Idea Heavy's Weapon

Heavy is a pretty basic class, we all know that. You go in with full gear, do a LOT of damage if against low-medium armored classes, then come out possibly with steak left from your armor. When heavies come out of a big fight, they should need a medic because they are taking the hits for their team but also doing insane amounts of damage all the time, or they can be defending. It's an all around good class, but after playing ninja I realized that heavies have so much armor and they can 3 or 2 shot ninjas. Ninja is a class to get kills on medium armor people I know, but sometimes you need to get a cap for your team and there will be a heavy sitting right by the flag waiting for someone to rush over to the flag room or a ninja to pop up. But for ninjas, we cant do what we need to if there is a heavy sitting around every corner with a diamond sword - 2 less hearts damage than the ninja. 2 hearts makes a big difference and the ninja has speed also, but the heavy will eventually get a hit (if they aren't a new pvper) and then they will get that momentum going that's hard to get away from. So I was thinking, maybe for the sake of the lower armored classes the heavy should have an iron or stone sword? this would allow the class to get in at least one more hit on the heavy, which could help their team in a matter of a couple seconds.

 

All the range classes should be able to kill heavy if they are good at the class, but heavy is supposed to take damage not exactly dish it out, its mostly supposed to be paired with a medic and a strong class but weak armor. It shouldn't deal close to as much damage as the ninja

 

I wasn't a founder, but I played back then. Heavy was the basic class that you would use when you started while you were training some of the other classes. From the definition of heavy (pretty much meaning tank, damage taker) it is supposed to be in the front of the group taking the hits for it's team which is obvious, its the only class with full diamond armor. Dwarf has nearly as much armor and a much more powerful sword, but it has to stay crouched and barely move, so they made dwarf a much less good class so that it would be even, but the heavy isn't supposed to be like this. Its supposed to run with it's teammates and get them closer because people will be focused on them or the medic. Its really just a complicated way of saying it has the armor, it doesn't need the firepower as much because it should stick with it's teammates to help them. It is a team game after all

You do kind of have a point, but it is hard to avoid heavies since they are so popular these days seeming. I'm saying this for the sake of mostly ninjas because its hard to kill even a soldier unless they have no idea what to do.

 

First of all, dwarf can be good if they rotate the spot they are in. And second of all, I agree heavy can be used for defense, but it should mainly be used for body blocking the flag and knocking back enemies. But the point of the post is that it is a bit too difficult for some classes to kill the heavy because of the fact it doesn't take many hits for the heavy to kill them.

 

I guess you are right, it can be used by its self or in a team and work efficiently. I'm on the side of keeping it the same now. Like how ninja and mage are mainly abilities, but they have low armor.