User blog:Vertroyer/Suggestion for Arsonist role

So i've been thinking of something about the Arso and i've been seeing from the discussions,threads and comments that it's having a low win rate. This is gonna be boring ,stupid and inexperienced talk from me, but just bear with me for a little.

So the Arsonist's advantages is that he can penetrate night immunity and renders the doctor's healing ability useless with his firepower. He also can gather it all up until a suitable moment for ignition that guarantees him a win the next day or racks a ton of kills.

His downsides, however, is that he takes a long time to get any kills when compared to other killers(such as the GF,SK,Jailor,Vet, and if you think about it, the WW as well). This is considered without the killing of his doused targets, but when it happens, the result is him wasting nights in vain. Imagine an arso spending 3 nights dousing 3 people, and due to the intruding of the town, mafia and any other potential factors, the 4th night he ignites and then he gets only 1 kill cuz the other 2 just died and he wasted 2 nights, maybe even no kills and the disintegration of his efforts.

From my playing experience, out of every 100 matches that have an arso in it, he emerges in only 4 or 5 of them victorious. And out of every 50 matches i play as arso, i only won 3. Although the role seems powerful since it's offensive abilities include ignoring healing effects and night immunity and it's defensive abilities is the attribute of night immunity, the statistics of the wins this role got speaks in a different voice.

I'll stop boring you of what you already know, what this blog really is for is this:

I play games with Arsonists in the setup and this idea pops out to me whenever someone is incinerated by an Arso. The whole body of the victim gets incinerated,right?Incineration is the absolute burning of something or someone to ashes, right? Still with me? So how does after all that burning and blazing, that one piece of paper (the Last Will) is next to his body without a scratch?

Warning here:I came up with the idea logic-wise, not gameplay-wise.

Why don't we give a slight buff to the Arso role by burning the will? The role of the victim is still revealed normally but the will gets burnt in the process and therefore not found or reported to the town as burned up? If not fully burned at least the will shows up with lots of black spots, ashes and thermally decomposed parts in the last will where you can only make up very few parts of the last will?

I know, I know, horrible idea, the smashing majority of the wiki users here will just object on this idea, let alone the big red stamp from the developers into all this... and i know this cuz i predicted what replies people would come up with to this suggestion, they could include replies such as:


 * Mixing Janitor ability with Arso role ? Pretty OP? No way, piss off !
 * Arso already powerful, it's the players who suck! Like you!
 * That's a horrible idea! Why not do some buff like immunity or multiple douses or some stuff like that?! Who needs this useless crap?! Idiot!
 * shrugs* You dumb? Jani and forger already screw last wills up, and docs can't heal Arso's attacks, you trying to destroy game balance?
 * Go back to classic noob, Arsonists are not Unique roles, they can have multiple Arsos and can be supported by non-faction roles, stop whining.

._. i'm gonna probs be hated for this, but it's just a thought, so what do you guys think?

I don't think this will ever be added to the game, like, legit no way anyone will agree on this. Mainly because i came up with this while thinking logically, not in terms of gameplay. But i still wanna hear what you guys think about it!


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 * gets insulted few seconds later*

ow..... :'(