Pikeman Archive
Thread: Why Pikeman arent getting fixed..
* Decrease KD timer or un-Nerf it to it's previous status
* Increase Accuracy (Even thought I hit more then I miss now, its still not up with other melee)
* Reduce HAM costs (The Adv LVA HAM cost are a joke, even with powerups etc.)
* More variety in the choice of weapons (Different flavors then just kinetic based weaps so we can use different weaps for different mobs / tactics. (Even though I have a pre-nerfed VL, its not enough)
* General Melee thing (For love of god, make us act like Tanks when it comes to PvE encounters and not just damage dealers hiding behind CH pets on larger / high end mobs.
Some form of mind heal needs to be implemented, SL or entertainers would fit the bill. Not being able to heal mind in some form, defeats the purpose of having one person taking all damage. SOE, get your EQ buddies to point you in the right direction.)
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Rastan
Master Pikemon \ Master Brawler
Valcyn - Aurora Noctum
New member to posting but started on the dayof SWG's release. Started as human Polearm and I've now almost pasted novice pikeman. I have 7 other friends doing different professions who have mastered their skills already,I know I only play on the weekends but, the leveling process is extremely nerfed I do not receive the same amount of combat experience as apistoleer nor weapon experience, because I can not kite with my......... staff, try it its fun running back to your mission looking like a newb because you kited with a stick. Also I have to run up to a NPC I can’t shoot it from far away, so it takes longer to level. The ham cost on the skills like Polearm stun or Polearm kick are too high and in my honest opinion Armor should be made for aspecific purpose to protect melee professions. I do not believe Armor is really necessary for ranged people unless in extreme cases like pvp. Most people like my friend only wear an armor helmet for head shot wounds everything else is clothing because as a master pistoleerknows the encumbrance is too high. Also food and spices only last so long there needs to be something done to protect are fellow Pikeman, my proposition is improve dodge and parry, -i.e. if available. Pikeman should be able to swing once before a master pikeman and a master
Bal Rozguul
Pikeman/Ranger
...beginning rifles just in case...
/sign
i could go on for hours(and do sometimes) about how things suck.
This is all growing very old. Some of us pikeman have been here since day one and have taken everything you have thrown at us. Every patch we hope you will fix us and every patch you do nothing but spit in our face. I can only hope you don't know how what you are doing effects us, and if you do know i wish i could understand you logic.
We do 3X the damage of TKA(arguably)
they hit 3X as fast(arguably)
we miss half the time. literally. Our specials give weaker bonuses than the other melee class. I ws fine with this becouse we were a knockdown class. that is what we did. we were good at it. we had area KD and sacrifeiced our X4 damage for a X3 on our final move so we could hav ea posture down attack. But now that you have ruined that. we just do less damage for no reason.
we miss all the time
the HAM costs are ridiculous.....
every class' best weapon draws greatly fome either mind health or action, but ours draws just as greatly from our health AND action? and we miss. and when we do miss, we still do the some 200 damage to ourselfs. and every single one of our special moves costs about that much to use. and we get nothing out of it.
so in the end we do little more damage than a swordsman if any at all.
we are slow as heck
we miss 1/2-2/3 of the time even against prone enimies or knockdowned enimies, who then have plenty of time between that and our next move to stand up and kite us to our daeths
AND our HAM costs kill us.
any one or even two of these things would be exceptable....but all of them!?!
before i thought it was becouse were so good at KD.....but they have taken the only thing we had.
please devs....if you have the time to read these; if you know what is going on....do something....finally....one thing for pikeman.....every patch you take us down even though we need more....knock it off
okay.....here is more proof i stole from another thread as evidence.
http://home.comcast.net/~steppenwolf19/screenShot0009.jpg
it isn't that rare for pikeman to miss more times than this too.
it took this guy 20 seconds to hit a low level bird thing for 1200 damage.
now a TKA hitting once per second would have to hit for 60 damage to do the same but they often hit for more like 300-400....so a decent TKA could do 6-8K in the same time.....if that isn't some f'd up stuff YOU tell me what is....
can i get a HELL YEAH!?!