Idea More Elf Armor

So, just a quick thing here. The primary thing, in my opinion, that makes Elf as weak as it is, is the fact that it can't take a good beating and live through it. Its health pool of five steaks isn't so bad, in fact the number is well set, but it's so easy to burn right through them when you have flimsy leather clothing to protect you.

Suggestion: Increased armor protection. Either a Protection enchantment greater than its current Protection 1 (preferably greater than 2), or just plain better armor, i.e. iron chestplate or something.

It makes sense enough that this class deserves better armor. Ninja has major damage output but has zero armor. Elf, on the other hand, only has "high" damage output if you can land three fully-charged shots on one target, with the combo shots being about one second apart (this is assuming you're using Pure Element). Miss one of those shots at close range, and you're probably dead. And still, its weak armor allows it to get pummeled to death while loading its bow for a Pure shot.

This isn't necessarily a request to make Elf overpowered and change its place in CTF. It's just that the class could be so much more effective in the game if it were able to conserve its health more. Indeed, Elf is meant to be one of the more vulnerable classes in the game, but in its current state I believe it's too vulnerable.

Also see: https://www.brawl.com/threads/47365/ A great Elf rework.

 

Not necessarily high armor, just something to keep it alive a little better.

 

@Keelerr @Subjugating Shoot bow three times at heavy, miss the third shot. Fly away with four arrows minimum. In all that time regenerate one arrow. Steak once or twice, keep shooting. Not many arrows left to do anything else. Fleeing is not only a waste of arrows, but it doesn't always get the job done, especially if the nearest safe spot requires more arrows of wind than what you currently have.

 

(not sure why I didn't see this in my alerts)
I'm aware of its great capping abilities. I'm usually pretty bad at capping, and I've earned a good number of caps with elf. It's just that it's extremely easy to die defending yourself when you lose too much health while eating steak then loading your bow for a shot while getting beat to death.

I do see your point with the changing its role, but I'm not asking for that much more armor. On a scale of 1 to 20, soldier has 15 armor points; elf has 6 plus protection 1 on the three armor pieces it has (not sure what that amounts to, I suppose about 8). The armor doesn't need to be doubled, just improved. I don't have a number to give since I have no idea how much armor is appropriate, but anything that's enough for steaks to be effective while being pummeled by a heavy should work.