Pikeman Archive

Check out the patch notes.....notice nothing listed for pikeman. Notice we don't have a reply from TH in our forums acknowledging our issues, as there is in other forums. I'm I I this close to giving this up for good.

Some people on TC have confirmed that their are changes to pikeman on TC. The fact that we are left out of the notes is simply the ignorance of whoever put the notes together. I'm sure they simply... er... missed our patch notes when typing it up... however, I'm just thinking, "it figures."

Yes, we have changes on TC, I listed them after I checked them. My whole problem is that we are the lowest class in numbers out there, have some of the biggest issues in the game, the changes that we get are global and don't fix the root of our problems, they insist on calling us polearms when the forum, novice, and master box says pikeman, and on top of that that they don't even bother to include us in the patch notes.

BTW, 2h now have the tracers that TKA have. Wonder why fencer or pike didn't get them as well.

from what I understand, fencer beats tka in some areas (gasp!). I believe they now have more melee and ranged defense than tka. I'm gonna have to check. Oh, yeah. I've checked this website a couple times (can't think of the site address at the moment) where they list the stats of all the melee professions... EXCEPT PIKEMAN. I'm sure most of you have seen it. If not, I guess it is best that you didn't...

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Gunman21 wrote:

Check out the patch notes.....notice nothing listed for pikeman. Notice we don't have a reply from TH in our forums acknowledging our issues, as there is in other forums. I'm I I this close to giving this up for good.

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Umm. There are 33 professions and hundreds of items to address for each one. There is a lot going on here and its important enough to me to be working 12 hours later than I started this morning....

I had absolutely NOTHING to do with the placement of "P" in the alphabet

Please tell me in those 'hundreds of items' somewhere there is a note that our weapons lose the insane -59 at all ranges to-hit mod, especially in light of the ner...er 'fixing' of crafting experimentation.

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Banished88 wrote:
Please tell me in those 'hundreds of items' somewhere there is a note that our weapons lose the insane -59 at all ranges to-hit mod,

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If your correspondent has it, then I have it....

Poor pikeman, no loving at all. At least combat medics are getting their poison fixes so they can kill more stuff.

P maybe in the middle of the alphabet, but Bounty Hunters still managed **edit** all attention over a gr8 length of time. and last time i checked B was 2nd in the alphebet.

the one dev post we get is to tell us nothing yay *sarcasm on the yay*

Well TH, thereare 33 professions. Butwe've seen you post neumerous times to other professions, must noteably DE and CH. Yes, those classes deserve that type of attention, I'm not trying to take away from them, but why do they get 10+ posts from you reguarding information, not to mention a 'plan' on how to fix/balance/nerf/whatever their profession, and we get the standard canned "we'll get to you" or "we'll look into it" type of stuff.

Silversurfer and Opeth have tried thier hardest to get us some attention and get our issues known, but your 2 posts are the first this class has seen from any dev in months. I don't think that the devs fully understand how broken our class is, nor the plight of Chefs, Carbineers, Squad Leaders, and other professions.

I feel that we are being largely ignored because we only have .25% of the population in our ranks, despite our class-breaking problems, and I for one would appreciate some feedback after playing a largely broken class for four months.

BTW, despite these rants of mine, Iappreciate the work you've put in these past few weeks.

TH, the thing is, the pikeman have .25% of the population, why? Because they're so broke, they want to be on the top of the priorities, and rightfully so. They think that their fixing is so important, it cant be forgotten (and they should think that way). I am a carbineer, and Ill admit, they need some loving, even before my broken ass profession.

Pikeman is one of the most beautiful professions in the game. I love my Pikeman on Gorath.

Unfortunately, because being a Pikeman doesn't require the use of 29 different fiddly little devices and user interfaces and complicated three-part transactions and confusing flags etc, it's not a squeaky wheel. So it doesn't get the grease.

We need new weapons, we need new attacks, we need some things that make us special and needed by the rest of the game so that people want to join us in the Ancient and Noble Order of Pikemen!

I still like the idea of "familiar creatures" that you can only have when you join a certain profession. Rangers could get Falcons (or the alien SW equivalent). Pikemen might get some kind of hound. Commandos could get baby vrelts. (just kidding Commandos) You'd still have to have a CH tame them (possibly after a BE makes them) but only you could use them. I don't know why I throw that in again, it would just be cool.