First off, great job original poster for posting the concerns of the sorcerer community. I'm a bit concerned after reading the staff post. I do agree that the bubble stun should have never been implemented to begin with as this game has far to much cc as it is. They really should have offered sages and sorcerers other options such as increasing our damage and lowering the casting time of some of our force abilities. However, my main concern is the viability of both the sorcerer and sage in pvp once bioware nerfs the bubble stun. Most melee have numerous slows, stuns, and mezzes to keep you in range. We have very little escape tools and if we do stay to cast we're normally taken down pretty fast. All three of our trees need to be looked at as we lack the burst to really take anything down. We really need our damaged increased significantly. If they do end up nerfing the bubble stun which I believe they will it may be time for me to move on.

Hi everyone, I quit playing the game back in January due to several reasons namely class balance issues. I really enjoy pvp and was active in daoc (greatest game every) and more recently gw2. With the implementation of free to play I decided to give the game another try. The pvp in this game favors melee a lot. I play a sorcerer primarily and even though I utilize many of my kiting abilities I'm still chased around the map by either stealth type characters or melee 90% of the time. Most of my strong force abilities I have to remain stationary and cast. If I stay in melee range and try and cast I'm destroyed within a couple of seconds and many of those classes have a wide range of stuns, slows, and mezzes to keep you in range. If you do manage to get away they can simply either leap to you or have abilities to increase their speed, so kiting doesn't help you. I may be doing it wrong however and am fully open to constructive criticism. My question for all of you expert range characters out there is how do you effectively pvp in this game with a ranged class? I could possibly re-roll, but I really don't think that helps the situation. I also do not understand BW's reasoning for a lot of the patches for the game. I ran a mid level flash point last night and for the life of me I struggled managing my force and the consumption mechanic is horrible. This to me has to be the only game I've ever played in where the devs are intentionally trying to irritate their customer base. Anyway, sorry for the rant. If you guys can offer some advice I would greatly appreciate it. I'm waiting to see how BW handles the sorcerer bubble stun. If they end up nerfing it, which I believe they will and not offer anything to compensate for it I may end up leaving again.