Pikeman Archive
Thread: Has anything ever worked?
Forgive me, my mind must be aging badly.
In all the ranting, raving, complaining, name calling, pouting, shouting, and other tactics, has pike ever recieved even one smidgen of attention?
Combat, in general has had a few shakeups, melee has had a bit of tweaking, but I don't recall anything for pike. Ever. There was talk of lower range mods on weapons...never seen one.
We write well thought out, well researched and documented list, charts, andgraphs. We submit our wish lists as required. We have active correspondents. We havea small core communtiy, that takes an active interest in posting and playing. We try not to whine, shout, cancel our accounts, or buy non Sony brands.
Seems like this is all been a waste of computer ink. May as well talk about the weather. It's raining in Coronet.
Yeah...it seems like it doesn't it. The one fix we have gotten was back in November with the +30 accuracy and meager melee/ranged defenses boost. That's all that I can think of, honestly. I don't think anything has been done ever except for that...
Contrary to this established pattern, though, and somewhat boggling when you think about it, is the fact that we get the best, most reliable looted weapondrops in the game. Plus, we recently got a new lootable weapon schematic. 
I'm confused by this, honestly...Maybe some guy down there in the cubicles sees what kind of treatment we get, and so he secretly adds polearms drops at night in a small attempt to make up for the lack of attention and/or simple answers. Answers as to why we have poor defense, poor accuracy, poor block, poor HAM costs, and nothing to make up for it in terms of offense. Why the LVA and VL are completely outclassed by the Power Hammer. Why our hit3 has a 3x dmg multiplier compared to everyone else's 4x. Maybe the fact that we can hunt NPCs with low (generally) kinetic resists to try to loot polearm weapons keeps us somewhat content. Seriously, at any given day, look at how many "I looted this polearm" posts are on the front 2 pages. It's our opium.
Oh, and it's quite possible that now, even if our numbers increased to 0.40% or 0.50% of the population from 0.25%, we are now outnumbered by Jedi, who have been reported to be anywhere from 1500-2500 in number now.
Our community does work, though. I think we have the best community on the forums. Low on the hate, high on the help and good times. We don't rant and rave (check the TKA or BH forums), as you said, clear evidence is presented and we tend to chuckle at our ridiculous issues, like TKA having a greater range. Best community ever.
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master pikeman
It is nice that we get an uber loot drop from a npc. Ironic that it is a 4-500k HAM force wielding Nightsister, with 100% resists and a gaggle of friends around that drops it. And only occasionally at that. Is there a tougher NPC in the game?
Wait a minute...that seems exactly right in the pikeman/developer thinking plan. Only made better if we had to be blind while fighting here. Oops...shhhh.
..and yes, I remember when sweep was really cool. Especially the day it got hooped and everyone fell down and stayed down. Ahhh....good times.
Braglor: Ass checks? ewwww. I wouldn't cash them either.
Itis quite odd that we have one of the best weapon loot drops in the game. Maybe that was a secret gift to us for all the non-fixes we went through, and the Devs didnt really mention it as to not make every other profession whine about wanting something similar...
I can't belive no one has whined that we get this and they don't yet...
I agree we have been and still are beeing neglected by the DEVs. I'm still hoping to see more of that change they talked about as their new year resolution, but I'm beginning to think that now their ass can't cash the checks their mouths've been writing 
disturbing to think about, frustrating to reflect upon and appalling to reason with.
Really, your one hit? Or a swordsman or something to that effect.
It is a good group of peoples here though. Maybe it's all the time spent beating on a dead piket that calms us. Plus, pikemen as a whole are more intuned with nature, thus at peace with themselves. I know those frisky TKA's don't take as much time to just let it all go and lay down in a pasture to stare at the clouds. Hey, look, that one there looks like Jabba. Ahh, the simple things in life.
Braglor wrote:
....but I'm beginning to think that now their ass can't cash the checks their mouths've been writing
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ArkMindSpear wrote:
knock down used to be sweet
/agree
Yeah there was in fact that one thing that did work well. Boy was I ever something spamming that kd.
Good times.