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Thread: tka 4004 or master brawler ???
I'd go with brawler, you can get buffed just as easy as you can powerboost, the only time I find it useful are those last few minutes left of my buffs and I still have a mission left, or a quick powerboost to have a friendly duel.
Having a 20m KD works to your advantage bigtime, because we are melee people tend to try to kite us more often than not, and it really helps to knock them flat on their asses when they try to run away, most never expect it. It gives you the chance to run up, apply dizzy, and commence to beating their brains out 
Power Boost isn't really that great but Meditating Poison, Disease and Wounds away is a real bonus.
Dropping that Precision line will also lose you Range and Melee defense (as you obviously know) and although you excede the 125 cap, for melee, with Precision Stiking 4 you don't excede by much, around 10points.
Master Brawler gives other bonuses, not just Lunge2...We can ignore Warcry2 as being one now tho' 
but Intimidate2 is really handy tool to have.
When they announced the Warcry nerf I ranted and whined how I would no longer bother with Master Brawler, it wasn't worth the points but, although I am still racking up the Unarmed and Pistol exp for my profession change, I have yet to make a decision on whether I will or not...That 20mtre KD is just too useful...Also the fact that the horrendous lag on places like Lok, Dantooine and Dathomir make my weapon switch/UnarmedKD macro useless I don't think I want to drop the only KD I have.
I have read others say that Master Brawler is not a useful to Fencers and TK's as it is to the likes of Pikeman and Hvy Swordsmen, due to their much lower defences.