Pikeman Archive

Id also like to add my character is not just for Duels. Im an active part of the GCW and not only do I do just as well in that sense, I help stop zerging and constant GTEF'ing with Fire.

Heal those wounds, doc!

My template is as follows:

Master Pikeman

4/4/4/0 Fencer

4/3/0/4 TKA

Master Brawler

Novice Medic

I Lack Terrain Nego but since most fighting is in town it doesnt matter. I have the Ranged/Melee def lines of TKA/Fencer, along with Meditate for obvious reasons, and the rest for State defense.

My weapons are pretty good IMO but not the best from what I have seen on other servers. I have not sliced ANY of my weapons yet, due to the factI value them too much. However, after finding out weapons with DOT's still do the DOT's at 0 condition, I have decided slicing my DOT weapons in hopes of a Speed slice is a good idea. Also upon deciding to have my "BEATDOWN STICK" aka Wood Staff for State offense once my DOTs are applied, I have decided I may slice my strong damage weapons for when I run into unarmored/range classes.

My LVA is 1.9 speed with 484 damage max, unsliced. Its not that high in damage, Ive seen 500+, but I was drawn in by the 1.9 speed. Its HAMs are also low, being 20/34/8. I really like the 8 on mind heh.

So... now that any enemy on Starsider knows my build in and out, I should probably expect some of them to be better prepared to fight me in the future.

There are many here who would argue that you are successful as a pikeman because of your 4-3-0-4 TKA and 4-4-4-0 fencer.

If you did not have a strictly PvP build with stacked mods and were just a pikeman ALONE then things would not be so rosy for you.

The profession has problems. Lowest defenses, lowest toughness 3x modifier on PH3 when all others have a 4x modifier horrible range modifiers on our weapons and insane HAM costs.

Basically you need all the accuracy boxes and you must play buffed 24/7 in order for pikeman to work.

I LOVE YOUR PROFILE AS MINE WAS THE SAME, CHEERS.

I have however recently changed it though. I dropped fencer to 4/4/0/0 and picked up sword 0/0/4/0 so I could get more melee and ranged defense as well as 10 more points to def vs posture change and 15 points vs kd.

I too have yet to lose a duel but that IS because I use my dot weapons and warcry. It has nothing to do with the fact with Pikeman skills but the fact I have MASTERED BRAWLER. Additionally, Pikeman does let me use these DOT weapons and I usually get a mind incap. I could probably do the same if I dropped Pike to 0/0/4/4 and mastered fencer. In fact I would probably be even more effective. Pike only lets you use dot weapons, other than that everything else is crap.

"I strongly advise you study the effects of stun"

Ive been trying to figure these out for a time and all ive noticed is stun prevents people from changing postures, sitting down, meditating, steal 1 combat round once every 30 seconds and lowers secondary stats just a little bit.

If you know something I dont , post it here. so far stun seems a very useless effect, i hope im wrong

Yeah... well, some of us would like to be able to fight in PvP with using a Mind Fire Lance.

I was fighting a guy in AH the other day and this si what the fight came down to:

He uses WaryCry, then he setts my mind on fire, the he runs away.

Basically he was a close range CM.

Winning duels with Mind fire has nothing to do with being a Pikeman. You only have to be a 0/0/0/2 Brawler to use those lances.

Personally, i think mind fire is 100% bogus. Just my opinion.

Anyone can use those DoT polearms, not just us. Most of them have poor speed and damage anyway, they become one-use needles to stick the DoT and then switch to another weapon. Anyone can do that.