Developer Update: Class Changes and Balance in Game Update 1.4

think its hillarious that they think this is an appropriate fix to resolve...they got it half right by making it so multiple stuns wouldnt insta fill the bar the only problem is now the bar will fill so slow you can be stuck in stunlock hell before it even gets close to fill and you will be dead. Didn't one of the devs say pre launch that they wanted to avoid stun locking in pvp?
Also, I'm getting sick and tired of mmos 'balancing' around pvp. You destroy the pve side or overpower both by trying to tinker with both. You need to separate them...make it so you have a pvp only spec that activates whenever you engage in pvp or auto flips when you join a warzone...separate skills/dmg/effects etc and leave the pve skills to the pve. Yet another game ruined by pvp balancing.

As a Sorc healer, I have to say I HATE the Overload change and feel it is going to affect healer survivability negatively.

I primarily use Overload in two situations in PvP.

1. I'm getting swarmed and stunned. Foes all around beating me and stunning me, I spam my Overload button til I break free of stun and can get it off. It gives me breathing room and a chance to survive. NOW, in the middle of a group of foes who are beating and stunning my ***, I will need to maneuver around, FACE them, and then hit Overload? The only GOOD news is I won't need to sit on another healer to give them room.

2. I'm running like hell with someone beating on my *** (I also do this in PVE). Now I'm going to have to turn around, run MORE SLOWLY backwards and blast them while I continue to take damage.

I stuck it out through the Sorc healing nerf; I'll stick it out through this, but damn, healing in PvP pre-50 is rare as hell already; I can't imagine what it will be like after this. (I can't speak much for 50 lately since I haven't been PvPing there the past month or two, but I know we lost quite a few in the "Great Sorc Nerf of 2012").

BTW will shields ever be useful against yellow damage?

"Polarity Shift/Mental Alacrity now additionally grants immunity to interrupts for the duration. Improved visual FX to demonstrate this effect."[LIST][*]This sounded like an awesome effect because at first I thought it was for healers and it was on their 2 min global cooldown or something but then I realized it was for the dps of our class so they can now stun us while we cant stun them and bash us in the face.

As a Sorc healer, I have to say I HATE the Overload change and feel it is going to affect healer survivability negatively.

I primarily use Overload in two situations in PvP.

1. I'm getting swarmed and stunned. Foes all around beating me and stunning me, I spam my Overload button til I break free of stun and can get it off. It gives me breathing room and a chance to survive. NOW, in the middle of a group of foes who are beating and stunning my ***, I will need to maneuver around, FACE them, and then hit Overload? The only GOOD news is I won't need to sit on another healer to give them room.

2. I'm running like hell with someone beating on my *** (I also do this in PVE). Now I'm going to have to turn around, run MORE SLOWLY backwards and blast them while I continue to take damage.

I stuck it out through the Sorc healing nerf; I'll stick it out through this, but damn, healing in PvP pre-50 is rare as hell already; I can't imagine what it will be like after this. (I can't speak much for 50 lately since I haven't been PvPing there the past month or two, but I know we lost quite a few in the "Great Sorc Nerf of 2012").