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i was wondering if any of you higher pikeman have any tips for someone who just got novice pikeman. any tips would be helpfull. thank you

fight hard things in a larger group (with ch). Just hide behind the pets at the 4m range

Heres what worked for me.
Get a high damage LVA with decent speed in the 4s range ( I used a 100-400 4.9 one).
Make friends with one TKA that has knockdown and is willing to help you level up since you will suck all the xp if it goes right. Add in one medic with range.
Get a ticket to dath and do baz nitches.
A good TKA should be able to crowd control 3-4 of these at once moving knockdown attacks around.
Simply use berserk and swing away and move from one mob to the next. Rinse and repeat.
Your first box should be sweep.
Then go up the stances for the speed since those defensive mods did nothing for me.

Oh, once you get sweep it is all down hill from there. I can solo sergeant major imps with my trusty, sliced vibro lance and a stim c. Just sweep, leghit, sweep, leghit... or sweep, attack, sweep, attack, etc.. etc.... I just find doing leghit 2 after sweep works faster because you continually concentrate all your attacks on their action pools. When I start getting low on health I switch from sweep, leghit, to sweep, heal or even sweep, heal, leghit and I still have enough time to sweep them again before they get back up... gotta love it.

Aye sweep makes life so easy but ham costs and accuracy.
So to fix I made a nice little macro.
With the push of one button it switches to my reinforced combat staff sweeps then switches back to my other weapon. What this gets you is cheaper ham costs and higher accuracy to hit,

whats the command to change weapons in a macro ?

You use the /ui action toolbarSlotXX command, where XX is the corresponding number of the slot you're trying to activate (and yes, the capital 'S' is necessary). The toolbar's slots are numbered like this, assuming that you have it expanded to two rows:

00-01-02-03 04-05-06-07 08-09-10-11

12-13-14-15 16-17-18-19 20-21-22-23

So let's say you have your auto-attack weapon in the bottom right toolbar slot (23), and your "specials" weapon in the slot on the left (22). This macro's job is to switch to the "specials" polearm, perform a special, then switch back to the auto attack weapon, which could be the LVA:

/ui action toolbarSlot22;

/polearmhit1;

/pause 3;

/ui action toolbarSlot23;

The pause is in there so that you give yourself time to perform the attack before switching back to your LVA. Pause values vary from person to person, so just do some experimenting to find what works for you.