The main difference is that the other classes don't have godbubble or the amount of self heals that sorc does. Sorc also has phasewalk and flash bubble. They can literally determine the outcome of any match by just queueing up, since most people will leave when facing 2+ sorc healers and their obligatory pocket tanks, and why shouldn't they? When a sorc and his tank can successfully prevent capping at Voidstar vs 6 other players.

DEs aren't hacks, they just run premades with two heals or don't queue at all. When Pugging these people are terrible and they know it.

"Even a really well skilled sorc will get beat if ppl just l2focus" This would be true if: 1) Everyone and their mother wasn't rolling a tank or healer. 2) Sorcs didn't have Phasewalk and heal 2 full, along with their godbubble and many other dcds. You would need 3 - 6 dps to make a sorc play defensively, but that frees up the rest of the team to focus on objectives. It's a losing scenario 100% of the time. I've seen a single tank and a sorc defend nodes successfully against 6 people. It's ridiculous.

Players can play objectives all they want, but when you have a sorc/tank combo running the ball or guarding the node it's impossible to win, even if they are average players. So you go for the other node, but since it's a premade they stacked healers, and surprise it's another sorc.

Guilds that regularly pvp and do ranked also run premades. Grouping up isn't an automatic win, but these guys tend to run with one tank and a healer (which are themselves broken in pvp) and two dps. Some can be a real pain if they run with two healers, a tank and dps. Good luck winning that arena. It helps that they also do ranked and are experienced players farming pugs.

Because there seems to be a lot more tanks and healers pvping these days. While Op is right, in his scenario there is only one healer and no tanks. If you get two tanks and two healers on the opposing team it's over, you lost. The healers will heal each other and the tanks while all the dps focuses on them while being burned down by the other teams dps. The game is unbalanced as ****.

I was going to create this thread but it seems to have been buried for some reason. This is still an issue, I don't understand why they can release new CM items and not fix this simple bug.