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Electro5

Thu Jun 02, 2005 11:34 am

I've been thinking of ways to make Pikeman more of a tank in and of itself. Other than improving Intimidate and Warcy, here's what I've come up with.

What I think would be good for pikeman is a Defensive Stance like similar to what BH's get, but at the same time very different. Cannot be used with Center of Being in effect,reduces all damage taken by 50%while lowering damage output by 60% or so, lasts 1 minute. After it runs out, you are not able to use it again for a full minute (to keep you from being practically immortal).

For those times when you get surrounded by hoardes of enemies and you just need to hold on while the rest of your group takes them out. Basically, think of it as switching your fighting style, so that rather than focusing on attacking, your main focus is on blocking attacks. Granted at Master Pikeman.

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Martimus

Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:03 pm

#2

Electro5 wrote:

I've been thinking of ways to make Pikeman more of a tank in and of itself. Other than improving Intimidate and Warcy, here's what I've come up with.

What I think would be good for pikeman is a Defensive Stance like similar to what BH's get, but at the same time very different. Cannot be used with Center of Being in effect, reduces all damage taken by 50% while lowering damage output by 60% or so, lasts 1 minute. After it runs out, you are not able to use it again for a full minute (to keep you from being practically immortal).

For those times when you get surrounded by hoardes of enemies and you just need to hold on while the rest of your group takes them out. Basically, think of it as switching your fighting style, so that rather than focusing on attacking, your main focus is on blocking attacks. Granted at Master Pikeman.

How is this better then improved COB ? COB improves def, reduces your taken by a lot (like 50-60%), and it does not lower our attack ? It would have to be way...way better that for you to give up the use of COB. Or stack...

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C-Bone_RE

Thu Jun 02, 2005 6:12 pm

#3

It makes sense that a TK can absorb portions of attacks. I like this idea but I would suggest that the pikeman enters a stance (with the same time constrainst) in which he blocks ahigh % (say 70%) of incoming attacks. The downside would be unable tomove while still being attacked by another melee enemy, and each block adds1-2 second inbetween the next move. This seems most realistic in that the concentration and balance is needed to pull the blocks off which makes the fighter inmobile. Also a pike is known to be one of the best blocking weapons in martial arts, and it doesn't make sense that you can block and still attack as fast.

Restriction: only can be used when a pike is equiped or the ability's effectiveness is half as good when other weapons are used.

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