Pikeman Archive

I'm a Wookie Pikeman and I still don't use specials. I occassionally intimidate/beserk, and I stun everything I fight, but past that I just autoattack.

Adv. Chitin with a good HAM slice is the way to go. I've also made heavy use of a Lance/LVA combo, stun with a lance then switch over to LVA and use normal attacks, I hit about 8 outta 10 with creature stunned.

Get the best Chitin tho, otherwise go Ubese. And IMO never go out without a helmet. NPC's will target your head if they can. I havn't found any bio-clothes that match yet so I can only guess that later on down the road these are a necessity.

Hey all,

I just started Polearms, on my way to pikeman...i'm a Master Ranger and 2222 TKA. I use the bio-engineered clothing (I have a set for super camoflage and a melee set with melee/stun defense bonuses and intimidate/warcry bonuses)...and I love them, specially the intimidate/warcry bonuses...I hardly ever miss, and a 10 second delay can never hurt.

So far I have really enjoyed polearms, especially having weapons with different capabilities (like a reinforced combat staff that does mind poison)...I'm so used to haveing no choice of weapons.

I never wear armor any more (I did wear Chitin when levelling up unarmed), even when tanking against the largest creatures...it just doesn't work for me...too restrictive.

I do have a recommendation though...grind unarmed and TKA novice, then take the TKA meditate line. Here's what you get if you get to meditate 4:

1-The ability to quickly meditate away bleeds, poison, disease, and ALL WOUNDS...EVEN MIND
2-PowerBoost, which gives you a temporary boost to all primary HAM based on the size of your mind bar (PowerBoost is absolutely awesome, don't know how I lived without it)
3-Force of Will, which gives you the chance of getting up after you are incapped (this hasn't been too useful so far, but they are making changes)

I think this would greatly improve your abilities as a Pikeman, and though I know it sucks that the other melee professions have been largely ignored, and this is a lot of skill points, it is a decent way to deal with the current situation that melee fighters are in. If they add cool stuff to Pikeman, then you can drop it, but in the meantime it is great!

I'm a master doctor/pikeman so I don't have much of anything ham wise put in either health or action and their secondary's I put most of mine in my mind and it's secondarys knowing that I'll be doing 90% of my fighting buffed. So with 950 mind and 775 focus, and willpower I buff then wear a full suit of composite for the resists that it has.

That plan works out just fine unless I'm hunting something like pikets that hit for mind. Then I have to take the composite helm off to bring my regen rate on my mind back up again. With the helm off I can hold my own as far as specials/mind damage plus I gain just a little bit. So I don't have much problems using all specials and solo'ing (no pets) a piket. Comes close with my mind sometimes but I can do it. Actually anymore wearing the composite I am incapped mind anymore almost 3/4 of the time. But if you can manage to find someone to give you a buff so your secondary's aren't in the toilet advanced composite armor is the way to go.

I use BE clothes, but then I again I'm a tailor specializing in them so I have to. The melee defense bonuses are low - only +4 per cloth and that's good quality master level cloth. The defense vs stun comes on the same cloth and is +14. I can't say for sure that it works, but I do seem to stay alive longer than without it (I wear a full suit for a +12 bonus). I also have a suit of composite that I can wear unbuffed - but I don't do any specials when wearing it.

I dont' miss 80% of the time... only if I use a long vibro axe ... my vibro lances hits 85% of the time - no prob.

And my long vibro axe is tweaked for better range rather than extreme damage - so I hit about 60% of the time.

I have been using advanced chitin chestplate and leggings. It seems to absorb a lot of damage when I fight. I also have a chitin helmet, but I don't use it all that often.

My technique is to arm my lance, stun, intimidate, then switch to weapon of choice (sometimes just keep using the lance) and auto-attack. Depending on how the fight is going, I will target action with a leghit to finish it off, or go with apolearm hit if its health is low. If I need to take out multiple low level creatures, spin attack is good.I also have a good supply of Stim-B's handy.

-Kiya, Sunrunner