Pikeman Archive

Ok prior to last patch we had the 2.5x melee damage mod, which meant that when ranged classes such as commandos and riflemen were attacked by melee opponents the melee opponent would do 2.5x their regular damage to them.

For exampleaTKM hit a pistoleer for 100 damage, that same attack would do 250 damage against a rifleman.

Now last patch the devs removed this, and stated it had been replaced by a new system where ranged opponents would be easier to hit by melee characters.

For example apistoleer attacked by aTKM would get hit 5/10 times by the TKM, but a commando or rifleman getting hit by the tkm should be closer to 7/10 times....

Now my problem is simple, this does not work, or they have programmed it wrong because by all accounts and hours i've spent testing the opposite is true.

I am a master pikeman/master rifleman, with my rifle out i get hit by korga spiritmasters 3/10 times on average, with my pole out i get hit 8/10 times on average.

This is retarded!

since you are master rifle/pikeman, can I ask you about your block skill? what is your total bonus and what is the effect of the bonus at the level you are at? I would like to take the block line of pikeman and get my block skill really high, but only if its beneficial.

The devs went from one end of the spectrum (2.5x damage multiplier) to the other (riflemen get 45 melee defense, 15 more than we do). I suspect it's their melee defense and increased +block. I've seen Riflemen go through the Tusken Fort shooting things at point blank range and walk through it all. Riflemen are definitely a lot tougher now, melee means nothing to them.

antares
master pikeman

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antares_Kauri wrote:

Riflemen are definitely a lot tougher now, melee means nothing to them.

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hopefully they will not forget us in the combat system patch