Understanding what the smash nerf ACTUALLY does.

I don't think you understand, smashers leap to their primary targets, not secondary. Yes you should move if a smasher stands on top of you, while you are fighting, taking a node, etc. That's the difference between good and bad players. Or you can counter the smash as a sorc if you are good, but it takes a well timed knockback. Nobody ever told you that stacking in pvp is usually bad?

Go an play Smash and come back when your non-crit non-shockwave-stacked Smashes hit for 4.5k. WON'T EVER HAPPEN!

Yep, Scream auto-crits hit for 8k+ and Vicious Throw crits during Gore windows also go for 7k+ most of the time. Yet, in Rage you get a crit chance increase on Vicious Throw...and that insane surge makes it hit for 7-9k crits regularly on anybody not using a DCD. Wish my Screams in Vengeance would hit for more than 4-5k's ):



And come 2.7, you'll get smashed for those amounts even more often Enjoy.

You come back when your non-crit non-shockwave-stacked Smash hits for only 2k. WON'T EVER HAPPEN. NOT EVEN IF YOU ARE WEARING SLIPPERS!

Smash does not hit for over 10000 damage while the sentinel is wearing PVP gear, unless both relics are procced, and the sentinel has the force jump buff, and maybe the PVP box buff.

So you are saying you are ranged and got smashed helping someone else? Smash has a really small radius. People shouldn't complain when they get hit by smash as a secondary target, it's their own fault for standing on top of the person. There is also an aoe damage reduction talent.

This usually happens to sorcs when they try to peal multiple targets with their knockback.

Unlikely. Except that one time I was stuck assisting a guy, I usually avoid smash damage with great ease. Maybe because I also play a marauder...

Ahh, it's the 4 meter radius that threw ya.

So you are suggesting that smashers never leap to their targets and also that wherever a smasher goes, players should move at least 4 meters away from them. And of course do this while protecting or trying to take a node, trying to focus, and engaged in combat with other players. And if they don't do that, it's their fault they get hit.

Back to the analogy "judge, it's his fault, he ran into my fist".

And by the way, as far as I am concerned, I think it entirely reasonable for a big circle on the ground to appear a few seconds before a smasher did their AoE so people could indeed move out of the way. It would put them on equal footing with other players that have to contend with telegraphing while utilizing their AoEs.