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Raphayl,

Can you please have the designer investigate the "adverse anomaly" thatgives TKAs +190 pointsof defense acuitywhile fencers get +105 points of dodge on Test Center. The TKA box "Advanced Precision Striking" gives +110 points when it appears it should only be giving +15 points. If corrected, TKAs would get 100 defense actuity while fencers get 105 dodge.

I would hate to see this bug go live,a guy that only takes 2 boxes of TKA past novice would have +140 defense acuity and could evade blows better than any master fencer, swordsman or pikeman. This would only widen the rift that has been growing these last fewmonths between TKAs andthe other elite brawler professions.

I don't even want to try to bring this up on the TKA board, I have already seen responses like "TKA deserves to be better" and "TKA owns other brawlers, they were Jedi killers". Thanks.

At the expense of sounding bitter (sorry I cannot help myself notwithstanning the best of intentions) I am glad that they have gotten around to investigating three months into live playsomething that was obvious since day one to anyone who actually played the profession.

Not like fencer gets to many dodge bonuses overall. What is it.. 5 at novice, two 5's in different lvl IV trees and a final +10? Doesn't sound like alot to me.

Good to hear we are being worked on, and that the stuff they're doing is just to cool and radical to tell us : )

Since the mods on TC are now known everywhere thenI'm not spilling the beans by commenting on some of them.

If/when the TC changes go live, Fencer Dodge goes from being practically non-existent (a pathetic 20-something points and a broken calculation anomaly) to a very substantial level (over 100 points and the anomaly fixed). All by itself this boost improves the survivability of Fencers significantly.

Added to this repair we now have Center of Being which, for Fencers, is a temporary yet powerful boost to Dodge. By the time you are a Master Fencer this more than doubles your Dodge effectivenessfor30+ seconds, at the cost of a reasonable amount of HAM. (It saves far more than it costs unless your opponent wasn't hitting you much in the first place.)

Finally, a Master Fencer's Melee and Ranged Defenses aremore thantrippled.

~Lyahpar~

La Femme Fencer

"Thrust if you love Fencers!"

It's REALLY going to pay off to have the defensive trees from other proffesions now. Your basic 70 or so from fencer now, plus an other proffesions 50-60.

Raphyphar (or anyone else on TC) have you seen if dodge actually works now?

Because having Dodge rated at a high number, but still not working, wouldn't be too useful.

wow, raph

I actually dodged twice yesterday. I know the changes aren't supposed to be live yet, but I don't remember dodging twice in a month before.

I can't remember when the last time I dodged was..

The changes haven't gone live yet, as the Dodges for my Blademaster on Gorath and Blademaster on Radient are still practically non-existent. However, my Blademaster in Test Center Dodges pretty regularly even before using CoB, and consistantly while using CoB.

cripes! how many blademasters do you have? i feel so inadequate with my ONE not-even-blademaster. [sniffle] you've ruined my world.

well, it's official. you're insane. as in clinical.

i think you need a nickname, like Juggernaught, or Fencaholic, or maybe just Badass.

Having a few different Fencers to work with helps me to verify data, and speeds testing. For example, if I need to try out some variations in Stat Migration, I can go to each one and migrate the stats differently then compare the results as simply as flipping back and forth between servers rather than waiting for the migration to change each time. It also gives me backup servers to work on if one of them goes down. Finally, I needed to have at least two of them to be able to test both live and test patches.

Mitigation? Medication, perhaps.

(i'm only teasing! neener!)



this is one of my unconstructive posts because tensions run high at times. let's hear it for wasting space!