Pikeman Archive
Thread: Ark is here to help.
I am going to post some tactics and ideas that i think would help for all pikeman to add to their aresenal.
#1. Dizzy/Kockdown....aside from against TKA and Fencers, this works like a charm. Use Spin attack 2 or area attack 2 to get the dizzy effect and follow up with a sweep, with luck they will remain on the groud for several rounds.
Once you are a higher level pikeman you can use KD first and PRAY you don't miss the dizzy....
they can be dizzied while already on the ground, and they don't get that 1st swing luxury while you wait for the slow area attacks to cool down and sweep to que up.
#2 Armour i feel isn't worth it.
#3 Allways..and i mean ALLWAYS have a Sheild generator equipped. Yes they decay fast, but once they do they still do 50% of their original defense.
Example: buy a SG with 20% defense to kinetic(it HAS ot have kinetic defenses) and 15% to blast(pesky pistolers and what not)...
get it sliced(yes you can)...lets say you get a 45% slice(the maximum)
you now have 29% defense to ALL melee attacks, and 22% to all blasters...
when condition reaches 0/1000 you will still get 14.5% defense to kinetic and 11% to all blasts....FOREVER! As long as you equip it...there is NO reason not to use thease AT ALL!!!
#4 Player vs Player.....if your oppenent is a ranged user....there is NO better freind to you than /follow-BurstRun....when you catch them...knock em' down....
they will want a re-match becouse you whopped them so fast, tell them to take a hike.....or wait the 5 minutess to get another burst run....
#5 Tatooine Sunburns- If you arn't using these already...GO NOW!!!
your HAM costs will be reduced by over half and focus on the mind instead....if you want...use a muon gould to keep your mind up too... the double duce!
#6 get a tank....honestly, you dont' know your true potential untill you have something running blocker for you...
specificaly the pumbas on endor....i got 100s of thousands of Exp becouse i had a Graul Mauler between me and about 6 of them..... the trick is to make SURE the graul or what ever is closer to your pet than you or they will aggro you.
you do not want a large amount of people in your group....it will make it harder to keep track of which pumbas are where.....and is easy to get mixed up....
Make sure you use a Tatooine sunburn and then SPAM the snot out os spin attack 1 or 2....you will do severl thousand damage to each of the 5-6 targets....the mauler did very little damage, so most of the Exp went to me.....you are looking at about 5K a kill.....
also, you can do a great deal of damage by focusing on just one at a time and using leg hits and bleeds as often as possible, you kill them quickly and it is much less risky than surrounding yourself by more than one.
if you do regular attacks and such it takes about 2.5-3 times longer to kill them becosue of the uncertainty of wich stat you will target.
LISTEN CAREFULLY TO ME NOW......i have learned this trick from much experience and all the EXP i missed out on becouse i got all 5 of them nearly dead and then died, thus getting no exp......when either the enemys or your tank's health gets dangerously low, be ready to run away.......it is likely that when he gets hurt enuff he will start to run away, when he does this your pet may follw him. If your pet does follow him you can find yourself unprotected surrounded by 4 or 5 of those guys....MAKE sure that you are farther than your pet from EACH one of them. wait untill your pet finishes off the one who ran ar wait untill they stop moving again.
thats all i got for now, i hope this helps some of you
if i think of more i wil post, if anyone else knows some, you should share.
Ark Mindspear
--Kauri--Master Pikeman
the decayed personal shield generator info alone is gonna be a lifesaver.
2 cool points for you
Oadam Nailah - 2/1/3/2 pikeman, master brawler
I'm glad you guys can use that info.
some mroe info is, a really good source of EXP is Tortur missions on talus. Wich is what i do for exp.
When you are grouped you get about 3300-4500EXP depending on your skill for tortur bulls....1600-2400 for regular torturs and meager torturs suck.
You can kill them in just a few hits to one pool. I like to knock them down and then hit them as hard as i can.
I can one-shot a tortur bull if i am lucky.
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...if you KD them after a cry, they ll stay down until death releases them from their pain of our pike