Pikeman Archive

I hear you guys have a lot of complaints, but what I want to do is add another melee profession. I was thinking that master pikeman/master fencer would be cool. But I read a lot of posts saying that your defences are not what they say they are. I figure if pikeman is going to be fixed in the near future it would be worth starting it since it took me 3 months to master fencer, it will take equally as long if not longer for pikeman. My intent is not to make the "most powerful" melee player, i'd do TKA/Fencer if that was my intention. I'm just looking to make the coolest melee fighter. Any advice?

Pikeman would be a perfect match for you.

Since fencer and swordsman have no knockdowns (apart from master brawler) pikeman would compliment you well. Pikeman has knockdowns and many AOE attacks that would compliment your fencer skills well.

I'm doing TKA/Pikeman but to be honest the perfect compliments are

Fencer/Pikeman

TKA/Swordsman

With those builds you have one fast melee profession and one hard hitting profession.

That's my advice.

Wehave the lowest toughness which causes problems. Also our COB mod (block) still causes us to take damage which kinda stinks.

The Long Vibro Axe is a death trap until you get the first accuracy box in the pikeman tree. Don't touch the thing. The negative accuracy mods will cause you to miss 6-7 times in a row. Just use a basic lance OR do what I did. Use the skills from your other profession and just use the lance to destroy the lair.

That is literally how I advanced to novice pikeman. I used my TKA skills to kill MOB's and use my LVA to destroy the lair. . . it was the only way I could score a hit.