Idea Pyro Tweak

I disagree with this. I think it's a good feeling you get when you place your fire from the flint and steel on the right blocks to catch someone with it. Definitely should not make it easier to set people on fire.

 

Hey Forleb,
I'm a rather new Pyro main. I wouldn't say that the meta relies almost only on frenzies or Pyros, of course Pyro is a must-have in bigger matches.
I once was in a ppm where my team was Pyro-less, cause the other team's offense was mainly built by counter-pyro classes (Elf Medic ect.)
Also, if you set a player on fire as Pyro, a swing from a medic is enough to shut down the flame.
I would preferably change, that you would need to restore your player to remove the fire. The intention behind this is, that setting someone on fire would reward them high, since it is hard to ignite a split offensive group.

 

Eh

I think pyro is fine.

 

Let's be honest here, the reason behind this idea is that you can't kill a pyro. The class if fine.

 

When the new version of pyro was introduced, the class turn from mainly defensive, to a class which now has offense opportunities. Since the change I've tried to try its new qualitative aspects for offense purposes to I guess try to become better at recovering and farm frenzy in general. leading to what I and other pyros have adapted to today.

Flint has several purposes whether your main offense or defense, or in my case both. As Recovs said, placing flint is actually fun and the alternative to quickly light your opponent on fire knowing it takes a full bow charge to light the opponent on fire. On defense it is very valuable, making it damaging on the offense to quickly light a player on fire and deal 'fire damage'.

I get the pocket frenzy which is in-fact what I do to farm frenzy and head for a recovery, but this I feel like needs to stay to still obtain that threat level while heading for a recovery. But I would love to hear input as to how it could be changed to keep it's threat level while not nerfing it that it makes removing stalemates even harder thing to achieve.

If anything, while frenzy is powerful in casual, in competitive gameplay it becomes 'nullified', becoming more challenging for a pyro because everyone knows how to properly deal with a pyro. Further implying that if players became more familiar with it's counters, it becomes nerfed in its self in casual gameplay, but perhaps that's a reach.

I wanted to reply on different points on this thread, but if I were to somehow nerf this it would be to perhaps limit flint somehow on offense but still great for defense, countering your pocket frenzy point.

 

Gotta admit that the flint and steel is useless