A few things:

Pressing fire 3 fire, fire, fire, fire, bliz 3 without moving is, for all intents and purposes, about as basic as you can get skill-wise. It requires the bare minimum amount of effort and any decent blm can actually tell you that it's tougher to find someone who can actually do their cast rotation properly than a melee whose combo lights up for them as they go. If you want to get super technical, a blm using a proper rotation is harder to find. But both that and a melee pushing buttons are pretty much on the same tier of easiness. Let's just assume your average player will press buttons once every few seconds.

Having played both sides of the ball quite extensively, I can definitely say that I do see a basic caster as a lot more vulnerable than other classes. But that's just it: they're only more vulnerable That doesn't necessarily mean they're free kills. Any blm who is half-decent knows how to play enough get away and should know how to kite well enough that they won't get eaten up in 10 seconds. And yeah since you're innately more vulnerable, you will die more than if you were a tank vs melee or a melee vs melee. But there are plenty of abilities and tactics that allow you to either get away freely, live an extra 10 seconds, or cause some disruption as you're dying. That is the crux of any skilled player in literally any form of competition: making an impact in every single action you take, even if it's while you're dying. The skill for a blm is one who doesn't let his or herself get killed without kicking and screaming to their death. This is the ultimate difference between a good blm and a bad one, because the results are so much more polarized and higher stake. Your margin of error is far slimmer as a blm than it is for most other classes. But blms who can ride that margin of error are the ones who really shine in pvp.

So by definition yes it does, in fact, make every single other blm less skilled if they never learned to play defensively in pvp. You send a melee at me in one situation and you switch me out with someone with half my experience.


I sleep. He sleeps.

But I lethargy. He doesn't.

And I bliz 2. He doesn't.

And I bliz 1 after bind breaks. He doesn't.

And I sprint away and sleep him as he's heavied. He doesn't.



I live. He dies. That's skill. Don't pretend otherwise.