I'm wondering personally if a blm is able to kill a bard 1vs1 in frontline pvp later on. Please dont say this pvp is just balanced for group versus group.
I think its quiet annoying that you cant almost do nothing but spamming collapse instant spell (which is quiet poor in pvp) when you are being attacked by a bard as a blm. you can root or slow a melee to run out of range and dps over again..
but against a brd.. or Summoner you cant.
there is quiet a big discrepance between these "instant" spam (easy win) classes and for example a black mage who has quiet a long casting time.
So what about lowering the rupt chances for all spell casts (also for SMN,CNJ/SCH) when being attacked by ranged attacks (bow attacks, spell attacks) in general?
besides bard has skills like silence etc. to rupt a blm additionally
i am not thinking only about bard vs blm battles.. you can take also BLM vs BLM, CNJ vs BLM, BLM vs SMN battles into consideration, i quiet think they could benefit from that also.
BRD is the most easiest pvp class at the moment.. because all his damage skills are ranged instant skills. so he wont lose anything of these during a fast paced pvp battle. He can run and do full damage at the same time.
in contrast to blm or smn which are losing some of their main abillities for most of the time. blms are often downgraded to run, run, using sleep instant and collapse instant.. which isnt quiet their main spell reportoir.
A brd in contrast can run and attack with his main abillities at the same time + these being ranged. Plus it takes him no effort at all to rupt mages, while he cant be interupted.
i think SE has a lot of to do to balance this slighty a bit.
in Dark Age of Camelot a rupt system (where spells have been interrupted for 100%) like this was okay, because no ranged class was designed in a way like that, that all ranged attack skills can be spammed instantly. (besides bonedancer class which had an instant spell on a 6s (and later on on a 8s) timer).. and bonedancer was being called overpowered by the community (and "nerfed" later on) just because of that. he could rupt mages instantly (and permanently) while running after them without any effort.