Pikeman Archive

HAM costs arnt even a problem if your using a pet to tank for you. Just get novice medic and use stim Bs or get Doc buffs.

just use tatooine sunburns.....all the time....no matter what.....

No profesion should be as dependent on sunburns as we are, but if they wern't in this game......i think no one would be master piekman unless they needed it for a holocron.

As a matter of fact, without sunburns.....i am not sure if you can even fight anything decent....at all.

I chose to become a pikeman, because the only thing i saw running around was fencers and people with ranged weapons, and because i thought it could be fun to play this character.
But if quickly found out i was wrong. At the present time, most of my standard moves require a minimum HAM cost of 170.
It annoys me that I can go into combat with some kind of mob, and the thing that really hurts me is not the damage i recieve but the HAM costs of my weapon.

I.E: since i have some CH skills i usually use a creature to tank for me. a quick example would be that I go into combat with a piket longhorn. If I use a number of special moves, then i will be down to roughly 100-200 action and health without even taking a single hit. And i start off at 1000.

My question is to the Devs : why not just remove the pikeman class?
the biggest challenge in being a pikeman right now is to have enough med-kits with you so you can heal up before the next combat.
If you want to make something out of pikemen, then lower the HAM costs and increase the defence rating since a pike is actually meant for defence.
And if the HAM costs can't be lowered, then for christs sake make us able to actually hit our targets, accuracy is waaay to low considering we have a huge weapon placed straight in front of a player/monster/npc/what ever...
But thanks a lot, hoping to get an answer from the DEV's even though i'm pretty sure that I, as well as every other pikeman that has cried out... will be ignored.

P.S. Dev's you ever considered why there is only 0.25% pikeman when counting up all the players on all the servers?

P.P.S and no, I'm not a holocron pikeman.

okay, to clear things out, I am a Master Medic, and if I go out with my kidbro on some simple Picket Plainswalker missions on Dantooine, and we use my pet to tank, which means none of us get hurt, i'm using roughly 2 stim D'son myself for every battle, and nothing on my kid-bro who is a 0/1/0/0 fencer.
But this is not my point. Why is there such a big difference between all the other melee classes and pikemen?
I'm not saying it's impossible to be a pikeman, I'm just saying run into a hospital and ask for someone to follow you around and you will be their friend for life. they will love all the medic XP they can get off you, and that's just if we talk about having a lvl 45 creature to tank for you.
I did several duels with my guildmembers today.
Got hammered by a TK master (of course), and that was far enough, i'm only a 0/1/2/2 pikeman, so that was expected.
What i did not expect was taking 2 duels with my kidbro (the fencer above) and I got slaughtered both times, even though I used two Stim D's on myself in the fights and he used none.

So my only question at this point is: what is a pikeman really good for? does anyone know? because I would really love to hear the answer.
And the thing about taking sunburns, come on man, if you can't play a class without constant buffs, then what is the point? and more importantly where is the fun?
Hell yeah, I can do lvl 10-15 critters, but to get proper money and xp i need to kill something along the lines of at least lvl 35, and without my pet, I wouldn't even get close to them.
What can I say...
DEV's, please don't keep on ignoring this class... I mean despite our lack of numbers we have cried out so many times that someone must have heard just one of us by now...

Wait, I did find a use for us.

We jump into the flesh of a creature, do a quick knockdown, a warcry and then back off so the others can finish it off... sound fair?

Well we used to be good with groups of mobs. With area knockdown and area attacks. With a doc we could help a group handle being swarmed by a number of mobs. My personal best was like 8 baz nitches at once (we killed 13 in that one fight) with only a tka and a doc in addition to me.