What has been forgotten here is that mages are a one-time burst class in pvp. Yeah, we can hit for over 2500 if we can get both spells cast.
On the other hand, both lures and shards are interruptible, and with the cooldown of shards, you're pretty much stuck for 5 sec just prying your shield will hold. A rogue, while fragile, can evade the spells, resist some of their damage, and reply with devastating melee AND skills. Now, i agree, they may have to survive the initial burst first. But it's possible, and possibly more than you'd think if you have enough of those new abilities.
I'd say, it's pretty balanced.
Mages one-hit, but then if one spell misses (or gets interrupted) they're dead meat.
Rogues are fragile but with their evasion and then their speedy attacks they can interrupt spellcasting and keep it that way.
Warriors do lower damage but can survive the initial burst with a decent amount of health left.
Rangers have rapid shot to interrupt, and quick heal.
Druids have some spells that deal dameg, but more importantly heals.
To me, while it seems druids and rogues might be the weakest, their weakness doesn't mean they'll automatically lose every fight. Just they will have a harder time when they can't manage to get tin the combat. But then they're unstoppable (Heck, i lost more than once against a lower level druid because of the heals ; never lost to a lower rogue but that's mainly because i don't come across many of them).
Anyway, since pvp and pve use the same skills, modifying a class in one will affect how it plays the other. Mages are already the weakest class in pve, we'd like to get our chance to shine somewhere, tyvm.
Wait do you double shield? Whenever I double shielded no other class even stood a chance (besides mabye a bolas ranger)
No, i don't have time to cast it again when i pvp.
Either because in the arena i don't know when someone Will attack me, or in duel i get killed before the cooldown finishes.
Although my built isn't really a defensive one, i have only a dozen points in shield because i mainly do pve.
Also, i'm not a melee mage, that's probably why i get owned. Melee mages (especially with earthstone) like you do kick ass, but others can't even survive 10 seconds without the shield.
