The perfect Pike/Long Spear Equipment.

[Andy]

Hey everybody! It's me Snow_King with a suggestion for the increasingly rampent numbers of pike and long-spear users.

I know that many people on c-rpg battles are starting to use a longspear or pike to support their teammates, but when you corner a pikeman 1 vs 1 it is pretty hard for him to defend himself with that big, unweildly pike.
What you need to do is to arrange your gear like this.
Pike (3 slots)
Elite Cavalry Shield (1 slot)
Sickle (0 slots)

Now, I know what many of you may be thinking at this point.
"Why on Earth would I, a respectable crpg member, use a sickle? I wouldn't want to be caught dead with that piece of peasant junk!"

However, the sickle isn't really that bad when you pair it with a good shield, and it is a vast improvement over trying to fight someone with a pike at close range.

"I'm going to drop my pike when I switch to my sickle! What happens then?"
Well, crybaby, here is what happens. Pick it up again!

With the greatly increased popularety of the pike in recent days, this change will greatly improce their solo fighting abilities, as they are currently limeted to a support troop helping their 1-h and 2-h teammates, and chancing upon a kill every now and then.


*Let the sickle haters begin their replys.*

[BADPLAYERold]

Just bring a 1slot weapon instead and fight with that.

[Andy]

Just bring a 1slot weapon instead and fight with that.

With just a 1-slot weapon, you don't get a shield to block with if you are a bad blocker.

[Malaclypse]

Unless you use the 0 slot buckler, which at 3 difficulty is less of an investment into shield skill than an Elite Cav xD

[Para]

This requires putting points in to shield skill.  Just carry a quarterstaff.

[ildist]

Ok.

[Gricks]

Duel with the longspear. All about that jump stab.

[Formaldehyde Junkie]

KICKS

[Oberyn]

1h/pole hybrid, 100 wpf in 1h, rest in pole.

[Vodner]

With just a 1-slot weapon, you don't get a shield to block with if you are a bad blocker.

At least half of the community can block fairly consistently at this point.

You're a lot more deadly with a decent 1h and no shield than you are with a sickle and a shield.

[isatis]

At least half of the community can block fairly consistently at this point.

You're a lot more deadly with a decent 1h and no shield than you are with a sickle and a shield.

dexxtaa has a shield on his back

I follow the only true cool pikeman of NA (beside all KUTT punk cool awesome dude who use teamplay like glitcher for which we shall not follow example)

but, the shield is funny for ranger

BUT

true pike man use smoke bomb to flee like true coward.

[Zanze]

True pikemen use the pike to one on one.

[Dexxtaa]

Backup weapons?

HAH.

True pikemen use nothing but the pikes in their hands and the skill in their souls.

[Fartface]

I always used a mw long spear , and 15/24 or 12/27 build. I usualy had no trouble at all fighting 1v1 just do spinstabs .
Since yesterday i have been using a mw bamboo spear ( yesterday:3) , and im 39/3 str 2 hander build but il just spinstab with the bamboo spear if i get caught unaware and then i switch to my morningstar after i stunned them.

[larlek]

Bring a backup 1h sword if you must and learn how to man block. Can't always go around turtling like a little baby you know.