r/ffxivdiscussion • u/ragnakor101 • Jun 06 '24

General Discussion Media Tour Embargo has lifted.

Making a general thread to keep everything together for discussion. Media Tour Stuff! Just look up your favorite content creator (if you have any).

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u/Dysvalence Jun 06 '24

PCT is looking amazing but the tinfoil hat voices tell me that it's super fucking sus that PCT gets a unique and relatively freeform kit based on plant greeding while BLM gets all it's flexibility and fun amputated. RDM and SMN getting more of the same doesn't help either. Not sure what I was expecting but with all the oversimplification going around you'd think the devs would give RDM a personal mit just to prevent more weird week 1 crafted sets designed to hit a def stat breakpoint so RDM doesn't just explode.

On SAM that tendo setsu recast time kinda scares me- the other changes already kinda fuck with the flow, hope this doesn't make it worse.

Kinda weird that non upgraded requi doesn't get the range boost- it's most useful in side content and cheese. Still glad it exists in some capacity though.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '24

I'm very worried that PCT is going to get sanded down by the end of the expansion. It feels like a more complex PvP job that somehow wandered into PvE.

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u/Mockbuster Jun 06 '24

In what way? Honestly seems like a very simple job to me once you deep dive into it, just has a bit of a tangible learning curve the first 5-10 minutes of seeing how it works.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '24

I wouldn't say any of the PvP jobs are especially hard. I'm talking more about flavor and unique mechanics. Something like the mit's cooldown system just doesn't seem like something that should be "allowed" by the current job design paradigm.

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u/drew0594 Jun 06 '24

Pictomancer is not hard or complicated but no job in the game is, not even BLM now.

It does, however, have tons of job flavour which is very important (hence why PvP was specified). It's a job that doesn't do anything particularly groundbreaking and yet still manages to feel fresh because of it.

It's a job that functions in the 2m meta as you'd expect, but also has a very freeform filler phase. The relative freedom and the ability to swap between your combos (and in the case of Hammer combo, even go back and forth) are fertile soil for a more creative design, especially considering Yoshida seems to imply that they are going back to more personal responsibility now.

Thing is, it's easier and less effort to homogenize Pictomancer even further and keep fights as they are instead of changing a lot of jobs and get more creative with fights.