Degreaser, Reserve Shooter, Axe-tinguisher?

I can't see it being worth losing the damage/crits of the Backburner, in order to swap weapons quickly.

The damage boost is cool if you can sneak up from behind or keep the flame on them from any angle. If you're charging in and need to severely damage your opponent within a short amount of time, then degreaser combos come into play.

And then it's nice to blast an ubered medic off a cliff without using 1/4 of your ammo.

Backburner's damage output is still pretty terrible in terms of overall DPS as compared to other classes.
You're better off having the utility of a lower cost compression blast and the power of combos. Puff and Sting is one of the most time effective kills you can get.

Quit using stoner lingo.

How about Flamethrower/Reserve Shooter/Axtinguisher?

All the airblasts of the Degreaser, a slightly faster switch speed, and non-gimped burn damage for those guys you can't manage to puff n sting.

<-- THIS POSTER IS A FUCKING RETARD AND DESERVES TO EAT SHIT IN HELL

*ahem*

We're talking about the fact that it's been given to the Pyro in the beta.

Yeah, they're testing it as a weapon for him. The possibility of using it to make the vanilla Flammenwerfer more viable is interesting. As well as shenanigans with airblasting an enemy up, then minicritting them out of the sky.

Purity Fist is a Misc Item (think hats) and it's purely cosmetic. Hell, from what I understand it doesn't even show up on the first person viewmodel despite being, well, a replacement of sorts for the Heavy's entire arm.

Anyhow, traded my Strange Wrench for a new Reserve Shooter. Don't particularly care if it was a bad move or not.