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

A flat out 4 second silence would not work. If we're talking about higher-end PvP with geared/skilled players, too much damage goes out. Hell even one "good" Scoundrel or OP could easily burn a Light Armor healer down to 20% in those 4 seconds.

Yes, let's lock out every heal spell because you don't want to be bothered to learn the name and the animation of the "big heal that might... MIGHT actually keep us alive" or the "little heal that restores half a tracer missile crit". It's not like every class doesn't have some kind of knockback, stun or AoE stun they can't throw down to interrupt spellcasting either.

If you're dying in 1.5s to a sorc you have bigger problems than interrupts.

Or not.

How is this different from other MMOs where healers do just fine, in WoW for example heals did even less.

This is assuming that a healer can't fake a single cast, If a healer sits there for 20 seconds getting every single cast interrupted they deserve to die. Not to mention every class has instant casts, bad healers are supposed to be killable.

Good healers would still be able to heal, bad ones being focused would die. Sounds balanced to me.
That makes no sense. I could see trauma being changed with this but doubling the amount of heals is idiotic.
As is healers don't really need peels. If they're being interrupted they can simply use other heals.
If interrupts locked out, healers would actually need peels to heal effectively, which to me sounds like a change for the better.

A single healer shouldn't be able to stay up while simply sponging damage. Think of how PVP is set up in this game, It's almost all objectives, you don't need to kill anyone to turn the tides of a battle. Not to mention that healers in this game actually can kill people, making this point moot on both fronts.

Oh i see the scarcasm!

wait who said commandos/mercs?

Notice a theme here? The people calling for this change have minimal game knowledge at best, on average.

I'm thinking that's why they're having so much trouble in the first place.

And hell, this thread wasn't even supposed to be about healers. I'm sorry the medal system is not good but this has absolutely nothing to do w/ this thread.

You're right. All of the melee players who open with charge in this game are truly great players, but they are just victims of an unforgiving and underpowered class structure.

Interrupts are fine, couple that with the outrageous damage and stuns in this game and you shouldn't have a problem killing casters.

And the people saying that a lockout would be a bad idea... Sounds like most of the people on the forums just have minimal game knowledge.