Lowering Rupt chances by ranged attacks?

[Tonkra]

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.

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I'm wondering personally if a blm is able to kill a bard 1vs1 in frontline pvp later on.

No. The only way I see that happening is a BLM popping equanimity and unloading his nukes on the bard. Once equanimity is gone you can probably surecast / swiftcast sleep him and run away.


As far as avoiding interrupts all you have is 20 second equanimity, surecast, and swiftcast, use them wisely. Also know that while you are stone skinned you cannot be interrupted. If you think it's difficult going against a BRD as BLM.. try healing your team while a BRD is on you, not to mention also the tank and melee.

[Tonkra]

try healing your team while a BRD is on you, not to mention also the tank and melee.

the same situation can be for blm, too. and yes you can sleep a bard or whatever... then he purges it.. then you swiftcast sleep him... maybe he get healed by a healer and then thats about it.

but well.

if i imagine a 1vs1 situation of blmvsblm in an open battlefield like frontier pvp (which is coming).... how it is going to work? spaming collapse over and over again on the opponent blm or how does a fight work? it shows that the battle pvp system is not well thought into the end.

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Sadly it seems a BLMs main role in PVP is to simply CC as much as he can. BLM is at a huge disadvantage in a dueling atmosphere because all their viable damage has considerable cast times.