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Yep, the other person sees a "block" when we see "counter-attack." At least it's doing something now. hooray. Thanks for pointing this out, Chryss

antares

master pikeman

Note on HAM cost to all armor users:

It really helps to have an armor macro to take it on and off, if you can, engadge your COB before engadging the mob, put on armor, stun, dizzy, or KD your opponent, use warcry for the delay, take the armor off.

For those ten seconds the mobs not going to hit you anyway, so you will not need the armor. Now, your specials will cost much less HAM.

If you can keep the COB and the Warcry going, you will not need the armor for the majority of the fight, wich will let you use your specials much more liberally.

The only thing I looked forward to for Pikeman this patch was the increased accuracy. Now that I got it, I'm seeing a noticeable difference in my hits. I rarely ever miss now, and I'm only a 4204 Pikeman. As for CoB, I've tried it and I don't see any difference at all. Hell, it doesn't even matter if it works or not, I have over 150 melee defense and Pikets have missed me 6-7 times in a row before.

Sounds like we'veseen some good chnages this patch. Very nice!

antares

master pikeman

I gotta say, and I've seen the other posts that disagree with the effectiveness of COB. It has saved my arse. Twice as a matter of fact. And granted I'm not end game, 1/0/0/0, but I can stand against 3 reds and almost win. Big improvement imo. The acc mod is great, most of the time. I think we came out ok. In a large hunt with many other novice professions and one master commando (granted who was holding back) I was able to keep up, and do some nice defensive tanking in the process. Took massive trauma to the head but was otherwise ok with only moderate heals. I'm happy.

I really like post patch pikeman, we still might not be the best nor are we even remotly perfect, but compared to what we had to go through before.....this is awsome.

I love the new Tracers looks sooooooo cool.

The accuracy got upped in the support boxes meaning I hit MUCH more often

CoB seems too do somthing, but Im notsure what.....I thought it looked more like reduced damage too me. (pikets started hitting me for like 10-20 pts of dmg whereas its usually like 80-90)

thats about it, our toughness and crap still needs fixing but this was one step in the right direction

No no guys COB is buged for TKA and Pikman it seems.

It definataly works for swords men and i'm not sure about fencers.

If you are a pikeman and have seen COB work do you also have some swordsman or fencer skills?

Being a master TKA we are suppose to have new stat +94 def acuity wich is basicly like block but it randomized it with couter blokc or dodge.

Its my guess that the COB is not working becaue for TKA def acuity is buged adn pikeman block is bugged too.

I'm a pikeman too no blocks ever

i get hit the same amount in CoD as not in it.

I do like the changes to our special graphics, though the red lines make us look tka like.

I do counter about 1 out of 5 times not sure if its really effective.

There was a change to dueling for any who haven't tried it. There is an auto DB now when someone drops. So keep this in mind if you are just dueling for fun or for research. With the incurance back on it realy sucks.

also npc enemies are tougher. I ran into a camp of jabba's swoopers on my way to anchorhead. Not only was the tougher of the two of them impervious to my specials (dizzy, stun, sweep) he was also healing him self. So watch out. The tougher one only conned yellow for me, usually an easy win.

I notice the difference with COB everytime, as I understand it, it dramaticaly increases you defensive rolls. And when I go back and look at the combat log after a fight it shows.

I've taken on Pickets whithout getting hit for the ENTIRE fight using COB, now you can't tell me that's not nice!

The log goes something Like

A picket Longhorn misses you.
You swing at a picket Longhorn for XXX points of damage.
You swing at a picket Longhorn for XXX points of damage.
A picket Longhorn misses you.
You swing at a picket Longhorn for XXX points of damage.
You swing at a picket Longhorn for XXX points of damage.
A picket Longhorn swings at you, buy you counterattack!
You swing at a picket Longhorn for XXX points of damage.
You swing at a picket Longhorn for XXX points of damage.
A picket Longhorn misses you.......

...all the way til the mob dies. I've gone the whole fight with no red before. Granted I usually throw warcry and intimidate and any other states we can inflict in their as soon as possible for good measure, but I think COB has made a big difference.

Cyborb pikeman do not have a couterattack stat... DO you have swordsman too?

Thank for the info Opeth..er....everyone else....

Yes I have noticed this as well. In you combat spam it says you shrug it off but you still take damage and it isnt listed.

For the last time, the "counterattack" message you see in the combat spam is NOT a counterattack, but a block. If you duel someone, when you see the counterattack just ask your opponent what message they receive...more than likely they will respond that that the attack was blocked.