Pikeman Archive

to all you CH's out there...I made Creature Hanlder sometime ago, And I have decided to scrap it. I can't stand seeing hundred's on creature handlers all with godly pets. Plus, its really hard to balance pikeman with ch..So i decided to become Ranger/Pike you can balance both very good. And you don't see a lot of rangers..

You don't see very many Rangers because it appears to just be a glorified Scout, so why spec in it?

Cause I like scout.

I'm dropping it too, I like pets, but too many people are being CH. Notice how my sig has only Pikeman. I'm dabbling in a lot of things. Chef, Tailor, Surveying, Exploring, and just whatever else I feel like doing.

I was ploting to become a creature handler, but I am starting to think it be better as a Ranger. There are way too many CH's. My friend wants to become a ranger anyways but he yet bought this game yet... At least when he does I can give him free teachings

I agree... First time i saw a tamed Rancor i was like OMG OMG OMG....

But now.... Now its just plain annyoing... I so badly wanted to be a CH, long before the game came out, but there are so many.....

.... I say that people should some how be able to own at least one pet... Not be able to catch it, but just own it and have it as a sidekick... Then the CHs wouldnt be so populair! They can tame them and put prices on them and sell them to people in other professions

I went CH just to be able to tame the babies and raise em as pets. There are so many mobs I figured it'd be cool traveling around to find a neat creature to keep as a pet. Rancors are boring, i prefer a panther or something along the lion lines.

I'm also a big fan of staff combat, hence i'm a pikeman/CH.

I play it cuz i wanna!

Totally agree with you. CH has to be nerfed. I dont feel as bad exploiting while I have it since I am a melee oriented fighter. CH was appealing but I dont like playing the uber profession that everyone has. When i need the points I plan on dropping it. Right now I'm kinda deciding between polearm and 2hander.... May do both.

Definitely go 2 handed. You get the second best defense among melees and you do good damage (all melees are well behind TKA). You also get counterattack which is very worthwhile. Your attacks will be slow but at least you will hit with them. Attack mods for vibro lance are -34/-34/-34 and for long vibro axe -58/-58/-58, which makes them quite useless if you're fighting anything that can hit you back for decent damage. The swordsmen weapons are faster, they hit and they do good damage on 1 hit, great damage when you count DPS.

Go to http://www.rit.edu/~iwm7380/swg/meleebreakdown.html to get a fuller picture, weapon selection aside.

Ranger is **edit** good choice, its the same way I was going becuase of a simple reason: Burstrun Efficency/terrain negotiation... Thats going to allow us to move alot faster than our marksmen friends =)