Pikeman Archive
Thread: The reason why pikeman hasnt been fixed?
take a look at the jedi forum. there are just a bunch of jedis arround and they ycry more then the whole forum together *g
crawlerzzz wrote:
I'm not a pikeman and never played one, but I've seen the playstyle of my friend and there's one thing that concerns me with publish9. If the devs indeed implement a long weapon switch delay system, it will become really hard to apply all those dotted pikes. Currently its possible to triple burn poison and disease someone in under 15 seconds and then go at them with your favourite pike.
Oh and as for pikes not getting fixed, I dont believe its because of the dots. Pikes have average damage modifiers, a half effective block, lowest toughness on a melee. Their hit3 gets bugged due to the posture down attached to it. The area kds get affected by the posture down bug as well. Accuracy has been made better. Dots are always cool tho, and although I've never played one, I'm quite sure that despite the troubles of the class, pikes are the most fun melee class to play with the most cool combat moves.
Thank you for your concern and this is not a flame BUTthats the whole point of the delay: to prevent the easiness of applying DOTs. If you haven't noticed, you do not have to be a pikeman to get a good DOT weapon/weapons...they come in all shapes and sizes. So what I am saying is your Pikeman friend can have the same exact strategy as any other Fencer/Swordsman/TK. Even if a Fencer/Swordsman/Pikeman doesn't have a dot of their own, they can still waste a few skill points to get level 3 in polearms to use a very good DOT pike. The delay will be a good balance for combat and shouldn't hurt us Pikeman just as much as a Fencer who uses the same DOT strategy. IMO it might even help Pikeman in some wierd way that I am not going to even begin to try to explain.
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Nura wrote:why pikemans havnt been fixed yet?simply cause we dont whine enuff
take a look at the jedi forum. there are just a bunch of jedis arround and they ycry more then the whole forum together *g
This hit the nail on the head. You don't even need to look at the jedi forum, find a dev post on absolutely any topic and within 5-10 posts you'll see both jedis and bounty hunters whining about how much they suck and how they should be the #1 priority to fix. The jedis got two publishes out of it, and the BHs just got their skill requirements changed. Apparently whining works.