Balancing melee in PvP

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by FudoMyoo

Exactly this how? What I'm proposing is letting melee have this grappling skill that has a long CD to pull in ranged for a chance to kill. Not forgetting there are skills that slow our skill 50%.

---

So playing Devil's Advocate sorta...

2/4 current pvp modes, melee should not have any problem reaching ranged attackers, both WD and Slaughter utilize such small areas for combat(WD's arena default, Slaughter's "mid) that range is almost negligible. For Secure and Seize, objectives and team work are more important than kills, so you as a melee do not need to rush a target alone or if your target causes you to chase, your priorities should shift back to what else is going on, because you've technically taken that target "out of combat" if the had to stop what they were doing to run away from you. Between PVP abilities and the PVE actions utilized differently, all melee classes are well equip to handle range classes to further objectives, even if it doesn't result in a kill.

This is a big shit post. The way CC and gap-closers are distributed between the 3 roles is near perfect. Much better than league when every character has every CC in the book and 2 escapes and 2 gap closers.

I like to see you as a melee 1 vs 1 range class videos

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by FudoMyoo

In JP servers, there are 20smns/blms vs 2 melees ratio. All raining comentors when AR is up. If you tell me melee and range are balance. I... have to disagree. In a 1 vs 1 situation, against cc ranged, most melees are sitting duck. The main problem I see especially paladin is we are unable to chain stun due to the resistance build up over time. Since we have CD on stuns, maybe they should remove the stun resistance in PvP mode?

And for those saying range and melee are balanced, I would like to see your pvp video(s) as a melee (especially paladin) winning a similar geared range class without others CCing for you.

---

No one likes being stun locked.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by FudoMyoo

I like to see you as a melee 1 vs 1 range class videos

---

You don't get it still?

You're wrong. Man up and learn from it.

It's true that Japanese servers heavily favour ranged in Seal Rock at the moment. But when someone comes melee we don't all frown and give up; melee jobs played well bring a lot to the table and tear through ranged-heavy teams if they avoid the cometeor onslaughts. We have a bunch of regulars in my datacenter who favour jobs like Ninja and Dragoon and they're great players, and everyone loves having a Paladin in their team. My other half plays Warrior and she does a great job. The only times I've sighed at a melee team is when it's 7 melee DPS and me (on a healing job) and nobody considers switching out to give me some backup.

I quit WoW when they started going completely overboard with CC. I ended up stunlocked every time I walked out of my spawn; let's not encourage XIV to go there. It's not even remotely fun for anyone.