Pikeman Archive

my main concern is the skill mods on the vibro weapons, the vibro lance has -39,-39,-39... and the long vibro axe is -57,-57,-57 or sommat... in addition to the amazingly high HAM costs, you cant hit anything!, you get hit more, for more damage, and you hit less for less damage!!!... i recently tried to solo a WHITE creature with no more then 2k HP, and i died in a few seconds.

devs this is a serious problem, please look into it.

my other concern is the stat bonuses for pike, as opposed to the other classes. ill let the math talk... http://www.rit.edu/~iwm7380/swg/meleebreakdown.html... as you can see, dead last in almost every category....

DEVS this is *SAD* you NEED to make some major changes to the pike tree, or pike will continue to be worthless... (what's so great about a damage bonus to a prone target when you cant hit anything, and the HAM cost for lunge kills you!!?)

which brings me to my next problem... the HAM costs. when i use polearm lunge1 on a target, it takes over 300 from my action pool. that is just rediculous.

as you can see, the pike tree is pretty horrible, and needs some serious work... please devs look into this, i deserve my 13 bucks a month worth of gaming, and so do the rest of these people.

-DarkMessengerIX

no offense and not to be mean.. but it seems you havnt played at all today if that's your only concern, maybe you didnt hear but.. they just made one of our entire lines useless. kd timers was the biggest mistake for melees and especially pikeman in general! i feel like taking a break from it as well.. not surrendering cause i love being a pikeman and love how rare we are, but this is rediculous.

not sure if you have the skills in pikeman already , but perhaps use the vibro lance until you at least get the support skillbox that adds some extra poleam accuracy.

when i got that first extra (+20 accuracy?) bonus i seemed to hit a lot more with the LVA than i used to. it only gets better as you get closer to master pikeman.

watch the damage types of these weapons though as the lance has a different AP and damage type. you could hit creatures with a higher resist vs the vibro lance without realising it.

one other thing is to try and get a good artisan to do some melee weapon powerups. it may not give you a huge bonus to hit for some of them, but every little thing helps.

make friends with a good doctor, the buffs to primary and secondary HAM stats make HAM costs on weapons trivial.


-max

oh yea , mind is the real killer. if you are able to get a hold of the services of a good doctor (or chef) with regards to buffs then migrate your stats.

give yourself a bit more focus and willpower as you'll find this will keep you going longer in battles. only do this if buffs are common to you.

-max

ok, about me not having the certification for using a vibro lance/long vibro axe, im at novice pikeman, so i do have those certs, also, my skill mods dont matter, because the number next to the monsters health is still horrible.

and about the changes made.... thats bullcrap, your right, i havent played in a few days, but wow, i thought pikemen couldent get any worse... but i guess they did. amazing. looks like i'll be quitting the game... i mean thats just bullcrap.

thanks for the info and help too.

-DarkMessengerIX

(sorry for the extra post) to roomax- the vibro lance is the only weapon ive used (i havent used the long vibro axe yet) and i seem to still have a large problem with it... i dunno. i think ill just keep leveling up... it still kills me to know that the other melees and ranges have it so easy compared to us though.... still, being a pikeman rocks =D!!