Melee Limitbreak

[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.