Spellcasting in PvP

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I'm confused - you do know PvP is a team game right? The only casters I've played are SMN and healers in FL but if we are strictly talking about 1v1s then the downfall of casters this patch is strictly because of Recouperate and the dawn of Ninjas. Then again why would you keep a caster by itself at a capture point when a Warrior can literally 1v1 anything or why would you willingly seek a 1v1 duel in FL anyways unless you know you can pull it off.

Prior to Patch 2.4 a SMN who effectively used Tridisaster and were able to kite and take smart engagements were almost unbeatable. Getting 3 DoTs on, then Raging Strikes, Fester, Wither, Aetheric Burst, Energy Drain+ Garuda signature attack was enough to 1 combo a Healer or DPS with ease. I've seen SMN top 200k damage on the charts, surely that's something at least.

And as a healer are you talking about a 1v1 scenario again? Frankly I've gone up against a 4 SCH stack, 2 SCH + 3 WHM stack, 3 SCH + 1 WHM stack and you know what we could never kill them - ever. Infact I've done a 3 SCH setup and I had Vit. accessories and I just stood in the middle of the capture point and never died.

Although I will say that casters are on the lower end of the power scale.