Idea Elf Water Element Buff

Pretty sure everyone is aware at how (practically) useless the water element is, but it is useful in those very few scenarios where it is useful.
While the water element is good against pyros, it doesn't change the fact that once a pyro uses frenzy, not even the fastest reflexes will draw back the bow quick enough to extinguish it if the pyro is in hitting range. Along with the water element being useful in pre-fight preperation, the very low duration of the resistance effect makes it not worth wasting a precious arrow.

My plan to fix this is to make the element used for weakening enemies and supporting teammates.
Here are my ideas:

Offensively:
When the water element is fully charged and shot at an enemy, direct or in a 2x2 radius of the arrow, they will receive 10-15 seconds of slowness 1 and weakness 1, while giving off dripping particles on that player for that time.
This would aid in recovery much better than the earth element, covering more in horizontal escapes for a longer amount of time while the earth element aids in more verticle escapes for a short time along with making the flag carrier more vulnerable to damage.
This change would also allow elves to defend better against very versatile classes like chemist by canceling out their strength and speed temporarily.

Defensively/Supportive:
When the water arrow is fully charged and shot at a teammate, anyone in a 2x2 radius of that arrow will receive resistance 1 for 15 seconds and regeneration 1 for 8 seconds. These effects also apply to the elf when used on themselves.
This would help in situations where the flag room is being rushed and situations where you or a few people lose a few hearts and there isn't a medic around.
This would also allow elves to survive a bit longer in fights against tankier classes if used correctly.

(Optional) Ability: Drenched
This ability would mainly be effective against pyros, but could be useful against mages aswell.

When an elf is caught on fire and they extinguish themself with a fully charged arrow, they will activate the Drenched ability. This would make the elf incapable to being set on fire, similar to medic, for 5 seconds. The elf would be dripping water droplet particles rapidly during this time.
This ability would require 2 arrows to use.

Tell me what you think! I'd love to see any buff to the water element in general, but these are my ideas to make the element more versatile.

Feedback / Criticism is appreciated!

 

I get what you mean. The duration of the slowness and weakness effects could be reduced. Albiet the debuff addition was more aimed towards chemists and how they can out-run most classes and are generally a pain to recover off of. I didn't put much thought into the other classes.
I still want to keep the debuff attributes to this element making it more useful in an offensive / recovery role, so would reducing the duration of the effects to maybe 4-6 seconds be adequate? It would be unfortunate to have to deal with an elf that spams the water element over and over, but some elves already do that with the earth element and they're not common.

Now that I look back on it the 8 seconds of regen was a bit much. Since the water element is used primarily for support the buff effects it gives out should be improved more then they are now. The water elements duration for a simple resistance effect is so low that it becomes practically useless. What if the regeneration was applied to a player when directly hit by the water element? Only giving off regeneration 1 for 5 seconds.
This would remove the problem of the elf healing an entire flagroom full of defensive players all round by spamming the water element on the floor, but keeping the minor healing effect to get rid of random damage taken. I still think the resistance effect should be increased to around 10-15 seconds for elves to survive a bit better against strong classes and groups of people.

I am an offensive elf so I did try to think about how the drenched ability would work. In the flagroom, anything that is not a chemist, buffed by a chemist, or medic is pretty easy for a pyro to kill. It has less armor sure, but can steak just a quick as any other class. (Pyro deals true damage when the enemy is on fire I believe, so you could be elf or heavy and you'd still take the same amount of damage from the pyro due to the true damage it inflicts when on fire). -I may be wrong, I don't know that much about how pyro deals damage. Remember, this ability can only be activated if the elf is on fire and shoots a full charged shot on itself. So the elf has to firstly survive the pyro encounter and enable the ability before they get extinguished. If used correctly this ability could be used very effectively against pyro's frenzy. This is more aimed as a support ability due to you having to distract the pyro or killing them off while someone else grabs the flag.

Pyro isn't a counter to elf like you say it is. The water element was made to be, a counter to pyro's fire. If anything elf is a counter to pyro, albeit not a very good one. Elf's counters are the classes that rely in speed and mobility. Classes like ninja, assassin, chemist, soldier, any class buffed by chemist, ect. Elf's main damage output is the pure element which requires an insane amount of precision if you want to do anything useful with it. Anything with speed or advanced mobility makes it that much harder to use the pure element against. Miss the element once and the whole combo is ruined. Along with the speed+mobility of these classes able to chase down an elf trying to escape and killing it relatively easy once it's used all its arrows trying to escape. I would consider a buffed soldier or a ninja much more of a counter to elf than pyro.

Thanks for the feedback and constructive criticism!

 

Thanks for the feedback. I covered most of what you talked about in my previous reply to @Xelia_ I edited the durations of the effects and tweaked how the regeneration would work.

About the full charged shot, you don't need to shoot it straight up in the air. You can just shoot it at your feet and it would activate the ability, similar to how the buffs work now. This ability would only work if the elf is set on fire before they shoot the arrow on themselves. I'd be fine if this ability consumed x2 arrows but considering this ability would only really effect mages and pyros, I think it should consume only 1.