Idea [Class change] Pyro

Pyro, you either love or despise this class! From years of complaints by CTF'ers about pyro's op'ness, still nothing has changed about the class untill this very day, which isn't quite unreasonable, because if you remove pyro's instakill what use does the class has left? I, TOM_SAYS will answer this question with an entire rework!

Pyro 2.0:
Here is my idea to change the pyromaniac underdog as we know him today into the flaming dragon warrior it should be!

Armour:
-Iron chestplate with protection I
-Red dyed leather leggings with fire protection I
-Red dyed leather boots with feather falling I

Inventory:
-Stone sword with sharpness I named pyro sword
-Fire charge named firebreath
-4 pyro steaks
-Compass & star


Abilities:

-Pyro blade: The sword of the pyro will deal 25% extra damage on burning targets!

-Firebreath: The pyro can breath fire with the firecharger as a range weapon! this will will work exactly the same as a ghast does, firebreath will have a 1 second recharge (xp-bar) like mage's damage spell, and when hit the ground it creates a fire. This can be spammed, but does very little damage (less then mage's firespell).

-Inhale/fireblast: When the pyro holds firebreath in his hand and is crouching, he is inhaling. There will be a 7 second xp bar charge and when fully charged, the fireball turns into a piece of TNT, a fireblast is now possible: The crouching pyro can launch the piece of TNT similar like mcpvp smash's blink to cause a large explosion. (NOTE! the piece of TNT turns back into a fireball whenever the attack is performed or the pyro stops crouching, thus for performing fireblast the pyro will need to keep 'inhaling')

-Blazing speed: When the pyro is on fire, blazing speed is activated. During the time the pyro is burning he gains the speed & jump I boost (but will suffer the 3 hearts damage)

-Living bomb: When the pyro crouches and blocks his sword (similar like elf), he will become a living bomb! a TNT-head will appear on his head (similar like the tank in mcpvp's kitpvp), when the pyro dies in this state, he will leave an explosion similar like the pyro arrows do we know today. People who stood close to the pyro will receive (fire)damage. It will do more damage to people who attacked the pyro before regarding melee!

-Flame shield: Pyro will be immune for snowballs and their related effects. Icecubes and webs will melt away when touched by a pyro! BUT! this is also one of the new pyro's weakness at the same time! pyro can be instakilled by the elf's water element and will suffer more from the chemist's potions.


Gameplay: In total, pyro will be kinda a combination between ninja and mage, and a little bit of elf in game.

-Strong against; all free classes, engineer, mage, necro, assassin, group camps.
-Weak against; elf, dwarf, chemist and water.

 

I suggested a soldier nerf. Soldiers should be unable to climb the ground, since climbing the ground doesn't make any sense at all...

Besides that, they aren't hard to recover, especially with that nerf.

Living bomb bomb is the cherry on the pie's top in my opinion, but as I stated, the explosion range & damage is debatable. Ninja for example could have immunity to explosions, because of some sharp sense whatsoever.

 

Firebreath can be cast on the wooden fence that holds the turret, the engineer would need to hit it off quickly, otherwise the turret will burn away.

 

Thank you guys! I appreciate the feedback.

 

Probably not, should be done quickly by a good coder. Thank you for your feedback!

Yes, this pyro is offence orientated, but you can defend with any class. Dwarf should be the main defending class in my opinion. That could be achieved easily with flagrooms where you have a wall against your back.

 

The pyro deals 6,25 damage without buff, which is already a bit more then every class with an iron sword or less. With the pyro blade ability the damage is equal to a hit from a buffed chemist (keep in mind that these numbers are from an UNbuffed pyro). The idea of a pyro is the deal damage by fire, I don't think it's really convenient to give pyro an iron sword sharp I, which is more then a heavy, but I do think it's a good idea to raise the pyro blade ability a bit. I did some quick calculations; with 50% boost you equal a ninja. Now I don't think it's fair to have pyro equal a ninja's damage since ninja has no armour & food. Besides, pyro has a ranged attack (although it has no knockback). I now think 40% is suitable, with 8,75 damage you hit one more then a chemist. (I was kind of careful with this when I wrote the thread, because I didn't want people scream: OP! OP!).

All corrective feedback I receive on this rework is about living bomb. I agree that the pyro's focus shouldn't be on suicide. I exaggerated too much when writing that part and I kind of left it open for interpretation, but now I have a more specific explanation of the ability: living bomb will leave a small explosion like todays pyro arrows do to damage/burn people who stood close to the pyro a bit. It will do more damage to people who attacked the pyro before regarding melee! the whole turret explosion isn't really necasarry anymore since firebreath can be cast on the wooden fence that holds the turret. I hope you and the others will like this variant of living bomb more.

Thank you for your feedback @Admiral_Munson !

 

It will definetly be a sword for sure. I don't want my pyro to have the flare of a thug (as I stated in the introduction! ). Living bomb is activated the same way as Elf's reflector, so you cannot pvp while in that state. Although, what you said there does remind me of an ability idea I had before living bomb, called inhale/fireblast:

-Inhale: When the pyro holds firebreath in his hand and is crouching, he is inhaling. There will be a 7 second xp bar charge and when fully charged, the fireball turns into a piece of TNT, a fireblast is now possible:

-Fireblast: The crouching pyro can launch the piece of TNT similar like mcpvp smash's blink to cause a large explosion.

(NOTE! the piece of TNT turns back into a fireball whenever the attack is performed or the pyro stops crouching, thus for performing fireblast the pyro will need to keep 'inhaling')

Even if the rework was finished, it's never to late to change it. As you stated, they are still brainstorming, so I have all hope that this rework will make a chance!

NOTE!: This class rework is fully compatible minecraft 1.9 (only if you remove the living bomb ability). sword in mainhand used by left click and the fireball in the off-hand cast by rightclick (crouching would only apply to firebreath into fireblast).