6.1 PvP: Amazing!!

[Havenchild]

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I get how to play both but they still fail comparatively to their counterparts. WHM is hands down the strongest healer. This is proven by the overwhelming appearance in Silver up and by the kit they have which is overtuned versus the others. I would argue AST does a better job at it then SCH does. For me its closer to WHM> AST/ SGE> SCH atm.

I stand by my issues with BLM. They have almost no burst (which is ok if it's just a CC supportish class for the most part), but factoring Stuns/Binds, they have very little options.
- Freeze - A decently timed one, takes 3 - 4 casts (None instant unless LB). Either Ice -> Paradox -> Super Flare or Ice x3 -> Super Flare
- Sleep - Night Wing; 4 seconds of half sleep (person can still move attack and heal, just a countdown to sleep, can be purfied), and THEN 4 seconds of sleep that if target woken deals 6k potency. You could argue maybe this is fair cause it's AoE but...a bit long to setup.
- Stun - INSTANT Cast, In nins case 2x 2second stuns
- Bind - INSTANT Cast
-Silence - Instant Cast

This is not to mention that casts can be interrupted by LoS and weird turn around / run through sillyness. Which is another slap in the face when dealing with melee.


By comparison, SMN feels far more smooth and does more or less the same thing + has a stronger LB. Night Wing deserves to be an immediate sleep because it is infinitely worse then Stun (in actuality) and by having diminishing returns as well.

Now if they change Stun and lower the duration or add a diminishing return on that, I think that would drastically improve the situation because having a team of WAR + NIN / SAM + WHM is just not fun and no amount of playstyle will cover for the amount of synergy such a party will have. You can get stunlocked from full HP to death. Purify for it's cd /charges is simply not enough.

[Alerion]

This may not be the technical analysis others may make, but from a purely selfish point of view, I love it.

I have been playing this game for a very, very long time. I've seen it all as it happened. That said, whatever the general consensus may be, Crystalline Conflict might be my favorite content ever added to the game. I really only play for the story as expansions and patches come out these days, but this PvP revamp has had me playing game after game, and thinking about logging in to play more.

Simply put, I am having an absolute blast. Well done.

[Vatom]

Still to Early to give analysis from me
But I would like a different Que or a duo addition wouldn't hurt to have

[Arkdra]

It's a real fun mode! I've done enough to get to series level 17 and been having a blast. The balance definitely needs work, but it is at least way better than the feast. As far as the changes that I think need to be made:

-Stun on Primal rend removed or made single target.
-Bind on hyokaze remove or made single target
-Bind needs to be fixed where it doesn't prevent you from turning.
-whm LB cd should be 90 seconds and not 60. That or tone it down a little.

Underperformers (reaper, sch, blm, dnc) all need buffs but I don't have any recommendations. But in the meantime, I just play the busted jobs and have a good time.

[KageTokage]

Would also be nice if we got a damn audio queue when someone uses an LB so we can at least have a chance to react to it.

They'd need to give LBs an actual cast time because the damage is locked in the instant you hit the action presently, so even if you say, guard or stun a MCH the instant you see their LB animation start happening you'll still take the hit.

[hagare]

So with stars count as a win or loss?

I did not pay attention to that xD

[Ransu]

They'd need to give LBs an actual cast time because the damage is locked in the instant you hit the action presently, so even if you say, guard or stun a MCH the instant you see their LB animation start happening you'll still take the hit.

I don't see the problem here. They shouldn't be that instantaneous anyways. Dying from 100% out of nowhere and not knowing what the hell killed you is extremely frustrating.

[Waliel]

anyone else have their sound suddenly muted?

This is a really old and extremely rare problem that I first encountered back in ARR. All game sounds just randomly die, and the only way to fix it is to restart the game. I've no idea what causes it and it only seems to happen a few times a year at most. One thought I had was the game not liking my discrete sound card, but seeing as I have no way to really test it with it being as rare as it is, I've never bothered.

That said, it did happen to me during one match, yes.

[KageTokage]

I don't see the problem here. They shouldn't be that instantaneous anyways. Dying from 100% out of nowhere and not knowing what the hell killed you is extremely frustrating.

Not saying it is a problem, just that audio cues on their own wouldn't help in the current state of things since you're basically dead the instant they hit the button.

The amount of times I've seen the NIN LB snapshot and kill someone who was at full HP is kind of goofy.

[Luluna]

They have seriously messed up DNC. How can a tanks pull in ability have further range than a DNC regular attack? DNC has been turned into practically a melee class for PVP.

I have to agree I love the new PVP but this is a issue...I thought I was doing it wrong haha! I had to get closer and closer and Dancer is quite squishy so I was toast.

The other thing is the animation lock I get stuck in.