How to kill a Hybrid bubblestun Sage/Sorc?

Designed like ****.

I played the spec before the change and had plenty of utility and survivability. This change was unnecessary.

As someone who has played the hybrid heal spec since before the 1.2 nerfs (and also played it in the highest ranked republic team on my server), I think they should just roll it back to be an AoE mezz. This will have literally no impact on the highest tier of PvP as competitive ranked teams know how to not break CC. As an added benefit, the total derps in this thread can go back to facerolling bad sages in unranked where they belong.

What would break the spec, leaving it as a stun and doubling the resolve. Why? It's because then you couldn't bubble more than one or two players or the enemy teams resolve would fill too quickly.

What would also break the spec, moving the talent higher in the TK tree. This would put it out of reach of healing trance. While I have tried going higher for a mental alacrity build and no healing trance, the force management is no good.

This spec is literally the only sage spec that is viable in RWZ, don't take it away from us because you can't be bothered to blade storm (or whatever ranged move your class has) from range (I have a focus guardian I know it works).



TL,DR: Just make it an AoE mezz again to appease the hordes of bads, it won't affect competitive PvP enough to be an issue.

What did bioware say again with hybrids, oh, that's right.:

THEY AREN'T INTENDED.

The suggestion is nice, but I'm just going to copy paste what I said before on this "spec."

What about the Vig/Defence hybrid? What about the shadow tank/dps hybrid? Sounds like your problem isn't with "hybrid" specs, it's with this one spec.

Also, what would you propose as an alternative? Right now this is the only reason to have a sage healer over an operative, and there is no reason to have a DPS sage currently.

So again, I would ask you to stop begging for the one good spec that sages have be taken away. I didn't see any complaints about this spec till the bubble became a stun, so why would rolling it back into a mezz be a problem?

This spec has exploded on my server as well, and on my guardian it poses no issue. This really is somewhere L2P is appropriate.

they said that an instant cast AoE was a bit much to be able to proc like that... but smash is ok

Potential counterargument: It's different in a WZ, there's way more people.
Response: That's true. However, if you can't figure out how to position yourself in a WZ to make this a nonissue, then you aren't as good at PvP as you think you are, and this really is a L2P issue (learn to position).

Its not. If you actually read all of my other reply's, you wouldn't have just assumed this.

There's enough ranked teams or guilds overall on my server that has full healing / madness spec sorcs.

The difference between them and everyone else defending this, is that they -learned to play-, you know, -teamwork-.

Cross healers using the same thing plus a root immune force speed. Again. Read my other posts.

I never said rolling it back was a problem, at all. The bigger problem is still there, though.

Or you would realise that not everyone gets a stun immune buff after charging, giving you enough time to burst the bubble.. Of course after its over they'll just knock you back/stun, run away, and the bubble is back up.



Smash currently has a CD and requires pressing more than -one- button to set it up, it also requires movement and positioning.

So what you are saying is that proper position for melee classes is completely out of melee range of everyone on the other team since they all have bubbles that could pop and stun them at any time? Your suggestions are fantastic for fighting an actual sage/sorc but fail when another fight happening nearby pops a bubble or when a bubble gets put on someone mid fight. That is why this is fine for the actual caster to have and great for survival and escapability, but terrible for the rest of the team to have.