It's like a soft kick to the dick. -blam!-ed up and annoying but not so bad bc it's weak

If we go to the logic, a headshot with the throwing knife has to be hitkill

The range of the throwing knife is enough to compare to the other mele from others classes. That's how it's unique

I've posted about this before and I agree that a knife lodged into your skull should be able to kill you.

I think that a headshot with a basic knife should be an instant kill. It just makes sense.

*revives post*

I would be ok to have a one hit kill with a headshot if they would take off the aim assist on them.

Hunters need more in there PvE toolkit, not there PvP arsenal. OP simply needs to be content with his current abilities.

No Its a devensive abbility. one hit with your primary and a precision throwing knife hit works well. but most times i need it in sticky situations. if it would be a OHK you could run around and give every one a knife in thier face without causing a cooldown. that would be OP as [i]f[/i]uck

I main hunter, and the throwing knife is a head magnet. Thrown it straight into the dirt and 90% of the time it'll hit someones head.[spoiler]this stat may be slightly off.[/spoiler] Shoot em once with just about any gun and throw the knife (its pretty much instant kill and with the perk its instant regen so you can do it repeatedly) I believe its far more than strong enough and a buff would and could make it OP.

It is a one hit kill sometimes with the burn on (and I mean instant - so may not even be the burn that kills) - it tends to happen randomly but more often if you are jumping or other person is in the air. Just perfect the way it is. And - yes the opponents did have full health. If you lead with your throwing knife a lot you will start noticing one hit kills more.

As it is now a precision hit with the throwing knife and burn damage will do enough that ANY bullet from ANY gun will finish them off. Stop being a lazy -blam!- and just pull the trigger. If you have the aim to get a precision hit with the knife, you should be able to hit them with a bullet. No buff is needed.

[quote]I would like to have a calm, civilized conversation about the Hunter throwing knives. I believe that the headshot damage, not the base damage by any means, should be increased. My reasoning is... Titans have a one shot melee, the shoulder charge, and I have also seen titans regenerate health upon dealing melee damage. Warlocks have an ability that allows them to receive an extra overshield upon landing a melee hit. Hunters, Gunslinger in particular, have no way to land a melee and immediately kill someone apart from using there exotic slot and having to be invisible AND behind the enemy. I use Gunslinger, and I can land a headshot with the knife AND have the burn ability active, and not receive a kill. I believe that that should be rewarded with a kill, especially with a burn. Even if a basic throwing knife (without the burn) would not make a 1 shot, a precision shot AND the burn affect should. Edit: Due to a common misunderstanding, I am implying that the burn should kill the person. I don't believe a basic knife should be able to kill a player with one shot. The incendiary knife perk would have to be active in able to get the kill. Edit: Due to a common statement, which I do believe to be true, I think that of this was applied, the hit box for the head should also become smaller. I will agree, I have made a few knife shots that I thought were going to miss completely. Edit: Let's go guys! 100 replies! Keep posting that input! I'm loving your guy's opinions on the matter. Edit: 200 replies! Keep them coming! Edit: 500 replies! Keep commenting! Please vote and leave your opinion below on whether you think this should be changed or not. I would like to keep this calm and without all the fighting and arguing. I'm not crying for it to be buffed, but it should be considered given the abilities of the other classes. Edit: Just to make this clear, you would have to use the incendiary knife perk. I don't know how many times I have to say this. That perk takes the place of the precision reset perk, so you could not run around constantly making knife kills. Please understand this. I'm getting tired of explaining this to each person.[/quote] That would be cool, but the hit box would have to be smaller

Completely disagree with some of the points you have made, but I do think throwing knife needs to be a one hit

Then throwing knives would be the new thorn lol. People would rage pretty hard about being "one shot" by them. If it would take them down to about halfway of their health(the red bar, not the blue) then that would be reasonable. One shot from a hand cannon, pulse, scout, or a couple from an auto would finish them very easily

If you played bladedancer, you don't need an exotic and you don't need to be invisible to get a one shot kill.

Nope. Nope nope nope. Any fool can throw a knife at a fools stomach and have it track to their head and one-shot them. Not a lot can double-tap and quickly finish off an enemy with a throwing knife for a very satisfying kill. [spoiler]though we could fix this as an exotic 1. Throwing knifes do more precision damage Or maybe 2. Throwing knives blind an enemy when hit in the head; since hunters don't have a way to blind enemies [/spoiler] Instead of talking about throwing knives being one-shot lets talk about the [b]boring and unimaginative[/b] TTK hunter exotics!

One shot with a handcannon throw to the face and have him burn to death

I see you dont use the shoot and throw technique.