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Thread: I want to like pikeman for pikeman, not for dots...but it's hard.
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DarthVillanus
Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:08 pm
#1
I've been a Master pikeman for little over a month now. I dropped swordsman for it. The state effects and dots drew me to pikeman because atm armor is sooo overpowered, that you almost need dots in pvp to kill anyone.
I've heard rumors about dots getting the nerf bat in the CB, which makes me wonder about the future of pikeman. I have a 800 dmg lva and I can tell you I did way more damage as a Swordsman. Yes pikeman has area dizzy and area kd but you can't keep anyone kd if you want to do damage to them because you have use polearmhit3 and it's a posture change attack.
Well as a swordsman with my 522-900 dmg acklay power hammer, I just blew away player's mind with headhit3. I could do 500 damage to a rifleman's mindthrough his 85% blast armor. With my 800 damage lva I was doing max 200 damage to a tkm and he wasn't wearing any armor.
I guess what i'm trying to say is that when you compare pikeman with swordsman, the only advantage pikeman has over swordsman is dots and I know alot of you long-term pikemen hate that fact that your profession has become the dot whore profession.
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Benyamin
Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:35 pm
#2
Pikemen are not meant to be soloists against one uber foe.
They're meant to take out groups, to work in a group of other pikemen, etc.
They're badass soldiers, but if you want to solo get swordsman too.
They're meant to take out groups, to work in a group of other pikemen, etc.
They're badass soldiers, but if you want to solo get swordsman too.
Malinko_Oknilam
Mon Oct 25, 2004 5:01 pm
#3
Benyamin wrote:
Pikemen are not meant to be soloists against one uber foe.
They're meant to take out groups, to work in a group of other pikemen, etc.
They're badass soldiers, but if you want to solo get swordsman too.
Yes what he said, we're support not head on tanks(although we're supposed to be hehe) ... But dont worry with a DoT nerf, comes a melee mitigation nerf .. they're getting if it which is what is really killing us, so we'll be doing the damage we Should be doing.
TaimMirror
Mon Oct 25, 2004 7:24 pm
#4
Yep, can't wait for them to get rid of that "fix" called mitigation. It must die. It must be buried very deep, right next to the "crafting fix" 
Kreagan
Mon Oct 25, 2004 7:49 pm
#5
i wish dots would die, because as long as they are still around, pikeman will still be considered overpowered, despite the obvious drawbacks of the profession. it sux 
Gunman21
Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:27 pm
#6
There will be a lot of interesting discussions on this stuff once the combat balance info is made public.
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