Can someone explain this to me?

[ReiganCross]

Why does the job that gets to pretty much spam their LB in an area larger than Bahamut, has a Stun, good damage, heal and mitigation on a single button ALSO is the job that is allowed a crowd control that can then ignore the Resilience you DON'T get behind the Purify you have to use not get CHAINED on this shit? It's called SILENCE, guys, polymorph does EXACTLY the same thing as a Silence, why is it written as an exception? WHY are you allowing this cretin class to just be?

Why are you allowed to take 4 of those bastards to a Frontline and be the most insufferable group in existance?

And more importantly, who do I get to blame for this even being a thing?

[Ransu]

Because when it comes to pvp the developers don't know what they are doing. The honeymoon is over, this pvp mode is hot garbage and I'm tired of every crystal match just being a shit show of stunlocks.

The lack of matchmaking is also horrible. I had a match earlier where there were 3 healers 1 tank and 1 dps on the team vs 2 tanks 1 healer and 2 dps....like wtf? Every match is so one sided as well.

[KageTokage]

The sheer range on WHM's LB is honestly one of biggest reasons why it's problematic because you have actively put yourself at risk to utilize the LBs of the other healers properly, whereas they can just hang back and wait for the opportune moment to snipe the enemy team to get as many kills as possible.

AST's LB in particular is just asking to get ganked by the enemy team when the 15 yard radius around you necessitates being in the thick of things for maximum benefit.

[magzillas]

The green light given to the WHM LB is very bizarre to me. I think I'm echoing the thoughts of many in saying that it would be a perfectly fine and noticeable LB just with it's damage and healing components. Why someone thought it needed a stun, in that aoe, with that recharge, on a class that has a non-purifiable CC already, is completely beyond me.

[ReiganCross]

The green light given to the WHM LB is very bizarre to me. I think I'm echoing the thoughts of many in saying that it would be a perfectly fine and noticeable LB just with it's damage and healing components. Why someone thought it needed a stun, in that aoe, with that recharge, on a class that has a non-purifiable CC already, is completely beyond me.

Exactly, there's no explanation for it, is it? Hell, just the AREA of the attack would make it a good enough damage button considering the short cooldown of it. Why add everything else under the sun on it as well?

[Petite]

With all of its properties, that LB would make sense on a 2 min cooldown, yet it's twice as fast.

[Lufir]

Yea, the disparity between job power, utility, and defense is nuts. If there were ever a time that FFXIV needed a public test server, this PvP revamp really would have been it.

[Tobias_Azuryon]

It'd be different if some classes/casters weren't screwed for lack of cc but none of the other healers sans AST has real CC ability and they're supposed to be "balanceD" around the damage they (can) do. The issue with this is that dps means nothing when you're stunlocked and have no counterplay against other cc so majority of my time is spent watching my skills get greyed out because when you have WHM BRD RDM and WAR all in a party it's basically just sitting waiting to die when they turn their attention to you.

It's baffling comparing kits like WAR/WHM/RDM to the others in their "Weight class" because some have literally no counters and some have all of them.

When I play as WHM it's hilarious how much easier it is to deal with people trying to pick me off from the back because I can literally wait til they get me too far down, turn them into an imp, dash in give me/aoe protect, heal myself and then afflatus and you can literally always count on your stun nuke of a LB being available within seconds. It's absurd how often you have to account for an instant castable pnuema that can wreck the whole team while they have one of the only aoe heals on top of being able to help the team with things like divine veil while being able to help burst down targets.