Pikeman Archive

I was going to wait until I was a Master Pikeman to talk about my experiences, but I feel, because it's become ridiculously harder to exp at all as a Pikeman, I'll post now when it matters most.

I'm going to be as constructive as I can. First and foremost, my experience. I've been a Pikeman snice release, however I persued other careers (Creature Handler, Architech) for a while, major mistake on my part because I could have been Master Pikeman long before the KD nerf if I was smart. I was also a master Pikeman in beta, and so in otherwords I have always been a pikeman.

Current Weaknesses of the Pikeman profession:

- Insane HAM costs - In PVP, for the MOST part, unless your a master Pikeman or using a VERY low end weapon, you WILL outdamage your opponents - HITTING YOU. As a master pikeman, using a VIBRO LANCE (Not a Long Vibro Axe) I regularly hurt myself MORE then I hurt opponents with the style. Polearmhit2 will do 150 toa player, draining 180. The recent "HAM reduction" reduced the cost by, from what I can tell, 5-10 HAM... yipee.

- Horrible accuracy - Ontop of our ridiculous HAM cost, a Master Pikeman is lucky to hit with a Vibro Lance or a Long Vibro Axe more then 2 out of 4 hits. This was excusable while we we're the highest damaging class in the game, we are NO LONGER. Commando's and Bountyhunter's, and even regular weapon classes can outdamage us in most cases now. But there's something worse about this. I'm getting to it.

- Lack of an ability to stop a moving target - This, in my opinion, is the end all, kill all of this profession. I will agree, KD needed to be nerfed. It allowed me to solo SEVERAL red con's at once, which, I admit, was lame. The problem is, this recent nerf has made the Pikeman class TOTALLY INEFFECTIVE. A Pikeman has enough working against him as it is, balancing cost of styles (More then ANY other profession) and the chances of missing with any weapon that does half decent damage. But now, our UNBALANCED skill, has been nerfed, and the fact that our class had NOTHING going for it prior to the nerf has been shown.

Overall- I would have noted 'strengths' of the Pikeman profession, but the sad thing is, we have no strengths now. We're a short range attacker, that can't stop a moving target. We're based on high damage output at periodic events, so when we hit, it HURTS. Unfortunately we are no longer a high damage output class.We have been outclassed in our 'strength'. And fnially, the most humiliating in my opinion, Polearm is designed to hit the legs of an opponent- knockdown. Slow. Stuns. If your legs broken you aren't giong to be running away. What's this mean? We fail in our own 'skills'.

I genuinely love the Pikeman class, and I intend to get Master whenever I can, I'm very close as it is. I have to admit, recently I have lost all faith in the class and have considered dumping it, because of my friensd who are Commando's and Bounty hunters. While I'm being slaughtered in a point blank fight with a pistoleer doing head shots (Because I can't do anythign cept swing wildly and HOPE I hit) while my commando buddy uses FLamecone to take out 8 people in one shot for half the work I did (He only has flame 2).

I have more to share on the subject but this has gotten too long as it is, so I'll come back in a little while and post some followups to experiences I've had that are, sad to say, very pathetic.

I apologize for my bad typing/spelling, I was at work when I wrote the bulk of the first message.

Here's a prime example of how horribly ghimped we are now:

Tonight, a master tailor friend of mine challenged me to a duel. I'm 2 boxes away from Master Pikeman. 4/2/4/4. She's using a pistol, and has one or two boxes in Pistoleer, she took it for fun not really anything dedicated. We duel, she BEATS ME. In the fact, I used both lunge and knock down- both did absolutely nothing to help me win the duel. At the end of the duel she was at half health half action with a bleed, I was totally out of health, almost out of action and mind. According to the battle hits, due to her running around I only landed 3-4 hits with a Vibro Lance ( I wasn't even using aLVA ). Half those hits being from the lunge/sweep.

I'm sorry.. this is just ridiculous. I can't even express how irritated I am at the moment because of being BEATEN by a TAILOR.

Futility is hoping that people see beyond PvP and realize they are the minority, albeit loud.

we seriously need to be heard!! i know that most of the pikeman(WOMEN) in this game are not majority 12 year olds SO we don't have people to help us WHINE and GROAN about how much our class sucks and all that...i..for one will not give up pike class only because! we are rare and that i ENJOY playing it regardless of what has happened to us through the times...When the Huge patch hit us..I was saddened by the fact that the Devs have taken away our Main defensive line specials..i knew even before that this was going to happen because i was able to kill multiple reds at once with Sweep2 and a nice AOE spam..(suicide? maybe) but you know what.. the past couple days.. i just started to enjoy the class al little more now..ONLY because of my friends have been giving me support...if it wasn't for them i would have probably done something stupid like..gone teras kasi or something LOL .. the thing is that i do NOTICE is that i cannot even solo sometimes a white Con! THAT is a problem!! if it wasn't for the fact that i have stimpacks on hand to save me i would have died 10 fold..and YES HAM IS EXTREMELY HIGH!!! NUFF SAID

Dynastar- PVP isn't the only area we're weak it, it just stands out most, becuase it's fast. If you want to see pathetic, try having a pikeman a creature with low resistances, while an equal class fights it. I do less damage then a two handed, and single handed swords- I do less damage then riflemen, then PISTOLEERS. Why? Becuase they miss 1 in 6 shots, they don't have to stay within 6m, and they don't have to tank.

No offense, but you don't even sound like a Pikeman.