Pikeman Archive

i too made the "uber" pike template but regardless of all the stacked melee and ranged defenses i didnt see much difference in PvP. PvE showed a drastic imporvement however and if i had some sunburns and a shot of muon i could wage war with the best of mobs. My template was as follows

master pikeman, master brawler, 0304 tera kasi, 4220 or 4210 fencer cant remeber, a tad of medic

Im not sure thats entirely accurate on the fencer part due to so many changes i made in the build but its the basics.

Now like i said even with some pretty nice melee, ranged and status defenses PvP wasnt much of an option in my opinion. I had a friend (TKM) help me out with a few tests. Even with these defenses and such our basic flaws in pikeman still hold true and pretty much exclude us from PvPing effeciently, even as a purist brawler multiple elite proffesioned, stacked defenses and all. Something isnt right there.

The one great thing i noticed about it was the "defense acuity" mod in the tk line. when i started leveling this up i defenitly saw a difference in the ratio of counterattack...errr... block.. whatever we have. I would have my friend auto-attack for about 10 - 15 hits and the ratio stayed pretty close to blocking ever 3rd to 4th hit from a TKM. Not too shabby, just imagine what we could do if the block itself was working properly.

i am going back to this build soon in hopes that the upcoming combat changes will make pikeman a reasonably balanced proffesion who can hold there own.

I think this time i will opt for the Power Boost line in TK to save some cash on Sunburns hehe.