Pikeman Archive

Ok im not here to ask something dumb like "can i solo the vette with master pike?" but i havent been up in teh vette in a long ass time, im master pike/master brawler/master fencer with the rest on medic i think and sum on tka defenses and i like using pikes more than fencer, so my question is.........

Can i survive the corvette with pikes?

will i be usin electricity or kinetic?

sorry if its a dumb question but i forgot what the resists of thos guys up there are

--- ChrisD ANewHope ---

Kinetic will still prolly be the best bet up there.... medium and light AP = a huge difference.

With you current template you wont be much of a good tank with pikes. Things in the DWB dont often miss, pikeman have low toughness and you also have no ranged mitigation, so you will be most likely be taken out extremely fast if your group isnt equipped with a very good CM and u will need some 80%+ energy armour and some PSGs.

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Hurri [vF] Pikeman/TKM
Hurri Level 60 Undead Priest (Blackrock)
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music" -- Kristen Wilson, Nintendo Inc. 1989

well what shud i drop then? if i must drop fencer to be better i will, i use pike 90% of the time, it looks so cool

--- ChrisD ANewHope ---

Ive been doing the vette a lot lately, just 2 of us, and i have to say with a good VL you are far far better off than a swordsman or tka. A lot of the mobs have very high kin resist and despite the low ap on the VL my 700 damage VL tears through most of the mobs up there except for the commisioner on the neutral rescue and the massive 200k ham black stormie on the rebel one. Take a good LVA as well just in case and the defence really isnt that bad, just use good armour with kinetic and energy in the base, 85 - 90 base helps a lot up there.

I found fencer useless on the vette, none of the npcs KD you dodge doesnt work, they hit if they want to hit I guess the other defences help a bit but I do fine with Pikeman/doc

Chowley RRRR Toothy

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You should drop a skill if you like it. Its just the way the corvette works atm....

The major problem for melee characters in the corvette is that none of the mobs switch to a melee weapon. However this is the ONLY dungeon to my knowledge where mobs dont switch to melee. This is the major problem of the corvette.... as melee characters are predominately the tanks.... however a Rifleman, makes a better tank in the vette.... I think issues like this will be address in the combat balance.

Things you can do to over come this disadvantage without dropping skills:

- Try and get 80% or above energy composite armour

- PSGs

- Exo-protein wafers or Synsteak

- Stand behind someone thats tanking

- Use your KD/States on the targets

- Have 1 or 2 CMs in your group

- standard doc/entertainer buffs

- pull enemies one by one

Another trick is to pre eat some of your food before you launch, as this gives your stomach some more room later on as you still enjoy the affects of the initial food eaten.

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Hurri [vF] Pikeman/TKM
Hurri Level 60 Undead Priest (Blackrock)
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music" -- Kristen Wilson, Nintendo Inc. 1989

shud i re-master TKA? i found that with TKM healing wounds became my best friend on the vette, and i didnt do half that bad attakin..........

--- ChrisD ANewHope ---

No not at all, as long as you have a CM/Doc with you and your playing intelligently you shouldnt die. I find 2 or 3 people the best number 10 people just draws aggro from everywhere then someone panics and it all gets a hell of a lot worse.

Chowley RRRR Toothy

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