Pikeman Archive

I choose to switch to... neither. I have no problems as a Master Pikeman, and I love it. The timer will hurt us, but it may be lifted if SOE decides it does more harm then good, so if I wait it out, then I get to keep my skills and live through the changes, much better then surrendering it, and then find out that the proffession has become better as a result of future fixes, and having to learn it all again.

Just something to chew on,

Khrim...

I dont know why SOE pulls ideas outta their a$$. Its the same with planetside they dont even think about how their changes will affect the professions and they just plug it in. Tanks been complaining about how they couldnt tank high end mobs effectively and the next patch will just worsen the situation.

Once the 30 sec KD timer goes live, we're dead meat. Just gonna be kited by ranged players since 1 KD wont be enough to stop them from running and kill them unless they r a rifleman. Swordsman here hav the advantage since they can land the bleed style on mind and drain an enemy to death in pvp (since mind is not healable), even if the enemy runs away as long as u land the hit wif a powerhammer. Unlike us who bleed on action and the enemy can easily run around and heal himself.

The timer is a total quick fix. I don't know anyone who's really happy with it. Making it so defensive bonuses actually worked versus these attacks would be better, although the end result might still be the same to classes with knockdown.

well if you read the fourms lots of people proposed a timer on KD instead of trippleing the HAM cost, the thing that confuses me is the 30 secone timer. i never once saw over 15 seconds proposed by anyone, period. on the other hand if your a master brawler i dont see this as being such a giant blow. with intimidate2 you can tag it on a mob and not have to worry about it comeing off before most fights are up and with warcry2 lasting 20 seconds then its almost better than knockdown in some cases. however thats just for PvE, in PvP this is going to make it almost impossible to kill any marksman. sure you can warcry them but its useless because it does no dammage so your basicly just prolonging the inevitable.

I've been kinda planning on gettnig Master Brawler for the Lunge2 (although with a KD timer nerf coming not even sure this is wise). My ? is; does Intimidate2 have a significant effect? I never use 1, although maybe i should? anyone have any experience with this?