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Thread: Anyone Master Swords / Master Pike?
matser brawler
master swords
master pikeman
4000 fencer
0040 medic ( i just drop 1 fencer box and get 2030 medic when im going NS elder hunting)
I find i can solo basically anything in the game. and the geo cave is my b!tch with all that ranged + melee defense
but being a speed capped swords AND pikeman would make u insane in PvE (not to mention with my template i can hold my own in pvp
stack the dot, area if needed, then hit3 with swords till dizzy and spam head hit 3)well i also suggest dropping the tka meditatation, everyone gets it but i dont know why. it has no use to me. wounds are pretty easy to get rid of... poison and disease are nice to cure but since u cant heal them while in battle it makes it kinda useless to me, but thats just my 2 cents
Message Edited by ewano on 10-12-2004 05:21 PM
JRyall wrote:
Yes, should have explained
it better in my initial post
We've been doing more and
more corvette and Death Watch
stuff over the last while, and I'm
sick of seeing that low electrical
resist and swinging away with
a scythe to get through the 80%
Kinetic
So I was thinking of trying
pike solely for the LVA.
And I agree, there isn't much
a speed capped swordsperson
can't take on by themselves
I'll be giving up a tonne of
Fencer Defences and likely
Meditate to pick up Pike..
Just trying to get some
feedback if anyone thinks
it's worth it.
You aren't going to be that impressed by the damage output of a pikeman in the DWB unless you do two things:
1) speed cap
2) Loot/Buy insane damage LVA or VL.
1k Dam LVLs work nice, esp when you are speed capped. I also swing an 800 dam VL with 300 str Health fire on it. I got tired of being the FOTM Swordsman with stacked Fencer Defs, Swordsman/Rifleman etc.
As others have said, Def vs States and melee/ranged def become rather moot against the big stuff.
CarlTheWookie wrote:
As others have said, Def vs States and melee/ranged def become rather moot against the big stuff.
ewano wrote:
why would u want pike if ur master swords? just wondering it wont make u better in pve or pvp
I'd agree that Pike won't give you much in PvE, since Swordsman can slaughter most things easily (point taken about DWB though).
However, the big thing that Pikeman gives you in PvP is access to some nasty DoTs that are almost impossible to obtain for Swordsman. Sad fact of the matter is, the vast majority of high-end DoT weapons are pikes of one form or another. Softening up an opponent with various mind DoTs from Pikes, prior to laying in with the pure cranial trauma of swordsman, is tough to stand up against if the opponent isn't something like a Fencer/Doc temploiter.
Of course, 'standing up' might well be the issue, since as you say, the defences of the two combined are fairly puny.
Best thing about Pikes really is the Dizzy Def
rgrocott wrote:
ewano wrote:
why would u want pike if ur master swords? just wondering it wont make u better in pve or pvp
I'd agree that Pike won't give you much in PvE, since Swordsman can slaughter most things easily (point taken about DWB though).
However, the big thing that Pikeman gives you in PvP is access to some nasty DoTs that are almost impossible to obtain for Swordsman.
from my own expierence u dont need any pike skil to use a pike dot weapon. also isent that u can use a NS lance with pike 3?
tested it on a tusken rifle that i looted (have no marksman) and the poison did hit.
Protteus wrote:
Go pike for the pvp. 400 mind ticks with wounds hurt. Then stack em together. Use area2( stun and dizzy) with a mind fire then mind psn and "YOU WIN AT STAR WARS GALAXIES: NOTHING CLOSE TO STAR WARS".
fixed