Pikeman Archive
Thread: Inpenetrable defense vs Devastating damage
Even though i dropped my pike mastery last night, im still a pikeman by heart and Ill still hand around here for a while. So i decided to write down this little post with the question that wont leave my mind and probably the mind of most of my fellow pikeppl.
Inpenetrable defense or Devastating damage? Which should we be? Does the dev that designed us know?
For what i understand, not even the devs knew exactly what they wanned for pikeman. I mean, look at our weapons. WE start with staves and go up to lances and heavy polearms. And even though they could be categorized under the same type of weapons, they're used on different situations and on different styles of combat.
If you watch any martial arts movie, youll always see a scene where someone picks up a staff (or a broom, mop, whatever) and fights 300 other guys defending all the incoming hits with his stick. That is the what i mean by inpenetrable defense.
Now theres the lance and the heavy polearm axe that we get at higher lvls. Those are used to keep your enemy at distance and get them b4 they get to you. Using one of those, you cannot face enemies from all directions cus theyre not as balanced and not as fast swinging as a simple wooden staff.
So im affraid were just a mess of numbers, weapons and cool looking moves. And since not even the devs seem to know, i ask you all:
Which one would YOU rather be? For what were you looking when you decided to be a pikeman? Damage or Defense?
why not be both? Dealing out heavy areadamage while having a defense that actually makes you a "tank". Personally i would like to see pikeman act as one of the high lvl creatues with 30 000 HAM and areattacks which include bleeds, disease, poison and mod attacks. Oh well..
Fulmen wrote:
Which one would YOU rather be? For what were you looking when you decided to be a pikeman? Damage or Defense?
