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yeah, smn has better survival success, as to why i mentioned mainly blm in my reply.
well, i guess it depends on the scenario, but if there was one going on, then i'd use swift+sleep, if the melees still have their purify, then its all in vain, especially if they are able to stun, then surecast is also not going to work either. we could try to bind you, but the skill itself takes a few to cast, and you can still interupt that easily by throwing a small range attack on us.
although, there's still manawall, but that nullifies only two physical attacks. with a less experienced melees, i think we'd be fine, but with someone more experienced it'll be tough.
and don't the melees already have the ability to run? not exactly, but run + enliven works.
although it could go different...maybe swiftcast+freeze, have them waste their purify and then sleep.... it could work. and hopefully having nightwing and equanimity available, they have quite a long cooldown.