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3) What does the development team have in store for pikeman other than what we will be getting in the combat pass?

The Pikeman focus is to further defining the role in combat, getting the moves balanced and giving them a role in the GCW.I want to stress that Pikeman is a Hybrid Profession - - it isn’t meant to be played is “Im a this and not that” or “Im a Warrior and not a Cleric”.SWG professions are meant to be mix and match.Pick what you want.

The dev team doesn’t want players to get tied down with the idea of being a single profession.The game was designed so players would have a greater customizability with their characters.

Hey, TH, I always knew how hard your job is man. It sucks... you got make athousand people happy.HOWEVER.... what I wonder is that if the DEVS are out to make cross proffessions feasible.... how is that supposed to happen when I spend a majority of myskill points on Master Pikeman.Piekman is cool.I love it.But when my friend as a Teras Kasi disciplewho can not only buff.... but get a hit a second while I get a hit every 3.7 seconds (depending on your speed mod) then WHY would anyone want to be a pikeman.I can't master any other professions.I can crawl up the pistoleer tree.... or perhaps the artisan tree to try to make some powerups for my weapon.... but I can't master anything else.It's hardly a way to make characters customizable especially since your planning on taking away stackable MODS. It seems to me that being anything else than what you're a master of is pointeless.Partial Pistol to back up your melee .... almost usless since I'm stronger as a melee than as a pistoleer.

Oh and in the force pike.... although it does exist... looting one or getting anyone to build on for you is extemely difficult.

Just wonder about your or anyone's thought's on either of these subjects.



Matuck



Novice Pikeman2-2-2-2

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Trystan1969 wrote:

Sounds to me like that is basing the game on professions rather than skills.

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Yah, I cannot wait to be beaten into the ground by a Fencer/Dancer/musician

Could you be any more vague, TH. Why bother telling us anything at all? Id rather get 3 concrete answers than 10 vague ones.

1) Many pikeman view the Royal Guards seen in Return of the Jedi as thier SW rolemodels. From their outstanding red uniforms to the awe-inspiring force pikes, the Royal Guards have extreme appeal to those in the pikeman profession. Can the Royal Guard uniform be added to the game?





I understand that (They are very cool). I doubt the actual Royal Guard uniforms could be added for continuity concerns, but I will ask if either they or something similar can be added.



>>>Thunderheart, Shame on you! Shame on you sir! You should have your mouth washed out with soap for even mentioning the word "continuity"

Imperial Royal Guard.

The Emperor's PERSONAL Bodyguard.

They go where he goes.

The Emperor was NOT just seen at the Coronet Cantina looking for Dancer buffs and then heading to the Starport, he's on Coruscant (sorry Imperial Center technically at this point) and so are his freakin guards. THIS is why they aren't running around everywhere.

Oh yeah, the "all STs are clones" was only recently stated by Lucas like within the last month as applying to the original trilogy. Just another way Lucas is completely rewriting the original trilogy

*cough* Greedo shooting first *cough*

Message Edited by GabrielsSword on 02-06-2004 06:22 AM

If TH has so few answers, then why is he even posting? Shouldn't a Dev with real answers be putting up these posts? I'm so sick of "well I don't know but maybe I can find out".

Sorry you guys got robbed again.

W-T-F response was that.

lol this is the 80th reply

Re: Pikeman: 10 out of 10 novice marksman agree running away is best to defeat those silly master pikeman.

Re: Pikeman: 10 lords a-leaping

Re: Pikeman: 10 pikeman doing spin moves is better than any fusion generator, and much safer.

Re: Pikeman: 10 thousand maniacs!

Re: Pikeman: 10 Things I hate about you. No, not that gleeful Julia Stiles picture.

Re: Pikeman: 10 ounces of playdough and 2 twizlers sticks later and thus the Pikeman profession was born!

Re: Pikeman: 10 jedi for every 2 non-holocron created Pikeman

Re: Pikeman: 10 elite professions in Final Fantasy XI

Re: Pikeman: 10 to 20 for being a pike tease.

Shole
Master Pikeman/Master Bio-engineer

Th do you know why the TKA lobby occupies your time more than all the others?

Becausewe all suck compared to TKA, and who wants to suck when it's even easier to be uber? (1H4 should be the prereq. for Cmdo., UA already is for Smuggler) It's a self-perpetuating development cycle, adding stun gauntlets will just make things worse if you think about it.

If you want more diversity, create incentives for the weak, and balance, otherwise things won't ever equilibrize...