Why can elf do this?

DISCLAIMER: Refer to my elf guide if you don't think I have any idea what I'm talking about. Have fun destroying your brain trying to comprehend the 4300 words which prove that I do in fact know what the heck I'm talking about.

'Aight lemme present you with a situation here.

Spoiler: Short version

It took 6 shots to kill a heavy just because they steaked. Really? Elf is difficult enough, why is this possible?

I'm having some fun playing elf on Blackout. I'm kind of on a roll considering I just got back from about two weeks of inactivity (or at least minor activity since I've still been on these forums now and then). I even headshot-reflected @archerdwarf (I'm sorry I couldn't help myself pls dun kill me l8r kthx <33 c: ). Granted that's far more up to luck than it is up to skill, which I will now also add to this complaint: make the shield more interactive and therefore have a higher skill cap and effectiveness.

But here's the real issue. A few minutes later, I find myself in a fight against a heavy. Now, contrary to many who have tried to play elf, I find this to be a rather simple 1v1 and fairly easy win after having practiced this class for a couple hundred hours or however long I've nolifed it.

I land a couple shots in a row, then get that sparkly explosion particle effect which signifies that the next shot is the kill blow. Cool, I'm about to get a kill. Apparently not, because the next shot does in fact not kill the person. I proceed to land another two shots in a row (without missing, so I'm on a 5-shot streak here), get the particle effect yet again. Land my sixth consecutive shot, and no kill again. Why? Because steaking fast enough prevented the kill.

I honestly forgot whether or not I died after this (I think so), but that's not what I care about; I'm an elf, I die a lot anyway. The fact of the matter should be obvious: if it's possible for six consecutive fully-charged shots on a strafing target to not get the kill, something is wrong.

Solution: make 4 the maximum number of shots to get the kill. Or better yet for many aspiring elves, make it 3 shots like it usually is. Also, quick question for those who would like to answer: where did the myth of a two-shot kill come from? I've seen that around on the forums in threads about elf; I would like to clarify that it's a lie and would also like to know how it came to be.

thanks you for the portion of your life that you chose to meaninglessly dedicate to this post that possibly does not affect your likely-non-elf-playing self

(@Admiral_Munson I heard you like elf rants)

edit: can't believe I forgot to make this point, but I'll do it now: This can at least be some form of small sugar coating for the wind element nerf. Pllleeaaassseee????

 

Elf doesn't do pure damage for every shot. It's a snowball combo: 1st shot does normal arrow damage, 2nd shot does lots of damage, 3rd shot is usually the killblow.

 

..... can I live in that world? (before anyone attacks me for wanting something like that, I'll state for a third time I have no problem with current 3 shots)

I never said 2 shots kills a heavy or anyone else. 2 shots does not kill even a full-health assassin (or ninja in some cases). I would know. I play elf all the time.
edit: this shows my research on what I just said above, added it to main post just now

 

yeeessssssssss....... ;-;
I appreciate the suggestion but yeah, I can play elf pretty dang well. At least with pure element because I suck at capping no matter what class I am. And I don't get the particle effects without fully charged shots, either (I'm 98% sure...). And anyway, after the explosion of particle effects, the next fully-charged shot doesn't kill them sometimes.

Don't get me wrong, this thread isn't about pure element not working at all, I get plenty of kills with it. It's just that these occurrences, although infrequent, are annoying.

Edit: As a matter of fact, if a person steaks fast enough it usually takes 4 or sometimes 5 shots to kill a person; 6 shots like the original instance happens rarely. But still, the very idea that it can take 4 consecutive rapidly landed shots doesn't seem right.
Re-edit: changed title to something more to the point

Bump. This is still a thing. (edit: lol double post merged)

 

>.> this isn't about under-charged shots thoughh

 

Lol sorry, misread your message

 

YESS!! The shield is indeed quite broken. I've been headshotted and exploded by pyro arrows from a good distance away while using the shield. At first for the pyro one it seemed that it was only at point-blank range, while the pyro was inside the shield, where it wouldn't work, which was upsetting but made sense. But when the arrow comes from outside the shield and hits the outer sphere, the continues onward and hits me, I get a little upset.