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Thread: With no more defense stacks in Publish, what will be your choice for second profession?
. When I first started off, my plan was to dabble in TKA (like many do) for the defense stacks, but with the upcoming publish, I'm not sure this is a good idea. I'll probably still go 4400 in TKA for the meditation and defenses versus stun/dizzy/etc. What are all of your thoughts? Am I looking at this the wrong way?Server: Shadowfire
The changes to defence stacking goes across the boards to all types of defence... This is what I am hearing from certain sorces. So for you to be able to stack secondary, pirmary or defences in resistances will no longer be valible....
I am already set for publish 7's changes an I have no need to change anything. An I am already preping for it so I am on top of the pvp game as a fencer ^-^
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A few people up stated they "thought" that Melee/ranged defense was cap'd at 125 or 150, this is not true.
The defense stackers "stackers" wont really get effected by this update, if it only works on secondaries, mainly because dodge is the ONLY secondary that WORKS Block/CA Dont work, it "SAYS" they do, but you still take damage, which makes them useless imho.
The pistolierre/fencer dodge stacking, isnt to big of a deal, Every profession has a way around secondary defenses, its just nobody uses the proper hits. Pistolierre/fencers are powerful, yes, but considering the, uselessness of pistolierre (Half the shots dont work, no "real" targeted pool, bodyshot3 does same/less then 2) does not warnt them to be a true threat, atleast I have never ran across a pure pistolierre or a pistol/fencer that was a "true threat" above what a plain mstr fencer was.
Now, that I have stated, correctly, that Dodge/CA/Block are avoidable(With meele professions, ranged has no "free-bie" around secondaries except for carbineer), im sure Eva will flame and rant and rave due to her inability to do basic math, or understand the advantages of hits.
What needs to be done, is armor needs to be balanced, mind damage needs to be re-worked, due to the fact that it is what pvp is truly center'd around, and melee/ranged defense needs to be looked at, if your mstr fencer and 0-0-0-4 tka for example, your EXTREAMLY hard to hit, even for another TK (200+ accuracy I belive?).
Those are the issues that need to be readdressed, But hey, far be it for me to think, I have a pink bike now 
I'll be what I was before anyone discovered defense stacking, a Fencer/CH. It's what I enjoy. I don't PvP at all so I don't regret the "loss of power" due to not stacking. Besides the mythical combat balance pass may make Creature Handlers a threat in PvP again, then I'll get to be a FotM at last!
In any event I hope that the combat balance destroys the power of class stacking as we know it. Being a Fencer/Pistoleer should not make you a better Fencer, or a better Pistoleer. It should give you more utility, NOT more power.
Nice quick combat, and can counter those pesky combat medics!
JEBUS you people relie on def stacking that bad, that when you lose it its going to hurt your build. AS long as you gut armor/buffs/foods def will never matter.
SIMPLE as that
NO changes here my template has fencer in third place, or do you mean all this in apowergaming way? then i dunno..
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