Pikeman Archive

to continue with the theme above

why does it take all our health for special moves? we're dead in 3 moves...

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Braglor wrote:

why is the only beast that drops the NSEL 100% resistant to our two attack types? Couldn't she be at least vulnerable to electric? weak

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I asked this very question a month or so ago.

No one could give me much of an answer.

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machus0 wrote:
Why is the rant thread bigger than the praise thread.......

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The reason is because the praise thread was set up so people could post their 'hey I made master' posts, but they still insist on creating a new thread to say it.

When people got a beef, they see the rant thread, they know where to post.

Now if we could just get people to put all their boasts and brags and whatnot in the praise thread this place would be a lot cleaner.

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Legwand wrote:

YAAAY!!!! The first rant is mine. How apropos of me.

Ok here goes. Doing some PVP tonight enjoying the new no decay no reinsure stuff as well as the imp crackdown because stupid rebs kept going into the cantina where the stormies were, but I digress. So my travels take me to theed where I'm wondering where all the rebs are when out of the blue this master bh comes running at me yelling "YOUR ASS IS MINE'.

Right away the guy starts to spam eye shot. I'm well prepared for these buttheads so I drop some muon and some fishak. About 10 seconds later this guy realizes he made a big mistake and picked on the wrong pikeman. Probably thought he was going in for an easy score and ended up guessing wrong.

Knowing that he blundered in his appraisal of me he turns tail and runs like hell. No worries, I'm used to ranged guys kiting. I start in with the lunge 2 and its working very nice taking its toll on this guy. So he gets dirty now. He starts to run in and out of the med center hoping to keep me at bay, around the bank, over past the bank where he promptly jumps into the river and swims out far enough for me not to be able to attack him.

Now I'm stuck. Hes just sitting there and I can't attack. He spouts off how the ranged defenses were supposed to be nerfed and how I've got an exploited template. I spout off about how hes playing dirty pool and how bad his mother is in bed. We're sitting at a stalemate for about a minute or so when lo and behold a friend of his shows up, whos not overt mind you.

Great. I can see where this is going. I tell the friend straight up, I know you're going to group tef me why not start attacking now. 'Oh no' he protests 'I'm just a noob watching the fight'. Sure. At this point his buddy comes wading out of the water where I now discover that hes a master bh also. They then proceed to both spam eyeshot until I'm dead. Fun.

Needless to say I was mighty pissed off about this. My question is this; Is this kind of thing good tactics or dirty pool? Lets hear it.

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carry a republic blaster you n00b!

seriously though, better than the c12 grenades, use the republic blaster. not the modified one you get from the rebel themepark, but the ones that people are crafting now. you don't even need novice marksman to use it. granted, you'll be slow and inaccurate, but he's a bh, how much defense could he really have .

also, let me put it to you this way. say, you're walking down the street carrying a gun with unlimited ammo (i know, just listen). some dude with a stick come running at you. you start shooting at him, but miss horribly because you don't really know how to shoot a gun. then, he screams at you, making you soil yourself and you can't do anything for about, lets say, 20 seconds. you spot a lake, you jump in. luckily the guy chasing you can't swim, so he stands there taunting you. you pull out your trusty water proof cell phone and call your friend, who does know how to shoot a gun. he arrives. what do you think is going to happen?

ok ok, so that example was really stupid, and this is a game and not real life. just take the clone train and forget about it. every time i have that happen to me when my guildies and i are terrorizing theed, bestine, what have you, i just clone and say, "well, it took enough of them to take me down." until they get rid of group tef, this will always be a problem. but then again, you won't find any raids on theed or bestine unless they put a rebel recruiter there. and then, that place will just get camped by the imperials. and vise versa with corenet, anchorhead, moenia, etc.

in conclusion, yeah, i really hate that. but, such is life.

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shutout wrote:
oh yeah, my big rant. why is it that when we pvp, we can only take out the bounty hunters? everyone else has their defense stacked so high, that if i use my long vibro axe or power hammer, i can't land hits reliably. but someone with a 2 meter long rifle, holding it with one hand, and running backwards can land hit after hit on me, even when i have center of being on? why must i pull out a wooden staff or 2h curved sword to be able to hit consistantly. ranged professions are supposed to get a penalty to their accuracy when running, or even standing, yet they can kite us with ease. yet, when i can actually land aknock down/dizzy/warcry, i can still see "miss", "dodge", counter attack"every time over their heads.

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Bro three things you need.

A stun layered comp helmet for those damn jawa rifles. A regular helmet for the T21s. A buttload of brandy, canape(?) and muon.

I've killed many of these riflemen wonders lately. The only ones with a chance are the TKMs as well.

With 2200 mind and 1800 focus and willpower those rifle guys can spam headshots all day long if they want.

I catch them in the end.

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Legwand wrote:

Bro three things you need.

A stun layered comp helmet for those damn jawa rifles. A regular helmet for the T21s. A buttload of brandy, canape(?) and muon.

I've killed many of these riflemen wonders lately. The only ones with a chance are the TKMs as well.

With 2200 mind and 1800 focus and willpower those rifle guys can spam headshots all day long if they want.

I catch them in the end.

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oh i have a stun layered helmet, and an 80% energy layered one, even 80% acid for the BH's out there . i have a crate of brandy on me at all times, along with muon (no canape though). my mind is already at 1000, and with power boost, that goes to 1500. but, the rest of my composite armor is not stun layered, and advanced strafe shot does some good damage, and will whittle you down. i can pull out a wooden staff or a 2h curved sword and hit lunge2 until my finger gets numb, but i will not kd them, nor will i outdamage them in the end. on the rare occasion that i do kd them, you know how hard is it to stick a dizzy with areahit3 with pike (or was it spineattack3?) or 2handhit3 with swordsman. they get right up and keep blasting.

Message Edited by shutout on 02-23-2004 03:51 PM

My friend, youneed to meet my other friend, the nightsister lance.

I had the one rifleman guy screaming at me that I would've been dead if not for my CM buddy tossing disease and poison at him. I let him know what was up after a good laugh.

I feel your pain about the rifleman stackers but I still stand up pretty good against them. I sometimes have to hit lunge about 10 times but they go down eventually.

Also an idea for you; Drop three brandies (+1200 to the mind pools), drop three canapes (I'm pretty sure thats what they are, anyways, +900 to the secondaries). This relieves the need for the muon (or should anyways). Then, if it really gets down to it, drop my most hated of friends, the neutron pixie. Yes the pixie is evil and she leaves you in worse shape then when you started but if its a choice between pixie or death, I choose the pixie.

I'm assuming of course that you are buffed and powered up (if you have the TK skill to do it).

Earlier today I had stats somewhere in the area of 3500/3100/3100, 3600/3000/2900, 2400/2000/2000. I dropped a pixie on top of that too and ran into battle.

Sadly though, I didn't see the 8 other rebs who were grouped with the guy I was after and a sea of red dots formed around me. Man I hate group tef.

It was fun while it lasted though.

yeah, i have a few nightsister lances. but they're the common variety with the 40 health disease. i have one with an action poison as well, but the potency isn't all that great. you're lucky marshal creed hooked you up with all them pikes before he left. i read the stats he posted abou them, and yeah, wow.

and yeah, i guess i could pop me a pixie. but i always see my friends doing that in battle, then all of a sudden, they have no health bar. i always pull a O_o when i see that happen.

Ok, I've got a new rant.

People with no sense of humor.

Lighten the f**k up. This damned board needs an enema.