Pikeman Archive
Thread: So I got master today...
It was a hard grind, probally the hardest I have done in star wars galaxies. Its funney how much I can love and hate this class at once, I love watching the animations, love the cool bleeds, love the area attacks. Hate the poor acc, hate the ham costs, hate the low defense. I am a little tired as I stayed up all night to do this, but all in all I think the die hards will be well rewarded for sticking with this class come the rebalance. My holocron was silent this morning so I have no idea what I will do next. But all I can say is this you miss, the picket evades the attack, you hit for 2037 but the picket counter-attacks, you hit for 2034 picket is slain.
Lageas
Talk to you later when I am less tired.
we will talk later brave warrior, excellent job getting that master title
Valdo wrote:
Talk to you later when I am less tired.
So I am going to slaim artsian out sense it is the only basic proffesion i havent done, and if that doesnt unlock me I am going to grind out the melee proffesions. I will have to give up my master scout to do this(bye bye traps I will miss you). I hope to hold onto pike fora while so I think I will use it to grind credits for the long grind ahead. The good news is jedi get a polearm too so I wont have to give up on it if I get jedi 
biwan:.
I really look forward to the changes coming to pikeman. I like the idea of us remaining crowd control just changing us from the kd crowd control to the kd/dizzy/bleed/debuff crowd control. I would really like to see us become the super tanks of melee and am willing to trade damage for more crowd controll abilities and defense. To addan image of what I would like us to grow into invision this: pikeman leads the group and wades into a bunch of angry ewoks using area debuffs to draw the agro and leave them bleeding, dizzy, kded on the ground. Group comes into mop up. Now this is the everything goes right for the pikeman scenario not the real life idea, but you get the idea. I like us having the power to just stand there and take it and keep the grouped focused on us. Polearms/staffs are great defensive weapons in real life that allow for great crowd control.
In closing my jedi chase may take me from pikeman, if that happens you can bet that soon I will be starting a pikeman on another server so I can not have to loose it completely. Its weird I really like carbines and pikes, I must just be a glutton for punishment.
Lageas
hummmm, sooo... did you read this post yet on the Jedi forum?
Valdo wrote:
So I am going to slaim artsian out sense it is the only basic proffesion i havent done, and if that doesnt unlock me I am going to grind out the melee proffesions.
I like the chart and its sure nifty, but um I think I am missing your point? I am of the opinion that it is 5 random assigned classes. The chart just lays out what others have done. Am I missing something?
Thanks
Lageas
well, it gives you an idea what the general grind is now, doesn't it? It's easy to see that almost all have mastered the primary classes and some of the elite ones, and it's all well overall average clear that they all are within crafting, combat, exploring and social parts of the game. So if you haven't been doing any social professions, or crafting, well the path is pretty clear, eyh?
Valdo wrote:
The chart just lays out what others have done. Am I missing something?
Hmm good ideas sacrafice pikeman for dancer... at least I can still use my polearms then 
. Of just so you know my path thru game is thus: master medic, master doc, master combat medic, master marksman, master scout, master carbineer, master enterainer(holo), master bralwer, master pikeman(holo). Silent.... So yeah I will probally master artisian and then cheff ( I need the food anyways :smileywink. I think I will try to hold on to master pikeman as long as possible though so I can still earn creds. That and like I said I am very intrested in seeing the future of this class.
Lageas