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Well, a 45-200 VK goes to 45-107, and a 110-370 LVA works like it was 110-214...

antares
master pikeman

I assume that they go into the calculation, yeah. That is, say you take a dmg sliced LVA with a 15% max dmg powerup: 110-540. After melee mitigation 3, it would effectively act as 110-282, for a 47.7% reduction in max damage. Without the powerup, after melee mitigation it would effectively be 110-254.

antares
master pikeman

So it takes 10 unarmedhit3's to kill me instead of 8?

Good.

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Dynastar wrote:

So it takes 10 unarmedhit3's to kill me instead of 8?

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yah, and20 instead of5 polearmhit3 to kill them

What do you think of the new streamer colors?

antares
master pikeman

I feel sorry for you poor bastards, hehe. Get the shaft everytime huh

I have been TKM and i can tell you, its crazily overpowered. Instead of nerfing i say the devs powerup other melee professions, especially pikes. A Master Pikeman should have me filling my pants on the battlefield, instead its just more FP for me.

I have every intention of joining thePikeman ranksvery soon. A gradual increase in rifleman numbers on my server means i no longer feel unique

midigation doent matter if all your specials cost 200- 600 ham!!! o kill my self in 2 moves now. it sucks ass!

We were overlooked no doubt. We got nothing in this patch just for pikeman. Mitigation was for everyone not just us. The new glowy trails look nice though and I like the transparency effects on the also.

In addition to pikeman I'm also TKA. I don't think TKA's are that overpowered. Well let me rephrase that. I think that the +250 (not +200 braglor) damage increase shouldn't stack with the VK. If it didn't then TKA's would not be overpowered.

The TKA community wanted a viable reason to put up their VK's and go truly unarmed. The devs responded by increasing unarmed damage (they more than doubled it). I was under the impression that the moment you equip your VK's the +250 unarmed damage is replaced by your VK. So the system uses the range on your VK's and not the range of your fists. . . that was my assumption. I was shocked to learn that they do in fact stack. I'm shocked but heck who in their right mind complains about increased damage?

I think this should be clarified by the devs. It could be like the Human's new uber HAM migration and certain BH droid skills. It could be a bug. . . just a good one like the other 2 I mentioned are.

What's the point of being any other melee profession when a master TKA has a "weapon" with light armor piercing and an unsliced max damage of around 400 (250 base + 150 VK). Heck I'm my own power hammer and way faster to boot.

Of course the stacked damage could bebecause of high HAM's and no bleeds.

Yes I know the pikeman HAM's are huge but the HAM costs on the VK are no laughing matter either and when you can spam specials at the 1.0 second speed cap you can drain your HAM bars pretty quickly.