The current class balance

The 3 main highly unbalanced mechanics in pvp in this game are :

1) Demon ironwood scarab (veno skill) :
That 0 pdef debuff gets stronger and stronger as damage reduction from pdef gets closer to the cap. Going from 95% (which can be reached by an endgame barb in tiger form) to 0% damage reduction is a 20x amp. It's too strong and there is no real counter as the veno can cast it while the target is already being attacked by a phys class. The target won't have time to react and will die instantly (unless you wanna use faith/ad every time you see a veno channeling ironwood but it'll be a waste if it doesn't proc). Killing people thanks to demon ironwood doesn't require any skill to pull off. It's pure luck and anti-gameplay.
My solution to fix this issue : make demon ironwood scarab be a 180% phys def debuff like the primal version.
... It's like the devs were aware of this problem and made a fix but expected all the players to be stupid enough to learn the weaker primal version.

2) Sacrificial slash (seeker skill) and amount of def lvl available :
Sacrificial slash is not an issue at low def lvl but with +3 def stones a seeker can reach 230 def lvl (just with r8r def weapon, no G17).
With 230 def lvl, sacrifical slash becomes a 138 def lvl debuff and a 69 atk lvl buff. So the seeker has the equivalent of 207 atk lvl over the def lvl of his target. If the seeker attack lvl is equal to the target def lvl (say 150 atk lvl seeker vs 150 def lvl any class), that's about a 3x amp. And the sacrificial slash - qpq combo is free of chi with 50% uptime (15s duration with 30s cd).
This may not appear as an issue for many because there aren't many +3 def seekers atm and no one has 80 def lvl weapon yet. But the more def lvl is available the stronger seekers get even if everyone is given the same def lvl. With 80 def lvl weapon, a seeker can get 280 def lvl. The debuff is 168 def lvl, the buff is 84 atk lvl : total 252 lvls atks level over def lvl -> 3.5x amp
It also means seekers can shard full defensively be very tanky and still deal high damage at the same time. No other class can do so high damage without attack shard (except sin but see point 3 ).
It also make JOSD about as good as or worse than vit stones/drakeflame/icebourne during sacrificial slash because the def lvl of the debuffed target is so far low compared to the atk lvl of those hitting it. They want people to pay for JOSD/serenity but at the same time they nerf them unless you're a seeker...
This skill should be put back to how it was : 40% debuff, 20% buff (not 60% / 30%).

Those 2 broken mechanics are a problem more in group pvp than 1v1 as seekers can be easily outcontrolled in 1v1 and venos only have 1 long cd phys skill to follow up ironwood.

3) Assassin class :
The have everything against a single target : highest pvp damage, good control, huge survival/anti-control with evade skill (tidal, force stealth, ulti stealth, aoe stealth, teles). Currently they can do : tidal -> ulti -> tidal and be almost unstoppable for 2.5 min. I know tidal cd will be increased to 120 sec (30 more sec) but they still have genie/apoth, force stealth, aoe stealth to cover that gap. I don't mind a class having high damage only or anti-control only but everything at once is overkill. Even if you get the best possible gear to tank a sin, he can kill your allies faster than you kill his allies in small fights and you can't stop him from doing so because of tidal/ulti. And now with paralyse on cursed jail and purge daggers they can easily solo kill purify casters.
They need a downgrade in damage or in anti-control (tidal rate shouldn't be 66% ...)


People often complain about DB class, SB vortex, wiz/SB mdef debuff but those are nothing compared to the above as we can do something to counter them.