Pikeman Archive
Thread: Why Pikeman arent getting fixed..
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Pikeman seem really slow to me... there are times I'll just sit and wait and wait for an attack to occur.
Benbrada Grimm
Intrepid Server
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Bumb, Bump, Come on people lets keep this thing goin so we can get herd, I know the live chat is only supposed to be about player cities but i say we get in there and get heard by the dev immediately.
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how cool is it to have a pike? awesome. not only do you look cool, you look cool too!!! er...wait.....
ok, i wasnt an A student or anything, but history is something ive naturally been good at (even though i think its pointless and i hate it...but....interesting...). pikemen were the gurus of defence. not only that, they were the frontline of a moving offence too. they were armed to the teeth, and also armored to the teeth. they served as guards mainly but were also #1 when it came to stopping a heard of knights and heavy horse. so why the hell can i not keep that pestering crazed durni from contantly biting me in the nuts while im swinging away at him like im trying to shoo away a pesky fly!!! not only that, we are WHIMPS. hell, i think ranged guys have more melee defence than what we get. and were SUPPOSED to be tough. im suprised we can even carry around that long metal lance with how weak we are.
we cant hit the broadside of a barn. im really not understanding this one, when i was a little punki got in neighborhoodstick/polefights all the time. let me tell ya, i barly ever missed. if i did miss, it was because it was blocked by the guy i was trying to kick the hell out of. what was it blocked by? a pole. and vise versa. could any of us little punks shoot a frickin rifle and expect to hit anything? hell no. and this doesnt mean just kids either. i dont care how old or what your experiance is. its easyer to belt a guy over the head with a pole than it is to shoot him.
speed? well, ok, maybe we shouldnt be as fast as a karate guy or a guy swingin a sword. but we shouldnt be too far off though either. ever seen guys who are "masters" with polearms? omg, those guys look partially invisable since they move so fast. hint hint.......
bottom line.......S.....O.....S!!!
2nd bottom line.....look past all spelling and typing errors.....
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My first weapon was a wooden staff and I've put a lot of time and effort into becoming a viable fighter to.... miss....chase my target....get knocked down....die! Gotta love what they did to a class that should have been awesome.
Pikeman 3,2,2,2
Master CH/ Master Medic/
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I have had long standing issues. I am going to give a summary ofmy thoughts:
1. Pikemen Accuracy: Too low, -55 on our best weapon? Fix it... I am lucky to hit 4/10 times. I am also a Master Ranger, and looking at the Creature To-Hit Bonus on the hunting line, it shows that it only affects ranged fighters.... I would like for you to fix that too. Not all Rangers use a gun and it should affect melee as well, some of us aren't wusses! 
2. Pikemen Speed: Once Master Pikemen is reached it is still slower than other classes. Granted we have a large stick and do more damage PER hit, but, please, revert to number 1 for the answer to that. I know we are supposed to be slower, but not this slow! Master Heavy Swordsman getting off 5 attacks to my two? Oh, I missed those two, btw. 
3. Pikemen Specials and Ham Costs: The Ham costs are too high. Because of number 1, I end up killing myself whether I hit or not. It is not right to watch a Bounty Hunter from 10m away spam eyeshot at you dealing only 67 action cost to himself at almost no delay, then you get to him and miss and deal 187 Ham to yourself. No. 
4. Pikemen Toughness/Defense: Other brawler classes have +10 toughness while we have +4. According to SOE and history, Pikemen are supposed to be the toughest of the bunch. We are supposed to be more defensive and able to defend ourselves better. Block rarely works if at all. The defense for pikemen is all messed up. 
That about sums it up. About the same as everyone else, but I need to vent.
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Perhaps we don't get heard because the pikeman forum post count is too low? The only lower ones are marksman (they've obviously got nothing to complain about) andimage designer ('nuff said)!!!! Heck, the chefs are twice as loud as us and they only ... cook and ... baste and ... marinade donuts.... mmm donuts. Let's all protest for minority rights!!!! *sits on the bus and refuses to move for the TKA whiner*
PS: the TK correspondant is in my PA so no-one tell him I said that 
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Nirvana Cobain Apprentice Pikeman....
Novice Pikeman as soon as it is fixed
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Seriously needs fixing, I've been pike-polearm/armorsmith since day 2 (couldn't log in on day-1)and I still feel like I'm in beta here.
1. Range mods areextremely gimping. Missing 3+ times on a blue/lt. blue is totally wrong.
2. HAM costs. Dear [insert diety here] by performing specials I seriously can kill myself faster than laying down in front of aggros. Disgustingly sad.
I would feel alot better if we had neer 100% chance of hitting the blue/light blue/green cons that only give us 1 exp and a near 50% chance of hitting the red cons...
but when i stand there getting beat up by a bunch of dung mites and i area attack and hit half of them and kill them in the one hit and have to keep attacking while takeing notable amounts of damage(50 or so) from each of them every second or so and then when i finnaly kill them all(if they don't incappacitate me) i see that i pulled about 8Exp from the 8 that were beating the crap outta me becouse i couldn't HIT them.
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been a pikeman for some time now, but havn't posted much on the forums. love to play with you guys sometime, maybe with 3 or 4 of us beating on something it'll be like what one pikeman SHOULD be able to do
/tell puusher on lowca, love to hear from you.
hey there, just became pikeman and i have to say i did it because i KNEW it would be a tough thing to pull off. plus i wanted to be a rare profession so it worked out well eh? 
pikeman/squadleader, now thats superrare hehe
anyway ill /sign as well to show that i think we need a lil more power in accuracy and possibly the damage we do to armored types? pikes were meant to slam through armor its a historical fact, so perhaps we could use better armor piercing.