Dude... this was perfect. Thank you. The Living Muse issue was the biggest thing that other guides didn't explain properly- ALSO because they're explaining the level 100 version of the class like we should already be familiar with everything. Thank you for the level 80 guide and very simple and clear explanation.
Thank you for explaining this concisely. The canvas painting is fairly unlike anything else in terms of fitting it into a rotation, and for the life of me I couldn't find any other guide that addressed its usage out of "uhhhh gee whiz this is kinda hard to explain but uhhhh it's like..." Much, much appreciated!
Thanks for the guide, picto is great, as a SMN main, I love this flow and movement capabilities, it's not overly complicated, but super fun. I've just changed to picto a moment ago and will probably main it now, since they didn't give the summoner any new options and it's still so stiff and boring.
Thank you for this guide! This class isn't exactly super intuitive just by looking at the abilities, so I appreciate that you wrote a quick guide for us!
the only thing i wanna say is that repainting is fine but make sure you don't do it while your buffs or raid buffs are out (aka don't repaint your motifs as soon as you use them at the start of a fight) also it is not a dps gain to click holy in white whenever you get a stack, save it for movement or when you're capped also i've been using swift cast for wing motif in particular to double weave winged muse and mog of the ages in that 4s recast timer, because we're not using it for anything else
Another good reason to swiftcast motifs is the long 4s recast timer allows you 4s of movement. Remember you dont have to instantly pop your motif as soon as you draw it, and can wait abit to align it with raid buffs if possible.
Istg, looking at Picto spells, traits etc and testing it on a dummy/explorer mode, I still didn't understand anything but this helped a lot. Simple, straigh to the point, easy to understand explanation
Just press the button when u need it, ur not wasting uptime bc everything picto does hits like a truck so it’s definitely worth it- especially with the living motif being a oGCD you can bring the motif to life right after casting it for big dmg. It feels weird bc ur technically not doing any dmg when painting a motif but just press it lol
Probably that the class is fairly mobile? You have shorter casts then recast timers, so you can move quite far with each normal gcd. Allowing holy in white to be stacked up 5 times allows you to save usages for heavy movement scenarios. And on top of that you also have your hammer combo, which is 3 instant cast gcd's every 60 seconds.
i think we're gonna agree to disagree, i dont think u should start to cast motive as soon as u get rid of it, u have other cooldowns u can use and the 2 charges are sitting there and ur overcapping them for no reason. thats how u loose damage.
It's true you only need to have painted a new motive before the cd is back up, but I don't understand what you mean with letting your charges overcap. If you're not painting the motive you can't use the ability and thus you would be sitting on ogcds.
He's not saying to paint it immediately, but you have the option. Most likely you would prepaint before combat since it's instant, and when you get near the CD for the painted skills is when you get ready to paint it. Alternatively, you can burn swiftcast on a motif, because Pictomancer doesn't really have anything else worth using it on
@@ValbrandrLeonhardt That doesn't really gain you anything though. Only if the encounter has some sort of downtime. Otherwise, as long as its outside of raid buffs, it doesn't matter when you paint a motif.
@@ValbrandrLeonhardt prepaint hammer is your biggest movement tool since its a DPS Gain. Holy is also a Movement tool but its actually a DPS loss compared to your other Skills. Swiftcasting a Motif is also a good Option for Movement.
@@IlyaDalamiq u have more charges of your motives i didnt know it was that hard to understand. motives are same as polyglot stacks. same sht different name.
