Pikeman Archive

So I hate to post this, but Ive gotta share this with you all.

Well, as a result of the whiner KD nerf, I had to switch to ranged (after trying many of failed strategies). I had 0432 in Pike as of the nerf. I now have sub 0000 in rifle. Yeah that’s right baby, I'm not even Novice. Anyway, I spent 3 days learning to fight as a rifleman. It took alot of discipline to stay put and not run up there and beat the mob senseless with the Pike. For the record, I am much more combat effective with my rifle. No, I dont do more damage nor can I solo anything harder then what I could pre Gimp patch. But, I stopped dying. It appears that ranged have some useful crowd control specials (warnign/strafe/threaten shot). You guys remember crowd control right? I had no idea ranged had it and considering the state of this game I'm even more shocked that it works.

Regardless the point of this post is that Im doing much better against all mobs now that Im ranged with sub novice skills. So for you "few" people that think the game/Pikeman is better with the KD nerf, you can kiss my Rebel Wookie D#%K! I've spent the last two nights comparing the skills. Like I stated, I rarely die as rifleman, but as soon as that LVA or Lance was pulled, I got incapped about 75% of the time.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I've got pure pike blood running in my veins. I hate the rifle but on the other-hand I also like living. As a direct comarison, my sub-novice rifle combat is more effective than my mid-novice Pike skill!!! This is a crime. Hell, I was even incapped by some kreetles the other day wielding my Pike.

Did I mention PvP? Well I don’t think I need to point out the obvious anyfurther. Please excuse the tone of this email. I am stillfuming mad at SOE for this.

Oh yeah I forgot the most important part. Finally an official statement on broken classes.

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Development&message.id=552985

Careful though, if you go rifleman, you get a 2.5 damage multiplier from any kinetic damage you take.. so as pike, if you get hit for 1k of damage, as rifleman you get raped for 2500...

Thanks for the info. I didnt know that. But I think it's too late. This game is soo broken and the devs so clueless, I think Im gonna give Neocron a try out and forget SWG for 6 months, a year, whatever it takes to come back to a functional game. So far the SWG experience has been a huge pain in the@$$.