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Thread: Showing support for pikeman, they need all the help they can get I say
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Nealoc187
Wed Oct 29, 2003 11:15 am
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Hi I'm a teras kasi master and master brawler among other things, just having finished Master Brawler last night. All I can say is "wow"... at low levels like myself at least, polearms suck. I know a few master pikeman on my server and know they have complained about how bad pikeman is but I haven't experienced it first hand until the last few days.
1H and 2H sword flew by for me, they were cake, I could go tusken hunting and get 2000xp per kill and I finished 2H sword literally within hours of starting Master Brawler. 1H took me a little longer but I didn't work on it as intensely. Pike however was horrid. I have a decent lance and long vibro axe which I used to level the last few levels of pike in the brawler tree and boy did I have a tough time. Long Vibro Axe has rediculously bad accuracy, in a 15-20 second fight against a tusken warlord or something, with other people such as TKA's in training there, I would get 200xp if I were lucky. Many times I wouldn't land a single blow with my LVA, just 6 misses in a row. The most XP I ever got in one single fight was a tusken berserker which I used TKA skills on to apply all stats and lay him out on his back, at which point I went to town with the LVA and it took me literally 3 minutes to kill, him... miss 8 times with LVA and then hit once, miss 12 times with LVA and then hit once. Sheesh. My lance was a bit better in the accuracy department but damage was lowered enough that it didnt really make a difference whether I used lance or LVA.
Anyhow this post is now rambling. I just wanted to say that I have a newfound and deep respect for anyone with the time and patience to master Pikeman. I don't know if you guys have been trying to talk to the devs about getting some fixes but I think, from my very limited experience with it, that you need them. I support any and all fixes SOE might eventually make to pikeman. You certainly need them in my opinion.
Happy hunting.
1H and 2H sword flew by for me, they were cake, I could go tusken hunting and get 2000xp per kill and I finished 2H sword literally within hours of starting Master Brawler. 1H took me a little longer but I didn't work on it as intensely. Pike however was horrid. I have a decent lance and long vibro axe which I used to level the last few levels of pike in the brawler tree and boy did I have a tough time. Long Vibro Axe has rediculously bad accuracy, in a 15-20 second fight against a tusken warlord or something, with other people such as TKA's in training there, I would get 200xp if I were lucky. Many times I wouldn't land a single blow with my LVA, just 6 misses in a row. The most XP I ever got in one single fight was a tusken berserker which I used TKA skills on to apply all stats and lay him out on his back, at which point I went to town with the LVA and it took me literally 3 minutes to kill, him... miss 8 times with LVA and then hit once, miss 12 times with LVA and then hit once. Sheesh. My lance was a bit better in the accuracy department but damage was lowered enough that it didnt really make a difference whether I used lance or LVA.
Anyhow this post is now rambling. I just wanted to say that I have a newfound and deep respect for anyone with the time and patience to master Pikeman. I don't know if you guys have been trying to talk to the devs about getting some fixes but I think, from my very limited experience with it, that you need them. I support any and all fixes SOE might eventually make to pikeman. You certainly need them in my opinion.
Happy hunting.
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