Is this a hack or BRD OP issue?

[Praesul]

Fyi holmgang doesn't prevent you from casting. All it does is preventing you from moving or turning, which shouldn't affect a healer at all.

[Chevronone]

If a WAR snags me with a pile of buddies right behind him, I Purify, Sprint, and GTFO. Works pretty much every time. Always makes me chuckle seeing them standing there impotently while I leave them in the dust...I imagine them shaking a fist at me like a cheesy cartoon villain as I roll out.

No, we usually utter a few choice words as you drag our chain halfway across the arena and we are forced to sit there and avoid eye contact with our team mates.

[Araxes]

Well played, a bard is Destruction in PvP even outside the Burst.

[Ama_Hamada]

K, with someone I met from posting here to talk to me in game, I been more careful with purify since we where both shocked you can target other people with it. After making a real effort to make sure we target ourselves (I will be making a macro and have 2 purify buttons since the game lag sometimes makes it hard to target yourself and hit purify quickly enough) we saw holmgang d was not a death trap. SE really needs more information out there like the ingame answers things to explain all the differences in pvp vs pve.

basically the problem with being a healer is you usually have other people targeted and the person I spoke in game said lots of healers think purify is bugged because it never works on them. So if you are trying to hit your panic button quickly as a healer, I hope you can see why healers would often have that mistaken view.

[loreleidiangelo]

If I recall, having no one targeted will default Purify to yourself if used. So if you click targets like I do and need to clutch Purify out of an angry mob, just click a wall or a bad guy and you'll Purify yourself by default when you hit the button.

[Empty-handed]

Why are you leaving the bard fully buffed unattended ? You deserve to die if that's the case.

Bard burst is by far the easiest to stop in the game. Drk can stop any bard burst and let them hit like wet noodles the entire fight. Any tank can stop it. Any healer can virus/disable. Anyone can line of site barrage. And purify before sidewinder.

:/

[Cabalabob]

MCH can do this too, it's not really OP because they have to burn all their CDs at once to pull this off. So you can only do it once every 3 mins because of raging strikes. So as a healer you've just gotta know it's coming and be prepared. You have oGCDs of your own to counter it, like benediction, attunement and sacred prism. If you don't have anything up to protect yourself, well that's just your bad planning.