The Sorcerer Soldier

*Matador(Follower)
*Merasmus' Secret Stash
*Merasmus' Staff

Amaze your allies!(They won't be.) Terrify your foes!(They seen worse.) And put on the greatest show ever(Only thing great is the big fireworks show and that's it) with this totally enchanted launcher(The magic is in their technology) proved by the great Merasmus himself(While stealing all his stuff unknowingly like the "best" roommate that you are would do.)

Pros:
+ You can play mindgames with your homing magic missles to mess with people
+/- Potions are the wildcard of your uno game, use them wisely
+ Everyone loves bumper cars, especially for the road killing experience

Cons:
- You will be distracted while aimming your missles
- Bumper Cars make sloppy, but fun, killing machines
- You don't have a shotgun to deal close to mid range

Originally posted by Pascal C::

I'd personally change the movement speed bonus from the Full Throttle to be while active or disabled when using your primary.

the former could work better so that you can have 2 different fast speeds without stacking onto each other

OK

The Bio-Breaker is fun to use to plow throught enemies and can retreat or catch-up to the front/backlines without using the GRU or Evition Notice, and that's fine.
It's weak against Natasha(slow down), large enough sentry nests(can't get close without getting badly hurt or killed), Breif Negotiator snipers(they can outrun you while shooting at the heavy if they keep aimming) and other methods that I don't know yet, and that's also fine

HOWEVER there's a problem with that must be adressed reagarding the Bio-Breaker combined with the Full Throttle: Ludicrous Speed

While normally heavy gets a standard 37% movement speed when spinning his stock minigun, the Bio-Breaker uses the Agility power from Mannpower when spinning that increases movement speed by 50%
But the stat in question says: "While spun up: Gain a small move speed bonus and no natural move speed penalty", so the movement speed is now his normal walk at 77% with a minor agility speed-up(I dunno how exact it is, 17% is my best guess)
If using the Full Throttle, each kill increases heavy's movement speed by 12% with a max of 60% at 5 kills and if used in tandom with the Bio-breaker, how fast can heavy go?

(You can answer the question above for yourself if you want or if you want to show-off, and don't be afraid to show your work if you're that confiedent)

My answer: Too fast for a heavy.

This makes the drill too good for it's own good and as it's co-creator, it must be dealt with ASAP to keep it in line.
So here are my proposed stats
OLD:
(+) While spun up: Gain a small move speed bonus and no natural move speed penalty
(+) While spun up: Deals 25 damage per tick at close range in-front of user
(-) While spun up: 8 ammo consumed per second
(-) Weapon can only be mini-crit boosted
(-) Cannot primary attack

NEW:
(+) While spun up: Gain a small move speed bonus and no natural move speed penalty
(+) While spun up: Deals 20 damage per tick at close range in-front of user
(-) While spun up: 10 ammo consumed per second
(-) Weapon can only be mini-crit boosted
(-) No ammo from ammo boxes while active or spun(I dunno which)
(-) +10-15% damage vulnerability while spun
(-) Cannot primary attack

This could work given there are some guns that fit on one class with reload animations found in another class, but I dunno if that's better than just importing custom animations that came with the guns on the workshop submissions.

Then again, I'm not expert in animation nor good doing it; so who knows if this can actually work

Originally posted by LegoFan9o5:

Originally posted by KoopaKing64:

Speaking of jumpers, is there any chance that the flare jumper could come back from retirement?

Besides, you addressed the hyperbolic jumps of the classic Flare Jumper, and I will agree that old version was over the top, but had its uses and was generally fair on its own. Reducing its jumps would make it still viable, but weaken the intense tandem potential with the Phlog or even the new Psycho's Axe.

That may be true, but there are other weapons that can do a fair and a bit better job than those two: the backburner, the back scratcher, the power jack, the makeshift mutilator(hot air balloon), and the uncontainable reaction are a few that do well with rogue playstyle for either more damage, more mobility options, or for surprise tactics in one vs one situations

Originally posted by LegoFan9o5:

Originally posted by sqwid:

Viability =/= Unfun to use

That's like removing the Rocket Jumper from the game because it doesn't deal damage.

