Getting your health chunked / killed while Guard is up is the worst feeling.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

BRD would literally be trash without their silence...They are barely viable as it is and they absolutely do not have solid damage as they are entirely reliant on the team. They have an "ok" burst phase that's only viable BECAUSE of silent. Locking you out of being able to use CD's and forcing you to burn purify is the entire point of CC. Learn how to pvp.

They need their silence for this, it's their ace in the hold to lock down a target if you take that away you'd have to massively increase all their damage to compensate and then you just get yet another boring dps focused ranged job.
Not to mention, every single melee job and caster job has higher winrates than every ranged job right now, so there's 0 reason to nerf ranged jobs as is.

This was never a discussion about BRD needing to lose their Silence altogether, only a streamlining of CC abilities to have 2 second durations in a fast-paced PvP system. I also said, if you would actually read for once, that a nerf to any 3 second CC should be recompensated elsewhere to keep the power level sameish if not improved, as cited on my first post:

3.) Retuning specific CC abilities
[...]
- Reduce BRD Silence and MCH stun to 2s, recompensate elsewhere if needed
[...]
This would provide players more agency, resulting in less moments where they felt completely helpless.

So to sum it up for you before you misunderstand again:

• Suggested nerf is NOT removing the Silence, only shortening it due to the short recast.
• Recompensation elsewhere should absolutely happen, be it firepower or defensive utility. Or a better LB.

Also Ransu, you can stuff your "learn how to PvP".