I was invited by Square Enix to check out FFXIV Dawntrail early, and here’s how Pictomancer plays and what my first impressions of it were!
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0:00 Intro
1:13 How It Works
7:54 More Info & My Thoughts
10:23 Tooltips
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We lost non standard black mage for pictomancer being a fairly nuanced caster
We are so changing mains
The amount of creativity in this job sounds pretty awesome. Makes me even sadder what they did to Summoner…
I dont….really get it xD I probably just need to get my hands on it and bash my head against a practice dummy, but it looks interesting, at least
Huh, the main form of Mog is Madeen…
Is that a reference to Eiko's Mog being the summon Madeen?!?!
It looks super fun
Sounds like they took all of the complexity out of all of the other casters and put it all on this one.. Will likely be maining this.
They combined Krile, Relm, and Eiko into a single job. Crazy.
Goodbye summoner, hello picto
Ain't no way they don't nerf that personal skill, holy
He got that Rainbow Drip
My question is about saving/spending the pips. If I'm understanding (and i'm probably not) correctly, you do whitey paint combo > get a pip > black paint combo (or is the black paint one tied to the rainbow gauge?) if its tied to pips, do you save them all for ..burst windows.. but then you'd be using your creature… stuff.. oh god this reminds me of how complicated RPR looked until i understood it and then it was super easy. Watching vids but not being able to actually practice and not having larryzaur use his muppet voice to talk to me like i'm a toddler is making all this hard to understand lmao.
Do picto and viper start at 80?
so you have your RGBW and CMYK combo, cute.. really cute
I shall rename my character Ongo Gablogian. Games over this class looks brilliant and keeps me busy enough as Stormblood AST used to
I hope those potencies aren’t final on the AoE combo. They’re so low compared to the ST combo that they’re not a gain until roughly 4-5 targets, which is REALLY bad. If it goes live with those potencies, you’re gonna see a lot of newbie PICs doing their AoE combo on 3 target just out of habit, but doing a fraction of the damage they COULD be doing by doing ST instead. REALLY needs a balance pass before launching.
5:15 "But don't worry! That's only half of Pictomancer's job gauge."
That's still more than what Summoner has lmao.
I feel like I’m finally starting to understand how the rotation works. I’m still a little afraid it’ll be kinda overwhelming for me but I guess that’s just down to getting a feel for the different combos/resources?
Are the AoE shield and 2-minute party buff the only utilities it has?
this job feels like an HW phys ranged and I say that with all the love in the world (i miss HW MCH so much)
i'm so ready!!!
Maybe I'm just a filthy casual, but to me there's a glaring issue with Picto and Viper: they start at too high a level. When I picked up Sage and Reaper it was a bit overwhelming to get 20+ abilities and traits right away.
And this is going to keep getting worse. Next expansion, the new jobs will start at 90, no doubt with 30+ abilities and traits right out of the gate.
Personally, I'd have new jobs start at a much lower level, say 50 or 60, BUT they have massively reduced XP costs to level up for the first 20 or 30 levels. This way the functional time to level them up to current expansion content would be much the same as starting 10 levels below current expansion, just starting with a much smaller toolkit so as not to overwhelm the player.
Or maybe I just need to gitgud.
Yeah, I think this has convinced me to switch to PCT main
Love SMN dearly, but not impressed with the 7.0 kit. Cya in 8.0 probably lol
randomly pulling out a hammer? we got cartoon violence as a cooldown!
Nothing wrong with this job, it looks fun. However I hate that other jobs suffered in updates just to bring this one to life. Even Viper looks underwhelming in comparison.
this feels like yoshi Ps new main
"retribution of the madeen" okay…. i had VERY little interest in this job…. but that one reference made me sit the fck up, and pay full god damn attention.
seems interesting. will need to get my hands on it to really tell, but seems cool
Pictomancer looks like it helps everybody do their job easier especially the healers with that team wide shield you can provide every now and then to help mitigate damage if you need just that little push. The extra damage buff is also nice to have for everybody involved and you directly benefit personally from everybody using your buffs effectively and efficiently
I hear you mentioned about hammers being the weakest set of spells. If you account for guaranteed crit+dh proc how do they fare vs other spells?
It's Verover
Rainbow Drip in time for Pride.
I'm really looking forward to playing Picto, but my one gripe with it is that the shield abilities have that weird "combo" attached to it. I'm not saying that its bad or its gonna be hard to pull off, but I feel like the shield abilities should just be two separate buttons rather than just one button with an odd sounding combo
Either way, even if you mess up the timing with the shield, its nice to see it'll still provide a small bonus of sorts
I will turn off battle effects on other players, its going to be annoying seeing them over and over again.
7:15 this is identical to white mage's new gap closer, Aetherial Shit.
It's a bit unclear:
For Tempura Coat, if it breaks, the cd is reduced by 60 seconds. If Tempura Grasse breaks, the Tempura Coat cd is reduced by 30 seconds. My question is, are these exclusive cooldown reductions? If you Coat and then Grasse and both shields break, do you get a 90 second reduction or a 30 second reduction? Does Grasse overwrite Coat's shield?
Looks cool I will give it a shot. Thank you for the content!
Lol so picto is gonna be capable of dishing out the highest DPS? Sign me up
Damn this sounds complex. Means the good pics will really stand out. I want a detailed rotation of it.
I see what they did. White is RGB or the colors of light, and Black is CYM or the colors of print (though over here, in the states at least, its normally CMYK, with "K" being black).
The job quest or the achievement better be "A Relm Reborn" else it will be a missed opportunity lol.
Yeah, this one sounds too complicated for me, so it'll be another one of those jobs I level with dailies/PVP because I can't trust I'll be any good with it in actual group content, lol.
Curious if you had time to take a look and consider the available skills at level 70, 80 and 90 to see how viable/fun/complete PCT is for old ultimates?
Who would have thought such a whimsical looking job would become the caster favorite.
5/10 LB3 doesn't blind the party unlike other casters
WAOEW!
I just wish it was a LITTLE less goofy, would be perfect for me.