Pyro Powertechs OP?

You can't dispel it. Just like you can't dispel the other grenade either. You can dispel the dot from incendiary missle, but that does bad damage anyways and the only reason to dispel it is to stop the railshot spam because they lose the dot. But they can railshot off other people's dot's anyways, so it hardly hurts their damage in team play, only 1v1.

Also, railshot is not talented, it's baseline. Thermal detonator is what's broken here anyways, not railshot. The fact you can have it explode for 4500 right as a 4500 railshot hits is broken and WAY too much burst.

I can't agree that Pyrotech has a crappy survival, not the best but far from the worst. I find keeping IGC up and not speccing into the auto Combustible Cylinder helps greatly. Only difference is you have to reapply the dot manual via IM. 50% armor and 5% mitigation against everything is too good to pass up.

Or go with a 7/3/31 spec so you get the Ion overload dot from IGC procs and from Rocket Punch. That's the first or second most survivable spec in the game with the same ridiculous burst Combustible Cylinder pyro's have. The trade-off is you lose sustained damage. It actually has better survivability than a pure shield spec because of the high-end defensive talents in Pyro.

I agree with you Jabbb except for one point: Powertech Pyros have insanely high burst every 15 seconds with a thermal detonator --> railshot --> rocket punch combo, if they get a proc off that rocket punch, then the person is probably dead or extremely close to dieing from the next railshot if they don't get healed or if they don't have a defensive cd rolling.

Or go with a 7/3/31 spec so you get the Ion overload dot from IGC procs and from Rocket Punch. That's the first or second most survivable spec in the game with the same ridiculous burst Combustible Cylinder pyro's have. The trade-off is you lose sustained damage. It actually has better survivability than a pure shield spec because of the high-end defensive talents in Pyro.

I agree with you Jabbb except for one point: Powertech Pyros have insanely high burst every 15 seconds with a thermal detonator --> railshot --> rocket punch combo, if they get a proc off that rocket punch, then the person is probably dead or extremely close to dieing from the next railshot if they don't get healed or if they don't have a defensive cd rolling.

It's probably the highest burst in the game second only to guardian/juggernauts (and that doesn't mean it shouldn't be nerfed, both smash and thermal detonator need to be toned down).

The fix is easy, transfer 50% of the damage thermal detonator does into a undispelable physical bleed, call it shrapnel bleeding or something. So instead of 4500 upfront it does 2250 upfront and 2250 over 6 seconds. This is both a nerf and a buff. It would be a nerf by reducing the class' burst, but a buff by giving them one more dot that they can railshot off of that can't be dispeled. This would make the class perfectly fine in my book. It would actually make it the most balanced spec in the game.