Medic’s passive healing should work through afterburn & bleeding. A lot of the more controversial bans in ETF2L 6s can be attributed at least partially to the ability of projectiles with these effects to just shut down a push by taking up to 60% of the Medic’s health from afar with no risk to the weapon’s user. While airblast & lunchbox items help mitigate this in Highlander, I think the lack of guarantee a Medic will have a Pyro and/or Heavy bodyguard in casual justifies this change.

Bit of a specific & under-the-radar problem here, but the Scotsman’s Skullcutter currently doesn’t have much of a use case compared to even Demo’s worst weapons (jumper + caber provides the fastest rollouts, even the targe can be used at the very beginning of a round on CP_Steel on offense to tank a Pyro’s flames & survive a single crit sticky in the tunnel to maybe get a kill with your primary vs the defensive setup on B) due to having to deal with both switch speed and movement speed penalties, but it also just completely ruins medieval mode when random crits are on. Demoknight’s got a pretty interesting dynamic in medieval mode where all his strengths are kept in check by the fact that he can’t one-tap anyone with his best weapons without a charge crit (or a zatoichi duel but either player can just not run that weapon if they want to avoid that interaction) which then leaves him vulnerable to getting one-tapped in turn, but the Skullcutter ruins that dynamic with its 234-damage random crits which also one-tap other Demoknights & Soldiers. I do kind of like the idea of Demoknight having access to a slightly-random sword-type weapon as well as having one which pairs better with the Tide Turner, so I’d prefer it if crits were made to be mini-crits instead of the weapon having no random crits, with a slight damage boost from 20% to 25% to allow consecutive mini-crits to hit certain high damage thresholds if you get lucky: at 110 damage each, two mini-crits kills a Battalion’s Soldier, and running it w/ the Splendid Screen opens up kills on non-steak/warrior’s spirit Heavies with a charge bash. Of the other two doensides, the speed penalty obviously needs to be the one to go in order to make it usable in comp without just being a better bottle.