Best I can tell you is, get used to it. Focus PvE, PvP, with gear, you'll smack anyone that is 30-50 GS below you, and that's about it, if striker shows up with even slightly decent gear, just give up, you won't kill him, multipliers are too much in their favor to win.

Awakening Wizard PvP? Better off re-rolling to Shai at this point, even they, despite even worse multipliers, got a better kit than you. Enjoy being a support class that Shai can easily do better than you in every aspect, and Valk can give Protected Area like you can. People that claim awakening wizard is a support and/or a ranged class have no idea the awakening fighting style for wizard even exists (cause it's not even considered in PvP, that's how trash it is), cause all they know is succession wizard.

Hope you enjoy PvE, cause, that's where PA clearly wants all Awakening wizards to go. Succ Wiz is kind of trash compared to every other class, but it's kit is better suited for PvP (and with the right ability combos it can still be half decent in PvE as long as you don't need high accuracy), but mulipliers still apply so, you'll never rly be nearly as good as any of the meta classes.

Want to PvP? It's a PvP open world MMO, class balance is non-existent. Become a meta class with a meta fighting style to win, that's the real trick to it.

I disagree on the shai comparison. Valkyrie? Maybe, but that depends on what scale of content you're doing.

First of all +1, so you don't think my next arguments are hating or something, just sending in my point of view. I have not large scaled PvP in a year, when I PvP now, it's all small scale, or just RBF, and with all the new players and stuff, things might have changed a lot in the NW/Siege scene, specially the capped stuff.

The fact they don't insta kill him, with how many there are, could show he's fighting people that aren't really fighting back or react too late to an enemy near them (focused on other stuff, lagging, etc, ya know, what usually happens in large scale PvP, on one of the instances of mediah castle you see he's getting kills and not getting attacked cause, they aren't even noticing he's there, so he lays the smackdown from the back, which is a very smart move, however, it's like one of those perfect situation moments) or have much less gear than he does (which isn't the case, cause this is capped Mediah and Valencia Siege/NW). Wizard is squishy, and only has iframes while teleporting, meaning all that time he's just standing there casting spells and doing damage, they would be hammering him. Due to this being capped, all those buffs and crystal stuff, etc etc, is probably giving him a big advantage, and this is something I must admit, Wizard Awakening feels a lot more on the level of the other classes on capped PvP, provided you have proper buffs and crystal set and add-ons (which are all extremely important for PvP, specially in capped PvP). Uncapped PvP is a whole different beast for Awakening Wizard.

Props on the Stormtrooper title though, specially as an Awakening Wizard.

Even at 720+ GS, in most engagements you will get almost instantly grabbed and smacked around by a lot of people immediately unless your own guild members supports you by saving you (good luck with that in large engagements in uncapped).

Furthermore, in open world, depending on where you grind, you won't be stacking those many buffs and full spec for PvP, unless you're the one looking for trouble, but, again, granted, proper buffs + a PvP crystal set + add-ons are essencial to getting good results if you're going into a PvP focused battleground such as NW and Siege, but for open world, uncapped PvP, specially if it's out of nowhere grind spot fight, yeah, you're pretty much dead no matter what you do, unless you severely outgear them, or they don't know how to play their class.

Still, I have yet to try the PvP with all the influx of new players, so, maybe, with all the "fresh meat" in PvP, it's not just all extreme tryharding all over the place, and there are regular people in the mix nowadays.

Edit: Could also just be, this guy is the 0.1% of awakening wizard players that is giga skilled (let's be real here, most of us chose awakening wizard cause it's super chill to make it work decently, basically 0 combos really needed for chill PvE, but on pro level, it's a different story, cause you're working with an extremely sub-par kit compared to other classes), can't rly expect giga skill from everyone, that's how the PvP started dying back in the day, still, he did show it's possible to drop the smackdown with Awakening Wizard. (even if it is a compilation, so, could have failed 1000 times, and only compiled the ones where things worked out, but I'd rather believe he is just THAT skilled, and Awakening Wizard in large scale, is actually fixed. May have to return to the large scale PvP scene myself, instead of staying on the small scale nowadays (cause there, everyone is fully focused on the few targets that exist, so, a bit harder to do some of the stunts in this video)).

Only thing I'll argue is...make the elemental invinsible cause, you lose a lot of damage if it dies, and in uncapped, it'll get 1-3 shot instantly.

Maybe I should go back and give large scale PvP a go with these new buffs.

LOL, linking arguably the best Awk Wizard in NA as an arguement against doing anything to Awk wizard kit is kind of facepalm.
That being said, Awk wiz is no where near as broken as people make it out to be, they just don't know how to play it.
However it still needs some tweaks, IE. Elementalization change, Pet CD removed, etc.
(I'd argue to remove class damage mods but everyone will get in a tizzy about that one lol)

Hmm, I re-read the Shai part, and I can see the possible misunderstanding. I don't mean in actual combat for the shai, I mean as a support. The Valkyrie part is that it also basically has protected area, like we do, meaning, Wizard really has nothing unique as a Support class. That's about it

To solve this, the one and only thing wizard needs is rework to 1 skill:

Flow: Magical Evasion: Make it so that this skill is iframe on 2sec CD and SA on CD. Make it so that this skill can cancel any skill so that wizard can escape any danger mid way in animation to avoid been killed. Make it so that this skill can also be used with Shift +W instead of just WW.

In fact, i do believe wizard needs buffs but not damage buff, The reason people keep complaining about wizard the most is cause it dies very fast and has only 1 iframe on 7sec CD and he is just fully SA so he just totally gets melted in SA or get's instant grab from everyclass.

To solve this, the one and only thing wizard needs is rework to 1 skill:

Flow: Magical Evasion: Make it so that this skill is iframe on 2sec CD and SA on CD. Make it so that this skill can cancel any skill so that wizard can escape any danger mid way in animation to avoid been killed. Make it so that this skill can also be used with Shift +W instead of just WW.

Problem Solved! If they don't die very early then they can keep fighting, wizard alreay has good PVP dmg and good heals... Giving Magical Evasion the reworked mention above will greatly boost wizard 1v1 potential and will increase his survivability and more smoother cancels to be much more effective.