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Im a new pikeman and have no clue whats average or "good" in a weapon. I was wondering if people could please post stats on good presliced various pikeman weapons I would appreciate it very much.

i'm a new pikeman too, but i bought a pike, the one u can use at polearm 3, yesterday. the stats was 100-300,speed 4.0 pre sliced, pretty decent i think.

I have a Weaponsmith made LVA that I use that was sliced by a Smuggler and is 150-511 damage, 4.4 speed.

For a lance 90-290 speed 4 is normal for presliced,but look for low HAM cost .If u found 100- 300 4 its good if its presliced . Also NightSister lances sometimes good with speed 1.5 ,look for it u need and loot from NightSisetrs them u can.

yeah, i'd say that the 100-370 @ 4.0-4.5 is your higher end LVA, a good sliced one is more like 150-500 @ 4.0-4.5

as far as other pikeman weapons go....i...don't like them

Here is what I did and maybe it will help you find a good one for you. I bought 10 LVA's from a Weaponsmith that produced pretty good results. I then took those 10 LVAs to a Smuggler I knew and trusted and had him slice all of them.

I then used the best one that turned out. It was an investment but LVAs are not that expensive compared to other types of weapons. If you have guildmates, like I do, you are in even better shape.

My weapon, mentioned above received a 35% damage slice which was the best one of the lot. Now I also have 9 decent ones as back-up.

Weaponsmiths can experiement the advanced vibro blade unit component to favor range modifiers. When this is done correctly a master weaponsmith can make LVA's that have range modifiers for all 3 ranges at -44(ish depending on server, I'm on sunrunner). Damage remains very close to normal (371 vs376) and speed is unchanged at 4.5. The weaponsmith may be able to further reduce this range modifier penalty during the final experiementation. I have a character that is a Master Pikeman/Commando and an alt that is a pretty good Master Weaponsmith. The LVA's I make and use have max damage of 371, speed 4.5 and a range of -42, all pre sliced. Even at master, with +150 accuracy this 10-14point accuracy boostis helpful, and much cheaper than a+10 skill tape.This range help can be a godsend at lower points on the tree. A weaponsmith with more than 10 experiementation points would be able to create LVAs with even more impressive range modifiers... possibly -38. Vibro Lances are around -21 for me right now with stats of 4.0 95-294. Consider farming Nym's for High Powered Vibro Motors (they add 20 max damage)and have a weaponsmith make a special blade for you heavy on the range experiementation. You should get a weapon with normal damage and much lower range penalties. +20 maxdamage doesn't do much if you can't hit anything. You will need 4 match nym motors per lance (4 or more from the same Nym).