Melee Limitbreak

[Xenosan]

As aslways people is really nice in PvP theards xD
cause it can really one-shot a full HP caster with no tank jewels and he can't do anything to prevent it...I have no time even via sprint or Aethrial manipulation to reach 10yalm distance if I wasn't already running

This is latency or something. You have to break range or CC the melee before his Raw Destruction Cast Bar reaches 1/2 full. Even if a PLD comes in to Stun him or you starting running far away, if the range or Stun wasn't in that first half second, then the LB will still land.

all those things need to be happening in the first half-second after LB starts being cast. Once the cast bar reaches between 1/3 to 1/2 full it's too late. This isn't unique to Melee, all classes LBs behave this way

[Stupiduglytaru]

Slaughter last night, I rolled whm. 5 members got melee lb'd 0 died XD

It is annoying how hard it is to dodge but meh its the same with a caster lb

[abbas]

No heck no and fck no. In fact I want SE to increase my range of lb, like they can to run up to 10 yalms before I loose my lb. U prolly don't play melee in frontline to make this complaint. Idiot.

I agree with this dude ... but not with rude part.

The melee LB casting time is fine in my opinion... cuz Its tricky to lb.. actually tough job.. when there are multiple casters sleep / Bind / push / and a random tank Stun me.. when Im about to lb and lose half the charge cuz of that.

And yes i would love to see SE increase my lb range.

[Faltrask]

Melee LB is allright as it is to me. You can wear tank accessory and have a VIT setup and have shields (stoneskin, adloquium) up eventually. After they've done the LB you have lots of time to heal you (even without Benediction / Lustrate) or to get healed, because the guy LBin you get stunned for 2-3 second after doing it.
I think it is totally fair.

I run with 5.7k HP in frontline, you can easily get a half way there.

[Gooner_iBluAirJGR]

Anyway I think too that there is something "wrong" with the Melee LB, cause it can really one-shot a full HP caster with no tank jewels and he can't do anything to prevent it.

They could always wear tank accessories to prevent getting . . . oh wait.

[Buff_Archer]

One of my last matches had a Dragoon go through his main DPS rotation on me while I was under Attunement and then to my delight I see the melee LB bar going off knowing he just wasted it since I had several seconds of invulnerability left. I'd already marked him for my team to focus down (gotta do something during those 10 seconds where I can't move), and ended up chasing him back towards his team as his HP dwindled and finishing him off with energy drain. Knowing how frustrated he must have been already, after going from thinking he had me to wasting his LB and then dying instead, I decided to risk opening a bottle of Realm Reborn Red over his dead body before he revived back at his base. And who says going as a healer in Frontlines isn't any fun?

[Gooner_iBluAirJGR]

One of my last matches had a Dragoon go through his main DPS rotation on me while I was under Attunement and then to my delight I see the melee LB bar going off knowing he just wasted it since I had several seconds of invulnerability left. I'd already marked him for my team to focus down (gotta do something during those 10 seconds where I can't move), and ended up chasing him back towards his team as his HP dwindled and finishing him off with energy drain. Knowing how frustrated he must have been already, after going from thinking he had me to wasting his LB and then dying instead, I decided to risk opening a bottle of Realm Reborn Red over his dead body before he revived back at his base. And who says going as a healer in Frontlines isn't any fun?

Rofl this has been me soooo many times. . . that is. . . I've been the dragoon wasting the limit break =)

[Redfame]

Dmg is not the problem, but the short unstoppable casttime.
You can stop every caster lb with stun and sleep but the try to break a melee cast is only a ''lucky strike''.

[Vandril]

Dmg is not the problem, but the short unstoppable casttime.
You can stop every caster lb with stun and sleep but the try to break a melee cast is only a ''lucky strike''.

Seems pretty fair, given that caster LB can do more than 3x the total melee LB damage with a good strike on multiple targets and can be used at range. Melee LB does more damage to a single target but must be used...in melee range. It makes us susceptible to any AoE CCs and everyone who could even think about targeting us as we go running in. Unless the melee uses Fetter Ward, of course.

All in all, though, there are disadvantages and advantages to both types of DPS LBs in PvP. Each has its own niches and counters. So I don't see the problem, neither as a player nor a game designer in training.

As far as I'm concerned, the only aspect of LBs in PvP that might be cause for concern is Fetter Ward + LB (or, to a lesser extent, Hide + LB). One could make the argument that that ability removes pretty much all sense of skillful use for melee LB for the Jobs that have FW. Aside from that, the only other valid argument in my eyes is not having LBs in PvP at all.

[Srab]

just ask them to remove all limit break from pvp please