Pikeman Archive

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Dahrak73 wrote:

In response to this thread I can say after hitting the char builder ad nauseum I have come up with what I think is the "Ultimate Night Brother" build.

MPike

Enhanced Reaction 4440

Combat Prowes 0044

Heightened Senses 0004

Force Defense 4000

Force Enhancement 0200

Force Healing 2200

Light Saber 0044

Thus giving you execellent melee Def, healing of ALL wounds, healing of damage AND BF AND best of all Polearm LS 3rd Gen.

All this leaving ZERO skill points. NONE. Perfect build. MPike, medic properties, TK properties AND the FINAL piece to the damage types, LS. Now we can deal Kinetic, Electricity, Energy (with NSEL), and LS with polearm LS. Thoughts?

Darahk

Radiant

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Hmm.....I dunno, really. Here's the major pros and cons of that template, as I see it...mind you that this is from a PvP point of view, though some or all of it applies to PvE.

Pros: Lightsaber damage, ability to heal mind, ability to heal wounds (w/o a droid), ability to heal battle fatigue.

Cons: Armor is tricky; your lightsaber damage is unusable when you don't have armor on, so you've either got to deal with the significant delay, or go without it at all. What defenses you have don't seem like they're necessarily enough to make no-armor viable in heavy combat.

--Accuracy with your saber. You have a total of 75. While this may be enough for PvE, PvP may be different...as I see it you'd want to use the saber on melee defense stackers so you don't have to worry about their armor as well, but between low accuracy and the high melee defense such templates usually have, you may find yourself hard pressed to hit them often enough.

--Heals. Although you can heal mind, the heals click for only 500 at that level (as far as I know, I may be wrong...just what friends have said.) which means that if someone's wailing on you, you might find yourself rapidly falling behind.

Given the way just those cons, much less any I might have forgotten, stack up, I think I'd prefer a build that's more of a normal build with minor FS enhancement. I'm planning on doing something like this...

Mpike/MBrawler/TKA 4002/Fencer 4440/Medic 0040/Combat Prowess 0040

Pros: With skill tapes, a whopping (to one of us pikemen!) +192 accuracy. Large ticks on your heals (with clothes BE'd for +25 Wound/Injury Treatment and the 40 med use, 1110 power stim E's I use its damn close to a full heal). Good array of defenses. No complications with armor. Intimidate 1 and 2 (this is big). TKA Meditate and Force of Will.

Cons: No saber damage, no mind heals, no BF healing, wound healing only possible in medcenter/camp/near med droid. Still can get plastered by riflemen who stay far enough out of my range. No terrain negotiation whatsoever.

Just my take on it. Altogether, I think I prefer the more normal build.