Idea Elf Pure Element Tweak

Step 1: remove the wind element nerf. Also before this, see this awesome thread by @blitz_dragon for the other stuff I'd love to see.

So, in a few words, make Pure Element guarantee a kill reward for landing three consecutive shots.

As most people know, just landing two full-powered shots is pretty tough, but then most elf kills require three anyway. I've got two options here.

Option 1

Pure Element does 3 hearts of true damage on the first full-power shot, 7 hearts on the second full-powered shot, and always kills the person on the third consecutive powerful shot. This way, you can still steak to survive the first two shots, but the third shot serves as a reward for skill.

And yes, it can often take 4, 5, or sometimes 6 shots to kill someone who steaks quickly. It's ridiculous.

Option 2

First shot does 2.5 hearts, second shot does 5.5 hearts, and then the third shot also guarantees a kill. Pretty much the same thing, except you have the chance to steak after the second shot.

These both remove the possibility of four or more shots being necessary to kill someone. Elf is difficult enough, it shouldn't exceed a 3-shot kill.

Actually I lied about 2 options, here's a third option because @Admiral_Trump rages a lot c:

Option 3

1 heart on any low-powered shot. For the first power shot, 4.5 hearts of damage; the second, 9.5 hearts (a kill if two steaks aren't used); and if miraculously they steak enough to survive that, 3rd shot guarantees a kill.

Now might I say that this is ridiculously powerful--not only a two-shot kill, but the first shot takes half of health, and just lobbing an arrow at someone does as much damage as a ninja's sword to a heavy (go ahead and check me on that). Option 1 is still a 2-shot kill with a moderately likely 3-shot necessity, its initial damage is not too powerful, and it doesn't turn elf into a nerfed assassin with a bow.

 

I'm keeping it realistic here xD. Ninja, for example, once mastered, can be insanely powerful. Though there aren't many who can do that, the few are still a nuisance to cappers (which is a complement for those ninjas ).

With elf, you can master the usage of Pure Element to the point where you can almost always land at least two shots on people, and quite often successfully three-shot them. Because of this, I really think my Option 1 is a great compromise: if you can surprise an opponent, you have a fair chance of killing them in two shots; if they steak and you're skilled enough to land a third shot, they still die because you have mastered the weapon and now reap your rewards for it.

Honestly, elf has a good deal of power in its own way, especially with the fact that, without a wind nerf, it's a decent capping class. You don't want the next mage--a capping and killing class--running around CTF now, do you?

 

Well yeah, mage is very well useful for things other than killing and capping, but that further extends my point: we already have two classes--chemist and mage--that are good at a lot of things, why add a third one into the mix?

That's good and all but it doesn't change a lot, other than guaranteeing a 3-shot kill; that is indeed the major point of this thread, but it would certainly be nice to give elf an extra little buff that it could very well use in pvp. When the first shot does 2 or 2.5 hearts of true damage (2.5 for a perfect 1/4 of health), it opens up the fight with the opponent seriously considering the need to use steak, and otherwise punishes people for being super low on health (but that's okay because if you have two hearts and no steak you're going to die anyway xD).

 

"You have been PURELY DESTROYED!!"
lol such pun

 

k first off if you think Brawl--or even MCPVP (edit: lol wait, MCPVP allowed the original pyro...)--would allow that kind of damage you've officially crossed the line to insanity. But to be fair, as you may or may not have seen already, I added in something that may satisfy you.

You ask why one would play elf instead of archer, heavy, or soldier? For the same reason I play archer in the first place--@freerider14 can agree with me on this next point. For a long time, I've pretty much sucked at pvp (I only say "for a long time" because I'm showing improvement as of late ^-^) compared to how I can use a bow. A 3-shot kill was difficult for me to master, but in the end I found that, in combination with the mobility of wind element and the occasionally useful anti-pyro shield/water, a 3-shot close-ranged kill was pretty good. Of course, a one-shot kill from 30 blocks or more is great, but it's highly ineffective on maps where the flag carrier can run in places where you can't shoot from afar. For those like me who can't pvp at close range for life, continuing to use a bow at close range is a great thing.

Also, I hardly have to mention elf's capping capacity. Once in a match, I--a very horrible capper in respect to many of the offensive players on official teams--actually got the flag, made it most of the way across the map, and almost captured the flag if not for some well-placed medic webs. When elf is used by people who are far better than me at capping, great things can happen.

That's pretty much all elf is good for, though--or, was good for, since after the nerf it can't even capture flags anymore (that match was when one of the match servers had not been nerfed). I will also admit that soldier is much better off with getting in and out of flag rooms alive and relatively unharmed, even with an un-nerfed elf. But restoring elf's wind element and giving it the pvp buff it deserved in the first place--a pure element like one of these that I'm suggesting and/or some better armor--and elf will actually deserve to be a part of average CTF where not everyone is a professional at everything in order to use a class like this.

 

See the first bit of this whole thread, look at Blitz's post that I mentioned. He covered everything you just said, and I agree with everything he said. Also, the very first words of this thread are "Step 1: remove the wind element nerf."

Bump. Anyone else wanna talk about this?