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[Jackrabbit]

Finally got around to using my name and description tag with the wholly unoriginal "Urine Good Company" and "100% naturally sourced urine (headshots not included)" just to annoy people.

[Strangething]

Is there anything to recommend the regular flaregun over the detonator? It seems like a pure upgrade.

Someday I will be credit to team and use the backburner/mailbox combo, but for now I'm a lowly backburner pyro. Good thing I only play pyro if no one else is playing one. My favorite classes are Engi, Medic, and Heavy, so naturally I have spies.

[Duke 2.0]

Is there anything to recommend the regular flaregun over the detonator? It seems like a pure upgrade.

Someday I will be credit to team and use the backburner/mailbox combo, but for now I'm a lowly backburner pyro. Good thing I only play pyro if no one else is playing one. My favorite classes are Engi, Medic, and Heavy, so naturally I have spies.

Flaregun has crits on burning enemies, the dreaded flarepunch combo. Detonator only minicrits.

 I kinda feel the Detonator isn't terribly good. Has a neat gimmick, but the cost is too high for me.

[Flying Carcass]

Personally, I prefer the detonator on maps that provide shortcuts to those who can get up ledges... pl_goldrush comes to mind.

[Jackrabbit]

I have never been able to effectively use the detonator, personally. I have awful timing.

[Putnam]

Is there anything to recommend the regular flaregun over the detonator? It seems like a pure upgrade.

Someday I will be credit to team and use the backburner/mailbox combo, but for now I'm a lowly backburner pyro. Good thing I only play pyro if no one else is playing one. My favorite classes are Engi, Medic, and Heavy, so naturally I have spies.

The degreaser is far better with the mailbox/axtinguisher. Easier to use, too.

[dragonshardz]

I'm not very good at rocketjumping or stickyjumping. This makes me sad.

[Mongol13524]

What about wrangler or detonator jumping?

[The Scout]

I'm pretty good at rocket and sticky jumping, but the detonator and wrangler are a mystery to me. The Gunboats used to be my Soldier's preferred load out, but switching to the shotgun I die a lot less.
Probably due to the fact I have a back up weapon that doesn't kill myself. But if you're still going to fire the rocket launcher at close range, then you're gonna die a lot.

There's only one things in this game that make me angry. Anything able to insta-kill. Mostly because they're almost unavoidable when half of the enemy team is snipers and spies, but when the only thing that kills you is that random crit grenade, you get paranoid.

[Mongol13524]

Gah, instakill. I might as well go on a small rant about that.

Backstabs: A good game mechanic, but trickstabs need to go. When I'm looking directly at and attacking an enemy spy, I don't want them to be able to "backstab" me.

Sniper rifles: Fairly well balanced on most maps, but infuriating nonetheless. No matter how good you are at dodging (and you can get very good), someone with a hitscan infinite range and accuracy one hit kill weapon just kills you, end of story. Like most death in TF2, you simply try to avoid the circumstance.

Huntsman: The problem is that is uses the huge stonking projectile hitbox. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx-YFFnruDs

[miauw62]

Is there anything to recommend the regular flaregun over the detonator? It seems like a pure upgrade.

Someday I will be credit to team and use the backburner/mailbox combo, but for now I'm a lowly backburner pyro. Good thing I only play pyro if no one else is playing one. My favorite classes are Engi, Medic, and Heavy, so naturally I have spies.

EDIT:
Nvm, it was a typo on his side, no offense!

[PTTG??]

No, the Phlog is the real crutch weapon. It eliminates the Pyro's ability to help other players and allows him to self-uber at will.

[jc6036]

So I saw some discussion about rocket and sticky bomb jumping earlier...

I have to admit that I'm getting pretty good with explosive jumps. I just have a hard time landing some of the stickybomb jumps sometimes. I'm less of a flying demo and more of a wildly flailing through the air demo.

And as for all of the pryo weapons, I have to agree that both the Phlog and Backburner make me rage very hard. Phlog doesn't have airblast, right? So for people that just WM1 it's a dream come true and a straight upgrade, but for people that actually can play and use airblast it's a flat sidegrade, correct?

[Duke 2.0]

 If you think the Backburner and Phlog imply you are bad at Pyro

 Well

 Buddy, I'm sorry to say you are missing the point

[jc6036]

I don't know, I'm just going on what I've seen. Trading air blast for damage just seems very strange to me for some reason.