Pikeman Archive
Thread: My experience of Pikeman
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teamdoa
Wed Mar 03, 2004 6:58 am
#1
As I am nearly Master...one non combat exp box to go, I thought I would share myexperiance with the class so far. In a word...great, I dropped Commando to do this proffession (i'm not a holo grinder), I basically got bored of Commando, for many reasons which I wont bore you with here. I always heard from people how sucky Pikeman was, how hard it was to level...hmm, I must disagree. Ok, I had three boxes of Combat exp already saved up from Commando, so that helped, but I found the rest of the exp a breeze. I planned ahead with this proffession, saved up lots of skill tapes like +10 speed, accuracy etc, which seems to have helped me a great deal in leveling. I took Master Brawler and already had Master TKA from when I was a Commando. I looted loads of Nightsister lances and stuff from my travels as a Commando, so I had the weapons, and I had the skill tapes...I think preperation is the key to starting Pikeman, it makes it so much easier early on.
Intimidate 2 is your friendwith this class, and should not be overlooked as a powerfull fighting tool. I spent a week at the Tuskan Fort, probably 3 hours a night with full buffs to get were I am now. I think I can safely say I would never fight with Pikeman without buffs, as the HAM costs are insane. Take a brandy, power boost and have a moun and a pixie as back-up and your sorted. Area attacks are awesome, being able to dizzy knockdown multiple targets is so much fun, and lets face it, this class has the coolest moves out of all the other combat proffessions, even if they are notas powerfull at the moment.
I am not saying Pikeman is UBER, or that its not without its problems, and damn it has lots of them. What I am saying is that it just plainFUN to play, and has to be one of the most underated PVE combat classes in the game. Unique weapons like the Nightsister Lances are a great idea. The Nightsister Energy Lance is the sort of thing I want to see from the devs, so top marks there.
When this class is given some more loving by the devs, I see it as being a great and viable fighting class to the game.
Message Edited by teamdoa on 03-03-2004 02:04 PM
emiaj
Wed Mar 03, 2004 8:00 am
#2
Same here i just hit master and im having a ball. I recently aquired the nightsister energy lance and does it look cool. Also i find that entering a room in fort tusken and being able to attack a captian and a warlord at the same time is pretty fun, especially when they keep falling down.
I think leveling was gotten better because of the patch to the range mods. Its a shame that so many people still think this class is worthless.
Skeer, Master doc/pike
tempest
teamdoa
Wed Mar 03, 2004 8:35 am
#3
I soo wish I could get that Nightsister weapon on Tempest, I do beleive no one has it yet.
OpaTe
Wed Mar 03, 2004 9:16 am
#4
But what you are saying is that you are a Master Brawler and have a little TK in you as well... These things help the Pikeman class out tenfold.
Berlappen
Wed Mar 03, 2004 4:08 pm
#5
Yea they sure do heh
I levelled pikeman in just about the same time you did with a slight difference. All the same buffs and foods and PB and what not but i used warcry2 with it's area delay and sweep2 for bringing a group of creatures down for 20 seconds and then spammed area attack. Now that's fast killins hee hee
I levelled pikeman in just about the same time you did with a slight difference. All the same buffs and foods and PB and what not but i used warcry2 with it's area delay and sweep2 for bringing a group of creatures down for 20 seconds and then spammed area attack. Now that's fast killins hee hee
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