Idea Assassin Buff/Changes

It doesn't need to a buff. You don't need to be good to play it. If you think it needs a buff you must be really really bad.

 

Mate, assassin can have a large impact in the game if you know how to use it, also assassin gets assassinate back IF you kill em with your sword/etc. But I agree that assa needs a small duration increase for speed and a less one for assassinate. If you see people blocking when they see you, don't try to assassinate, it won't work, but if u pretend to use it(hold it but swap to sword to make it look like you used it), than you could get more kills.

 

Disagree about Assassin buff but the points you brought up are why it needs a rework. Gameplay is kinda dumb and unbalanced i.e. oneshot or get oneshot.

 

It's not unbalanced tbh, assa will kill classes that can't block at all(pyro/mage) and people who ain't aware of their surroundings, but it gets easily shut down by ninja/chemist(has splash damage).

 

That's what I'm talking about. Most classes' gameplay isn't either 'extremely good' or 'extremely terrible' like Assassin's. If Assassin was balanced gameplay would be more in the middle.

 

You're right

 

But if every single CTF class was just in that middle ground, what fun would that be. xd
I like assassin's current state bc of it's a deviation to the two extremes. It insta-kills more easily than it gets insta-killed, which can be seen as the stem of its OPness, but then again it can get 2-shotted just as easily when under pressure (particularly and most especially by a ninja)...Hence encouraging teamwork and team-gameplay - most of the time you need specific classes doing specific roles to counter specific enemies and/or aid specific teammates if you want the best for the team.

 

I'm not saying "make every class balanced" -- I didn't phrase it very well -- but that Assassin alternates between extremes more than any other class, making it more unbalanced than it should be (imo).

Assassin doesn't encourage teamwork. It's so good at recovery that unless you're trying to recover off of someone who is really good and blocks every hit you don't really need help. As for countering, like you said it's easy to burst. That doesn't take teamwork, it just takes one guy who isn't Mage/Pyro paying attention

 

I think assassin could use longer speed but I think the assassinate is already good enough, if you buff it then it would just be more op then it already is. Speed can be pretty nice especially if you want to fight someone after your assassinate failed and 3 seconds wont help you a lot.