Pikeman Archive

today was the first time i didnt use doc buffs ever. I just died with my buffs from a room full of tuskens at fort tusken,approx 10 tuskens. So i died and i need 7k xp before i go to bed, well being only 7k how hard can it be? So i go out to kill some things around mos taike, dune banthas and those newbie weakest argo guy npc's possible. 4xp each...

Anyways onthe dunebanths im using 1 stim e per bantha. The bantha is doing 70dmg to me,not bad. but im literally killing myself with polearmhit2, 193 health per use. I couldnt believe it, how do they expeect pure pikemen to fight? The ham usage is insane, not to mentionion missing allthe time. Im lvling this class up just to master all the melee professions before i use a holo.

The ham usuage is just incredible, im killing myself while a npc is trying to kill me. The weak weak npc argo, 4xp each ones, were kicking my ass. im 4 1 1 3 in pikemen, i was killing myself and they would just incap me....

THIS PROFESSION NEEDS FIXING REALLY BAD, at least fix accuracy and defense modifers.

I assume why this profession has little to no defences, ranged or melee is it was suppose to be the powerhouse of melee... Doing the most dmg, well guess what tka has that title i know it(former TKM). Pikemen is by far the worst melee there is.

I did 3/4 of my master pike solo on dantooine without buffs, here's the key:

1. Get a 3-piece suit of Warcry/intimidate +13 or more from a BE/tailor. make sure one's an undershirt.


2. Any decent pet is your best pal, cowardly gurrecks or mtn krevols, use 'em while you still can.


3. A crate of tatooine sunburn with dur 400+ is your 2nd best pal.


4. 5-8 Crates of melee powerups (speed/dam my early fave) in your pack are your 3rd-11th best pals


5. B4 you enter combat, from 25m, drop 2 intitimidates on your target, they stack and don't initiate aggro.


6. Swap to your quick-keyed suit of 60+ ubese filled with +1-2 skill mods, your int/warcry t-shirt stays on. For humanoids use a bone suit with some minimal kinetic resist, don't use a helmet unless your opponent starts tagging your mind.


7. When you enter combat, use KD to keep opponent down and warcry to slow them up, re-applying intimidate if the battle goes too long.


8. When you fight humanoids, dizzy/kd is a lethal combo.


9. When you have an opponent down, or are close to ending the fight, go berserk.

So...you really don't need to use many special attacks, and one good (350+) stim B got me throughone 3500xp fight (oops THAT's your best pal lol) on average.

I found that raising speed skills and block skills at the same time (maxxing xp before training both at once) was the most efficient use of my time, by the time I was 2/0/2/1 I wasn'tdying muchanymore, as long as i didn't get completely mobbed, learning to pull only 1 enemy at a time is a lifesving skill (Thanks to Mo' on shadowfire, my teacher!)

i think thats why the pikeman has such heavy bleeds. Bleed and autoswing/CoB .

Don't use specials. They'll kill you. You certainly can't spam them like everyone else does.

The only time I use specials is (a) if the critter's action is low enough that polearmleghit3 will kill it (assuming it lands), (b) I've got more than two critters around me, then sometimes I'll do area2 followed by sweep2, or (c) if I'm grouped with my doctor friend and something attacks her - then I spam specials until it leaves her alone.

Other than that, most of my combats end with the critter having both his red and green bars nearly empty. I've discovered that without buffs, anything else is suicide. And even with buffs, the mind cost of specials will eventually kill me anyway. With +26 toughness, all the defense you get at master, and a set of 65% kinetic ubese armor, the critters just don't hurt me that fast...I do way more damage to myself with specials.

Oh and by the way, this class if fundamentally different at master. I picked up stances4, support4, and master in one training session. I went from being a gimp to being a cuisinart with legs. I'm still weaker than a TKM, but at least it's not frustrating as all hell any more. I hit most of the time with my LVA and I swing so fast the animations can't keep up...sometimes I'll see two swinging animations and watch three damage numbers scroll by in the combat spam.

--Insomnia

The thing is, im a master doctor. Every since i started out this profession from novice brawler ive been using my doc buffs. Never not once have i fought without them, till yesterday night. I never thought a class could have such high ham cost, for me thats 4specials before incapping myself... Reason why i didnt use my doc buffs were because i was soo close to lvl and wasnt planin on stay on long.

Im use to fighting where it says im losing 10mind for each special, because of buffs, never thought it possible to lose 193 health per special. Im use to the classes where you can spam specials=( Anyhow ill finsh mastering pikemen with my doc buffs, but they gotta fix this...

Best tip I can give is: Make a macro for your armor, to quickly put it on/off. When you use a special that drains a lot of mind like CoB take it off, and put back on when executed. As long as you have mind to heal yourself, you will do fine with 400 effect stim-b's. If you use the KD-warcry variant, take off your armor between the KD and the warcry, will save you alot of HAM.

Otherwise, docbuffs + muon gold is your best friends, only 3-4 minutes downtime after each muone use, and if you have a pet to tank for the downtime, you can hang behind your pet to minimize downtime even more.

< pure pikeman, no buffs, no armor, no pet, no food, no spice, no special clothes, no nothing.

Just me and my stick.

need fix low accuracy and desende.

for my is impossible elite.

my 4holo say master pikeman and i havesunspensmy account.

i have try5 day ..... i get only novice pikeman, tha's is crazy for my.

i im dead 10000000000 pikeman is easy to kill no defense.....

finally i stop my account.

don't play