Spellcasting in PvP

[Domira]

Physical DPS simply should not be able to shut down casters the way they currently can. It's far too easy for them to do so and it's entirely skilless gameplay! If you want to interrupt our casts you should be doing it with well-timed stuns and silences on the casts that matter. You should not be able to interrupt everything simply by targeting us!

I agree to a extent, however if they simply remove spell interruption with how BLM plays atm and with the diminishing return system. Then it would be a disaster. Here is how it would look:

* BLM would be able to face cast, so now they can melee and range effectively. While melee is completely ineffective at range.
* BLM would be able to aoe cc without worrying about swift cast
* After diminishing returns kicks in BLM would be able to cast freely without fear of interruption
* Enemy players only have three times to interrupt a BLM before DR kicks in. Realistically what this means is BLM may not ever be interrupted when on their big casts. There would be randoms who just mash their stun skill making DR kick in.

Also, a BLM would have no real weakness compare to melee. Once you have melee CCed with heavy and especially bind, it makes it nearly impossible for them to perform their jobs. In comparison, bind and heavy won't affect BLM for doing theirs. Likewise, the equivalent anti caster CC and stun last much shorter than bind and heavy.

In short it would be a nightmare, I guarantee you when people catch on FL would ultimately be a team of BLM (maybe SMN) with healers. There would have to be some serious changes across the board to remove spell interruption. Like I said I agree with you that spell interruption is a bad mechanic, however the game would be so imbalanced without it that many will wish it still had it.

FFXIV is a pve game that allows us to pvp. The foundation of the game is designed around pve, not the other way around unfortunately.