10-07-2012, 11:38 PM
If you have a look at how damage is calculated it's true that slashing weapons kill unarmoured enemies ALOT faster. When you get to hard mode however the piercing attack actually gets reduced significantly less by armour. I can actually kill zweihanders in one shot, whereas my commando friend usually takes a good 5-10 seconds per zwei. You also have to keep in mind that the pikeman is NOT meant to be on par in melee with the commando. Using the zweihander example, I can slaughter a wave of zwei's faster than and commando could ever dream of by simply headshotting the wave with jarids.
Pikeman was never really meant to be an easy class to play, I used to have my stab attacks bounce all the time until I learned to judge the proper length of my weapon, after that it only ever happens when I mess up and attack in the wrong direction/move the wrong way.
A thrust attack is designed to be a situational attack, you merely have to make the situation for it. If you use the thrust in the right way it has the most damage potential out of any melee attack which is a good enough reason to me for the slightly higher chance to mess up.
The entire pikeman class is practically about being a glass cannon, you have very high damage potential but messing up can quickly put an end to that.
The only reason you would ever need higher pierce damage on one of those spears is if you wanted to start one shotting bosses as I can already 2-3 shot heimdallr (first boss on hard mode) and two shot his friends. If you're coming across a certain type of enemy that you find your attacks bounce off, try throwing weapons instead. Don't forget that you can also use your spear to overhead an enemy and then jab them while they're distracted.
Pikeman was never really meant to be an easy class to play, I used to have my stab attacks bounce all the time until I learned to judge the proper length of my weapon, after that it only ever happens when I mess up and attack in the wrong direction/move the wrong way.
A thrust attack is designed to be a situational attack, you merely have to make the situation for it. If you use the thrust in the right way it has the most damage potential out of any melee attack which is a good enough reason to me for the slightly higher chance to mess up.
The entire pikeman class is practically about being a glass cannon, you have very high damage potential but messing up can quickly put an end to that.
The only reason you would ever need higher pierce damage on one of those spears is if you wanted to start one shotting bosses as I can already 2-3 shot heimdallr (first boss on hard mode) and two shot his friends. If you're coming across a certain type of enemy that you find your attacks bounce off, try throwing weapons instead. Don't forget that you can also use your spear to overhead an enemy and then jab them while they're distracted.