Pikeman Archive

U need to get a life and stop raping the game with your lame hologrinding crap.

Hmm was that a tad bit harsh..??

Well i said it... and stand by it...

i wouldnt suggest using a macro with pike. we miss so much that 95% of the time moves in your macro will have the opposite affect of helping you due to the bugs in KD / Posture change effects, not having a dizzy on an enemy due to misses ect ect.

stick with planning your moves one by one, it may take 8 tries or more to get a dizzy or a KD on an opponent even if you ( by grace of god or act of congress) hit them.

I must respectfully disagree with a couple of Shadowlightning comments:

Once you are novice pikeman.... dont kill pikits go for quenkers/savage quenkers at 3 or 4k a kill, they drop about 4x as fast for me.

Dont bother with a pet... with good armor, buffs, mind food and a muon for emergencies they just slow you down. I never see any damage to my health and action as it regens too quick, just watch your mind drop from all the HAM costs and be ready with the food and muon if needed.

With the above I am completing a pair of savage quenker missions for 50k xp every15 minutes (from leaving the mission terminal to being back at he terminal with my next two missions picked and my downer gone if needed)

I do have a macro but its a start combat macro, that is centerofbeing, intimidate, warcry, knockdown, polearmhit2 etc, if I am aggrod by more than 1 creature I put this on the first one, clear after the knockdown sticks and spam area attacks, start simple with your macro, see what works, change it as you get new attacks.

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1) Keep things small but plenty. This is NOT the profession to go and find the biggest thing to fight and kill it and get 2-5k exp for it. Pike is too slow. Stay with the crappy stuff outside of cities until at least Polearm IV. Then, you're better off finding the 300-700exp creatures that can be killed rather easily but spawn hundreds per lair. Examples --> Random (non-mission) lairs of: Mites on Rori, Flit or Perkets on Lok, Ikopi on Naboo are just examples.The mites on Rori are the best I found. Spawn like 20+ per lair!

3) Get Stat enhanced often, frequently and all the time! The HAM costs are insane and buffs take that away. I got lucky that my first account is a Master Docter/Master Combat Medic. I can buff my pikeman at will. THAT is the difference between a slow advancement in this profession and a quicker one.

4) A good tanking pet + Novice Medic skillsarea plus! Don't think that pets take away from exp. It's minimal what they take away! USE THEM! Better that the pet takes a little away than you sitting there incapped or mind damaged and have to waste 5 min waiting for your mind to heal where you could be using those 5 min to fight some more.

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1. I would disagree with this. crappy stuff for the first 2 bars is good and goes fast, after that try rogue banthas on tat. About 1K each and not too hard to kill. The same for juntland eopie, and desert eopie if you can find tham. After you get novice, normal bantha, dewbacks, and ronto. All give good xp and will get you through the first few bars quickly. After that think about going to one of the harder planets.

2. I've only used Doc's buffs a few times. I prefer food or spice and don't even use those that often. Just don't spam specials and you'll be fine. The LVA does around 300-500 dammage by its self so a few well placed specials in the beginning are just as good as spaming with another class.

4. Pets are nice but unless you have a lot of CH any pet you get will die quick. If you get a pet i would hold it back and only send it in if you have to run and let it cover your retreat. Medic skills are a must eithor get them your self or always go out with a medic friend.

As for macro's they are fairly worthless, I generally start fights with stun (this will increase your chance to hit), spin(to dizzy), sweep, then hit 3 (2, or 1 what ever you have). the problem with macroing these is you are very likly to miss. So you may have to apply the stun a few times for it to stick, also you may need to stop and heal your self after 3 specials, due to ham costs.

The pikes do a lot of dammage, not as much as 2 handed, but enough so you will be able to hunt larger game fairly quickly.

1. Be sure to kneel. It improves your accuracy.

2. Don't forget about /autotrain (it's a pikeman only special)

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LimpJedi wrote:

I got pikeman as a jedi holocron and need to master it quick. I am on the Kauri server and my ingame name is Kiamir if you can help please post or give me the macro. Im still not sure how they work. Thanks

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I used an advanced lance and this macro with a pet set on guard to go from novice brawler to 2112 Pikeman with afk macroing

/loot all; pickharv;

/ui action targetSelf;

/ui action cycleTargetOutward;