Carbineer Archive
Thread: Counterattack Question
I am a soon to be TKM...however, I am wanting to become far more defensive in melee than just a TKM. I am trying to find out if I were to get 0040 in pikeman and swordsman, would block/counterattack still work if I were using my fists? I am asking this question because I know the dodge issue was resolved with fencer/pistoleer....they do not stack and the skill only works for whatever weapon you are using. Is the same true with block (pikeman) and counterattack (swordsman)? Since they are passive skills...wouldnt they work anyways? Thanks for any input.
The mods are weapon specific. As a rifleman/swordsman, I will neverblock (rifle defensive mod) when I am using a Powerhammer. Likewise, I will not counterattack when using a rifle (note ironically: The rifleman block is reported as a counterattack in the combat window, but this is a bug and happens for all riflemen whether they have the counterattack mod or not. It is not that the defenses are stacking.)
At the moment, the bonuses will stack with professions that have the same defense. For instance, Pistoleers and Fencers both get dodge bonuses. If a person is both a Pistoleer and a Fencer, they will get the plus to dodge from both those professions. Since both pistols and 1H swords work with Dodge, both weapons would use the enhanced bonus from being both professions. Equip a 2H sword, however, and the dodge is useless. However, Counterattack is both a Carbineer and a Swordsman skill, and Block is both a Rifleman and Pikeman skill, so those bonuses would stack for each profession pair. And as long as you used the appropriate weapon, you would get the benefit from stacking. Because this stacking is creating some insanely powerful defensive characters, I suspec the stacking will eventually be nerfed.
Howevr, your problem as a TKA is that you get no bonuses to Dodge, Counterattack, or Block, so I assume that the TKA does not use them. That means that you would not get any benefit from those mods as a TKA while you were unarmed. You would have to equip the appropriate weapon to benefit from the mod, and you would have no way to stack the mod without picking up both of the professions that use it.
TyphonSet wrote:
what would happen if u take Master Carbineer and Master Swordsman u would have a +215 counterattack approx would this be comparable to dodge stacker and is there a cap on counterattack?
There is NO dodge stackers anymore or even counterattack. Block, dodge, counterattack, melee defense, ranged defense are all capped at +125.
