Why is medic so good at combat

20 hearts and no steak is pretty terrible. If this is about the class being able to withstand many different mechanics, why not nerf some of its strong points instead of the whole class? Fire res op against pyro? Take the fire res away. Health pool too large? Decrease the # of steak/amount of time it takes to regen. You don't have to disintegrate a class into a pile of ashes in order to make it balanced.

 

Maybe instead, allow medic to catch fire but not take any damage from it. I thought of this, it would allow it to be more balanced of a capping class and not break every pyro in the game.

 

In my opinion, just remove the sharpness. The class is meant to be supportive, currently a medic can easily beat a chemist, and split with most heavys.

 

Just for your info (I'm a medic main), medic really isn't as easy as you think, armor:

Medic has the second lowest armor of the game, but yes it has 6 steaks, the weapons which could in fact attack a medic are:

Every sharpness adding 1.25 extra damage to each hit.


So ninja does 4+1.25x4= 9 hearts of damage, and medic 4+1.25= 5.25, the damages being lowerded by the ctf code means that ninja normally takes 3 hits of a medic to die. Mostly a defense has 2-4 ninjas, sometimes a medic, mostly a pyro (also inflicting damage with his bow), a medic can't kill all those defenders without being very skillfull, if you look at the damage output of the classes yourself.

Going on to the self-regen, look, medic being an hard class to be good at (as you say above^), also has self-regen, but this regen doesn't really do much in an 1 to 1 close combat fight, you don't have time to regen, so this only works when you already got out of a crowd of people // an 1 to 1 fight.

Also, the non-falldamage isn't as easy as you think, if fighting someone (doing the objective of the game, capture the flag) it's hard to, and use your cobwebs in fight, and also (so called) mlg cobweb afterwards, because you can't just cobweb spam the ground to stay alive, this also takes skill (aim).

Last but not least, your idea would definitely ruin the point of all classes being able to do multiple roles, this would only lower the amount of new people trying out medic and would higher the amount of people choosing, let's say: archer, or maybe heavy and soldier, because those classes can do better jobs at what most new people want, kills a/o capturing.

 

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Because otherwise nobody would play it.

 

A few issues I found with your post Daniel. Medic has the second lowest type of armor. However if you're talking CTF specifically its somewhere in the middle due to ninja/assassin and the three classes with leather armor. Referring to the damage the sword does, that is health nor hearts. 1 health = 1/2 a heart, therefore the disparity is not nearly as large as you'd believe. Regarding medic's regen, it is fast enough to negate flag poison, which deals 1.5 hearts of damage every 15 seconds, when fighting classes other than ninja/assassin fights are bound to often last 15 seconds or longer, and in a 1v1 any extra health is great. Along with this, you can easily back off and regen using your cobwebs to stall your opponents. On your point about mlg cobwebbing, its pretty easy due to the fact that there is no punishment to throwing quite a few cobwebs to make sure you land in one as you can just immediately break them once you land so you are no longer stuck.

I do however agree with your point of classes needing to be viable in different roles, but with this said I think medic's clear cut #1 role should be as a supportive class.

 

Why did you edit that