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I'm wondering if there s a cap on the amount of ranged and melee defense that is effective. Does anyone know the answer to this?

Eveready Zues

Well, let me say this first: You would not have ranged or melee defense of 170 mastering just those 2 professions. Why do I say this? Because I'm currently a master TKA and master fencer. My defenses are more like 130's melee and 110's (teens?) ranged.

136 melee and 114 ranged for masterting fencer and just 0004 in TKA (where all the defence mods are in the class).

My mistake... I didn't totally clarify, and was using someone elses numbers.

With Master Brawler, Master TK, Master Fencer,Novice Swords, and Novice Pikeman you have Melee Defense of +151 and Ranged Defense of +119

While I plan on mastering both professions in due time, I had heard that I might get nerfed. Meaning I would have my Stacking Defenses get nerfed. As it stand, you could master both and get a melee defensesomewhere around +170. Also, if you wanted to be a **edit** of PvP, there are some ranged trees you could go up to get to +198, and pair that with clothing mods of an extra +25.

While I would say that dabbling and getting the 198 isnt cool, I am not against it. So don't punish them and hurt me.

I put alot of time and thought into the format of my character. I REALLY wanted to be a melee class, so I looked what trees I could combine with TK (my love), that would make me better at it. It was then I realized that the entire Fencer tree was just as nice as the TK (if not better). So I wanted to then Master TK and Fencer, and get the defensive trees of Swords and Pike. Is that so wrong? I did this because I wanted to be an effective fighter WITHOUT the use of a pet. I wanted to be my own tank.

Is that so wrong?

Yes, it is wrong. You're a bad, bad, bad, bad man.