Pikeman Archive

Yes it said you must become a pikeman,

OK thats cool i love melee so how bad can it be, i'm already TKM that has to help,

SO any pointers or things to watch out for?

You're going to quickly discover how far out of whack TKA was with the other 3 melee professions.

Pikeman is in desperate need of fixing. You WILL soon see how imbalanced TKM is from the other melee classes. My sudgestion is to take up CH or Doctor. You will need either or in order to live as a pikeman.

I'm sure you'll have a great time (if you are the kind of guy who likes unfair challenges )! I just hope accuracy isn't a big deal for you. I've read a tka complaining about -5 accuracy modifiers while the npc or pc is knocked down... if -5 accuracy modifiers bug you, find another holocron.

Well, that is exactly that what my 'deep voide' told me ... So here I am
I must admit that Pikeman was (is) the profession I like least, so you can imagine my enthusiasm when I read it.
But, oh well, the path to become one of the happy individuums that succeed in unlocking the FS-Slot is hard *lol*
So I will fight with my ... uhm .. Long Vibro Axe atm and dream of better days (as a Fencer perhaps ... Oo ...)
Best regards, -Cyndera- ^^
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Master CH
Dancer

Man you all think TKM is awsome, it is cool, but its not totaly out of balance in melee i think fencers and swordsmen are also comperable its just that pikemen are gimped, i looked at the skill tree finally you/we get all of +60 speed and like +80 acc at masters that is sick,

Btw if a TKM complains about accuraly /slap them thats crazY i haven't missed a hit in mounths, -5 is only when you us VK's and if you use those you suck at TKA anyway, not to mention the +100 acc mods

Moving on my plan is to kill Dark troopers with the power of pike. How you ask, well in my experiance the DT"s do not recover from KD dizzy very well by the time you KD/dizzy them twice they rarley recover, so i'll do that with TKA and finnish them with pike.

I am a CH i'm gonna drop that for pike becasue pets don't tank well for melee in my opinion. I'm hoping Pikeman is not as bad as it is built up to be, just gettting started i've noticed that my fencer on test center in the brawler tree is much better then my polearms guy on ketomoor this worries me.

I will master it at some point i'm gonna to wait until the mounts come out before i drop CH and make some cash then i will go full speed at pikman.

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pyclone wrote:

I'm hoping Pikeman is not as bad as it is built up to be, just gettting started i've noticed that my fencer on test center in the brawler tree is much better then my polearms guy on ketomoor this worries me.

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hehe...Well, honestly, if you are keeping TKM you won't be in terrible shape, simply because of the massive amounts of melee/ranged defense TKM carries with it, and if you KD+dizzy NPCs and then wail away with the pike, that's probably the best way to grind pike there is (not using pike to actually fight, I mean). If you had dropped TKM altogether and started going up the pike tree, you'd be in for a shock. Your accuracy and toughness will make you cry for a while, but at least you have TK defenses and moves to rely on when you need to. We'll see how much the bonuses we're getting will help. For the time being, I'd say TK KD+dizzy on NPCs and then using the pike to kill is your best bet. Just hope they don't fix the perma-KD bug soon. I know I do.

antares
master pikeman

my thoughts exactaly dark troopers specifically