Spells with a cast time in PvP

[Glavius]

Will these abilities be completely useless. As far as I can see it will be very easy for anyone to interrupt such an ability by just blocking and hitting during the time the spell is being cast. Unless I misunderstood the block mechanic...

[shinn]

Casttimes may are ok if u use them as opener and the enemy doesnt see you, like crystalshard as sorc. but infight casttimes are a nogo to be efficient. especially if somebody is focusing you.

as executers its quite useless aswell bc while u are casting you movmentspeed is decreased.

[Eol]

agreed, if you can use them as an opener, especially as a caster in the back, you can probably get away with it. Once the battle starts or if you are in front, forget about it, there is just too much chance of being interrupted.

 

As a Templar, I just got Backlash which has a 1.5 s cast time, and since I will be casting in the back with my son the DK in front of me, I will be trying that in PvP. If I can pull it off, its a devastating way to create burst damage out of dots etc. (it accumulates all damage for 6 secs before it goes off and adds 36%; in the chaos of pvp there is little chance enemies will survive that, by the time the healer realizes the guy is taking damage, he will be dead)

 

On the other hand, I took my 2 second heal off my quickbar for pvp. Even though its far more mana friendly than the instant Templar heal, 2 seconds is a lifetime in pvp once the battle starts and people are taking damage. Although that means that healers are constantly low on mana if they use instant heals, at least the Templar instant heal.