Spellcasting in PvP

[Iagainsti]

Welcome to Caster pvp FFXIV style. Guess what? BLM is a walking A-Bomb with a heart full of napalm. Im pvp lvl 44 and strictly play BLM. if I didn't get interrupted while casting, the game would be broken. Simple as that. So all you broken heart casters asking for that to change is pointless. I burst damage better than a DRG, able to Sprint freely to get away from honers, and if I get stun locked, im popping CDs to save my ass which we have a plethora of, then SC Blizz 2, run away, Sleep. Keep in mind you have teammates covering you if the party is half aware of what's going on. I guess my long winded post can be summed up to saying, "This is how the game works. You're human, accept the hand you're dealt, and adaptation has proven to be our species greatest skill."

[GreatMonkey]

PvP for caster needs to be balanced, it should not be 100% change to interrupt a caster, it should be something more of around 75%-80%.

[Iagainsti]

PvP for caster needs to be balanced, it should not be 100% change to interrupt a caster, it should be something more of around 75%-80%.

Again, if you need uninterrupted casting, pop Equinamity. If casters couldn't be interrupted, non casters would be unbalanced and whining. I would be nuking opponents left and right, Dragoon chasing me? dead. Bard on me? Dead. This is coming from a seasoned pvp BLM, we need to be interrupted.

[Vorpal_Spork]

Take for example World of Warcraft; a very popular MMO and held in high-regards as one of the best PvP games available for MMORPGs.

Only by WoW and WoW clone players. Other people think WoW PvP is a joke.

PvP for caster needs to be balanced, it should not be 100% change to interrupt a caster, it should be something more of around 75%-80%.

That's pretty much the same thing.

[DenariusJay]

Again, if you need uninterrupted casting, pop Equinamity.

Can still be interrupted which is highly irritating.. (I think silence and stun still cuts through Equanimity?)

If theres one buff I would give spellcasters its this, equanimity gives total immunity to interruption, I mean hell, its only 15 seconds and has a long cooldown anyways... throw us a bone SE

[Logo]

pro BLM PVP tip:
Push the WHM in front of you.

[TheWaywardWind]

As someone who frequently plays both sides of the coin, I'm iffy on this.

As a healer, getting interrupted is a chore. Playing as a WHM/SCH isn't about how well you can heal, it's how long you can outlast the other team's healer before you eventually cave and hit the ground. Your abilities only prolong the inevitable. If it's getting to the point where you need to use Attunement as your last ditch effort, then it's pretty much game over. It's really more so about sprinting about, swift casting Medica II with divine seal popped and running and trying to get monks and ninjas off my back before I inevitably faceplant.

On the flip side, think about uninterrupted heals. As a DPS, nothing is more irritating than trying to get a healer down only to have him/her just bring their health back up with one cast of Cure II. It really becomes exhausting and just not fun to play as.

Same goes for BLM/SMN. Think about it. When I PLAY BLM, of course I get irritated when I can't cast uninterrupted. It makes me feel useless because I'm not doling out heavy hits like I could be.

But on the flip side, when somebody else is playing BLM uninterrupted? Holy crap, you'd better watch out. Constant 700+ damage every two seconds with several cool downs to down you in a few seconds.

It's a give and take system. You cannot have BLMs/SCHs uninterrupted because then there burst damage becomes incredibly overpowered. On the flipside, being unable to cast ANY spell without swift or sure cast is a pain. But that's where sleep and other abilities come in.

[Geologo]

In my opinion (I play SCH /BLM/ WAR in frontline) the interruption are something really annyoing, but affectively needed, expecially for healers, because the healing power is much higher then DPS power, and the healer role during FFXIV PvP, as someone said before, is "survive as long as u can".
For DPS "maybe" something could be adjusted, but I'm not aiming for an interruprion removal at all.
As BLM I can be interrupted even by autoattack, pets-attack (there is always a stupid garuda on me -.-), stunlock and silencing even during Equanimity/surecast, BUT u can be interrupted even if the target run away from your range or simple go to your back.
Up to me THIS is really a pain, I agree that a melee have to reach u to attack u, but once that he reach u.... hem... it's really hard, u can bind him 1 or 2 times, hoping that your friends don't attack him soon, but up to now if a bard focus u, u are fucked up.

My suggestion would be to ignore interruption caused by autoattack or pet attack. But I really don't know how it could impact on a match, I'm not a developer :/
Or something more "hard to do" that after any attack to you you gain a stack that in 4-5 second will wear off, but if u will be hit again in that range of time you will gain another stack, once u reach 10 stack you gain 5 sec of equanimity, so damned chaser won't just have to follow u in a brainless way.
Or maybe any attack directed to you lower the recast time of Equanimity by a little.

[Alberel]

Again, if you need uninterrupted casting, pop Equinamity. If casters couldn't be interrupted, non casters would be unbalanced and whining. I would be nuking opponents left and right, Dragoon chasing me? dead. Bard on me? Dead. This is coming from a seasoned pvp BLM, we need to be interrupted.

Or a seasoned PVP WAR looking to keep the casters at a disadvantage...

For the examples you gave:

The DRG would just have to jump on you and then run through you to still interrupt every cast.

The BRD would just pop in and out from behind obstacles between attacks as they can attack whilst moving and can easily LoS your casts without causing much of an issue for their own..

You constantly talk as though the other jobs aren't equipped with skills to handle casters. The fact is they ARE. Every physical DPS job has stuns, silences, snares and binds to deal with casters AND their ability to move whilst attacking gives them a HUGE advantage. In a 1v1 scenario, even without auto-interrupts on basic physical attacks a non-caster could still easily win by simply running through you to LoS your casts. Before you mention sleep: it breaks on damage so again would only net you a single unmolested cast.

As the game stands at the moment, a caster has only one option when engaged by a physical DPS and that is to run whilst spamming a single insta-cast tickle skill that does no real damage. Casters get completely shut down by any attention on them whatsoever and if you think that is balanced then you truly have no idea what the word means. Equanimity does nothing as they can still stun/silence to waste it. If the only way for a caster to do any damage in PvP is to be entirely left alone to cast then you have a problem. Don't even get me started on the nerfs to SMN that cut their damage and ONLY CC skill leaving them with absolutely zero means of defending them self and no high damage to make the tradeoff worth it. The fester/enkindle spike isn't enough to drop a healer below half health and after that the SMN has no significant damage to dish out until their cooldowns are up.

The only people calling for casting to remain as it currently is are physical DPS players that are enjoying taking advantage of it.

[Slib]

Casters get completely shut down by any attention on them whatsoever and if you think that is balanced then you truly have no idea what the word means.

I had this issue the other day as BLM :-/

I had this one dragoon on me the other day... would just sprint in my face with fetter ward and blow me up so fast. Couldn't CC him with any instant CC, sprinted and got weapon thrown snared. He just went nuts and popped all of his cooldowns and melted my face before fetter ward even wore off 8^(