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THIS IS THE POST I PLACED IN THE TERAS KASI FORUM>>>>>>PLEASE READ!

OK guys, many of you know me by now and know my relentless crusade to get TKA where they should be.

I have met some other melee profession characters as of late and i have been doin missions with them to help them get XP off high level creatures. I like to help other people when I am online and invite people I dont even know quite frequently to join me in hunting, Mainly to help them get XP. This is the main reason for me wanting to start a Guild on the Kauri server.

I realize and know that all Melee classes are hurting in the area of defense and in the area of giving damage. I realize that unlike ranged attackers we must fight toe-to-toe and therefore we will ALWAYS suffer damage not only from animals but also by the ridiculous penalties we must suffer from our hardly ever used special moves.

I would like to however take some time to talk about the Pikemen. Bless their hearts guys they are so neglected! Go look at their post section, it is so pitiful it breaks my heart.

I am seeing less and less Pikemen in this game and it sadens me to see it. I think Pikemen deserve respect and adoration for sticking it out in such a hard and neglected profession. To see one of these guys come along carrying that beautiful, sleek lance with honor does my heart good. I really would like to ask you guys for some help in researching thier profession and making some suggestions in the Pikeman post area. Please help these guys.....In our forum we all spit and dispute and argue because we all have different views about where Teras is and where we should go from here. Many of you have ripped me a new one in these posts, which is cool, but guys......everyone of the Pikeman are all...i mean alll...discouraged, deeply.

They all say the same thing and no one can relly dispute them. Please help me to do one 2 things:

1. Post suggestions for their profession in their forum.

2. If you are on the Kauri server Please help me get the money to start a Guild for ALL melee professions. I know I wanted to have a Teras Guild just for Teras but now I dont know abou that anymore. I want to help people in this game that are stuggling and that means all Melee professions!

Please E-mail me in Game: my name is Lo'Pan. just send mail to (Lo') with the apostrophy. Help me start this guild to get brawlers, Pikemen and swordsmen together so we can help each other.

Lo'Pan

Kauri Server

Teras Artist 1-3-3-2

not to sound selfish but we're hurting even worse imho! If you look under the correspondant email (yes there is just one) and check out the response you'll see what I mean. Atleast pikeman have knockdown. Everyone of our posture changes does the same thing. And to add to YOU and pikeman are getting a nice gift on your knockdown whereas our posture change (s) are left alone in the next patch.

Sorry but the only pity I have left will stay herefor the time being.

I agreed w/ you that pikemen are one of the worst melee profession right now. They swing too slow and are too inaccurate to be effective, even w/ kd. It's time we get beyond our own professions and start voicing for other melee professions that don't have enough voice of their own to make a difference. There are still swordman issues that needs to be addressed (posture change timer, HAM cost), but those issues are much more severe for pikemen. If any one hasthe"my elite melee profession have to beTHE uber melee profession", please get over it. All of us are in a similiar boat andshould try to getissues that fix all of the melee professions. Asof right now, due to shearnumber,your issues have a much better chance of being heard than the fencer and pikemen. Just look at TKA and the changes that are brought out if enough people voice their opinion.

Daboora (TKA, Swordman, Tailor)

really.

its not even funny. if the devs asked for a vote of which class sould be fixed first, i would vote pikeman.

for all those who are stickin pikeman out, hurrah! hurrah!, u deserve a standing ovation.

long live the pikeman

if you dont think we have it at least a bit worse take some time and READ on our forums... and NO we dont have knockdown... it doesnt work either...

if you want to help our on the way to get extinct on some servers profession (pikeman) then please sign here:

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=pikeman&message.id=3462

I would say the melee classes are ranked in order from strongest to weakest.

1. Teras Kasi

2. Swordsmen

3. Fencers

4. Pikemen

In some ways I can see why this ranking is how it is, I think honestly teras kasi should be the best (and this is coming from a Battlemaster/Cleaver swordsman) but I think Pikemen should be right up there with the fencers.. But as a class, Pikemen are sort of the red-headed step children.

Why should Teras Kasi be the best? Because they have a funny name? We all use the same number of skill points and have to get the same amount of experience to master. All melee classes should have unique strengths and weaknesses, but there should at least be someattempt atbalance.

Elsifr - Master Pikeman - Kettemoor

now , where is our correspondent ? No ? Perhaps we need to send our suggestions to the dev team .