Pikeman Archive
Thread: Here's our fix list. Enjoy.
1. BLOCK DOES NOT WORK. PERIOD.
Even if you do block, you still take damage. The only way I could become more familiar with a broken profession is to have it spoon me in bed at night, since it's been hosed since DAY 1.
2. HAM. IT'S MORE THAN MEAT.
In our case I'd be better off taking TKA and cramming an entire ham down my pants, it's still less exhausting than using a VL or LVA.
3. ACCURACY DOES NOT GO WELL WITH HAM.
Even with A1 steak sauce. I could almost deal with killing myself in 3 swings except that NONE OF THEM WILL HIT. The best debilitating combination since Elvis and barbituates.
4. MODS. WE HAVE THEM?
Thanks for the almighty +100something mod for a broken function. I bet you guys were rolling with laughter on that one. Did the pikeman creator lose an office Xmas bet or something? I'll make you a deal and send you all the liquor I won't have to drink to make my class tolerable, if you fix it....right.... the first time... sometime before 2005...without nerfing everyone else...or removing our class.
5. CLASS DEFINITION. BESIDES SUCKING.
Yep, great way to make an impression. I can correlate our presence in the game with one knock-knock joke (that everyone in the game will get, sadly enough).
"Knock-knock"
"Who's there"
"Pikeman"
"Pikeman suck?"
"**edit** you heard this one already..."
6. DoT. Or lack thereof.
You want to make us whiff a lot? Fine. You want to make our HAM insane? Fine. You want to NOT give us the most damaging weapon in the game despite the fact we wield a 6-foot pole witha vibrating axe-head on the end of it? Fine. Then compensate us with some good damage mods, or anything to make up for all our weaknesses.
antares
master pikeman
Ah, there are a few up there that are perfectly true, and need addressing, in almost every category we are worse than the other melee classes. We don't out damage any class, we don't hit more than any class, we attack slower than any class, though with enough speed mods we can come close to the speed cap, our defensive move appears to be broken, I know armor still absorbs damage whenever I "block" or counterattack as I see it in the combat log, and our one shining spot (our Area Effect moves) cost us so much ham that if we are not buffed it will kill us faster than the mobs around us, considering we will only hit about 3/4 of them. Even with a strength of 1000 I loose about 70 health when I do my specials, this doesn't bother me since if I have 1000 strength I also have at least that in con and 2000 health, but the point is that unless we are buffed it is very difficult to pull off our special moves. I don't think that we need to be able to spam our AE attacks, but being able to do one or two a fight would be nice.
There are a few things though that I would say are fine. One is our bleeds...we do some very nice bleeds, you have to get up the tree a little to see them, but they are there. Another is our accuracy, many will disagree with me there, but I feel that if we improve the rest of the areas, our accuracy (especially at master, even at Stances4) is good enough. We are after all swinging a 6ft pole around 
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One thing I think we all agree on is that we don't want others nerfed to where we are, we want to be brought up to where they are, I have played fencer before, it was great, though with its own problems (speed cap sucks) but at least one never killed ones self during a fight.
Yes, we ARE swinging a 6ft pole around and indeed has our accuracy been improved. I would still see better accuracy though because as it is right now in PvP, I m stuck with nothing but Jack and guess what? Jack left town.
ShogaOLayth wrote:
Another is our accuracy,our accuracy (especially at master, even at Stances4) is good enough. We are after all swinging a 6ft pole around
yeah...PVP....we are fckd. Not much else we can say on that, we will either be out damaged or kited...I basically gave up any hopes for pvp and am focusing on getting our class equal with TKA for PVE.
Also it should have been Polearm Support 4, not stances 4, sorry
I don't pvp, if i wanted to i would not have continued to travel the Pikeman route, PvE is fun but I wish i didnt rely on medic/ch skills so much, so I might take a differant road
Not sure you emphasized our lack of defense enough.
On top of horrible offense (accuracy, HAM costs preventing use of special moves), we have horrible defense (toughness, state defenses, other defenses, etc).
Apart from that, you hit the nail on the head.