Pikeman Archive

need to do something - keep dying

Armor sucks back the HAM and its hard to use special moves... right now I fight with no armor

Someone said to get some Melee Defense clothing ... anyone try that out? does it work?

I primarily hunt critters - so kinetic is my big issues.

I have a full set of melee def. clothing...the difference isnt noticable...i hear that the amount of boost it can give you maxes out at 25...just rumor though.

Armor...i use Adv. Composite...and buffs

~Athos~

First I chose Pikeman, then i was forced into Doctor. /sigh all actions have their consequences...

If you were to live by one word....Moderation should be it

And you are a pikeman?? the composite must make specials impossible.

I'm a pikeman. No Medic skills.

I rely on my specials to target specific pools, do area attacks, and knockdown targets so the rest of the group can kill it.

I've heard Chitin is the way to go, but I have to get the armorcrafter to adjust the HAM a bit, and definately get it sliced. I also heard that I pretty much ALWAYS need to be hyped up on some tat sunburn or something when using armor with a pikeman.

PS - when I fight - I am pretty much always the tank ... I fight with other melee classes and I always do the most damage and get aggro .. so I'm looking at a way to soften the damage I take without losing too much functionality.

Reason I asked about melee Def clothes was because I duelled one of my guild mates who was wearing some and I missed 50% of the time ... normally I rarely miss when duelling.

I'm a pikeman who prefers the heaviest armor possible. I wear a suit of 50% eff. composite. In combat I mostly fight solo. Because of the super high HAM costs that come with a combo of wearing heavy armor and just being a pikeman in general, I use very few special moves. Typically, I just use stun 1 and intimidate. If fighting multiples, I'll use area stun and area knockdown. I can't use more than 3 special moves per fight generally, and must heal up afterwards. On the upside, I don't die very often, and can stay alive in PVP (though I can't actually kill anyone unless they have no armor and stand still).

I find that the standard autoattack damage is sufficient to take things down almost as fast as I would were I unarmored and throwing in a few PolearmHit2 moves, but I take WAY less damage.

Knaeve -- Pikeman

Advanced Ubese for Kinetic, if the mind is to much, do an Advanced Chitin helm to replace the Ubese helm(about 40mind preslice difference)

As with armor, lay of the specials all the time, I notice a drastic improvement when I lay of the specials, sure an extra 4-5hits per creature(assuming they aren't social and aren't swarming, dune banthas for example) but you have less heal time. Are you using Warcry and and Intimidate(spl?) and berserk helps a ton I noticed(I have a heavyswordsman on another server, so not really speaking from a pikeman standpoint on that statement) Armor takes a while to get used to how it works, but once you get the hang of it you'll last longer and take a ton more beating(if you don't want to wear armor be a Wookie)

composite chest, gloves, and left bicep

ubenese pants and boots.

No helmet

This works pretty good. I just have to keep an eye on my ham when doing specials. I'm also BE and right now a lot of the tissues still aren't working right. When they are fixed a set of enhanced clothes should be usefull.