The reason Sorcerers/Sages are OP in PvP

When a group of sorcs are chain rooting you in huttball, it's pretty obvious why they're OP.

To the OP:

What you fail to see is that the Sorc/Sage hybrid build requires immobility. I'm not sure how you think it's mobile at all. The ENTIRE hybrid build is set up around using telekinetic throw/force lightning constantly in order to get the proc that allows for an instant cast chain lightning/telekinetic wave.

In between the uses of FL/TT, use death field/force in balance. You can't move and cast something that is channeled last time I checked. Interrupts are your friend, use them on the force lightning and telekinetic throw.

As far as the amount of CC's, yeah there's a lot, but they are ALL fragile. In other words, if you do ANY amount of damage whatsoever to the target while he/she is CC'd, it will break and free them, except for the 2 second stun after force lift/whirlwind which isn't really that big of a deal considering the amount of CC's that people aimlessly place on someone.

OMG Abadus
I found another pic of you owning these scrubs, lol:

http://i43.tinypic.com/21140ma.jpg

Most of these people are such bads
Ura a good

I've been telling him to interrupt force lightning for like 30 pages. I even spelled it out for him step by step, and tried to give him pointers.

He doesn't care about strategies, or the drawbacks of the spec, or how easy it is to shut down if necessary.

He doesn't care that the tradeoff for utility is a ton of damage, and that w/out the utility, there wouldn't be a whole lot left.

He doesn't even care if his information is correct.

He only cares about nerfing the hybrid spec.

I need a cyt sig.. Be nice the op thinks you are a pvp master since you can hang with my dps.... I can't believe you dug up that picture of me.

What I would give for your burst damage. SS time tonight full dps hut ball tonight.

It is not healthy for a game to have a huge disparity in population between classes, between factions, or both. This game has both right now. Sometimes it is based on actual gameplay balance, or sometimes it is based on other things like aesthetics and story. It is up to the developers to balance the numbers, without ruining the balance of gameplay.

Sorcs are the most played class for both of those reasons. They shouldn't nerf the coolness factor of being a palpatine (or a yoda for republic version), that's just built into the game design. They need to add incentives so that more people play an underplayed class, like a sniper. The incentives should not revolve around playstyle imbalance, but it can't really happen until the classes are brought in line with each other, which brings me to my next point.

Sorcerers/Sages are not the only classes that are "a good deal above average" in pvp. Other people have brought up other classes and their specs, and maybe they need to be looked at too. That is an entirely different conversation. We are looking at sorcs/sages now, and we are looking at whether or not they have the right amount of tools in pvp. The answer is that they have too many, and some other classes have too little, and that is the bottom line. Do you want to give the other classes more tools, or do you want to take away from sorcs/sages?

On another note, I believe that some of these cries about sorcs (and mercs too) are related to the state of pvp content. Huttball is probably the most played map on most servers, and while there are lots of other classes with tricks that win game (like charge), a few of those tools are built into this one class. The other factor is that it is not a fun experience to be mowed down from range by sorcs (and mercs) sitting on ledges that you have to take a difficult route to get to, and usually are dead by that time.

Perhaps with some more maps out, the cries for ranged class nerfs will lessen, because there are some melee that need to be looked at too. We are not there yet, so we have to balance the game that we have right now.