Pikeman Archive

Spamming KD was a problem yes, but was it for pikeman? For 200-300ham are you really spamming KD? The answer is no. Ham costs are way to high for pikeman to spam anything other than burstrun and /jump. So if KD was removed because people were spamming it why now am I being eyeshot spammed? I've got a padded helm for PVP and it stopped nothing. As a pikeman I don't have high mind because my ham doesn't draw from mind yet a pistol user that does exclusive damage to mind at a ham cost nearly the same as a TKA hit without knucklers on? What gives? Why is the mind pool that cannot be healed in combat being the primary target for damage as well. Like I've stated before, I've recently started to PVP more and now all I'm seeing is EyeShot and oh my god you are on fire and there's nothing you can do about it because resist don't work for it and you can't heal it. Oh but the fix for that is just stay 16m away.. quote from a pistoler who didn't notice my masterpike tag under my name I guess... Hard to see in the clone center.

I realize this isn't the forum for it but I'm just curious if any other pike people have the same gripe. It's bad enough we have to be medic just to heal our ham costs but now why do we have to deal with being shot in our ham heal pool?

Well, if you're using a LVAto doyour sweep the HAM costs will kill you. However, with a 3 line macro you could switch to some lame pike like a reinforced combat staff, sweep, then switch back to the LVA. Doing that, you could spam knockdown all day long and very seldom get hurt. That's what I used to do at least, before I tradedin my pike for a flamethrower.

WasKD overpowered? Yes, probably. But they certainly overdid it on the nerf. I couldn't evenkill a mountain worrt by myself after it when I used to kill them by the dozens without even needing a rest.

I could care less about KD, i wish they would straight up take it out of the game, that way they would be forced to give us actual skills to replace our defensive line. Id rather have something that defended me without negating the attacker.

A bigger annoyance of mine is we get a bunch of attacks that do the same thing, like area stun, which is only effective at getting everything in your general area to atack you. if you want to stun just use your polearmhit2.

btw what does stun do really? cause alomst everything i fight is stunned, but i see no real effect. (like it "losing a round" or "lowering some stats")

its really sad the only thing i use isintimidate al other moves useless .....well KD wasnt useless i guess that mean they will being saying intimidate isto powerful next

If you were getting eyeshotted, odds are it was with a scatter pistol, which currently does acid damage. Padded helms don't stop that. Look into a helmet that does.

I have a tantel helmet for pvp. While it's protections tend to change randomly (a bug) it is often resistant vs everything, which is great.

First: KD was spammable. I spammed it with basic lance.

On area stun: It's not worthless. It is currently the best pikeman skill.

what does stun acually do?...i know what the descritpion says but i never really see its effects. I intimidate everything i fight because that cutts their dam to about a third, but i never notice a real diff when somethings stunned and when its not -

please enlighten me

Wow I hatye Area Stun, I use it once and a while to get the attention of like 6-8 cappers bu other than that I never use it, Spin1 does the area job better and I see no reason to use stun.

Can't exactly tell what Stun does but I have noticed that if my pet gets stunned he takes more damage faster. When I remove the stun he takes less damage. I have tested this only on mobs and not thru duels. Also when I stun a mob is does less damage to my pet and seems to take more damage itself. The description says it delays the stunned mob for 1 round and lower stats. It may lower defense / attack a bit. I'm only reporting what I have witnessed. Anyone have more input?

I notice i cant sit while stunned... So... use area/stun attack to sucsesfully prevent your targets from sitting down during a fight.