Should successful interrupts be a flat 4 second silence/lockout of some sort?

Answer me this... Are you unable to kill casters or drastically hinder their casting as a melee? Yes or no?

Yes. You touched another issue. It is much easier to force "OOM" on Operatives or Mercs than on Sorcs. That is just how the resource mechanics difference works. This is class is borked on so many levels...

Some comments here are priceless. If you interupt a sorcetard, he (unless its anoob) casts another spell / cc and continues with his happy bussines for 4s. If you root marauder/sentinel he cannot fulfil his role. If anyone has trouble with interupts, its just one-two ability spammers.

If any sorcetard complains against marauder quick (with talent only) interupt, he should learn to TACTICALLY use his CC, not just midlessly spam them on every occassion.

I can't kill sorcerers / mercenaries and after my ccs are blown I do very little to hinder their healing with just interrupts.

So your solution is to completely break operative healers? Good one!

I've posted before that operative healing needs a buff, but that's an entirely separate issue, the main reason I made this thread is actually because of how faceroll caster damage classes are.


Considering it's the least played class, and 90% of the people who play the class play it as damage, it's obviously not the reason I made the thread.


And even then, an interrupt lockout wouldn't be as big of a nerf to ops as it would be to the other healers, they use more instant casts than mercs and sorcs. If anything it'd bring them more in line with the other healers.

My solution is to remove Sorcs from the game. But since I tend to be reasonable I am trying to find an intermediate compromise.

It's a solution to an imaginary problem. Melees are doing fine in WZs. Some of them are downright scary effective. It all depends on what class you're playing. Could sorc ability #s use some tuning? Probably. But we don't need to put in whole new (old) game mechanics just because WoW had it.

FYI: it didn't work so hot in WoW either. In MoP, Blizzard is removing school lockouts because they punish casters too hard.

I think i've already outlined the problem, and explained why it is a problem. Almost everyone here seems to think that caster classes in this game are easy to play. Sorcerers don't do outstanding damage, they don't have crazy burst, but what they do have are mechanics that are incredibly foolproof. There is practically no penalty to anything past standing in a flame pit.

This is rubbish....I use distraction now against Force Lightning and that **** is straight back on me again and then I'm dead in about 1.5 channels worth. It needs to be way more interruptable and with an actual lockout >> 4 sec gets me about 5k dmg if I'm lucky and GS is "alledgedly" great DPS....I don't think so!