Pikeman Archive
Thread: Pikeman a FAQs, feel free to add to
A:area2: 2.5 damage mod; stun/dizzy/damage; circular area attack;
spin2: 3.0 damage mod; dizzy/damage; circular area attack;
Q: What is better Long Vibro Axe or Vibro Lance?
A: Depends on what you are fighting for reference
LVA: Kinetic DMG, usually higher dmg, more Health cost, less accurate and Medium Piercing
VL: Electric DMG, more Action cost, quicker, more accurate, Light Piercing
Q: What kind of Crafting Attachments like Krayt Tissues can be used?
A: Vibro Motor Units, found on Tuskens and such, usually Nightsister weapons (and of course exceptional/legendary) are better, the VMUs are less beneficial to us than say a TKA.
Q: What are good professions to go with Pikeman?
A: Medic/Doctor and Creature Handler are both good for support, if you want more Block then Rifleman and finally Carbineer if you want more action attack/bleeds. (as of right now Block is close to useless though)
Q: Got any tips for leveling?
A: Novice Brawler-Polearms 2: any staff you are certified will do, get some easy missions, or just stay right outside of city doing easy kills, sevorts and such are good example @ polearms 2, use berserk its nice for lower levels. Get the standard Lance when you can its a **edit** fine weapon for low levels
Polearms 3-4: Some may say to use the LVA here, I chose to but, I would suggest using a standard Lance until novice pikeman due to the accuracy. Polearm Hit 1 is pretty much the most effective move we get in brawler line. Kill things like sevorts still and maybe try a bit harder things if you feel brave.
Novice Pikeman: Ready for the long road eh?, Early on you may want to stick to some lower stuff @ novice pikeman I was big on killing anything that conned white, that was my go by.
I will continue this in a moment.
Q: What lines should i go up first?
A: Defense or Stances OR alternate between the 2, of course your support line get it as you go along its **edit** nice to have our bleeds. Stances rocks for the speed and Defense is of course nice for CoB and stuff. my order was Def 1, Stance 1, Stance 2, Def 2, Stance 3, Stance 4, def 3, def 4, offense 1-4. of course getting support as i went along.
Ok back to my leveling guide, Now when you get your first couple of advances here are my tips, Get CH or group with one, do piket missions on dant, giant baz nitch missions on dath, gurk missions on lok or tusken raids (really fun as you advance) on tatooine.
Q: Is pikeman really that bad?
A: yes/no/maybe, it really depends, for me this is the funnest class I have played (Commando (early on), Pistoleer, CH, Rifleman, Doctor, Weaponsmith). It does have its problems of course, High HAM, Low accuracy etc, but it can be quite a fun class to play.
Q: What are good things to help a pikeman along?
A: Tatooine Sunburns, Doctor Buffs, Entertainer Buffs, Groups, Pets, Stims, and Patience.
Q: Is pikeman mainly PvE or PvP?
A: ok i threw this in as a duh question but PvE, we are not a PvP class heh it is that simple, can we win some battles? sure but mainly we are PvE.
Q: Should I master brawler with pikeman?
A: If you have the skill points left after you get what other classes you want sure, I did not, I hear that WarCry 2 and Intimidate 2 are both nice and the extra stats sure would not hurt, so if you want to go for it.
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Q. What kind of armor is best for pikeman?
A. None of course, any armor you wear will be decayed to nothing in a matter of days from your repeated deaths. In fact no clothing at all is the way to go why spoil master tailored items with nasty decay.
Q. Will I really die that much?
A. Yes.
Q. Really?
A. Yes.
Q. Any tips for PvP?
A. Why yes,as your bounty hunter, commando and teras kasi friends go into a heated PvP battle,it is best for pikemen to come along as moral aid. While not in the group itself you can shout things like "Wow you really owned that guy" or perhaps "Man you guys really kicked his a$$", or feel free to create your own catchy phrase of encouragement...........oh you meant for actual PvP fighting??? He// no.
LMAO ... sorry I couldn't help myself
Legwand Longfellow
Master Pikeman
~Doing it with a big stick~
Psykeman420-HS wrote:
Q: What are good professions to go with Pikeman?
A: Medic/Doctor and Creature Handler are both good for support, if you want more Block then Rifleman and finally Carbineer if you want more action attack/bleeds. (as of right now Block is close to useless though)
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don't forget that the other elitemelee classes add good support to the pikeman as well 
Q: How should I migrate my stats?
A: This is a commen question and you need to know what specie you are and wether or not you are going to use armor. Your choice of skills[medic? TKA? CH?]and mod.enhancers[spice, food, drinks]are also important issues to think about.Statmigration is a very personal issue and different people have different values, but agoodidea could be to migrateto compensate forthe HAM costs of your weapon when considering all the above.
Q: Why are there so few of us out there?
A: The profession suffers from a commonmisconception that the attributes a pikeman acchives are so broken the entire class is worthless of anyattention other than to grindit as a holocron mission. Thishasprobably originated from our generally badcharacteristics in PvP as well as the lack of fixesforbugs within the preofession.
Q: What is the latest reports from the DEVs?
A: Our correspondent keeps us updated on these subjects. The DEVs usually make contact with the commoners when a correspondent quits his job.
Braglor wrote:
The profession suffers from a common misconception that the attributes a pikeman acchives are so broken the entire class is worthless of any attention other than to grind it as a holocron mission. This has probably originated from our generally bad characteristics in PvP as well as the lack of fixes for bugs within the preofession.
And from the time a few months ago and before, prior to any melee updates and fixes and before 70% ubese armor when we were incredibly weak and broken. We still had good damage, but could not stand up under any kind of hits.
antares
master pikeman
Q: How were the fixes?
A: Great we are running on par, I killed a TKM the other day and still had HAM left with no buffs or pets.
this post need a bump.
I'm quoting myself to add some questions in this post
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one problem of pikeman is the accuracy of advanced weapons (LVA VL)
Is there any way to resolve this problem at low level?
I suggest:
Traps? there are some traps that give melee bonus, what type of bonus?
Knockdown? I noticed that i hit more just after a knockdown
Stun?
Suppression fire from a friend?
Blind?
OT Observation: With specials i can hit from 10-12 meters, whithout specials at 10-12 meters i'm out of range.
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