Man, arguing whether or not the Sentry Jumper should be removed or not is turining into a war on opinions.

If I were to state another perspective: Sentry Jumping is very uncommon compared to Rocket or Sticky Jumping, which makes the two official weapons viable in their own right. Higher mobility for less damage potential is great for a high mobility Demo and a floaty Trolldier, but both serve its niche as a tool for practice and as a playstyle.

The Sentry Jumper does not promote a new playstyle. Having it on Engineer's secondary slot, his least important one compared to his self-defense or his wrench, makes the impact on general Engineer gameplay completely unchanged a majority of times, except that you have a gimped secondary. Even as a tool it's weak and paradoxical, because Sentry Jumping is highly gimmicky and almost never a viable option due to the few positions you can gain and the sheer damage you take from your rockets, which largely defeats its "practice" stake. Even more defeating is its inexplicable increase in blast jump height, which makes it a bad tool for practicing sentry jumps because it can teach you leathal or impossible to accomplish mobility strategies.

Speaking of jumpers, is there any chance that the flare jumper could come back from retirement?

I was genuinely curious and a bit confused about why it went nowhere since it is a skill that Pyro players do occasionally for sneaky mobility and surprise attacks, tho I can understand the problems with it.

The main issue being it's too good of a weapon to have because it can literally jump you across the map in a single leap, and that doesn't really come across as something a pyro can and should do.
Most of his other flare guns have limited horizontal movement due to their jump heights and that works well enough for pyro to deal with; the bigger the jump, the more side movement you'll have; but make the jump too big and you're bound to be at the first point no sweat in one to two jumps.

Originally posted by Agent Silver:

Crafting, are you TRYING to turn the Heavy into a god?

A bit ironic coming from the same class that gets the short end of the stick with usefulness on his official weapons.
Goes to show you folks: NEVER fix any problem by switching extremes, I.E. from worthless to OP.

Originally posted by MEDIC!:

Originally posted by AwesomeGuyDj:

Crit heals is when you dont get healed or damaged for a certain amount of time so your healed more. I dont see the problem it causes but ok.

The reason it works is why. Re-healing the person will change your healing amount to the new one after crit heals, so something with how that works is what's screwy.

Is it even possible to remove the critical healing effect entirely or is it hardwired to the game's code itself?

Originally posted by Crafting | cTF2w:

If you didn't notice, I plan on removing the "This weapon deploys & holsters 50% slower" penatlies since we are adding the "shark" meter.

Oh, I forgot you got rid of that penalty. That's very helpful actually.
I'm just saying that it wouldn't hurt to decrease the speed penalty on dry to 25% instead of 50% because a heavy trying to fill up the meter with melee only while dealing with half walking speed may be a bit hard to pull off in a single life.

By the way, out of curiosity, which jaws of steel skin do you prefer: Buck-tooth or Sharp tooth?

Saw the newest video about the jaws of steel and it's fantastic, especially with the new shark meter mechanic.
That said, I do have 2 things I want to talk about and no, it's not anything major but rather small oddities.

First, the speed stat of the fists don't really have a matching equal value compared to the rest of the stats, and here's what I mean by that:
Damage- 25% less dry, 25% more wet
Fire rate- 25% slower dry, 25% faster wet
Walk speed- 50% slower dry, 25% faster wet

You see the difference now? Why isn't the walk speed 25% slower on dry instead of 50? It looks out of place for the eyes but more important it's not doing heavy any favors in his fist fights if he can't keep up with his targets to charge his shark meter.

Now I like to turn everyone's attention to the weapon skin for a moment. The jaws of steel has 2 skins to choose from and while the buck-toothed shark is funny to look at, I prefer the alt version with the sharp knife teeth. But that's just my opinion and I know that people like their shark being buck-tooth, so there's that.

Anyway, good luck with the update.