Slaughter... What do you think?

[Red_Wolf]

Also, this sounds a lot like personal bias on your end - meaning you, personally, are having troubles against melee. Your profile says you only have White Mage leveled. Are you PvPing on an alternate character as a DPS Mage, if so... step down from the horse a second and do some research. Lots of guidelines, especially for BLM, on how to take down a Melee one on one. Talk to your peers on how they handle the situation.

And again, this is all standing on an invalid straw-man argument that each class should be equivalent to each other in a team game. That's just not a reality of team based PvP. I don't know how this escapes you. A lone healer gets dropped on by a melee and ganked, that lone mage was out of position to begin with. To be truthful, no class should really be alone in these modes.

I'm seriously tempted to get on my Arcanist character and push to address your concerns from direct and recent experience. However I've more pressing reasons why I need to focus my PvP efforts on Hyrist right now.

Ok, well you haven't PvP'd much and you've only PvP'd as a melee lately. This is probably going nowhere...

I play WHM so I get hit by everyone and have a good perspective on what is OP in PvP right now. Casters are fairly easy to heal through. Just get out of range or interrupt them. Right now they have a decent AoE LB but it's appears on the ground and takes a maximum of 3 steps to move out of. It's really not that difficult. They also don't have the burst to kill me even through a Regen. Melee players can completely shut down any caster (including healers) they choose by taking away 70-80% of their abilities just by auto-attacking them. That doesn't include their insane burst or mobility.

I defy you to give me one BLM who can consistently kill melee players 1v1. It is next to impossible. The poorly designed interrupt mechanic makes melee OP. I'm not sure how you can possibly defend this or imply it's a skill issue that I have yet to learn. You also just implied that melees can kill healer's 1v1. If you are this dead-set on calling this "team-based" PvP then you should realize this should be impossible. Yet it happens fairly often if the melee has their LB up and time their stuns properly.

I'm not sure what your point is, but you are way off basis if you are changing your argument to say BLM/SMN's are on-par with melee 1v1. That is simply untrue and shows a complete lack of understanding of your class.