Pictomancer and the beauty of modernizing games

The new dawntrail expansion for Final Fantasy 14 dropped last night and the new classes pictomancer and viper helps support why keeping the game fresh is an important attribute to any game. If you enjoyed! Leave a like and subscribe! Super free and super easy! Can't go wrong with that.
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[@dalgona4819]

I got into Dawntrail expecting to be the Viper main, but man I love Pictomancer.

[@jaytimetalkgames]

The free flow of picto is such a fun playstyle

[@SleepyMockii]

as a lil guy with broken hands that can't rlly make mmos work anymore on keyboards, the controller in ff14 was a godsend~
and now with viper it just feels so nice to play :D

[@jaytimetalkgames]

All I hear are great things about viper. Easy to access, fun to play👏👏

[@fordy5788]

Summoner walk so that pictomancer could run 😂

[@jaytimetalkgames]

🤣🤣🤣 facts!

[@RossCastro]

I love Pictomancer. Its accessible enough to be fun to pick up but has room for you to really get optimal and better at playing. Played with friends as a Pictomancer gang in a trial and it was really fun timing and planning our Starry Nights in a row to keep it up as much as we could.

[@jaytimetalkgames]

I really enjoy the "free form" style of how you want to go about using stuff outside of the two min burst. Like you said, there is alot of roam to self optimize

[@zeehero7280]

as far as modernizing games, its important to know what kind of modernizing is good, and what kind is bad.

[@zeehero7280]

I am the Viper. I have come to Vash and Vipe the Vindows

[@thristanebben8902]

Hahaha, underrated

[@jaytimetalkgames]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@terraglaive4135]

Yesss, I'm playing Pictomancer and got it to 90 and I absolutely love this job, I've been having fun with it. I'm someone who plays and loves Monster Hunter and it reminds me of my main weapon Hunting Horn.
You're right though. FFXIV is hitting it's stride and they are really doing their best breathing new life in the game at every chance. I think we players need to give the devs their room to breathe and they'll fix any issue over time and the devs need to be a little more open about knowing they hear the feedback and are working on it, they did great with the benchmark fixes and keeping us informed but at the cost of a lot of fighting with them over the past expansions. I think Dawntrail is amazing thus far.

[@jaytimetalkgames]

Agreed! Sometimes we just gotta let the devs cook and trust the process. Glad to hear you are enjoying the class alot too

[@ers1668]

I prefer Viper but Picto is so cool and I love to see people playing it

[@jaytimetalkgames]

Viper looks super fun and excited to try it once I finish MSQ

[@SergeofBIBEK]

Peaktomancer

[@jaytimetalkgames]

I should've used this in the title 😭

[@MagiaErebea028]

I main hammer in monster hunter as soon as I saw the hammer I was like picto main!

[@jaytimetalkgames]

Hammer IS hands down one of the coolest animations in the game

[@zeehero7280]

Hammer go bonk

[@squeallymae]

viper mains are stinky

[@jaytimetalkgames]

It looks like they be pushing buttons like mad people 🤣🤣

[@whiteboymgl]

I’m on pc and play with controller

[@jaytimetalkgames]

I used to be ps4/5 exclusive. Controllers feel so comfy on this game

[@valkrenfrost]

Using the trust system as a dps avoids the queue time problems- While slower than a 4-player party, you can force your tank to wall to wall pull and it ends up being around an 18 minute run per dungeon. Simply attack an enemy from the next pack and run back to Thancred or whomever you picked. It ends up being a lot more efficient than sitting in long queues. Trusts will never beat a 4-man stack, but it's better than wasting time in queue!

[@valkrenfrost]

You're not wasting it currently doing fates of course, I just know I prefer doing boss fights and trash packs vs open world

[@jaytimetalkgames]

I forgot about the Trust System! I always forget that added that to the game haha

[@nikidelvalle]

You know it's really wild to me that the devs just don't seem to acknowledge the DPS queue time problem at all. It's been years and they've done nothing except unsuccessfully make healers and tanks progressively more boring to try to appeal to casuals. It's crazy to me given this state of affairs that they would make the utterly insane decision to release an expansion with no new healer or tank job.

[@jaytimetalkgames]

I truly feel a support role and dps role together each expansion is a good way to go. I can understand why they do double dps because it is the most played role (in any mmo) so most time mmos tend to cater to them most but it definitely makes ques rough for a bit when it happens

[@nikidelvalle]

​@jaytimetalks Yeah I think my thing is that releasing 2 dps at the same time is bad for everyone. It means support players go 3 years without anything new to play, which causes them to stop playing the game or switch to dps, and it means dps player queues get even worse than they already are as the queues fill with even more dps players and essentially gate them from group content. Legit Dawntrail release is a perfect storm of support players sick of not having fun gameplay which causes their population to depress as the amount of dps players in need of them dramatically increases. The devs seriously need a real solution to the problem, like a more compelling reward system that can be used to push more players to support jobs and support jobs that actually have a good range of difficulty/complexity (whereas the last few years have seen them progressively more homogenized).

[@jaytimetalkgames]

I def agree with you. Healer role hasn't changed much over the years and content isn't hard enough to make it feel challenging (outside of extreme and above)
But that content is a smaller population of people. Healers need an engaging rotation like the others because daily content doesn't require much healing outside of big potential pulls

[@iResonate]

Yoshi P said years ago in Stormblood when they released two dps jobs that the queue times won't be affected because people will always play the role they like.

[@nikidelvalle]

@@iResonate I have an EXTREMELY hard time believing that.

[@kimerusdark]

talking about outdated in ff14... possitionals should have already desapeard ¬¬

[@jaytimetalkgames]

Idk why positional is still a thing either lol

[@clintonwilcox4690]

I'd love to try it but my laptop can't run it. "The beauty of modernizing games" alienates older players and punishes faithful subscribers who can't afford to upgrade their computer setup.

[@jaytimetalkgames]

I can understand that frustration and def sorry to hear that. I'm sure the balancing to reward old and new players is always tough to handle on the devs side.

[@zekieff]

Truth told I hate the look of the Pictomancer's skills, look too cartoon like, ruins my immersion. Glad so many are enjoying it though.

[@redbloodreaver4935]

Who cares if the vfx is cartoonish trash if it does beeg numbers

[@zekieff]

@redbloodreaver4935 I do. Ruins world immersion for me. Feels like the cartoon side of Manderville Quests are bleeding out into the world's lore building now. But your not wrong either. I couldn't care less about it though.