Nerf Sorc healers

No, such thing as stun-lock unless multiple enemies are focusing down 1 person with coordinated cc and burst. That is how it should be.

Unless you have 3+ people on someone they won't die in a single stun 99% of the time anyway. So, if someone breaks the first stun they deserve to be stun-locked. Coordinated cc and burst is completely countered by only barrier and phase walk. Even enraged defense doesn't do as well.

Afraid to actually pay attention to resolve and use stun breaker properly?

In most 8v8 maps in about 80% of the scenarios your breaker won't help you anything, it's not even worth wasting.

Oh, and just to make it clear: I was talking about making life better for OTHER classes, not further buffing Sorcs.

Allowing damage reduction cooldowns to be activated while stunned is not the same as being rooted.

Fixing resolve would go a long way, but it's unlikely to happen. Every form of CC should generate resolve, slows less, roots somewhat more and stuns even more. Also their duration should be proportional to the actual resolve generated, i.e. if you stun someone just before the guy is on full resolve, you get a very very short stun.

I also agree with removing most of the CC that's currently in the game. Especially the amount of slows/roots is ridiculous, as resolve doesn't really work against them. (It prevents roots, but you'll still be crawling at half speed.)

The thing is you don't have to worry about using your breaker on a sorc as you already have two other ways to escape cc. All other classes have to be more concerned with cc. Some are able to use cooldowns while stunned. And let's be clear, those should not be able to be used while stunned either.

The thing is I was still talking about OTHER classes, not Sorcs. Happy you got that.

Because it would make the amount of CC in the game a tad bit more bearable with the fantastic matchmaking (i. e. none) there is in regs?

Oh I have my opinions on cc as well. Cc should be dedicated abilities and not baked into attacks and rotations. At the very least.

Also ALL cc should both add to and respect resolve.

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I think maybe you're missing part of the equation here. sorc healers aren't solo guarding nodes (unless BW put 3+ healers on their team). so no. it's not an issue of killing the sorc while he's by himself. the fit hits the shan when you have a guard. stuns prevent defense chance, but if a tank is transferring half of your dmg through him, then it is sort of unreasonable that the "stunned" player also has dcds available. I know I keep harping about trinity in every other thread, but that really is the underlying issue here. you should play with healers and tanks. you shouldn't have things the way they are now where half the classes/specs can take care of themselves while others are more or less naked w/o the healer and tank on their team.

TL; DR: 50% dmg transference should be your only DCD while stunned. and, frankly, if the DPS is such that it blows through your HP at that rate, you should die.

I would like to add a potentially controversial suggestion though: using the breaker while white barred should automatically reset the CD on breaker. especially in WZs, it feels like I'm being punished for having used my breaker properly cuz I can still get chain CC'd (2 full CCs) while my breaker is CD even though I used my breaker properly (while white barred). this would cut down on the time that everyone is in CC, so it would ameliorate the issue of taking away ability activation while stunned a little bit.

It's kinda OK what you're saying, except that the game does not guarantee trinities anywhere. Team ranked is the team's own business, any other format is pure luck whether you get trinities or not. What about those games where you don't have trinity setups?

yes. welcome to the crux of the problem. the game's balance is based on trinity structure. but over the past two xpacs, it has become less dependent on said structure. but the breakaway is not uniform. there are clear "haves" and "have nots."

hmm. how to relate this...

did you play 8v8 ranked? grp ranked in general policies itself . and yes. even 4v4 grp ranked "requires" trinity. it's optimal. occasionally there are troll teams like the famous DDOS incident, but those are exception that prove the rule. in 8v8 ranked, it was unheard of to queue without at least 2 heals and 1 tank (the vanilla setup was 2:2:4). given the absurd escapes, mobility, and dcd that have been instituted over the course of 3.x and 4.x, trinity comps are less necessary in WZs, but that's because the new mobility breaks the maps rather than trinity no longer being effective.

I honestly don't think I need to continue to argue the "fact" that class balance in this game is predicated on trinity or that ranked is, a trinity format for all practical purposes.

the question you should ask is whether it should be or not because the other two formats don't normally pop with trinity. the reason they don't pop with trinity, however, is pretty clear: BW favors quantity of matches over quality of matches. unless some BW monkey comes on and directly refutes this, I'm going to consider it a fact. really. I mean...I don't even feel compelled to convince anyone of it at this point.

so that leads to the next logical question: should the trinity system be scrapped and all classes be rewritten to work in a equally self-sufficient manner? thus eliminating synergy between roles -- heck! thus eliminating roles! or should they adjust the matchmaking for solo ranked and reg queues to "force" trinity compositions?

my answer is yes! to either one of those. but I'm afraid neither will occur. we will continue with the half-arsed compromise at balance and frequency of matches. on the bright side, you can do something to control your own WZ experience with trinity: you can form a premade of your own. I don't much like that solution, but I think it's all we're gonna get, and it's the same thing we've had since launch.

Yah I've been thinking that a long time. White bar should reset the cooldown of your cc breaker. There are way to many stuns in this game. Stun immunity and dcds while stunned creates more problems and only a few classes get any real advantage of those kind of abilities. It's just a mess its no wonder people call this game "Stun Wars".