Well, you say you have no experience as an Asura, and you're a "rookie" at PVP. I've had an Asura (who was centered around PVP) and am an avid PVPer, so trust me on this. Plus I've fought quite the number of x-zone ranked Asura, at times higher than that.
As far as "pick up and play" value goes for Asura, they're absolutely terrible and possibly one of the worst classes in PVP. Go in PVP on a poorly equipped Asura or a build that isn't centered around PVP, and you're going to get destroyed instantly.
Have good gear? PVP centered build? Asura is one of the biggest threats overall in PVP, having almost no classes that can have a sure win against them.
I'm not talking about Asura in general, I'm talking about people who know what they're doing, and PVP often. None of my experience comes from anything but channel 53, usually against ranks above 8 dan when I'm fighting Asuras.
Asura counteract their terrible movespeed by having a movespeed pet and generally a rare avatar with move speed shoes. This instantly lets them keep up with most classes and in terms of Katana users, they can outrun you a lot of the time with leaps and triple slashes. People tend to think Asura don't have any combos, but thats far from the truth. All Asura at this level can connect an ice wave after knocking you down by simply using the small hitstun of a on the ground upper slash, which is the main center of their offense. With cast speed avatars (all Asura who are serious about PVP have them) and max Release Wave (again, they all have it) they can easily connect a Fire Wave after their Release and combo into something else after that.
Release Wave > Fire Wave (at this point the enemy comes flying back at you due to the splash hit of the wave) > 40 skill > Upper Slash > Ice Wave > doesn't even matter, you're already going to be dead no matter what they do after this. This is also assuming they don't catch you in the 45 skill anywhere in that combo, in which case you just lost anyway.
Asura aren't about poking and throwing out skills, they tend to save their skills until they can link them together.
So yeah you're right, the average Asura, possibly one of the worst PVP classes.
As a heads up, they did nerf Kneel Sniping, and Battle Mage is possibly one of the easier classes for Asura to beat.
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To be safer an upper + moonlight does the trick as well.
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We're done with Asura discussion.