Pikeman Archive
Thread: New Pikeman Skill
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DixieChicken
Sat Feb 28, 2004 8:51 pm
#1
Well, more like my suggestion for one. Been playing pikeman for quite sometime now... and i love it, but recently i tried out TK on my alt and i must say, that profwas put together very welland i'm glad for it. Then i noticed what's missing from some of the other melee proffessions ... non-offensive specials, like TK's got power boost, meditate and force of will. Now i don't think that they should give these to any one else... that would be dumb. We need something cool like that, so my stupid little suggestion would be a skill relating to our Block defense mod (if they ever actually fix it and make it block not counteract), i don't know call it defend, super block, or waffle sauce. Anyway, the special would increase our ability to block exponentially for about 10? seconds making us able to block pretty much all damage for the alottedtime. The catch though, since there has to be one, would be that in return we could not attack during the special. Now at first it seems pretty idiotic, but it allows for some interesting tactics (which is what we pikeman pretty much rely on). There are many different things we could do with this:
In solo combat
it would give us a chance to flee
time to heal
10 seconds of rest allowing your mind to regen can help quite a bit (expecially if you have a couple brandy's in ya)
it could give a chance for bleeds (especially if they give us an area bleed) to do some dmg without you taking any
Even in PvP it would help by giving us time to run towards a ranged opponent without taking too much (if any)damage
In groups
able to stim your fallen mates without worring about dieing while doing it
Take the agro for the 10 seconds, and let your group do the damage
and for all those people that get volunteered to be the bait for a krayt dragon (like me:smileyvery-happy
, this would be helpful as well
, this would be helpful as welland i'm sure there are more possiblities. I just thought it may make the game more interesting if all our specials weren't offensive (excluding the brawler ones), but that's just me. Also it seems appropiate to make the specials cost something other then HAM, maybe like a little extra added dmg to your weapon? And doesn't seem like something that could spamed (maybe a timer on it?) Any way ... i would like to know what the pikeman people thik about it...i want to hear it all the good and bad, and maybe a little ugly as well. thanks
Eboka
Master Doc / Master Pikeman
Ssedi
Sat Feb 28, 2004 8:57 pm
#2
Well its an idea. But I seem to remeber a post about giving all melee proffesion a line like tka that does different stuff for each. Gonna see if I or someone can dig it up.
Locky-1138
Sat Feb 28, 2004 8:58 pm
#3
Center Of Being already does this, if you use it, you will block nearly every single shot... however... block is broken, so you dont realy notice it at the moment 
DixieChicken
Sat Feb 28, 2004 9:03 pm
#4
Oh yeah..my bad...i actually forgot all about CoB , never really used it much. And i would love to see that new line if you can find it Ssedi
Eboka
Master Doc / Master Pikeman
Z-Rifton
Sun Feb 29, 2004 3:29 pm
#5
I posted somthing like this awhile back, but instead of defending yourself you defended others ex: Select Doc, /guard, you take all the hits for him as long as your within 5 meters and block and such.
basically making you his personal guard, maybe higher up you could choose mulitplepeople to defend but they still have to be within your range. That would be alot of fun, playing Bodyguard for some of the more important people.
Heh, it would obviously need some work because a Doc being /gaurded by a pikeman makes them both invincible, Doc Dealing heals while pike defends doc. /shrug
I thought It was a pretty cool Idea, makes us live up to the royal guard image
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