concordiaharmony2302: No wesk. Xiv is incredibly serious.
Now if you excuse me, I need to prog SoS savage with a cat maid dark knight, a nqked buff chocobo dancer, a naked priest, and a reaper in cat PJs
liasprings6502: All I'm taking from this is that I need to kill Kefka as Pictomancer as soon as I can.
fancymustache3793: "Play whatever job you want!"

Ok.... puts on chef hat
parcoko92: Those people who said Pictomancer does not fit FF are clearly NOT fans of the series. Pictomancer was featured in past FFs
icarusquack: i never thought i'd see the day where picto would get hate
The_vataru_guy: Bro. Locking Pictomancer out of a Party Finder group just cause these people feel that "this job doesn't belong in their Final Fantasy" is a new level of being a loser that I was not expecting to discover this fine evening.
eadwynroark8137: .... so they're alright with moon rabbits, but nooooo not picto?
evilsensei8262: I am gonna play the heck out of pictomancer just to piss off some of these people.
jackjohnson8305: I will be here for that Viper guide day 1 Wesk.
chrisanderson7820: I sometimes feel a lot of FF14 players have never played an FF game before, it's so weird. The Picto thing is like players complaining about Solution 9, as though the FF series and FF14 itself isn't saturated in a mix of fantasy and scifi elements.
vincent207: Let’s not be like how WoW players can be.
rfygband: We went to the edge of the universe to fight emotions in the form of a bird lady. Meanwhile a crazy guy, that has swapped bodies after dying and claims to be your friend cause he got horny fighting you, absorbs the rest of the energy from a big crystal who was also a woman and then flies through space in the form of a dragon to find you. But yeah pictomancer is the weird thing. The people trying to deny pictomancer cause it “doesn’t fit in” are, as polite as I can possibly say this, fucking stupid.
AraiiarA: I can't play the job I want to play in Dawntrail, Wesk. I want to play BLU!
Loispealz34: Meanwhile, me playing every job because its fun to swap around and play with different toys.
brandoncline9832: If people tolerate Krile being considered one of Eorzea’s scholarly elite while attending lectures wearing a rain coat with cat ears, then they sure as hell can tolerate Pictomancer.

And anything to incorporate more concepts from the best Final Fantasy game ever, I’m down.
Tewlipz: "Pictomancer doesn't fit FF" has the same energy as people saying Solution 9 doesn't belong in my high fantasy MMO Final Fantasy XIV.
karurosu4121: to every future picto main if someone shits on you playing your job please piss em off as much as you can
elvinglass2465: I've said this to some ex wow player friends and I think it broke their brains.
Infindox: I mean, ive been around long enough that i've seen people refuse to play dancer because it's "*insert whatever gay slur you want*" and even saw someone flip out because Red Mage has a rose theming because THAT was gay to them. Like....????
bigbressler1968: Ill stop playing paladin when im dead and burried
mareczek00713: "There is totally no wrong job, you don't pay my sub" - this is what I said to my company mages when they were wondering why I was smacking enemies with a fishing rod.
GambeTama: Okay, but if the quest to unlock Pictomancer isn't titled "A Relm Reborn," I'm protesting on principle.
TheJukeboxzero: I loved the freedom to choose whatever content I wanted to complete for the relic; however, I am very much looking forward to the relic possibly coming returning to a Eureka-like system again.
omensoffate: You say this but it’s been a thing for years now. Samurai was locked out of stormblood because it had no party buffs.
robertrappaport3610: Between this and the healer strike I’m pretty sure some folks need to play literally any other game.
ashleybricco4107: I was planning on maining picto and had no idea there was such hate toward it. And now that I know that, I am still going to main it. Blacklisting me for playing picto is doing me a favor - it means I never have to be in the same group as someone who is like that.
BHS289: Reminds me of people banning Samurai in Stormblood b/c they didn’t want unserious weebs in their party
ThrustMasterFlex: I always found the negative discourse over classes people want to play funny. I mean, its a video game. An electronic TOY. People are getting mad over what toys other people are playing with when it was their money they used to buy it haha.
BanCress: XIV also takes a bit of job inspiration form FF's sister series Bravely Default, which I'm assuming is also the case for picto since VI is the only other mainline FF game it shows up in. The pictomancer in Bravely Default II is Folie! And this is her character bio!

"Folie arrives to Wiswald sometime after Elvis left and used the Earth Crystal to grow a forest within the town and around for material to create yellow paint, hiring a woodsman to gather the materials. Folie also murdered a girl named Mona with explosive paint and made it look like an accident, using a portrait of Mona to bewitch the girl’s father, Roddy McGranate, to develop means of reviving his daughter while using the by-product polluting the water for blue paint. Folie also used her paintings to place Roddy’s wife, Lily McGranate, and their friend Galahad under her control, keeping the former from halting Roddy and while having the latter guard Treetop Tower where she placed a forgery of the Earth Crystal in. From there, she murders the scholars of Wiswald, and drain them of their blood to use for red paint as she begins working on her mural in a cave she made her home in. When the Heroes of Light arrive and break her spell over Roddy, Lily, and Galahad, they track down Folie to her lair where she was working on her mural. She fights the party with the intent of adding their blood to her masterpiece, but loses her Asterisk as the cavern begins caving in. While the Heroes escape, Folie remained to complete her work and is presumed dead.

But it's just a silly unserious job that doesn't belong in a series that has known how to balance whimsical lighthearted content and real, serious moments for decades I guess.
Orphan_of_Kos_or_some_say_Kosm: Imagine complaining about the visuals for Pictomancer as someone who won't main the job. This means that you probably leave all the visual effects from other players on when you do raid bosses. Couldn't be me.
wolffster25: There are so many references to previous FF and SE franchises in FFXIV that it would take way too long to list all of them. I’ll share one of my favorites the deep dungeon Palace of The Dead is a reference to Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (YoshiP has admitted to this being one of his favorite games) and the boss on the 100th floor is Nybeth Obdilord he is also from that game. They even borrowed his boss music along with the runes he uses when he casts spells. The only other FF game I played with this many references was FF9.

Jun 23 2024

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