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Tonight I went to Tatooine with a group of my friends, a Commando and a Rifleman, among them. Commando is 0/0/2/0, Rifleman is 1/0/0/0. I'm 2/2/2/2.

After several hours of fighting rebels in Bestine on Tatooine on Lowca- I'm officially ready to give up polearm all together. I understand commando's we're just hugely boosted- so it's fine my friend can 1 shot people for 3000 damage with flame1- great, good for him, everyone deserves 5 minutes of glory, BUT

What's really burning my biscuits, is the fact that I am officially, totally incapable of fighting ranged players. Using polearm lunge 2 even, it's basically impossible. Unless I can incap someone (With lucky hits, I can, but we all know how GREAT our accuracy is) with that one 2 second knockdown, that's it. End match. Nothing I can do. Just run away or chase them foolishly letting them shoot me.

Am I the only person who feels we are TOTALLY ghimped now? Prior to the KD nerf, yes, I got "pwned" by ranged users with knockdown- but atleast I could do the same thing to them if I got near them. Now, we have NO method of 'nailing' someone down long enough to kill them.

Has anyone seen a dev comment about this? Is there ANY light at the end of our tunnel or is it time to pack our bags and go join the Commando/pistol & BH/pistol boat?

I apologize if this sounds very negative, I've played Polearm since beta, and I've never felt so much like I wasted my time in this game as I did these last few hours- and crap, I've grinded out rifle barrels! -_-

Well sadly enough MY Friend, You and about every PikeMan Except a Few on these Boards are Upset by the change.I think one of the biggest things that have upset Me about this whole issue is, I know SOE has People reading the Boards and Someone has happened upon the Pikemans objection of this Patch and its implications to Our Class.I've been waiting for a Dev post in this forum or a SOE represenitive to say something, if nothing else but "suck it up and deal

Well sadly enough MY Friend, You and about every PikeMan Except a Few on these Boards are Upset by the change.I think one of the biggest things that have upset Me about this whole issue is, I know SOE has People reading the Boards and Someone has happened upon the Pikemans objection of this Patch and its implications to Our Class.I've been waiting for a Dev post in this forum or a SOE represenitive to say something, if nothing else but "suck it up and deal and deal with it" At least that way I could plan for MY future Character.Right now Im forced to sit back and pretty much do nothing, except kill Shaupuats.I find with Stim Cs Im actually able to to take em down.Excuse Me I have to wipe My eyes, I seem to be crying after typing that.So that said, If anyone sees a official comment on this Subject please post it or give a Link..Quanti Dethinurhye StarSider

Metroid,

I hear ya. I was determined to finish the Pike tree. I actually loved the proff and didnt want to do anything else. Funny how my goals and pleasure in the game were destroyed in a 20 second download. I played a couple of time since the patch and it was utterly miserable. I was thinking about a new proff. but I'm too angry that I have 0432 in pike xp (on the verge of 0443)that I will need to sell back. Also nothing looked as appealing as the Pikeman. Since selling back all the pike xp results insuch a waste of time and there are no guarantees this wont happen again in the next proff I choose (awfully remeniscent of AO), I'm letting my monthly subscription expire (and not even playing). If they havent fixed this by then, thats it for the game.

What a total waste.

Semi-retired Pikeman,

BoneFrag

I feel ya man. i kept climbing that pikeman ladder too, hoping that its got to get better. But it doesnt, the profession got the shaft and I think all their doing is a little Catholic sprinkle on the fire.

Holy **edit** is all I can say...

I just got back to the game after being out of commission for about a month due to my motherboard gimping out on me. I got my system set back up and get back into to the game to find myself nerfed in all the ways that mattered.

KDis now useless in both duels and PVE, which means the list of mobs I can tank just got narrower by a long shot.

Intimidation range got nerfed, as if we needed any other problems with our tanking ability.

I don't even do good damage anymore, certainly not worth the HAM cost compared to what commando's are cranking out.

Berserk still blows, and LVAs are still HAM munching sticks of innaccuracy. I can't even bum rush mobs with PH3 anymore because PD got the same treatment as KD, and stun is useless.

Am I missing anything else? Did they make any good changes in the last month that I haven't seen? From what I can tell, Master Pikeman have absolutely no redeeming qualities. Our only real unique skills before were Sweep2 and PH3, as they were the only area KD and the most lethal single target skill available...but they certainly don't amount to jack or squat now.

WTG SOE on taking a functioning class and breaking it.

/disgusted

Pikeman SUX!!

*read my newly posted PIKEMAN REALLY SUX thread* =)

Yes, Pikeman sucks

The light at the end of the tunnel is fading out, we may be screwed(again). If we don't get a whole lot better after this next BIG patch, Pikeman will be completely dead. Pikeman looks the coolest of any class, but how many times can you lose over and over and still be happy with your class?

**edit** this, I'm off to Bounty Hunter.

lunge is your friend, use it till it sticks. TEFs are also your friend. However, you dont have a dizzy kd like we do, do you? (TKAS)

This sad facts go for all melee classes. Im starting to think melee was never intended to exist in this game and was just put in to add more professions yet not to be worth doing anything with it.

Ok but that would be stupid because once people got mad and started quiting the SWG would loose money once they pis*** us off enough!