Pikeman Archive

am I a pain?

Geez I hope not.

well said. WHEN ARE WE GONNA GET A GOD **edit** **edit**ING BREAK IN THIS GAME????? WHAT THE HELL DO WE HAVE TO DO FOR THEM TO THROW US A **edit**ING BONE?????

Wait. I forgot something

I don't know if I would go that far just yet...Hehe, there are plenty of people here who have better things to say than I do. Things have been looking bleak lately with the general combat changes in the works that seem to mean less effectiveness on our parts, the rapid response to Jedi issues ($$$), and some other things, but Thunderheart posting in here yesterday, along with a small joke by Q-3PO somehow made me, personally, feel better. I'm very much looking forward to the 10 Questions being answered (with real answers).

When TH said that they fixed the range mods on the scythe...ugh. But perhaps there is some better reason that they haven't fixed the LVA because it is already live and making a change would require some deeper modifications that they aren't prepared to make. It's difficult to think of what kind of changes that would be, that would push back a change for so long, as it seems like a fairly easy thing to fix to me. But who knows,we don't have a copy of the source.

I think Gunman has done an extremelygreat job of using his Correspondent powersto increase our visibility so we're appearing on the Dev Terminals.Maybe we will see some action soon on our issues, the 10 questions should be a nice catalyst, and with him backing us up, I think we might have the chance of seeing some change. But...if they waiver more, give us non-chalant, circular responses and continue this run-around...well, we've been ignored for a long time already, much too long.

antares
master pikeman

Man, you're really pissed off.

I like you.

LOL

I sound much more ticked than I actually am.

I just want the devs to TRULY understand that this profession in the early stages is very very lacking. I also want them to just play the profession.

Pikeman is a lot of fun but it doesn't BECOME fun until you get that first accuracy box and a few speed boxes. That is wrong. There are major problems with the profession but they can be EASILY fixed. All you have to do is change a -55 to a +10 or something like that and boom a ton of our problems go away. Who needs defense when you can drop pretty much anything in 2 hits . It's actually connecting those 2 hits that's currently the problem.

I see the swordsman's awesome weapons with a max damage of 200 and speeds of 2.1 with medium armor piercing and I drool and think "why can't pikeman have weapons that great". Why does our selection of weapons have to be limited to a slow AP2 weapon, a slow AP1 weapon or a slow AP0 weapon? Why can't we get a fast AP1 or AP2 weapon and why can't our exotic damage type weapon be AP2?

See things like that you don't get a grasp for and realize unless you play the profession. On paper maybe our weapons do work out well. In practice though the weapon's leave much to be desired.

I looked at the dates on the inconcept thread for pikeman and it said something like Jan 22-April. Please tell me we don't have to wait till April to get anything done. I love pikeman when i have buffs, armor, and food and I actually connect otherwise it's a death trap.

I like your post, but I did'nt have any problems mastering the profession, I did it in under a week. Granted that was with all the stuff I listed above. I think the issue lies with how affective we are. I don't even venture out and use my pike unless i'm loaded up on crates upon crates of food (ryshcate and boh), and I hear ryshcate is gone after this patch. GREAT! I'd rather go out and take on nightsisters or the entire rancor cave with just 0404 in 2hand and a powerhammer than i would doing piket missions with an lva.

I certainly hope we get some small modifications such as accuracy mods on lva's or vl's before april. I don't mind the ham costs if i'm actually hitting something.