Pikeman Archive

I hear nothing but bad things about pikeman, and I do agree that it got the shaft on many a thing. But of al the times i have read posts on this site I have never even herd mention of the 'Polearm Spin Attack'(don't flame me if i'm wrong'. I feel that this skill does a great deal of good. Whereas most people can only hit one enimie at a time we can hit everything ina suprisingly large radius. As a matter of fact it has made destroy misons SO easy its sad. Like I'll do a couple paralope missions on the way to my house for a quick 4K. I ignore the paralopes or what ever might live atr the nests i am attacking(bird, mites, nothing too big). Hit the nest with 'pole arm hit 1', and after that keep swinging at the nest with spin attack. I have hit up to eight paralopes and the nest in one swing. To each,I did in the neighborhood of 150-300 damage. It's great. Those stupid deer can't stop me or heal their precious nest.

I also noticed that depending on the type of lair, you will see more enemies per lair. I started attacking the rock shelters(or what ever they are called). A few hits i got almost all of my health and i am surrounded by about 20 dead deer....er .....paralopes. I got over 2K Exp. for nothing practicly.

So anyway.....I am saying that this is an excelent skill, and I think it deserves more recognition. Although it would not help in PvP. It is great for what it is for.....

waiting for pole arm hit 2

i'm Ark from Talus in the Kauri galaxy.

show pikeman some luv.

Wait til you get polearmsweep2 and can sweep 2 tusken raiders and 2 tusken banthas all at once with just 1 sweep = )

Spin attack is my favorite polearm skill so far( I'm novice pikeman ). I went with a group of friends to the drall cave on corellia and was dealing out a lot of damage with it. Unfortunately it tends to make the mobs gang up on you, so some more toughness would be nice.

I just made it to novice Pikeman and I'm likeing it so far. The spin attack does make destroy missions eaiser. I take out dem Boccats (dont remember correct spelling) like nothing at all. i got up to the nest spin attack it they cant even touch me. I'm pretty weak Mon Cal, hopeing i can get some good defence later, but from what i hear I'm not counting on it any time soon.

I like when I'm fighting about 4 critters at once usualy Boccats (for the wild meat i harvest) i see people come running up to me to help me and by the time they get there all 4 are droped. HAHAHA ohh, behold my power! I like taking on tons of Kreetle at a time, makes me look even more tough when they all drop at once. Well atleast to n00bs it does

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The Lone Mon Cal Pikeman...

Bim Poloywog

lol, i can't even spell my last name right. It's polywog not poloywog.

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The Lone Mon Cal Pikeman

Bim Polywog

you are correct....at least the other melee classes do.....and I know commandos do.....and they are long range.......

so I thought polearms had a lil advantage at least in one teansy area......I was wrong.....

I just realized what we can do, that no one else can.....

melee attack the Action.....even though Tera Kasi might be able to also(not sure).....

so I guess we got nothing better.....

sorry for getting your hopes up......

maybe we will come into play more in an expansion.....

like...

maybe some kind of charging attack where we use are staff like a pole vault and double kick them....

I guess all we really got is the best range of any melee class........so that helps alot(sarcastic)......

i guess never mind....abandon all hope for this class ever being........noteworthy....

it is simply a space filler for the melee class......they had to put something there.....

I always dreamed that If i worked hard people would see my character and be jeleous....

i have been working as hard as I can......and have seen no sign of this.....ranged weapon users do nearly as much damage each hit and are not getting the crap beat out of them by 6 things at once....

we can't fight ranged people......i can deal with that.....it makes sense and there is no reasonable way to nerf them down....but let me do more damage......

give me a higher defense.....more interesting abilities.....

i look at rifleman and pistoleers and can't help but feel jeleous becouse they have it so easy and have had to work with much less frustration and get to reap all the benifits and gloat and whatnot.

there dosen't seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel either.....

EVERYTHING that we have going for us is nefed into retardedness........our best weapons are so slow that it's sad and IF you managew to hit some one you will just irritate their freinds.....they will swarm you and scratch you to death as you struggle to hit them praying that you won't get the low end of your stat and hit for that 30 damage when you you know frickin well you can hit over 250.......

and your freind.....

he sits off shotting them....not getting scathed......for THE SAME DAMAGE!....faster....and 3 times mor eaccuraltly becouse you have a -50 modifier when you are touching them and your freind has +50 becouse he is laying in the grass about two miles away trying to keep you from dying.

come on devs....

come on some one.....give us something we can be proud of

give us somthing we can bring to the table other than running blocker for rifleman and pistoleers(wich we don't even have the defense to do for long)......

give us ONE advantage in ONE situation.....

a light at the end of the tunnel...

we don't need to get it till we're master pikeman

i don't care

but as is.....

what do we have to be proud of?

I wil quit this game before I will give up on my character and the pikeman class.....

sorry if i am comming off a little negative, but no one fears us. Rightfully.

so whats up devs?

are you gonna do ANYTHING?

eventually if fine

just give me a reson to keep playing.....

woefully regretful,

Ark MindSpear

I take it you have yet to learn sweep2, because one you can, you will run into a pack of 3 Tusken Raiders and a Chief and taking them all down on your own without dying.

and i do not have that skill.

YET!

BAH HAH HAH HAAAAA

Only a matter of time.

I believe all melee professions have area attacks. Ranged professions also have area attacks.

Teras Kasi has attacks for all three pools, health, action, and mind, as well as an attack that hits and wounds all three simultaneously. Teras Kasi also has multiple sweep attacks, just like pikemen. I would wager that the damage of their spin attacks is not much less and the speed is far superior.

Teras Kasi does indeed appear to be the superior melee profession by a long shot.