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Just made novice pikeman and had a few questions. First is the -44 on my LVA intended or a bug? I don't understand how I have a negative number that large for fighting up close. Second what can I do to keep from getting so low on HAM even when I DON'T get hit? I'm at less than half life every fight, even if I don't get touched Last, Is the Vibro Lance better than a LVA?

Thanks in advance.

Grats on Novice Pikeman

-44 isnt a bug, but all the Pikeman want it altered for class balance issues.

The HAM hit is from special skill use. The costs are great using these weapons. You can get buffs to ramp up your stats that determine how much HAM is used when using special skills or change weapons to a lower base HAM. A regular lance or even a combat reinforced staff will still stun, dizzy, KD, and intimidate just as well as the other weapons. Once there debuffed you can bring out big Birtha till you need to debuff again. Couple of hot keys makes the transition instant.

Vibro lance does electrical damage. Depending on the MoB the lance can out perform, but for the most part the axe is a better overall choice. Keep all 3 weapons, a lance, a vibro lance, and a LVA. Use the lance for debuffing MoBs because of low HAM costs and it's quick. With a good slice you can get a lance with a speed of 2.0ish.

yup yup nice having another Pikeman in the community

well as you have noticed the HAM costs for the special attacks have a high cost ... so a tip is to become a medic too ... novice medic to use some basic small-stim-A's and B's .. that way you can hold out much longer ...

ow and to get some quick polearm xp ... join some hunting groups .. i made about 40k to 50k xp a few days ago sweeping the Squill cave on Tatooine ...

gl and welcome

Im a novice pikeman to and i notice these problems. But i have a question: i group with 3 peaple and we go to kill fambaa. At the end of combat the master marksmen take 1750 exp point, the novice carabineer take 2200 exp point and i only 330 exp point. I hit hard on fambaa 5-6 hit in total and i inflict 500-1250 per swing. Why i take only 330 points? Ialways takethe same amount of polearms exp in 5/5 fambaa kill. Why? What is the swg metod of point assignement?

hello, im master pikeman on eclispe server , i think theres only 2 there now , i have only seen 1 other master in this skill so far. I travel alot so im sure i would have seen one by now. Th ay i lvled my skill was i had a graul , and did nothing but baz nitch lairs on dath. 1st. u send in pet to attack then have it follow u , basically just stand about 40m. away from it and call it u , then have it attack them again when he get close to u wait for the pet to hit 2 or 3 times , stand at your max distance from it and attack the baz from behind your pet. when the baz get low on health , almost dead i mean have your attack command in ready to hit tab to get the next target have it attack the next 1 while u chase the 1 thats about dead then that gives u enough time to attack it repeat over and over. always stand 45 or 50m. from lair to call the rest of them out untill empty . then make your way to master pikeman. This is how i did it , on my own no groups at lvl ,2,2,2,1