal fantasy for my character well, or perhaps I don't think my character's aesthetics fit it too naturally. All the same, I'm really happy it got added. It's such a cool idea for a mage, and using a brush and palette for their weapon is downright inspired. If I could ask for just one change though, it would be decoupling those two things and making the palette its own offhand like Paladin shields, so we could pick our favorite of each and mix and match.
Can't wait to see your updated guides for Astrologian and Monk, Wesk. Those two in particular kind of throw me after their alterations. Monk less so, but I feel like it's just different enough that I would like a more formal rundown, since I feel like I'm messing up a lot, like how I think(?) the new potencies mean Snap Punch and Fist of the Destroyer are better than Dragon Kick and Bootshine for Perfect Balance now, but Bootshine's critical damage bit makes me unsure.
Came to check if this was out and it was, only 31 minutes ago. Couldn't be better timing.
Hell yeah PCT guide. What's the next one going to be? I'm gonna make the assumption that it'll be DRG, but be pleasantly surprised at literally anything else because content is content. Personal take though, hold off of BLM since they seem to like making changes 😂
Wesk is the Chad.
fantastic work as always
Awesome, time to see if I guessed correctly on how to play this job.
Wesk, thank you so much for this guide! Your job guides are so extremely helpful and easy to understand!
this channel's guides have single handedly taught me how to play jobs from when I was a sprout to now witnessing my first expansion release✨
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Don't dally, shilly shally.
Yeeeesssss!! Was waiting for this!!
plsplspls make ninja next 😭🙏
Ive been religiously checking youtube everyday for this guide lol (take your time with the guides of course). Thanks wesky
Always nice to see people coming out and saying "Hey AI art is kind of terrible actually. Like, fundamentally."
Regarding bad pictomancers blowing their load mid-pull and ripping aggro away from the tank before the enemies are even all grouped up, I'm reminded of Summoners doing the same thing in Endwalker. They made me get in to the habit of pausing to hit each pack with a second GCD aoe hit before moving on to make sure I really had aggro.
The best Picto guide! I've been checking since the Viper guide release 😂.
Anyway, I'm kinda new to ffxiv, so what is that potion thing next to holy in white on the lvl 100 rotation?
Who else is thankful PCT got untouched in 7.05? 😂
Tangent aside, your guides and your efforts that go into them are appreciated!
Motif preperation is now the most obvious argument against chain-pulling.
i'm doing my part to help with the algorithm. great guide as always!
We need more guides! All hail WeskAlber
You're my hero Wesk! I've been waiting for your picto guide, because your guides are always the easiest to understand with how my brain works 😭
The power of imagination is strong with this one.
Sending extra motivation to Wesk for when they have to completely re-record the Viper vid ;-;
Finally, I can play PCT 🙂
Would you say it's worth it using swiftcast in the opener to paint wing motif faster?
I really wanted to hate picto after what they did to black mage but it’s genuinely a fun class to play.
Something Wesk didn't mention but is useful to perceive how the job works at lvl 100: PCT is a checklist job, not a cooldown job. What I mean is, the order in which you do things is completely up to you, as long as you properly setup and execute your 2 min burst, but you also cycle your Muses between bursts to prevent capping their charges. During your burst, you are free to change the order you cast things for movement. The Hammer combo does not interact with your Hyperphantasia circle, which is super useful knowledge for movement heavy burst windows: you get up to 3 gcds outside your circle before you get back inside and cast your Comet/Subtractive/Star Prism.
It's here, it's here, it's here!!!!
Do you have name for your art piece used in the intro?
Are you redoing the Viper guide because of the changes?
You have helped me with every job I play with these guides. Thanks!
The only issue i have with this job is that Comet in black looks more like Comet in purple
Checking this out to finally figure out whats proccing the free rainbow drip
"you have a lot of time to FORGET to paint it" truer words have never been spoken
Pictomancer is job like Summoner
legit been waiting for this before picking up PCT
While this is the one class guide I don't need due to picto being really intuitive (might peep at what you use hyperphantasia on prior to unlocking comet just to be sure), I'll always like and comment a WeskAlber levelling skills guide. Thank you for your service to this community.