New FFXIV jobs recently have tended to either draw on fairly obscure stuff from older FF games or be entirely new. Everyone was convinced they were going with green mage because Yoshi-P wore a TMNT t-shirt at an event last year. Turns out the clue was in the names instead 🙂
I’d guess they went with pictomancer because Dawntrail is running on an upgraded graphics engine and it’ll be a good way to showcase lots of shiny new shader effects. I was hoping for chemist or calculator, personally 🙁 At least they’re also adding beastmaster as a limited job after release, I spent many happy hours playing BST in FFXI.