Idea Pyro Rework

I think having steaks that heal 4.5 hearts is confusing. 4 steaks of 4.5 hearts and 5 steaks of 4 hearts provide the same amount of health. I get that what you are trying to do here, but it's just confusing and won't help pyro out that much.

Edit: More feedback

I also don't like how soldier loses it's ability to wallclimb when on fire. I think a rework to soldier would be a fix more suited to this rework.

 

It is only 4 hearts as far as I know.

 

This still makes it op and campcentered, and even removes the chance for a soldier to cap. It's meant that defensive classes (I assume you still insist that pyro should be mainly defensive) make it hard to cap, but not impossible.

Now I agree with the true damage concept. I edited my pyro, and pyroblade now deals 4 hearts of true damage, so it's still a counter against heavy-armoured classes. But the problem with your rework is, that's still based on the old pyromaniac design. The old pyro only works for instakills. A pyro like this is easily potspammed by a chemist. It also seems equally boring to me to blow people up and hit them 3-5 times instead of instakilling them. This does not work in pvp.

 

<Tom>: It's bad now look at mine

 

I don't like how medics/soldiers have their abilities nerfed. They're fine the way they are, but it's the pyro rework that we are talking about, not other classes.

 

Again with removing instakill... As Tom said, having to first draw back a bow fully then hit 3-5 times takes WAY to much time and makes it nearly impossible to get kills with pyro, though the limit on being able to hold a fully primed bow is awesome

 

I don't know about you, but soldiers are pretty easy to kill. Especially as an archer.

 

How am I closeminded? It's no rocketscience to see that this "pyro" is easily killed by a decent chemist and is way to OP against incoming soldiers. This class could never survive in the mid/backfield! Drawing your bow, even for a smal shortrange explosion takes time and is killed by a chemist, ninja, mage or heavy before the pyro ever had the chance to give a second hit with the axe. Fact is, your pyro is still campcentered and unable to pvp with.

 

" And it doesn't shut down soldier. It prevents an offense from stealing up and down." So I'm supposed to take this as a valid argument? It prevents soldiers to escape, so it will die a quick painful death. It's obviously way to op against soldier.

Now I agree that soldier needs a small nerf but why chemist? It should stay the main dominator on closerange damage in my opinion, which can be balanced to give it weakness against all kinds of ranged attacks.

 

It makes sense: you play as chemist, ninja and sometimes Mage.

 

Really? Explosion damage + damage tick by fire + the pyro and all the other defenders + situational confusion = death! There is no way a soldier can get out alive of that flagroom.

Chemist is has weak armour and if weak against ranged, so the healthpool is fair in my opinion. Besides, chemist isn't a cap class per se. It's a closerange combat class.