Pikeman Archive

the ONLY problem im having in PvP is not getting close enough to do ANYTHING. so here are my solutions and i see them.

#1 dont gimp knowck down shot by increesing HAM to use it. Gimp it by making them have to be Prone in order to do it.

#2 any special move (for any weapon)should require them to be standing still or have a high HAM cost. Pikeman special moves should mainly involve high HAM.

#3 This is by far the worst thing about pikeman (any melee really) where is my /stick? ... /folllow has a buffer Zone that dosent allow me to get close enough to hit. and dont you DARE tell me that /stick would overpower us. if thats the case then what do you think about everyone having auto aim? all they have to do is click on someone and click fire. so why the hell cant we click on someone and click hit? instead i have to sprint and run circles around them untill they die. then run away befor my /sprint runes out and i get slaughtered.

so who agrees that /stick is the most needed thing out of any bug with pikeman?

Yes, coming from daoc I miss this very much, they could make it so that /stick puts you at the distance for your optimal weaponrange (once you catch up that is). omg I would LOVE this!

/agree

Well i have been going to battle grounds and such and have found that it is infact inpossible to catch a riffleman. or any ranged person ever. on a battle field i can only use burst run once. and when a ranged person sees me comeing they burst as well and seeing as how they did /burst after me they will finish after me meaning i will never catch them.

and not to mention that even if i had /stick that wouldent matter because they could kite me for hours. I tested this with my roomate (a crafter with no experiance in any weapons). It took him 20 min to kill me and i was trying everything i could to catch him while he was doing everything in his power to lose me. I almose got one hit off in that 20 min time that it took to kill me but i DIDN'T hit him because the accuracy is horrible. So if i cant catch someone when i have all the time in the world to do so then how am i gonna catch someone that can kill me in 4 hits?

If anyone else agrees with /stick and having any melee professions gian speed and/or terrain negotiation while going up the melee tree. plese sign here. Hopefully the correspondent will see this as a somewhat large problem and include it in his leters.

that is why I am an explorer... Going up hills faster has save my pikeman as..tute ability to devistate in PvP

Khrim...

I've said it before.

Get Lunge2 or don't bother.

I agree that it's retarded that we have no other chance of catching up with people, but if you want to be a competitive PVPerwith the current system, get master brawler and lunge2. You can always sac it later.

A stick command is not a good thing imo, they just need to improve the way the server updates positions, extend melee range slightly, and increase the penalties to ranged combatants for shooting on the go.

Catching them is another problem, but /follow as said lets you out of that 6m reach, why is a /stick so bad?

Once you have caught them you can still loose themwith/follow, thats why i think we need a /stick, once caught they ain't going nowhere unless theyboost runor use terrain negotiation skills.

/stick now!

Why not just give us a speed boost?

I mean if a guy is running and shooting a blaster behind him with one hand he's either gonna shoot very wildly and hit nothing or he's gonna run slower and jiggle his arm less. For some reason ranged people can run faster than me (and i almost have master scout). They arent burst running either. Its somewhere between normal run and burst, but much closer to normal run speed, however slightly more.

Its a heckuhvalot more easier to run and swing a big stick at someone in front of you than it is to run and shoot a gun behind.