DOTs and preventing player from capturing point

You might have a point, but what bugs me even more is having to spam my out of combat heal forever because I have a dot on me.

No. This is wrong. I'm not asking for DoTs to stop doing damage, or to be any less potent in combat. By all means, murder my face off with a mountain of DoT spells. But when YOU are dead, and I am not, and I am standing ALONE at your node, I have won the combat, and am entitled to claim the spoils of victory.

Furthermore, when it comes to interrupting, why do you need your best abilities? When I'm crunched for time and I just HAVE to interrupt the cap, I'm not waiting to cast a good spell or planning out my best ability. I'm mashing my basic attack for the fastest possible damage to interrupt the cap so I may resume doing more meaningful things. Cap interruption has nothing to do with the abilities relative combat power since 1 damage will interrupt the same as 1000.



Anyone that says I just need to L2Cleanse (I play a Commando primarily) is not playing a cleansing class. The DoTs chiefly responsible for the problem are Internal Damage, which cannot be cleansed, often giving upwards of 18 seconds of time where I cannot cap.



This is a very simple concept really, but I'll put it in big letters since this is the internet:

In order to defend a node, the defending team must commit at least one actual person to that action

Being able to defend a node with zero people is imbalanced, regardless of why that's possible. Whether it's DoT's, glitches, or exploitation, it's ridiculous to expect a fair fight when one side can use zero of their available resources to complete a game objective.

It is different.

Dots dont put you in combat. Someone running up to you and hitting you would.

If you can't win WZ because 1 player is interrupting your whole team, your team has a whole different problem.

"EA Games 250K Best of the Battlefield Tournament Winner"


Amazing accomplishment. I can totally understand why you thought we would care.

Moving the landing back that far would give those of us with aoe dots better Los to hit cappers with. Nice strats though, probably picked those up in that battlefield tournament.



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Its not wanting PvP dumbed down. Dots should not keep you in combat once you kill the person who put it on you. You should not be interrupted by damage when you arent in combat. I can maybe see still being setback.

Dumbing down is different than making things work like they should. It may seem like its dumbing down, because people have developed tactics around this bad game mechanic, but its not.

Oh, as an assault trooper I'm totally for this idea. You can take away my dots, but also lets get rid of stuns too. totally unfair that I'm about to stop someone from capping with my dot.. I mean my hammer shot.. oh wait, that can trigger a dot too. Ok, i'm about to run up and hit them then all of a sudden I'm stunned. No fair. How on earth can i stop a guy from capping a door in voidstar if I can get stunned. Yah, and knockbacks too. those things suck and make everything so unfair. Might as well get rid of my cleanse too since I wont need that skill to remove dots from myself/others.

srslyrily?

I agree fully. Only sorcs and sages can dispel the force powered dots. Operative healers can do nothing against them. Im pretty sure mercs cant either.

If you are going to let dots interrupt capping a point, then let all healers dispel all dots.

The number advantages that Sorc/Sages have in PvP is starting to get very frustrating.

Can we put it out there that no one supporting removing the "DoT interrupt mechanic" ever said this was happening? PvP is a game of capitalizing on limited opportunities, and it's not that one person interrupts the whole team, it's that too many of the opportunities get squandered AFTER you have already worked very hard to defeat the defending team


Arbitrarily losing to zero defenders after having won the combat is ridiculous, and it needs to stop.

Who cares if its causing wins or losses? Its stupid.

Its not gamebreaking so it isnt really that big of a deal.

Its just a change that should be made, becuase it makes more sense.