Pikeman Archive
Thread: actually I think the devs fear us ...
ScDarkKnight wrote:
antares_Kauri wrote:
If we can do all that, I don't see what is broken anymore. Sounds like we're fine to me. If you were any better, you would be overpowered.
antares
master pikeman
You're using a lot of Ironie lately Antares ..
Actually, its irony, and its not. Its sarcasm.
Irony is taking a 3 metre stick, swinging at an object 2 metres away and missing several times.
Legwand wrote:
ScDarkKnight wrote:
antares_Kauri wrote:
If we can do all that, I don't see what is broken anymore. Sounds like we're fine to me. If you were any better, you would be overpowered.
antares
master pikeman
You're using a lot of Ironie lately Antares ..
Actually, its irony, and its not. Its sarcasm.
Irony is taking a 3 metre stick, swinging at an object 2 metres away and missing several times.
The reason for Antares' sarcasm as of late, is that several people (you know who you are) keep posting poppycock about how they are awesome and love pikemen as they are.
What they all fail to realize, is that it is not the profession that makes them awesome, its the awesome looted weapons that theyuse.
Our profession shouldn't "have" to use looted weapons to be good. That is why we are all upset.
I, myself, am quite good but I would be nowhere without my DOT lances and my high damage LVAs.
That is why we need fixed. High value looted weapons does not a profession make.
Well said ...
Now you can't seriously think that people have to be biljonairs to be good at a profession can you? I own two crappy 40 tick disease and 160 mind poison lances. My main LVA's never exceed 600 damage, and this is already pretty uber to most beginning pikemen mind you. This all goes to show that there is something very wrong with the profession of course, but also that over all this time, most of you have started to accept certain ways of playing. Like for example needing to have a lot of credits and buying the uber stuff. This is altering the way you are thinking of the profession, this is something that happens very very slowly, but lack of change has that affect on people..
When thinking of how the changes will affect the most players, consider that three quarters of all pikemen are broke, using sliced ordinairy LVA's without any fancy DOT's. Not the jampacked Lance carriers that are mostly posting on these boards. That's the only way to smooth out the bumps (or should I say crevices) in our profession.
Only thing I can say is go out and get the lances, I've sat on myback side for the longest time untill several fights that broke out around my home brought other characters in, not pikemen mind you, just dabblers with nice DoT's. These guys hurt us, over and over again. So I farmed nightsisters for a weekend, and came out with a devistating action fire, an alright mind posion, and a nice quick VL. The action lance is in and of it's own worth prolly more than a mil. You gotta go get em yourself. I wasn't going after protectors, or elders. Just moping in and around the battlefeild. Hell, if you got an Armorsmith friend with combat ability, make it a date.
Although on another note, the biggest pain in the ass in those lil scraps at home was a fencer with a mind posion lance. We eventually baited him, we would catch the dot, run back to the doctor while others kept on him, when we came back he would pull the lance again. When he had that lance out it was the only time we could hit him! Everyone wants what we got, but we are still the bed that most are embarrased to say they sleep in.
annelid0 wrote:
Give a newbie brawler 90% composite armor and a legendary wood staff (or dagger, or stone knife, or whatever) that does 1000 mind poison a tick and he'll be uber too. Whoopdy-**edit**ing-do.
Saying pikemen would be overpowered because you have the best available equipment is like saying all swordsmen are as powerful as one using a legendary power hammer. The class needs fixing, looted weapons should not enter into the equation at all.
Yep. I mean I've seen the Legendary dagger on Chilastra(as I recall). Guess what that one hit kills ANY player in PvP including 4/4/4/4 Jedi Guardians. Does 200-300k to PvE. So one hit then feign death, read a book, get back up, one hit the feign death, doesn't take too many tries to clear the NS cave.
Padre
DontAsk wrote:
I totally agree with you on ur part fingol, but what about us pikeman who arnt as lucky as u (or as rich) to be able to get the good loot? I personally love pikeman no matter how bad we suck in the long run. You know me on the kauri server (or at least used to) Orisius. After all this time im only 1010 pikeman. Kinda sad right? so your saying i have to wait all this time and not get a revamp? Not fair to us. I mean this in no offense what so ever. And what happened to you and DSB? Just curius
I'm not saying Pikeman do not need a revamp .. pikeman NEED it ... but they (The Devs) will have to be carefull .. and probably have to nerf the "rich" Pikeman before increasing the others ...
What happened to DSB ... well it's gone I'm afraid .. the guild collapsed soon after I left it ... that's kinda sad, it was a big and proud guild, but the hologrinding killed it ...so I'm currently freelancing ... having lot of fun of running around overt, killing and getting killed by rebels ... until I meet a CM ... when I meet one I get pissed and stop PvPing for 1-2 days ... then I start again ... You can usually find me on Talus farming some Rebel HQs .. killing the rebs NPCs and PCs there =P
ScDarkKnight wrote:
DontAsk wrote:
I totally agree with you on ur part fingol, but what about us pikeman who arnt as lucky as u (or as rich) to be able to get the good loot? I personally love pikeman no matter how bad we suck in the long run. You know me on the kauri server (or at least used to) Orisius. After all this time im only 1010 pikeman. Kinda sad right? so your saying i have to wait all this time and not get a revamp? Not fair to us. I mean this in no offense what so ever. And what happened to you and DSB? Just curius
I'm not saying Pikeman do not need a revamp .. pikeman NEED it ... but they (The Devs) will have to be carefull .. and probably have to nerf the "rich" Pikeman before increasing the others ...
What happened to DSB ... well it's gone I'm afraid .. the guild collapsed soon after I left it ... that's kinda sad, it was a big and proud guild, but the hologrinding killed it ...so I'm currently freelancing ... having lot of fun of running around overt, killing and getting killed by rebels ... until I meet a CM ... when I meet one I get pissed and stop PvPing for 1-2 days ... then I start again ... You can usually find me on Talus farming some Rebel HQs .. killing the rebs NPCs and PCs there =P