Pikeman Archive

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Polearm 4 headed to pikeman - i hate to give up my class melee i really like it but something needs to be done.

Wookie Polearm on Eclipse ( i cant even use armor to combat my weakness)

perhaps if we try terroristic threats... Jabba has many connections for the right price and I have a list of devs that need to be connected with...

Give me an actual petition to sign and I'll sign it. This thread as it stands doesn't really do or say anything.

I really do feel for you guys. My real life best friend is a pikeman with polearm sweep 1 and he's just beginning to feel the hurt. At least he has rifle to fall back on. I'm a fencer/ranger myself. With my traps and armor I can JUST hold my own in fights that a tier 3 marksman breezes through. I'm totally hopeless in PvP so don't ask.

You're absolutely right. All elite melee need a pass by the balancing crew. Hopefully they won't screw it up if/when they get to it.

Lemme see a real petition/writeup. You'll get my support then.

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please fix this class I have always had a love for pikemen its one freaken cool class but dam even though ill stick with this class even though its been killed it sucks that I can not get into PVP at all when that is a reason for getting this game. fix accuracy, block, Ham and more weapons

pikeman tempest

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If only I could sign this twice, like John Hancock, perhaps then it would be adopted as our galaxies' constitution...

Khrim...

NM, I know my jokes are lame....

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Yeah i lose 1/2-2/3 my life bars to myself from the outrageous ham costs. Being hella slow and very inaccurate (for no logical reason i can think of), makes fighting a lot challenging. I'm all for a challenge but there is a line between impossible and hard. And right now pikeman is tetering on the fence with its arms flailing in the air as it's slowly falling into the impossible range. I've seen professionals use a bow and they are fast... real fast... they can hit you twice in two seconds. And for inaccuracy, little kids wack a piniata blind folded. The other thing i noticed was pvp... why does my damage drop so much? I know pvp is different from pve but seriously i hit for 200 when i average 1500-2000? I got owned by a pistoleer and he didn't even kite. Well that's all my griping ... not that i am going to just give up on pikeman... but i desperately want to see some improvements here. This is my main profession!!!! But if there aren't any changes then i am going to just switch to pistoleer since i am taking a few skills already.

Thror this is just as good as a petition.. The one big sight that does petitions one person can sign it 600 times as different names.. least here the Devs can see how many really do sign

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• Knockdown needs to be "Unerfed" in such that there is not a ridiculous timer. Once a ranged guy is caught by a melee he shouldn't be going anywhere. What are ranged trees doing with KD anyways? "I shot you with my laser gun and you fall down, hehehehe!"


• Ham costs on the VL and LVA are still hugely suicidal, to effectively solo I've had to take up (0-0-4-4) in the medic tree so I can recover from the ridiculous ham costs.


• The negative accuracy mods on the LVA and VL make hitting with either a challenge, with that added to ham costs you end up doing lots of dmg to yourself and less dmg to your target. How hard is to hit with a big metal stick?


• Block only works against meleeing NPCs and PCs, it does not work on creatures. Since you are mostly always fighting creatures for exp, we should be able to block creature attacks. Possibly a slim chance of blocking ranged attacks as well, would be nice.


• Our support line is pitiful compared to other Elite Melee Profs. For example:TKs get a Accuracy, and defensive bonusesin every support box. (not including special moves every other box) And us, pikemen, only get four boxes with either an accuracy mod or a special wound attack.


• Pikemen are known as a defensive profession, but I see that we get entirely gyped in the toughness and defnsive mod category, Pikemen need some serious buffs in all their skill boxes.

here's to hoping the devs acctually read this thread! =/

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New pikeman, thoroughly disappointed.

We need range, we need accuracy we need something to seperate us from the other melee classes and we need something to gives us a fighting chance in general pvp. Im not a pvp person but its hard to be part of the GCW when every commando who thinks hes cool kites you while firing rocket pistol the whole way (and supplemented with some minor medical skills if for some god knows reason i happen to hit him for the measily 200 pvp damage)

This has been a little thing crossing my mind. We call our professions "classes" that's sorta comparing this game character development to Everquest or Anarchy Online. I don't really think that every combat profession has to be the equivilant to others, like a Rifleman doing equivilant damage to say.... a commando, but what I do have to say is that the Pikeman is a bit broken and does need to be fixed. *Dont know about those other melee guys but if you guy's are feeling the same about you'r profession, Im rooting for ya too*

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News Flash!!!

The devs don't read this board. 1 post since June 25th by a Dev in this forum.

My RL sister is a Master Tailer... they had an issue that had many pages of discussions on it. Someone finally posted the problems on Test Center and got Devs attention right away.

This is a great idea... get everyone possible to sign it. Write it well, show our problems (see the Focus on Issues - thread in this forum I started). List our main concerns, and get people to sign the page and keep it up top until we get a reply.

I'd be happy to post something and basically relist the ideas from the Focus on issues thread. Even better would be if it was Silvers last action as a frustrated Corespondent for us Pikeman.

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