Pikeman Archive

As of last night I surrendered my Pikeman skills to pursue Commando / TKA and jump on the "cool person" bandwagon. Pikeman was fun and all, but we now are basically useless do to the KD spam 30 sec timer input. We use to play a crucial part with our area sweep when groups got overwhelmed and we could knockdown 7+ people surrounding us, but since that is no more, we are basically useless. Just go TKA now since their toughness is absolutely amazing and even me when I was Master Pikeman + Master Brawler + Defense mods from TKA + some from Fencer, when I dueled a master tka with master brawler, most of the time he won, and if I did, I consider it lucky. Pikeman was by far the funnest, but since they don't seem to get their heads on straight on how a staff wielder/Pikeman works, I have lost all interest in Pikeman am now working on TKA. I'll still be lurking this forum though!

Yeah, I'm gone as well. As an Armorsmith and Master Artisan I can't supplement my Pikeman with all kind of medics skills and defensive bonuses from other classes. I picked Pikeman for its uniqueness and apparent power in PvE. But I've found myself doing little but tanking for my fellow Goons, and that's just because I have doc buffs and 49% Chitin armor on. I'm really no more unique than a Rock Beetle and not noticeably powerful. I'm switching to Rifleman. I shall spend the remainder of my days Mind-Shotting Rebels and making armor.

Good day to you, honorable Pikeman.

I would like to be noble, and say that you will be missed.

But I will not miss anyone who leaves this profession, I just started acquiring pike skills last night and (at tier 2, still brawler) Ihave alreadybeaten 2 other people at tier 2skills in the marksmen profession.

Dont surrender your skills just yet. Commando was de-gimped, what makes you think this is the end of the pikeman?

Your right, the young inexperienced marksmen were idiots... if you considerabsurdquantities of aggro to beidiocy (I do).

I took cover and waited for the fool to come and try and rush me, he got swift whacks to the legs. He came back for more punishment like a pavlovian dog, then he finally burst ran away from me after the man with the stick punished him enough =P

Never fight a marksman on open ground, if you dont have cover or a safe escape route; your boned.

About MMO's: Im not a big MMO fan,so I dont know how often things are fixedbut if they dont un-nerf or fix this problem before the space expansion comes out... I will quit.

Please, please don't talk like you know the Pikeman profession. We can't even fight marksman IN CLOSE RANGE! I've been beaten by novice Pistoleer's just becuase I couldn't hit, or I was usinga weapon that could hit but, because of our ghimpyness, did very little damage (With leghit 2 I was doing more damage to myself, then to her). Add onto that, even if your in 'close range (3-7 meters) if they are moving in ANY WAY!!! you cannot hit them due to 'range' bugs, you end up having to use Lunge, which is worthless because it doesn't last long enough to even score a second hit. In PVP Pikeman is horribly ghimped, in PvE it's just flat out ghimped.

Cya later Romeo,

I'm on hold too but as seeing nothing is being done about the Gimp patch, Im afraid I'll be either joining you soon or just flat out qutting the game. Anyway good luck and I'm sorry you have to go through the whole hassle of leveling up again.

Good luck with your new path in the game. I'm gonna continue to stick it out with pikeman for a little while longer. Hopefully they'll fix it and all we have to do is wait it out for a while (not likely but one can hope). In the mean time I'm gonna be like many of these pikeman here. I'm gonna go for master ch along with my pikeman skills! I already had the medical skills. lol

Because professions like Commando and TKA had massive revolts, huge numbers of posts, threatening statements, all kinda of nonsense....nonsense that brought about swift changes in a hurry. There is nothing like that in the Pikeman profession. Our player representative doesn't seem to think the KD change is a big deal either. Pikeman will be as it is currently for a long, long time imo. Unless they decide to take more away that is, though there isn't much left hehe.

--Jewel

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Belbringi wrote:

I would like to be noble, and say that you will be missed.

But I will not miss anyone who leaves this profession, I just started acquiring pike skills last night and (at tier 2, still brawler) Ihave alreadybeaten 2 other people at tier 2skills in the marksmen profession.

Dont surrender your skills just yet. Commando was de-gimped, what makes you think this is the end of the pikeman?

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The Marksmen you fought were idiots then, but thats neither here nor there.

Comparing Commando to Pikeman is futile. Commando was gimped due to errors in weapons and schematics and such. They were never nerfed, they were broke, and then fixed. We were purposelynerfed by the Devs due to mainly ranged KD issues, but whatever. Anyone who's been around MMORPG's long enough will tell you the un-nerf bat isn't swung too often.

Also, being not even a Pikeman yet, you haven't had the privlege of experiencing all the problems we face compared to other melee professions, namely horrible weapon accuracy and our non-existant toughness. Its a bit different when you get to Pikeman and discover the tremendous disadvantage you have when your entire defense tree is effectively worthless.

But hey, PvP is fine now for people, so who cares?!

This is very saddening. Romeoisdead was one of thereasons I decided that pikeman was a good risk. To leave a master profession you have toiled over must have been a hard decision. Apparently this KD timer really will thin out our already small number of pikeman. I still support the idea of a timer, but maybe we should all discuss with Silver Surfer an alternate way this timer can be implemented. To Romeo, I will miss your advice here, good luck to you brother...

/agree ... through all the bickering about the KD timer.. Romeo's opinion is one i truly respected.... Him dropping the profession shows that ALOT of people are right behind him, including myself.

/Salute Romeois....I'm sorry to see you leaving the profession, but I fear many many will follow. I loaded up my frail lil pikeman today and just sat there for about 15 minutes trying to think of something to do. Then I logged off, depressed. -----Bohunker

Problem is there's nothing really to discuss, they simply OVER nerfed it. They reduced the time it lasts, AND added a timer at the same time. That's just flat out silly. If people stayed down for 10-15 seconds before being abel to get up, we'd still be able to fight without chain KD'ing.