Pikeman Archive

I have been playing this game since day 1 of release (inside joke).

I have had 4 different Chars on Bria with varying skills; PIstols, Carbines, Rifles, Medic, Engy, Unarmed, Fencer... blah blah.

Hence I have started a new char, a Brawler none the less. I had the will to be a Pikeman, I read everything I could about this valuable and elegantly efficientprofession... then I came to these boards. I was dismayed, but not surprised.

One day I plan on being a Master Pikeman, I just cant pass up the chance of having the title "Foot Soldier" either. I want this to be the profession that carries me into the space expansion, Protecting me from the scum of distant spaceports and unfriendly beasts from the outer rim.

question 1: How long did it take for the Dev's to Gimp this profession?

question 2: Now that the Pikeman is the weakest profession in the galaxy can you actually still beat yellow cons?

question 3: When I was a Carbineer I had to be a Medic to go solo, do I need to do the samething with Pikeman?

question 4: With the most advanced pole weapon what are the stats?(Speed/Damage/HAM cost)

question 5: So far Pikeman sounds like week 1-3 carbineers before they where un-nerfed, are they still playable?(I rarely PvP)

Answer 1: Pikeman never seemed to have it so great, even compared to other melee professions. This is mostly due to our accuracy modifier on higher weapons and the fact that we have less defensive skill mods than other melee professions, including less toughness.

Answer 2: Can we still actually beat yellow cons? Hah! We can barely compete with white cons! (that is when all the cons go down a notch when you get your first intermediate skill).

Answer 3: I have medical skills and believe me, they come in real handy even in groups. Besides, with the high HAM costs you are going to need medic skills.

Answer 4: Speed varies often coming between 3 and 4.5 (but not always) and the damage is good (in the 300 and 400 s). Unfortunately the accuracy modifiers on these weapons are always around -50 at all ranges. So unless you have advanced polearm support then it is almost not worth getting one of these weapons.

Answer 5: Pikeman are still playable in the sense that you can attack. Now that the devs reduced damage to polearm hit 3 (or so I hear) it is not looking good for master pikeman.

My advice to you is to hold off on being a pikeman until they fix this (if they ever do).

To follow up some of those questions (course, I'm an outsider myself, a swordsmith, not a pikeman),

Pikemen seem to have had their 15 minues of fame when the HAM costs of knockdown were increased for everybody BUT pikemen, but you could still use KD to keep a mob down forever.

The two top end weapons are the long vibro axe and the vibro lance. the LVA hits for the most damage (tons). But it's insanely inaccurate and the HAM costs are atrocious. The Vibo Lance hits for "lots" of damage, it's electric, and accuracy and HAM are both very bad, but not as bad as the LVA.

I guess that leaves the lance as the weapon that does the most damage with any accuracy.

A quick comment,

It's a myth that we were able to keep a mob down forever with KD.

and the reason why our ham costs weren't increased because they were high enough.... mind you with my LVA it costs me 198 pre-patch 168 post patch ham to use knockdown... after doing the math.. if you spam that your dead before the thing can hit you...

Oh, and dont plan on being Melee if Your wookiee.

After latest patch, the difficulty got set so to make people wear more armor (armor was improved a great deal).

Well, You know. Wookiees and armor..

As for a wookiee Pikeman - guess which class have the least defense???

WhiteFur

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