Armorsmith Archive
Thread: TKA's and The Death of Armorsmithing?
Milgram wrote:If people don't mind taking 3 hours to kill stuff, you are correct, armor is going to be obsolite.
Well you can take TKA and commando for example, or TKA and rifleman or BH or whatever high damage output prof you want. The tka defences will work no matter what weapon you use as long as you don't put armor on. So yes I think it is of some concern but I don't think most of these templets are optimal so I don't think everyone will use them.
somehow we managed to stay in buisness.
Okram2k wrote:
I remember these threads when jedi couldn't wear armor anymore
somehow we managed to stay in buisness.
QFE
and I know that I wont be going TKA on any of my alts so I'll need armor. If anything this is a great chance for Tailor to shine, Tailor has been overlooked for a long time now and I cant wait to get some new orders of clothes not just armor.
Mcgreag wrote:
Milgram wrote:
If people don't mind taking 3 hours to kill stuff, you are correct, armor is going to be obsolite.
Well you can take TKA and commando for example, or TKA and rifleman or BH or whatever high damage output prof you want. The tka defences will work no matter what weapon you use as long as you don't put armor on. So yes I think it is of some concern but I don't think most of these templets are optimal so I don't think everyone will use them.
i believe... if i wasnt mistaken from Blixtev post.. that you only get the bonuses in the armor and holding the appropriate weapon.. so you wont get tka bonuses if you are holding any other weapon other than tk weapons and if you are wearing armor...
Master Commando gives you max certification for Advanced Assault armor.
Master TKA gives you their defensive built in mitigators.
If you put on your Assault Armor it automatically cancels out the TKAbuilt in mitigators.
If you take off your Assault armor your TKA mitigators again go active.
If you are wearing armor you can still use TKA specials however the armor is where your protection is coming from not the TKA mitigators. Similarly you can have your armor off and pull out the Rocket launcher and the TKA mitigators are active.
The point being you can have one or the other, they justdont stack. It is just like youare not allowedto put on 2 chest pieces.
I believe this definately needs to be tested when it goes live. A combination of TKA / Rifleman is extremely obvious, you get max defensive bonuses and max offensive bonuses and range. You will use Rifles for attack, the entire point of TKA is that you will not get any hindrances from wearing armor. "Worst case",everyone will combine TKA with their favorite profession, just to avoid the hindrances from wearing armor.
So if the TKA mitigation bonuses are equal or better to wearing good armor, we have a potential problem.
The comparison with Jedi is not very good as they constitute just a small percentage of the population while TKA is the most popular profession already. That said, I believe we already see the changes from the increasing Jedi population as well, but that is not the point of this thread.