Pikeman Archive
Thread: Pikeman need some LOVE!!!
After being a carbineer my whole career I decided to take a random brawler elite class and ended up with Pikeman. My roommate is a TKA. We aren't even in the same league. He can wipe a whole camp in the time it takes me to kill one thing. There is some kind of bug where if something is laying on the ground and I use a special, it is evaded or counterattacked everytime normal hits I might actually hit 1 out of 10 times. The speed is pretty crappy even with a 30 something % sliced vibro lance. The HAM cost are so rediculous it is impractical in most situations given the horrible accuracy to even attempt a special. We dont have any cool features like power boost, or meditate. I would rather have useful styles than ones that cause wound damage.
Is the SOE development team oblivious to what a joke pikeman is? It has the feel of a "filler" profession that was quickly thrown in just to make a 4th brawler profession. It was clearly not given nearly as much developer time and effort as teras kasi was.
What can we do to fix our profession? Can our correspondent give us some kind of update on whats going on?
Gohan, unfortunately, those patch notes on test center are repeats of what went in last month's patch. No new updates on test center for us aside from the damage mitigation that everyone gets.
Gedridien, What level are you currently at? We can tell you that accuracy does get better and speed definitely gets much much better. HAM costs of course, only get worse, and there is currently still no reason to compare pikeman to TKA, this is an entirely separate issue. I think we and holo-pikeman have started making enough of a precense and enough noise that the developers are remembering that they made this 4th brawler class, and that they need to do something about fixing it. So, I am still hopeful to hear soon from Thunderheart about some pikeman-specific updates on the way. Hopeful, but not overly optimistic. But definitely hang in there, it's getting better. We have gotten some residual fixes along with everyone else that has made pikeman much easier to level and much better performing. Specific help should be even better. Like candy.
antares
master pikeman
lol no they arent, notice "Veichles" and new combat stuff like special move dmg heals faster than actual dmg, i think what happend was the website creator didnt type it right, but everything in that has not been put in.
Right,I mentioned the damage mitigation and there is also the new HAM scheme that both affect everyone.
I was talking about everything under "* Polearm *" in the "Combat Skill Changes"section. All of those notes were in last month's patch. You were also talking about that section, not the stuff about the HAM system or damage mitigation, when yousaid "they are fixing the accuracy".
antares
master pikeman