Dying is the equivalent of healing back to full, it just takes a little longer. If you're on the other side of a big map, and you spent all your boost getting into a situation where you need to retreat, it takes about as long to heal as dying and having a medium-respawn timer.

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"(such as Guardians being immune to a weapon)"

Waitwhat? That happened?

What weapon?

"May seem unfair punishing a whole class for a select group, but fact is that until LD is balanced properly, strikers could use some punishment."

True. My argument is based solely on the suggested idea. Never thought of expanding into possibilities.

Oops ^.^'

I'd have to agree, this wouldn't cripple strikers at all. I mean let's face it, teh heart pads were there for when you're passing your base, not to be abused by strikers. On most maps you can boost back to base, heal and return to the action faster than it'd take you to die, wait, res then run along, and that's not even considering what happens if the action is at a mid-point!
Slow heartpads and guardians are how you're supposed to heal, I don't imagine it was the intention for strikers to be boosting back to heal as they do, as it keeps them alive and in the game for longer. Mind, strikers were supposed to have low hp and rely on guardians to heal, but w/ heart trinkies and triplemax UVs, strikers can kill a whole team, ignore the guardian and heal, and be back before half the other team has caught up w/ them. It's abuse is what it is in a frank sense.

Also, as I've said in other threads, strikers are OP. Not the players, not the gear, but the striker class as a whole is very imbalanced compared to the others, with high, relevant bonuses, unbreakable power, crazy speed and the ability to heal up faster than guardians. I agree that this'd be a simple way to just allow strikers to die a bit more often. It won't nerf the class in any way so keeps it fair; it'd essentially just prevent a small exploit tat keeps strikers seemingly immortal.

Also, Guardians are immune to vortexes. Completely unaffected by the drag.

A recon would have to be both pretty skilled and lucky to take out a competent striker, given some thought.

Or guardian. Guard and Recon powers can be broken by the striker, who can then chase them down w/o givin' them a chance of escape. That's something that the other classes simply cannot do, nor compete with, and never will be able to as long as boosters are unbreakable.

In any case, I still don't think disabling a Striker's use of health pads will provide a fix

Don't see it as a fix as much as a balancing. As I say, it'd just push them to fight until they die and have them off the field for a bit longer. As it is, with them healing when they want, they can remain on the field the entire match. 25k damage counts come from being at high/full hp every time they get into a fight. Ofc, ce revives negate this as well, but it forces them to wait or choose, like everyone else.
Mind also that this isn't just swordies, but strikers. Gunners will be similarly affected, as they do the same thing. Landin' a hit on a gunner is hard enough as it is w/o knowin' that they're full hp every time you see them.

Cool, but is that a bug?

There are a few unlisted bonuses on the pvp classes to give them an edge. People just don't notice them as much because they don't come up so much; vortexes, for example, are rarely used.

how about just a charge attack that damages everything in it's path and runs in a straight line, only ending when it hits an unfriendly player or a wall.

Yes, if only Strikers could do that.

On a more serious note, I tend to see some of the best strikers going back whenever the area gets quiet. They don't bail on a fight, but given any opportunity, a heal up increases chances to survive the next fight. The ones that never heal tend to either be absolute mega pros, or just people ready for suicides, or when they know they're against opponents they know they can beat easily. Mind that for strikers it only takes some 20 sec to heal and get back to the action, tops. On 3 point maps it's often faster than revving, excl long maps like Frostbite.

Doesnt switching classes/loadouts in the base auto-heal all your life anyways?
It'll only be a very small nuisance.

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Is entirely possible to do even when there are strikers on your team. I've seen folk in T1/2 loadouts (T3 weapons, mind you) taking home highest damage more than a few times.

EDIT: In fact, I know a few folk that run striker in Wolver/Dusker armour all the time. I'm uncertain if they're UVd at all, and they do use T3 weapons, but they play every match like that as a challenge, and perpetually get good scores.

Oh, was just pointing it out to anyone else reading to emphasise your point, was all~

This suggestion might have some merit if it weren't for a certain silly pay-to-win feature the developers decided to include to prevent PvP from having credibility. All this is going to do is encourage the abuse of energy revives, further increasing the gap between wealthy pay-to-win types and everyone else.