Balancing issues in PVP

[Astralrisk]

I mused over this in other threads, and I'd like them to rework those for sure, but at the same time they're here for a good reason and have an actual strategic use, which is shutting down some opponents during their LBs if used properly. The problem being that a lot of LBs are instant and don't last over time, but for those that do, it's the way to go. Now, I do think that some of those LBs like meteodrive, zantetsuken or seiton are plain stupid, agreed.

I think you could make it better with having these LBs be casted. Especially since it would actually allow counter play in some scenarios. Especially since I think with the way some LBs look, it would fit perfectly to have a cast time. Good example is MCH's, when you hit Marksmen's Spite your enemy gets a crosshair on there character as a notification of "your about to get domed" which by the time you see it, it snapshots and your basically owned. If it was casted you could have the crosshair be an indicator of about to be owned and you could counter play it in some way. I don't think it would work with every LB, but a large majority of them would work with it.

[Valence]

I think you could make it better with having these LBs be casted. Especially since it would actually allow counter play in some scenarios. Especially since I think with the way some LBs look, it would fit perfectly to have a cast time. Good example is MCH's, when you hit Marksmen's Spite your enemy gets a crosshair on there character as a notification of "your about to get domed" which by the time you see it, it snapshots and your basically owned. If it was casted you could have the crosshair be an indicator of about to be owned and you could counter play it in some way. I don't think it would work with every LB, but a large majority of them would work with it.

Spite is fine and is really the least of the worrying ones. I don't like Seiton for how low effort and snowballing it is on top of its range, I don't like zantetsuken because a lot of jobs have very poor or no defense against it (and some also need to AoE to work), and I don't like meteodrive because of its range and it's also borderline broken vs ranged players (or even melees). I don't hate them for being single target in essence.

[Ransu]

I think you could make it better with having these LBs be casted.

No thanks. Old LB's were casted and they did not feel good to use.

[Elfidan]

These LB are definitely better than the previous role ones were. Some of them are still bad though and the fact that some are instant, and some require years of uninterrupted gameplay to get value from is pretty much garbage.

[IDontPetLalas]

These LB are definitely better than the previous role ones were. Some of them are still bad though and the fact that some are instant, and some require years of uninterrupted gameplay to get value from is pretty much garbage.

I can still recall the first time I was animation locked by my AST LB. Now that was an interesting way to make some (unwanted) friends.