Pikeman Archive

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Gunman21 wrote:

No change in status on warcry. It's still on TC.

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I meant..are the efforts still going on to hold on this change?...have you gotten any responses back concerning this issue?..yes or no will do no specifics, unless you can give them...

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Ziaa wrote:

I've just hit Novice Pikeman, and I'm beginning the climb up the trees.. I noticed we have a multi target Dizzy (does it work?).. but couldn't see any single target version.. is there one I am missing?

What are the main "bread and butter" attacks for the pikeman? (I'm really liking leg hit 2.. and I noticed that even the knockdown does around 2k damage on creatures with my lva... )

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I don't think spin attack 1 does dizzy. I'm pretty sure that only spin attack 2 does dizzy.

The 'bread and butter' attacks, sadly, are the ones that you get right away. Sweep (or lunge hit 2 if you are a master brawler), warcry, intimidate, spin attack (sa2 when you get stances 3) and finally polearm hit 3 when you get it. Be forewarned that polearm hit 3 is a posture change attack and not to be used after a kd move.

The best combos (until they nerf warcry) right now are; KD+warcry+polearm hit 2 (or spin attack). You could also try KD+warcry+actionhit (2 if you have support 3)+leghit. Use intimidate at the start of fights to cut the mobs damage in half.

Hope this helps.

I went to the Geonosian cave last night for a guild hunt (go YCS!!) and I was buffed, had muon and it put my mind up to 1600 (cant remeber the other ones...) and the Geonosian cut through my buffs like a hot knife through butter! it was a disgrace! I lost my buffs... so I decided to get out my DX2 and get combat xp... I did not have any fun... I'm a 2-0-1-1 Pikeman, have any of you other pikeman had any trouble there?

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TheStarWarsKid wrote:

have any of you other pikeman had any trouble there?

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if you can, avoid the Kwis.. they will intimidate you, have around 30 000 HAMs and hits like crazy. At your level, I would not reccomend taking on any more than one Kwi at the time. The CrazedGenosians can be tough too, just remember to CoB and warcry/intimidate them

Message Edited by Gunman21 on 02-29-2004 08:10 PM

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Braglor wrote:

any news on how long we must wait for them to fix the polearmhit3? The posture change bug is really starting to annoy me... it's bad enough my screen is flooded with "you failed to balbalbla", but to have an enhanced KWI pop up and intimidate me after a KD it's getting to be a real pain.

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I can understand why they might have intended this action (although it makes it bad since we have posture change on ph3). It stops people from just filling up the queue with KD moves until the target goes down. No more KD-spamming, you see...The posture change is nice under most circumstances, making them kneel is a great effect, stopping them from attacking. But that only works on NPCs and you can't posture change again to prone, which used to happen...It does nothing on creatures. Overall, it has turned into a problem when it could have been a great side effect.

antares
master pikeman

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Gunman21 wrote:

Don't know how sucessfull I'd be on this one though.

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how bout telling them that the idea of it being ineffective if the mobs gets attacked kinda negates the usefulness of the skill for melees as well in singel as in group combat situations? Especially is this effective in PvE. In PvP they need to tweak it just the same... The way they re going about it now, makes it kinda useless for anyone who isn't using poison or disease

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antares_Kauri wrote:

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Braglor wrote:

any news on how long we must wait for them to fix the polearmhit3?

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Overall, it has turned into a problem when it could have been a great side effect.

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Yah, I would love to have the ability to pin my target into the prone position back. It was socool when two hits could cause a target to go prone, and it truly was a powerful special

any word on when the 3x modifier for PH3 will be changed to a 4x modifier?

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atimes wrote:
any word on when the 3x modifier for PH3 will be changed to a 4x modifier?

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no

In response to the genosian lab. The AoE bug is rampant in there. And it goes both ways, the geonosians love their area attacks, especially in the front of the cave, and you will get hit for insane amounts of damage. It would be nice to see them fix that, you know, quick like. Although, as a pike if you can get right in the middle and spam your area attacks, you should be able to drop them, use cob 1st and just hope they don't aggro you before you get a chance to take a few out.