Pikeman Archive

Hi,
Not wanting to be outdone by live, TC sent a crack squad of 3 to deal with Axkva Min yesterday evening. The squad consisted of a pikeman, a commando/tka and myself. We only had a few casualties. Somehow I lived through the whole thing. =-)

Annnnnyway, Axkva left us some very nice Nightsister vibroblade units, pictured here. [email protected], 25 ideal ranged mod. I wondered how these stats compared to other vibro units that have been found. From what meager readings I've found, these seem fairly high.

We're definitely going back to look for a schematic, but I can't help thinking that these vibroblade units might be better used in a Long Vibro Axe. The energy lance looks awesome, but its mind use is just way too high. My alt is a master weaponsmith with 11 and hopefully soon 12 experimentation points. His best vibroblade unit to date is 25-37 damage, around -.4s with 4/4/4 HAMs and something like +8 ranged mods. An LVA made with these units would be at least .6s faster and would have 40 higher average damage as well as overall very good HAMs. I'm not sure what would happen to the ranged mods as usually a vibro unit lists 3 different ranged mods and this has only 1. We received 6 of these units, and so if we get a schematic in the future I can see us building an LVA, an energy lance, and a VK out of this lot and looking for some more units to use with the schematic.

Another question I have is this: does anyone know what materials the energy lance requires other than the vibro units??? I would like to start saving up as it can be challening to get decent resources on TC.

Yet another question: does anyone have any idea how rare the schematic is?

Thanks for any info . . .
StGabe.

I have no idea but please let us know.

Actually, the only thing keeping me from canceling my three accounts is my desire to find legendary items and the "energy lance". I would love to pull that out right before a duel just to scare the snot out of my oppenent.

Those are top-tier vibro units. They are about twice as good as the ones I looted, and slightly better than some that another pikeman reported getting. The energy lance's lack of armor piercing relegates it to the position of a show lnce and a quick-hit disease stick. But it looks extremely cool, and you never know when you might run into something with 100% kinetic/electricity resists and low energy resists.

Each lance requires:
60 units Quadranium Steel
30 units Polysteel Copper
15 units Metal
2 identical Nightsister Vibro Blade Units

They seem to be very rare. I've seen schematics sell for 15 million. /shrug


antares
master pikeman

Quadranium steel. Right. Guess I'll have to get on that one.

Thanks for the info the vibro units. This makes me think that we'd be much better off looking for other vibro units to make energy lances with, as the lance is probably best for show and not for combat, like you mention, and these would make very good combat weapons.

Definitely. Adding one of those to a VK makes it easily over 200 max dmg unsliced.

antares
master pikeman