Pikeman Archive
Thread: A few questions on specials?
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hulleman
Wed Jan 07, 2004 3:12 am
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I am only just doing Brawler on the polearm tree. I have 0003 but am close to the last step before I need a lot of polearm exp for the Novice Pikeman skill.
What I would like to know is what skills and specials are good from the brawler tree and what are good from the pikeman tree.
What I have found out is that whenever I go berserk I do a lot of damage but I also get hit more and depending on situation it is not so good. Some of the specials are good and I use leghit much. Is the Stun effect good. What happens to the monster when stunned? Is it worth doing? Center of beeing thing .. what is that?
Well I guess some of theese questions
antares_Kauri
Wed Jan 07, 2004 7:36 am
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Well, once you get up into Pikeman, you won't use any of the polearm specials at all. However, the standard brawler specials are always useful:
Intimidate - decreases targets damage output by 50%
Warcry - stops target from attacking for 10 seconds (20 seconds for warcry2)
Berserk - I personally don't use this, but good if you're just auto-attacking
Taunt - In a group, if you need to redirect the focus of a target to yourself as the tank, this is the way to do it.
Center of Being - Increases change to block for pikemen. At your level, it doesn't last long enough to warrant the mind cost, but once you get higher, you will love this. Greatly increases your defenses.
Once you get into the pikeman trees, your favorite specials will be the sweeps, bleeds (actionhits), polearmhits, leghits and the area attacks. Basically all of them will be useful to you at some point. We do have some redundant attacks, area2 and spin2, both do the same, but area2 stuns as well, but does slightly less damage.
antares
master pikeman
Intimidate - decreases targets damage output by 50%
Warcry - stops target from attacking for 10 seconds (20 seconds for warcry2)
Berserk - I personally don't use this, but good if you're just auto-attacking
Taunt - In a group, if you need to redirect the focus of a target to yourself as the tank, this is the way to do it.
Center of Being - Increases change to block for pikemen. At your level, it doesn't last long enough to warrant the mind cost, but once you get higher, you will love this. Greatly increases your defenses.
Once you get into the pikeman trees, your favorite specials will be the sweeps, bleeds (actionhits), polearmhits, leghits and the area attacks. Basically all of them will be useful to you at some point. We do have some redundant attacks, area2 and spin2, both do the same, but area2 stuns as well, but does slightly less damage.
antares
master pikeman
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