Heart Arrows

it does make the archer class more supporting, but I don't think that a lot of people will actually use this.

 

Yeahno.

If you're supporting your friendly Knights by attacking at point-blank, you're playing Archer wrong.
And if you DO support from a range, you don't stun, and a single shot (which you're likely to be performing as opposed to a triple shot if you're making a quick last-ditch effort to save your buddy) only does 1 heart of damage, meaning they probably won't die.

This doesn't mean I like the idea of heart arrows, though. 1 heart of healing isn't really worth charging a shot for.

Now, an uber-expensive arrow that regenerates the health of all nearby allies for a while? That would be cool.

 

No No No! No arrow hearts

 

I think this is fucking brilliant.
Maybe not quite so little as a single heart, but shooting a burger or the aforementioned regen at someone would be great. It would be amazing for support, and if their aim was bad, it would heal the other player. However, to keep from spamming it, maybe it would disintegrate if missed, and it would become friendly to the person it hit, making it a high risk/reward thing. It would possibly generate a field of healing for a couple seconds, that didn't move with the knight, keeping it from making them almost a mobile medic, but rather just heal everything within 2 blocks for a second or two.
Keeping it from moving with the knight would make it almost an instant chokepoint, and keep it from just being low charged on someone like an Uber charge, either helping or hindering and making it a spot worth taking a risk for, even if just for a second.

 

This is a pretty clever way of adding support to the game. I'm already in love with the idea of shooting hearts as a cosmetic texture, but the idea of mobile healing units adds a lot more depth to combat and teamwork. I feel like this would be a very smart answer to the long coveted support class, as it seems the archer could and has been becoming. Anything that supports cooperation is brilliant in my eyes. An extra heart can go a long ways for a knight, making the archer and knight combo synergy increase, which is lovely. I'd like to see this implemented.
Brilliant idea. :)

 

The Power of love. =w=
Simple as that. xD

 

Though I am not entirely sure how useful this'd be, I do find the idea completely hilarious!

"Ey Bill, you look a bit hurt? Want some help with that?"
'Sure Steve, what do you got for me?'
"HEART ARROWS TO THE FACE!"
'Gah! Being healthy hurts!'

But on a more serious note, it'd be interesting if the arrows worked exactly the same, just with a heart attached, so that you could fire through an ally, heal them, and hit the enemies past them with a normal arrow! That'd be pretty clever!

 

I think this is a really good idea but I see two problems

1. Only players who have been with the game for a while who actually know what they're doing would be the only ones doing this.

2. You hit someone on the opposing team with the heart arrow and then they laugh at you and then your team hates you.

 

well that's the risk that you take

 

Comparable risk to trying to shoot fire arrows when your own wooden things are nearby!

 

Yeah well in both situations you end up feeling like a shitty team member

 

3. You can now grief by healing the opposite team.

The griefing potential for this is pretty significant.

 

Yeah now that I think more about this I feel like the negatives outweigh the positives. Sorry Auburn

 

As if fire arrows don't have this? Anything can be used to grief for the most part, but that doesn't mean that's how it's always going to be used. I still believe that this could easily be an awesome addition to the archer class. Even if it's not used as often because it's hard to use, I still see tremendous potential.

 

I tend to shoot past my allies quite often, so it would be nice...

Besides, if you trust teammates to have KEGs in your base, you can trust archers to carry hearts around!

 

That would be both hilarious and completely useful too.