If one guy is able to kill a few it doesn't always mean he's OP. It can mean he got lucky, he knows what he's doing, or he's just better than you.
WRONG. It means he is OP, while I am not saying I am the best PVP of lyke omg all tyme, n00b. I am saying that I am pretty decent. From a design perspective there should be some better/closer call leeway in decent and a perfect scenario.
I don't mean to put down your whole dreams of PVP, but if you actually take a look at beguilers skills, they're buff skills. Safe-fall-others? Might? Dispell? Purge? All of your skills are for team fights. Where you can fight 3 - 4 people, take off their buffs, protect your party from fall dmg and give them all str.
Beguiler's should stand their ground as an equal 1v1. Period. Their description is Crowd Control Captain, not utility caster. That's healers. Sorry.
-I can dispell decay and purge your buffs, yes.
-The initial damage still hits,
-safe fall OTHER is useless in 1v1
-Might helps MY melee damage.
EDIT: You also forget these skills cost mana, which means while you still melee for full damage, I can no longer use spells to damage you, which means that your dps is still higher if I'm using my mana to (skill which costs mana) purge your (skills which cost) mana, even though you're a MELEE.
/inherently broken
IMO. But I don't see an easy fix, unless dispelling and purging becomes much less mana intensive/easier to do than manually trying to guess where you are through your lag and spamming purge to try and remove flameshield so I can spend the next half second left on piggify to do 3 fireballs, yeah no. I've tried. Many times.
Try using reflect? You complain so much about not being able to do much dmg, but 50% of my drain souls comming back at me would be terrible! You would take 5 dmg, and I'd only gain 5. That right there is a big swing every time I hit you. If you've ever fought a rogue, their kick will destroy you! SonicBoom is insanly OP if you can do that to a whole team + 12 dmg.
Reflect does not reflect skill damage, only physical, and it's mitigated by your armor, Meaning I just reduce damage taken, while dealing a dis-proportional amount back to you. This is broken IMO. It should reflect "Damage TAKEN"
SonicBoom is a 6 second silence (1 mana tick) for 100% mana, and does ZERO damage (unless recently changed.)
This skill is only useful in huge fights, where you can't even party everyone fighting. Even then, in the chaos it's not very viable, with everyone chasing everyone and whatnot. I think mass piggify would be much better. (as long as it only works on enemies)
I find way too many people bitch and complain about classes when they don't even know how to play their own. Stick to a group if you're going to play that class, don't try to solo a dreadknight (Warrior class, built around 1 v 1 pvp) or you will surely die.
You clearly lack understanding that I do in fact know how Beguiler's inner mechanics work. As well as mastering 3 other classes I know many of the mechanics of the way Kainzo has designed Heroes and usually my knowledge is up-to-date except for hotfixes announced in Alert and not posted about until later. (when I'm not online)
As for deep freeze :3 I think all root skills should be removed and turned into more of a slow. Like the slowness when using recall. The player can still be hit a lot during the slow, and those combos can pretty much 1 hit anyone if you're not up against potions.
Not true. RE:
I find way too many people bitch and complain about classes when they don't even know how to play their own.
Thank you, Graink.