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Thread: Tuesday Tips May 3rd Center of Being
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Center of Being is a great special ability for melee characters and using it successfully will have a huge impact on winning melee combat.
How to get it
All Brawlers can earn the Center of Being ability. It is earned at Unarmed I, One Handed II, Two Handed III and Polearm I. It is offered in each of the Brawler skill trees so allmelee players use the skill without having to pursue additional non-related skill trees . At the Elite Profession level, practitioners of Teras Kasi can earn Improved Center of Being at Balance I.
How it works
To effectively use the Center of Being ability, activate the ability as combat begins and at least once every 30 seconds to keep it active. You will be able to tell when the ability is about to fade because the buff icon will blink. When this happens, you can choose to reactivate the ability for a longer more defensive attack or switch to a more offensive role and press your attack without Center of Being on your side.
Using the Center of Being ability this way will give a melee character much better defenses in combat. Not only will it reduce the number of hits, but also the amount of damage for each hit during the attack.
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Message Edited by Thunderheart on 05-03-2005 04:34 PM
Kurt "Thunderheart" Stangl
Community Relations Manager
Ok, i have a tip for new leveling jedi out there.
When your running missions, pull one creature at a time.These should be the same combat level you are.
Put advanced force fusion on , and loop it as long as you fight the creature, and use basic saber hit to take it down.
The method is slow but i gained about 100mk in a few hours doing this yesterday. 
Message Edited by Jedi_Farmboy on 05-03-2005 01:40 PM
Message Edited by Jedi_Farmboy on 05-03-2005 01:43 PM
/buffname;
/pause *length of the buff*;
/macro *macro name*
Jedi_Farmboy wrote:
ok, i have a tip for new leveling jedi out there
Message Edited by Jedi_Farmboy on 05-03-2005 01:40 PM
lol
Boatsheets wrote:
Jedi_Farmboy wrote:
ok, i have a tip for new leveling jedi out there
Message Edited by Jedi_Farmboy on 05-03-2005 01:40 PM
lol
Hehe, pressed enter too soon. edited now
Mankind00 wrote:
If you ever wonder what weapon is certed when. Open the Holocron & go to the Knowledge Base. Search for artical 15691 & you will see a full listing, showing CL, Box & Species.
Wow, now thats a tip!
Qui-Gonzalez wrote:
Actually, COB is a 45 second timer.
Is it? Only Improved CoB should be on a 45 second timer.
Kurt "Thunderheart" Stangl
Community Relations Manager
Okay lets say you are a TKM and you want to pick up swordsman ... its very easy for the reason you can use most any melee attack with any melee weapon so you can go out and fight those 65-70 level creatures with your novice weapon and game 4k xp per kill to level very quickly I'm at 1-1-0-1 pikeman after only a few hours of gaming (includes travel time and farting around time :-P ) also those of you annoyed the that stupid little icon on your name bar that is bouncing back and forth ... just click on it once or twice to change the icon to a more happy icon :-)
happy Hunting!
Vrulo/Atara/Ajea master whiner of Tarquinas