Hi, I hope my tips help you in your grind from level 1 polearm all the way to master pike.
First off I would like to say, in your grind you may here negative things about pike, you may get distrought and not continue the grind. Please dont let other's influence you, pike is a really great proffession.
Start all grinding sessions with buffs, brandy/canape (ahrisa if you have it, can be stacked 3 times for 45min)
Novice brawler-polearm 1-4- Start off with your wooden staff ( can be purchased at any bazzar, 50 credits or more) and hit random mobs outside of any Tatooine city. If you prefer dantooine take lesser plain bol mission and do them to level 2 completion. Once at level 2 upgrade to a high damage basic lance, continue your grind on quenkers ( not savage, unles you have high acid resists, they now have ranged attacks). Quenkers should get you to level 3 pretty fast. Once there You can pick up an lva if you want the higher damage. ( I only recommend an lva at this level if you can afford accuracy food. Accuracy at this level is not to high) Lva or basic lance bothwith considerable damage will be sufficient to get to level 4 and novice pike. (remember berserk and warcy are always your friends on the grind up to novice, intimidate is sufficient but not needed on such low mobs. At level 4 howlers or quenkers both will provide you with exp per kill to reach you novice.
Novice Pike-stances 1-4 If memory serves me correct, stances is speed line, I cannont express how crucial this is. Quenkers, hurton huntresses will suffice for now, very good exp ( higher in speed you can upgrade to hurtton stalkers).
Novice pike 4-x-x-x - Offensive tech 1-4 You can either do offensive or defensive next, whatever you prefer. I like offensive for the nice area attack, they seem to have a higher damage mod then spin attack. This can go nicely if you tap the lair way too much. Area hit 2 brings along multiple states with it. Sav. quenkers stalkers and huntresses will suffice for good exp.
Novice Pike 4-4-x-x- Defensive tech 1-4 No different then the offensive line, defensive gives you a nice single and area kd. As expressed before, area hits are very nice and can be your friend, if you get in sticky situations. Sav. quenkers stalkers and huntresses will suffice for good exp.
Novice pike 4-4-4-x Support abilities This line should be the last, the attacks in this line, really serve no purpose damage wise. Leg hit and action hit target action but do not deal decent damage. Sav. quenkers stalkers and huntresses will suffice for good exp.
MASTER PIKE Finally we reached the pinnical of our proffession, along with master coes polearm hit 3, a nice damage, posture lowering attack. It suffices well in pvp and pve.
Combat Prowess in the fs skill tree's have melee speed and accuracy are very nice to have. If you dont have them you should get them. Saves tons of money instead of buying Sea's
Dot's The perk of our proffession, We have been called the cm of melee, we have been caleld nubs for using this tactic. All i can say is if you have a nice one use it. Look for the strenght and potency, potency should be over 50 and strenght (of a good lance) should be 250+. Mind poison/disease and mind fire are dot's you should try and get your hands on. Tho these do not come cheap they are well worth it.
Lva - Long vibro axe, Vl - Vibro lance, Both good weapons, look for damage 500+. If your a ns fanatic you might get lkucky and loot the 1k+ damage ones.
ALl in all I hope this little tidbit of info helped the pikemen hopefuls. Never give up on grind pike can give great PvE and PvP rewards 
