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Thread: Pikeman CU Role
We will be tanks/Crowd Control
Pikeman
Primary Role: Melee Opponent Control (Attacker Modifiers)
Secondary Role: Melee Crowd Control (Attacker Control)
Offense: Weak (2)
Defense: Strong(4)
Crowd Control: Moderate(3)
The Pikeman specializes in controlling and tanking groups of opponents. In addition to a generally strong defensive ability the Pikeman has the ability to significantly reduce an opponent's combat ability. These defensive abilities combined with some good area attack capabilities make the Pikeman a strong combatant.
Profession Mixing Tip: The Pikeman tanking ability is mostly based in their abilities reduce an opponent's ability to deliver damage. This ability combines exceptionally well with other defensive profession abilities such as Teras Kasi. A Pikeman who is not specialized in defensive skills is still extremely useful in a group situation as their ability adds perfectly to the defensive skills of other players allowing them to stay alive longer than they ever could on their own. While Pikemen are not by default powerful offensively they do get extremely useful utility abilities and area attacks that when combined with other offensive professions skills, like those from Swordsman, allow for some devastating combinations.
we still dont do any damage in pvpgunman u think mixing it with one of the ranged damage dealing proffs would be good?
honestly i dont like what theyre doing to pikeman at all
Message Edited by Personguy on 03-29-2005 09:12 PM
film wrote:ya, from what i have found..... speed is going to have nothing to do with sea's, they havn't addressed removing high dmg weapons. Dots will be removed however.... anyway anyone think of a good mix/match combo w/ pikeman?
im thinking of doing pikeman/bh since i have an evil multisliced scatter or pikeman/commando since commando's damage is listed as "very strong"
film wrote:ya, from what i have found..... speed is going to have nothing to do with sea's, they havn't addressed removing high dmg weapons. Dots will be removed however.... anyway anyone think of a good mix/match combo w/ pikeman?
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Pikeman/Tk, Pikeman/Swords, Pikeman/Rifles, Pikeman/BH. Those are some of the ones i'd do
But I think they are trying to make it more of a general idea that there will be no uber templates, mix and match professions and it will be good in one thing, but might be bad in another.Though I have bad thoughts about Rifles/Tk or Swords/Tk
Gunman21 wrote:I wish I could go into more detail as far as our profession goes, but can't untill they make more information public. Once it hits TC though, I will post focus threads and feedback threads.
can you at least tell us if these changes are really as bad as i think? i just want to know if spending all that cash on a speed/acc suit and uber pikes was worth it
Kaukiji wrote:
i dunno, i always liked being a damage dealer, not a tank...thats what was appealing as pikeman...i dunno, we will see
same. im pissed