Originally Posted by
Thirtyrock
It is a bit of qq about qq.
You're right, there are a few outliers on the top end of the damage spectrum, but burst is too high for almsot every class. They did compensate locks a bit by nerfing the cost as well as the damage, so you can get off more chaoswaves sooner, or more touch of chaos casts after your chaos waves are out.
I don't know if my answer is the right answer, but I don't see how, without lowering overall damage in pvp through resilience, they will balance things without completely overhauling a large number of classes. You are suggesting a major overhaul for frost mages, in this example. You suggested a major overhaul to demo as well; yeah they'd have the same spells in your solution, but their setup would be very different.
I feel, and I could be wrong, that the solution is to lower overall damage of everything, burst would still be important, but not king. Especially if you nerfed healing as well.