Pikeman Archive

I don't know if we just don't give a rat as a profession, or if we have just all but disappeared. The only group with less discussionare the Image Designers. No offense Image people, but after all we are supposed to be a combat (giggle) class.

There aren't enough pikemen playing to warrant any kind of serious attention from the Devs. It's made even worse since the devs are balancing for PvP not PvE...and we all know how bad melee is in PvP. No matter which way you slice it, melee and pikes in particular are on the bottom of the to-do list.

I'd say apathetic attrition is more like it.

What sucks is it would be so easy to make melee important in PvP. But the devs love kiting so i guess itll be king of SWG.

kiting is stupid, i had a droidekia thing kite me and my cl34 pet across 600m of lok. I hate lok.

Woo one star. I think I had a point about NPC's and PC's able to run top speed and still land most their shots, or LLC's doing 1.5k pvp damage or flamethrowers doing 400damage aoe dots in pvp that you can't do anything about on Tatooine. If by some magic force of nature in this fairy tale world people become immune to being knocked down more than once every 30 seconds and melee is doing far less damage than ranged, where the hell can I find a wand?

Well, we could always start a thread suggesting some really ridiculous nerfs to commandos and bounty hunters and watch those guys all come running to flame us. That should up our post count...

Still here, but have pretty much given up hope of any meaningful fixes/changes for pikeman. Still playing and not planning to leave pike, but I have less of an attitude of "Woohoo we'll be on par with other professions next month, maybe" and more "oh well this works ok until I find something better to play." Posting issues or discussing possible solutions seems pointless since we never get a response anyways.

I am looking at other games for a lot of reasons and see the lack of attention to pikeman as symptomatic of problems with SWG as a whole.