Arctic, at the previous damage numbers, a pyro had serious trouble killing a medic (or anything pocketed for that matter). Direct contact certainly needed a buff. You may be right about afterburn though as any buff to afterburn also buffs direct damage (after all, when getting flamed, you're taking both afterburn damage and direct fire damage, correct?).
We should probably make a strategy and tactics thread for that discussion, there's no sense clogging up the announcement thread. Courtesy of Derp, I have a list of pyro's numbers in v2.6.3.
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