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Thread: Important message for all Pikemen .. please read!
All right guys listen up!
I have a 'friend'. This 'friend' has certain ties to the industry that I will not go into here. This friend happened to speak to certain persons in the know at SOE and SWG. Speaking to him under the strictest of confidences, they let him in on some of the upcoming changes in the combat pass. He then imparted these changes to me. Now, since I'm under no such confidence I will share these tidbits to you all.
First off, the pikeman profession is to be overhauled from the ground up. Defensive mods will be granted throughout the tree and at higher levels than we currently have. Defenses vs dizzy, stun and blind will be drastically improved, as well as our melee/ranged defense. We will no longer be forced to glom defenses from other trees to make ourselves viable.
Secondly, our weapons will receive massive upgrades too. All the minus modifiers from our weapons will be gone. An LVA will have something like zeros across the board. There will be improvements to the minimum damage as well, to negate the effects of mitigation to a certain extent.
There will be new weapons as well. The energy lance was only the beginning. The devs plan to institute a new double DOT stun damage weapon for us. The one DOT will be mind fire and the second DOT will be mind poison. The range of damage on this lance will only be in the 200-400 range, but the DOTs will make up for the lack of dps.
We will be getting new moves as well. Redundant moves, like spin attack and area attack, will be replaced with new super moves. There will be new area KD/Dizzy moves for us, as well as area mind attacks. Also, I heard tell of a 'fear of god' move, much like a ranged warning shot, that will send mobs scurrying from us in fear of our might.
The last part is something I'm not too keen on, but many people have requested. There will be a mounted combat feature in the game. We will be able to mount certain limited flight birds, resembling a kaadu or such. We will mount these birds with our pikes extended. You will then have to tap your button repeatedly to make these birds fly. The more you tap, the higher the bird flies. You then will attempt to 'spear' your opponent in flight. This doesn't sound very entertaining to me, but some may find enjoyment in it.
I have no idea when these are to come to pass, but I imagine it will be sometime around publish 9 or 10.
I really hope this brightened up your day guys.
But if we get all these changes(which all seem to be pretty uber) what will other classes get??
IMHO we shouldnt get a stun-dealing weapon with double dots.. not a mind damaging move! =/
... *blush*
Plz plz let it be true
master pikeman
to you Legwand
Nice try!!
I was getting all excited. . . then I remembered what today is.
Message Edited by atimes on 04-01-2004 09:31 AM