Final Fantasy 14's latest class fights with a giant paintbrush - yes, really

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The second new class for Final Fantasy 14 Online's upcoming expansion, Dawntrail, has been confirmed to be Pictomancer.

Revealed during Final Fantasy 14's Japan Fan Festival keynote presentation, the Pictomancer is a caster DPS class (or job, as it's known in-game) that fights with a paintbrush and palette to conjure spells, support buffs, and familiars to aid in battle. It joins Viper — a melee DPS wielding two swords that can be combined into one — as one of two new jobs coming to the game via the Dawntrail expansion later this year.

Unlike Viper, which is a Final Fantasy 14 original, Pictomancer has its roots as far back as Final Fantasy 6 on the SNES. In that game, the job was utilized by playable party member Relm to support allies and deal damage to enemies with her ability to paint portraits of enemies, thus capturing their abilities to use as her own.

As evidenced by the accompanying trailer for the job, Final Fantasy 14's version of Pictomancer likely won't share this enemy-capturing trait. Instead, we see the Warrior of Light using the brush to cast various more traditional-looking spells. However, one skill does see them painting a starry sky (potentially a party-wide buff), and another has them painting a Moogle, which then fires a beam of energy at the target.

The Pictomancer wasn't the only major announcement to come from this latest keynote presentation. Director and producer Naoki Yoshida also revealed the female variant of the Hrothgar race — the male version of which was added back in 2019 in Final Fantasy 14's third expansion, Shadowbringers. This is to be the last addition to the game insofar as it comes to playable races.

We also got a glimpse at several new locales, including Solution Nine, a