Pikeman Archive

Stupid double post....

This is more of a note of disappointment on the development team for pikeman. I was a pikeman *forever* on starsider. Got sick of being the weakest in the group. Couldn't hit jack, couldn't contribute, my weapons killed me faster than any enemy. So long story short i gave it up and took up TKA....blah blah blah Master brawler/Master TKA = invisible... blah blah... it's a boring story in the middle.

Then about a month ago, i was done. Decided to quit. Did quit, but a friend sucked me back in. He said just go back to the professions you like! I figured, i'd give it a shot till publish 10 comes out atleast. So started a char on intrepid and headed up Pikeman again. Low and behold! All these months, all these publishes and Pikeman still cant hit jack, get all our mods in 1 tree or two boxes of another. Were not the hardest hitting were some of the biggest jokes. I am glad to see more pikeman, back when i was originally, they were dwindling fast.

So let me sum this up, I got excited today b/c I found a VL with positive range stats +1/+2/+2. I almost wet myself. I have been settling for so long for -15/-18 and such that i had to pinch myself to make sure this is right. Is this how our profession is supposed to be? Crippled by the little white words *miss*?? /sigh.

Another thing that bugs me is every melee AI in the game has it programed in to get within their ideal range. MOST all this is about 3m. That puts them at a very bad angle for us pikeman whose ideal range is more around 6m. Now if I back away to get a better hit, guess what happens b4 i can hit? The AI autofollow. Having the AI automatically follow you everywhere is stupid?!? i would expect high end Villians to do that and make it hard for you to hit them, but spice fiends too? I have PvP with ppl that didn't have the sense to get out of my range, your telling me a bol knows to?

I'll stick with pikeman, simply b/c im too bored with every other profession in the game. I like pikeman. I want to see pikeman be to Brawlers what Rifleman are to Marksman. Slow by comparison but dangerously powerful. Were only powerful when we get lucky, with so many negative mods against us, that aint often.

Nit.