Pikeman Archive
Thread: Veteran Pikeman dropping pike.
I've been a Master Pikeman since about week 2 of release, was either the second or third Master Pikemen on Tarq. God knows I love the "idea" of the class. Since then I've dabbled in Rifleman, Pistoleer, TKA, Medic, and Mastered CH but I always kept Pikeman. Yesterday, when my second holocron told me to master weaponsmith (btw I'm only even doing holocrons because my Pikeman is **edit** near useless in pvp so I've nothing else to do.) I had to make a judgement call. Either drop pike and medic or drop CH.
This is after taking a whole month off from SWG in hopes that by the time I got back we'd be fixed. No such luck, we seem to be stuck in some sort of gimp time warp. From the looks of things Pikemanis the very last profession on the Dev's priority list. Just look at the player statistics. We are the least played class in the entire game, other then jedi of course. Though I forsee a day when Jedi will outnumber Pikemen and wouldn't be surprised if that day came soon.
Game companies typically work to please the majority of thier customers. This is why I see no fixes in our near future. I am even willing to bet that I can get my holocron to go silent andwould still havetimeto re master Pikemanbefore we are fixed.
Basically I'm sick of being ignored.
We have the worst defense, the worst damage output in pvp (consistantly hit for the same dmg per swing as TKM's but3 times slower). The worst accuracy, defensive mods that are mostly broken, outrageously high ham costs even when your not wearing any armor.We're consistantly ignored by the Dev's and challenged to duelsfrequently(at least I am)by "expert" TK's who want to show thier friends how they can"pwn" Master Pikemen. Theres no selling point whatsoever to Pikemen OTHER then the fact that we have the coolest looking combat animations.To top this off apparently our pike is only as long as our arm since we *still*have the exact same range as tk's.
The issues Opeth has listed in the recent state of our profession report are pretty muchthe EXACT SAME issues we've been screaming about since day 1 of release.
I had alot of faith in the Dev's to fix this class. I honestly cannot believe that the dev's have not at least made an effort to fix us. The best I've seen is a dev saying "we know pikemen are broken".
In conclusion I may be back as a master pikeman someday, but likely not until thier fixed. At the rate things seem to be moving that should be sometime in 2010.
On the upside it looks like the dbl bladed saber for Jedi's does mind damage. Perhaps they should give FS slots to all the pikemen that mastered the class within the first month of release. That shouldnt be too bad since there were only like 9 of us 
, rofl.
Retired Veteran Master Pikeman
Sad but true...sorry to see another pikeman go. Now we are 0.249%.
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master pikeman
