Pikeman Archive
Thread: We need more pikeman and ideas for quick fixes.
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asgoia
Mon Jul 05, 2004 10:36 am
#1
Well thunderheart one day came into this here pikeman forum and gave us those 10 "non-answers" and in those 10 non-answers he guessed that the more people in one profession the more fixes they get. Recently in the bounty hunter forum every body was flamming the devs and freaking out and they got a nice "quick fix", now obviously pikeman are not an "elite" profession like bounty hunter but they have more people then us and had a(n) quick fix option and they got something that seems like it will be the new FOTM. So ask all your pals to go pikeman and come **edit** on these forums so we can get an toughness adjustment or maybe get something to make our block as effective as dodge or counter attack. I think a quick fix for pikeman at the moment would be making the dot lances a master certificationor getting a damage plus on the Vibrolance (our novice weapon should be better than our 3rd or 4th box weapons , the VL as far as I can tell is a little better due to the light armor piercing but we need at least 125 min dmg on that, the max can stay the same.... crafted weapons that is.)
So in conclusion
Lots of pikeman + bitching + quick fix ideas= progress.
Just a theory.
Gunman21
Mon Jul 05, 2004 1:06 pm
#2
Pikeman most likely will not see any fixes untill the combat balance.
Gregorious-Mello
Mon Jul 05, 2004 5:39 pm
#4
I honestly don't think they would give out another blast damage weapon, much less a AP3 one.
TKMonkey wrote:
An AP3 blast damage Pike, reasonably slow (say 5) but with good maximum damage and a high minimum damage, accuracy modifiers at +0 at all ranges. We aren't tanks, we take more damage than other melee professions, so at least give us the ability to do high damage - which currently we can't.
TKMonkey
Tue Jul 06, 2004 12:41 am
#5
An AP3 blast damage Pike, reasonably slow (say 5) but with good maximum damage and a high minimum damage, accuracy modifiers at +0 at all ranges. We aren't tanks, we take more damage than other melee professions, so at least give us the ability to do high damage - which currently we can't.
turrix
Tue Jul 06, 2004 1:06 am
#6
TKMonkey wrote:
We can dream tho
while were at it, lets dream for stun damage and mind hits, and higher defs, and higher DPS, and better range mods, etc.
annelid0
Wed Jul 07, 2004 10:26 am
#7
Easy "quick fix" band-aid? Change the polearm toughness +4's in brawler to +10's.
JediKnightCZ
Wed Jul 07, 2004 11:17 am
#8
Let's dream we're Swordsmans. 
Seriously, we'll get some love, but we have to wait 'till Combat Balalance.
asgoia
Wed Jul 07, 2004 12:53 pm
#9
Well I wanted this to be sorta constructive for the combat rebalance. The ap3 blast damage weapon was in the right direction but would that really be a "quick fix" ? I mean I would definatly not mind blast damage but what would it do for us in both feilds of combat and how easy would it be to get teh devs to consider it? (both combat feilds being pvp/pve.)
asgoia
Thu Jul 08, 2004 12:11 am
#10
actually swordsman are in a worse boat then us, they just do mind damage.
Isvurx
Thu Jul 08, 2004 2:36 am
#11
I was master pikeman for a few weeks but i finally dropped the profession due to its broken nature.
What should be fixed are mainly the toughness and ap of the weapons.
Pikemen should have at least +10 more toughness
The VL should have AP2
The NSEL should have AP3 - i mean, for christ's sake are there any weapon in the game that is harder to craft (or more correctly to get the loot to craft it), AP1 on the NSEL is a slap in the face to all pikemen.
In the end i moved to swordsman, first i did it just to be able to kill elders and axkva, but when i changed prof i started wondering about the benefits of being a pikeman vs being a swordsman.
I dontpvp much and when i pvp i dont like using dots, in PVE sure pikeman would do better in the DW bunker and the corevette and would kill do slightly more damage to the acklay but does that really make up for the weaknesses?
In the end i found that it doesn't so I sold the NSEL schem that i looted from axkva, i mean a crafted PH is WAY better then the NSEL - what's up with that?
I have tapes to cap the speed for both swordsman and pikeman, and also accuracy in the current state of the game the swordsman is superior whichI find very sad because I liked pikeman better (in some strange and unexplainable way)
I really hope that this prof gets fixed because I want to go back to this profession some day, but as things are now I find that I just can't.
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