Pikeman Archive

Hiya

This weekend, I sat down and tried to come up with as many issues as I could come up with that not only makes our class broken, but would fix our class -completely-.

I was only able to come up with <10 issues that are broken, and 3 which could be added to our profession to enhance it. I wanted to know if other Pikemen felt the same way. If there's more issues out there that haven't been touched on yet that I just couldn't think of, or if everyone has the same general concensus and that these issues are it.

Issues I was able to come up with that you can list as 'broken' or a hinderance to our profession and needs to be fixed ASAP:

LVA accuracy mods
HAM costs
Hit3 damage and the overal low damage of Pikemen in PvP.
Block still has issues
Polearm boxes 3 and 4 in the brawlerprofession only get +4 toughness, whereas it should be +10
Can't attack while running (sometimes you can, sometimes you can't)

New things that would seperate our class from others and make us unique or issues which arn't as important as those listed above:

New Weapons at Master Pikeman and Support Abilities 2
Make Action Hit 2 an area bleed
Spin and AOE too similar in what they do, needs to be more diverse.

The biggest thing here that we can suggest, in my personal opinion,is Mounted Combat. The devs are very hesitant, if not adament, to not give players the ability to use specials for mounted combat, for fear that players would simply kite mobs. I think that this is not an issue with brawlers, as we have to be within a certain range to hit the mobs in the first place. For PvP, it is the same, if we're hitting a brawler, they can hit us. Ranged players outrange us as it is, so kiting them in pvp would not be an issue.

In episode two, in the arena scene, Pikemen were the ones on mounts with electropoles which herded the beasts twards Padme, Anakin, and Obi-Wan. We have the longest meleeweapons, thus I beleive if any class is given the ability to use specials on mounts, it should be us.I beleive that giving us the ability to fight on mounts, at a gradual level (a certain % at novice, which increases as we gain boxes in Pikeman up to 100% at master) would give us a unique ability which sets us apart from TKA's and their meditation, or other professions in general. This would add a new dynamic to the game and make Pikeman much more enjoyable.

So, are there more issues? I think if we can present a completed list of every Pikeman issue there is, and say hey, there's only a few issues here that we can think of, fixing them would make us a viable class and that's one less thing you have to worry about, they might put some effort into fixing us quicker.

Accuracy

Defense

Damage(specifically polearmhit3)

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Fix those, we're fine.