Pikeman Archive

Hello,

We are conducting research to help focus our efforts on providing the most effective weapons at the right price for thePikeman profession and others. We would greatly appreciate it if you would take the time to comment on the following:

• Which weapon (or weapons) are you most interested in purchasing?


• What stats (damage, speed, HAM costs, etc) are you looking for? (unsliced)


• How much would you expect to pay?

Your assistance will help weaponsmiths on all galaxies serve you better.

Thank you,

Bumping this thread because I'd really like to hear from the pikemen out here. I've gotten numerous responses from over classes - you're not going to let them out-do you are you?

i tend to use the vibro lance because it is more accurate and faster. Heres some stat ranges i will use now...but want betetr...just havent seen better yet.

Speed: 4-4.2 want faster

damage: min 92-97 max 290-300 still lookin for a min damage over 100!!

HAM: basically the absolute lowest!! cant recal but lower lower lower!!

Accuracy..best i have is -23/-23/-23 andything better than that is an accomplishment...

here is my dream vibro lance for the moment...

slice for speed 2.8 speed 105-375 damage mind HAM cost below 25 and accuracy of -20/-20/-20 or better. Thanks for wanting to help us...hope this helps you!

I like the basic lance, vibro lance, and long vibro axe. LVA is my most used lately.

VibroLance = to hit bonuses. If I ever PvP, then I hate to go all the way to a lance. It is stupid, and I lose too much damage. I offset the heavy HAM cost of specials with Tatooine sunburns, so I don't care as much about the HAM. Dmg, speed,and +to hit all the way for this weapon. [+to hit, Dmg, Speed]

Long Vibro Axe = Pure Damage and speed.The most recent weapon I have fallen in love with was a LVA with 4.0 speed and high damage (Can't remember exact stats). This weapon is mainly used for cracking on PvE mobs, so +to hit isn't as important. As the above, I use sunburns to offset the high HAM cost, so I look for max dmg, durability, and speed. I go a bit for the durability, because i treat these weapons extremely roughly. I would get this weapon sliced for dmg and not speed if possible too. At 4 or so speed, and being a master pikeman, I can pump out the dmg. If I find out the stats on my current weapon, I will post them here. The high damage has made a noticeable impact however. [Dmg, Durability, Speed]

Chuu'toii

I found one smith (Bloodmoon) on my server that can make a VL with -19/-19/-19 and LVA -41/-41/-41 all the HAM are with in one or two points of everyone else. Speed and damage are right up there as well.

The sad thing is I can't find this guy. I went tothe shops waypoint and everything was gone.

My weaponsmith search for better weapons is looking grim.

Yinamar

Pikeman 3-2-2-2

I talked to a very well known weaponsmith on Flurry, and he said that while they could experiment with the accuracy (-55) but never does as it take away from max damage. I think I could live with less damage in favor of better accuracy on the LVA. Hitting for 2k+ damage does you no good if you miss. If you could get the accuracy mod in the same range as the VL, then that would be something.

Are there any components to be found/looted that make better polearms? Cup of milk maybe? Egg, old shoe...

my Long Vibro Axe is 140-496 damage, with 4.5 speed, and -54/-54/-54 range modifiers, the ham is about 87/70/36

I use a LVA. base stats are something like 4.3 speed, 101-305 -50/-50/-50 and then HAM of 90/60/36

Slice it for speed and I am liking it lots (3.3 speed). need powerups though that increase my damage and decrease HAM costs.

I still use my lance to kill lairs so I don't waste the powerups.

I used to use a long vibro axe, but the accuracy became too much to bear. I now use a Vibro lance, 4.2 speed, somewhere around 300 max dmg. I'd expect to pay <10000 for one.

My favorite is my looted LVA 279-1119 damage, 3.7 speed, 80-65-13 hams, -65/-65/-65, this is a killer one hitter in pvp and awesome for pve although I have only used it a few times before I repaired it, with 600/600 condition I think I will mount it as a trophy in my house a very nice friend of mine sold it to me for 200k

*blink*

Details on this LVA that you looted?!

My friend looted it from a nightsister weaver, not sure the rarity on it but I have killed many nightsister over the past few months and this was the first of its kind. It is my prized trophy wep. Hope this helps.