Sorcs are BROKEN!!!

Undying rage doesnt protect from CCs. If a Mara drops it, I can still stun/lift/mezz/<insert CC here> them for most/all of its duration and I know that after certain duration I can return to finish him because his health wont change (unless he gets healed).
With Force Barrier I cant do that. I have to either:
1) Sit near you and wait for it to deactivate which, for the duration, makes me completely useless and non-contributing.
2) Switch my focus to someone else, allowing you to deactivate it sooner, heal yourself (effectively nullifying my efforts) and to continue healing your teammates.

If they at least make it so, that you have to wait out its FULL duration and cannot cancel it any sooner, or maybe make it so that it depletes your Force to zero and prevents regen while the effect is active that would be imo enough.

If you want to nerf it to undying rage with a purge, then remove the self stun from it and then we'll talk...

It's not like we get to do anything during that immunity. And if we have to use it as a counter to burst, we probably don't have time to spend 2 globals setting up our perfect little hots to h2f during its duration before we pop it.

Hell before Enduring Bastion FB was practically a force taunt in that the entire enemy team would circle around you waiting for the barrier to drop so they could get their free kill. I had to save my grenade to cover an escape after using it, which prevented me from using it as a separate cooldown. That was clearly never intended by Bioware.

If you don't believe me, they gave stealth classes access to utilities that automatically purge on combat stealth--it's pretty clear they don't intend that you should HAVE to save one of your cooldowns just to make another cooldown useful.

I should clarify that I speak as a healer, not a DPS. Madness has long had...separate balance issues. Force Barrier is not one of them. (Mostly rather than spamming blatant dot immunity to cleanses they should have made it like the old lethality dot protection where you can cleanse to mitigate damage but they still get their procs and such from a reapplied dot...you know the counterplay Bioware keeps talking about.)

Ha your hilarious Sorcers do have a cool down on bubbles! And there immunity ability has a cool down! And all classes can get a million+ damage you fool.

Force barrier before enduring bastion was what it should be...a pure anti focus button. Especially in an arena if your team is just letting the enemies circle you like sharks while your in barrier then you team deserves to lose. If the other enemies are circling you like Sharks while you have barrier up in an arena they also deserve to lose. Total fail on both sides. Force barrier should be an anti focus button and that it. Force barrier should stay. Enduring bastion should go. You team should learn to peel when you pop barrier and the enemies should learn to switch focus when you pop it. That is what barrier was meant to do. Just because players don't know how to play doesn't mean barrier needed to be buffed. Plus you can take a utility that will basically heal you to full during barrier/bastion. I don't think anyone should have a problem with barrier. Barrier is perfect. Enduring bastion and the healing utility is the problem. There is no reason sorcs should have a large absorption bubble, passive healing, and interrupt immunity after popping their anti focus button. That is just stupid. They turned it into an anti focus button, which will then proc tank/heal button for a few seconds.

It would be like having force shroud proc deflection when it ended for sins. Or having camo proc undying rage with no health cost for maras (not exactly the same but you get the idea). There is no reason barrier should have bastion. Bastion needs to go. Barrier needs to remain.

I agree with your take on the dot solution. They should have just given all dots the protection that lethality used to have instead of making them all uncleansable. That was just dumb.

The thing that makes barrier stupid is enduring bastion. Without enduring bastion barrier is just a pure anti focus button, which is what it should be. Get rid of enduring bastion and I'd be happy.

Oh and there is no denying that sorcs are miles ahead of the other two ranged classes. The only thing the other two classes have over sorcs is burst. Sorcs have more mobility, better survivability, and more utility. And overall they can do as much damage if not more than the other two even though they have less burst. Lightning sorcs can still burst pretty good. There is definitely imbalance between the ranged classes.

Having played a Corruption Sorc in 3.0, I can say that we're not broken. We've just been buffed to where Operatives are. Previously, Mercs and Ops were just so much better than Sorcs, now Mercs are slightly better and Ops are the same. Because we had to deal with being a weaker class, we couldn't afford to be lazy and had to push it to be competitive in ranked PvP. Now that we're on par, those of us who had to heal like crazy to get Tier 1 are reaping the benefits of all that hard work.