Pikeman Archive

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DarthTaosin wrote:

What would be good to have with master pikeman?

A full dose of Reality.

Because Pikeman is currently a waste of skill points. If you want to kill nightsisters and tougher mobs you'd be far, far better off with Commando and TKA... At least that way you might eventually kill the THOUSANDS of nightsisters you'd have to kill, unless you are VERY lucky, to get a pike decent enough to warrant even TRYING pikeman.

But hey, if you want to choose a broken prof that's up to you.

I'm extremely bitter about this whole game... publish 7 was supposed to introduce changes to the Jedi FSCS system, a combat revamp, and the Droid invasion..

Looking at the patch notes right now for publish 7 I am disgusted. Pikeman, for one, aren't even MENTIONED.

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DarthTaosin,

I understand your frustration. I was like you...bitter, ticked off, etc. I gave up on it. The DEVs do not care and it's like yelling in space. The only thing they care about is catering to the masses (where the money is).

First it was TKA because their precious matrix told them it was a heavily populated profession and their board was filled with very articulate influential writers. Now it's the Jedi...My pikeman who was made the first month the game came out is now retired. The only way to make him effective and even compete agaist a pure TKA or other pure melee profession was to stack defenses from other combat professions or get an exotic nightsister polearm. For a Pikeman it is a necessity...for the others a nice option. This to me was unacceptable and totally frustrating.

When TH came out and said that pikeman were more of a hybrid (basically never designed to be a stand alone profession) it kind of sealed it for me. It's just unfortunate that pikeman are required to take up the same amount of skill points as the other melee professions that totally dominate us in a 1 v 1 situation.

I was going to delete him but decided to just let him sit...Maybe someday when the DEVs are bored and it's the last thing to fix I'll bring him out of mothballs. For now I just made a new Swordsman/Fencer/MBrawler character on another server. I'm having fun starting from scratch and I like the HS profession so far.

Take care and long live the Pikeman.

Message Edited by GabrielsSword on 03-02-2004 01:10 AM

Fencer IMO is the perfect brawler compliment to pikeman. The incresed defenses for fencer help to compensate for the lower defenses of pikeman. The AOE attacks of pikeman compensate for the single mob focus of fencer.

Fencer has no knockdown Pikeman has two.

So IMO Fencer/Pikeman and TKA/Swordsman are perfect compliments.

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Legwand wrote:

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GabrielsSword wrote:

DarthTaosin,

I understand your frustration. I was like you...bitter, ticked off, etc. I gave up on it. The DEVs do not care and it's like yelling in space. The only thing they care about is catering to the masses (where the money is).

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Don't bother trying communicate with the boy. He is obviously an a$$hole.

But not the fun kind of a$$hole, like me, either.

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Well if you are leaving let me be the first to say "bye"

For PvP either TKA or Fencer. Both have monster defenses and would compliment Pikeman well.

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Geauxx wrote:

Here is something veered off of this question.

What would a good PVP profession be to complement a Pikeman? As I understand it Pikeman are good PVE but poor in PVP. I am just looking for a well rounded character for when my PA raids or get's raided. Thanks

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The question to answer is also how do you want to play pvp? If you dont mind having more of a support role, then Master Doctor for the buffing, heals and cures most importantly (especially considering the growing dominance of Combat Medics in group pvp) are hard to beat - and a tremendous advantage to your side.

Just an opnion of course

I think the best compliment to any melee skill would be a ranged one, to stop anyone trying to kite you if for nothing else. I already have master pistoleer with my pikeman and have been considering dropping the pistols for something to help with the melee, that is until a patrol of about a dozen stories attacked my friend and me last night (he used warcry or intimidate on a naff and caught the ST's), almost without thinking out came the pistol, FanShot, FanShot, FanShot, backpeddle...a couple o' mins of this and they were gone. All the while my dodge was keeping their shots down and ranged defenses seemed to be helping. Maybe when i master pikeman i'll be able to solo a dozen ST's but even then i think i'll keep the pistoleer skills for ranged combat.