PVP and BLM. The nerf and difficulty of our role.

[Maddonious]

I play blm in pvp. I played back before the AoE sleep nerf happened. I knew my role and what this classes' purpose was in pvp, it was CC and protecting teammates retreating.

With the revitalization of pvp I have now started to pvp again now after the AoE sleep debuff and I gotta say its heartbreaking. I feel the nerf they got has no warrant and it was more to cater to players who didn't know how to counter it with the ridiculously short CD of purify and sharing their unused purify with the teams healers.
This ruins the class dynamic as was intended. Blms are NOT dps in PVP, they are CC classes. That is where they shined and it was never their easily LoS/interrupted Dps that was the main focus on this class. We were ment to lock people down rather then nuke them down.

As a blm we are constantly harassed with no way of stopping multiple people on us with stuns/silences/spell breaking except ice 2/freeze and that ruins our astral stacks hard by giving us 1 umbral that is very very hard to recover from while trying to kill someone.

We can no longer save our team's healers with our sleep while they are being harassed unless we used our very long cd nightwing which is wasted with their purify usage. While trying to dps it is hard to maintain our stacks while dodging/CCing/interrupts so we barely get out any fire 4s or even fire 1s.

I used to sleep players rushing to a node or trying to break ice to stop their dps in frontlines. This is no longer the case and im reduced to a weak dps that has his los broken constantly by people running away. What is my purpose when most of my attacks are reduced down to ice to heavy someone then barely get time to cast a spell on them at all when they run away? Much of our same issues are present here as in feast with LoS/stun/silence harassment with players being able to simply step outside of range.

Why has SE not relooked at this class to figure out how to better balance it now that we are no longer a CC class or even a good dps class unless someone rushes the team alone. We are the only class that cant dps while moving in pvp unless we get a thunder proc as scathe is a joke and I find it unfair that we have our ability nerfed while other classes out there can one shot someone with the right set of CD usage.

Our pvp skills need updated and require special treatment. We shouldnt have to share abitlies with other casters and get our own that allow us to work better in these unfair enviornments.

Our pvp skills equanimity needs updated to protect against stuns/silences to make it more useful as a skill with such a long cd and short payoff with only 2-3 spells benefiting from it. Change it already to allow casting while on the go which would help fill in the negative aspect of the class.

Same goes for the instant mana, while good in some situations, doesnt benefit our class nearly as much as a smn/healer. Change it into another swiftcast so that we may also be more mobile and deal with situations more often then once a min for our regular swiftcast. We could then better dps and CC players as needed on a moments notice rather then feeling helpless as we wait for our 3 secs cast bar.

SE Please fix blms, make them CC again but also allow us to have better flexibility in pvp to match the dps of other classes since you nerfed our CC hardcore. If not soon then in 4.0 cause as a pvp class it fails in so many categories when it was somewhat balanced before and did its intended job. You gave into the whiners now I ask you to fix us to make it right.

TLDR: This class needs a major rehaul or give us back our AoE sleep. You cater to every other job by allowing them to kill others in 4 cds while the blms has to struggle and stand in the open while players LoS their dps and mock them and their now current lack of CC abilities. Allow us to dps while moving with changes to pvp skills and reduce the strict nature of managing buffs and astral/umbral fire to allow us to better be able to Dps if you dont intended to restore our CC role.