Spellcasting in PvP

[Dimitrii]

A stun or fluid aura would be infinitely more useful

Oh really that's all? Well stun and fluid aura certainly would compliment sleep, night wing, blizzard II, lethargy, freeze, manawall, manaward, aetherial manipulation, aetheric burst, sprint, equanimity, swiftcast and surecast. A Stun ability, a knockback ability and a pacification ability are the only cc abilities you dont have access to so its only natural that blm get each of these to round out the set as well.

On a serious note the only thing I will agree with you is that blm should just get the ability to free cast, but only at the cost of nerfing firestarter activation rate plus losing several of those cc abilities you have so that this thread and all threads like this die already. Despite how useless you feel your own cc abilities are the fact remains that the ppl who currently are successful using blm in pvp atm would become untouchable gods should they keep them with the buff. There is no way to sugar coat this but the reality is we don't all possess the same skill lvl in anything in life. Just buffing stuff to compensate for lower skill without having any regard on how the change will affect ppl who have otherwise been dominant before the buff will just lead to greater imbalance.

Anyway there is no point arguing this further cause the concept of trade off seems to be completely lost in this discussion. You are exceedingly weak in some aspects of your job due to you being exceedingly strong in other aspects. SE just needs to make blm the caster version of bard already so we can end this topic. Anybody who reads your posts about how ineffective your cc abilities are would think melee dps have purify on 10 second cooldowns. Idk how you can find blizzard II to be so useless when as a whm I've used that ability countless times to delay the hordes of dps after my head and keep myself alive.