Jedi Archive
Thread: Master Defender.. why bother anymore?
Ebonfire wrote:
I'd trade AI for a skill that would prevent armor from being bypassed in any way for a 2 minute period. This seems like it would adjust our profession to the current state of the game.
If thats all it did it better get a force cost reduction and lose the snare
I'd like to tradeAI for a skill that increases our reistance like synthsteak, keep the high forcecostand remove the snare. That would be balanced. As for the armor break thing, I like to see state resists in Defender work and have armor break added to that. It should be tough to land a state on a defender, but not impossible. I think TKMs should get this resistance too.
that is stinky....jedi are not overpowered...i feel bad for you guys worse and worse each time i get on. and i NEVER felt that way till i actually did some testing..soo be thankful.
whats stupid, is jedi dont wear armor, so how can it be Broken? TK too?
Anyways yes agreed, with enough credits any combat class can outdue thier respective jedi class. Guess they gave a second character slot not so you can have some time online safe from BH, but so you can play a uber character/template even after becoming jedi.
Kinda sad but i think most master defenders are that now because of the same reason they were it before. Because jedi should be defenders natually. or somethin
Let's think of something that TKM and Defender have in common; Aura and Centre of Being. Perhaps these 2 skills, as well as boosting defences, could give protection to AB. I understand that wearable armour isn't naturally resistant to AB, but I'm sure that we will soon be in a situation where everyone will want it slcied, now that NPCs use AB not just jedi/swordsmen.
Pre CU, sliced armour was ubiquitous; it won't be long before this is the same post CU. I would hope to see some kind of counter to AB available for jedi and TKM.
Message Edited by Kev0r on 10-26-2005 02:07 PM
Armor Break doesn't actually "bypass" armor. It just gives a damage bonus. You can use it against someone with no armor at all and stilldo more damage. So it basically acts as a state against you and should have some kind of counter.
Pretty sad when the devs give you a goal to shoot for and then change all the rules when you reach it.
Fivo Asia
Cafa wrote:
Pretty sad when the devs give you a goal to shoot for and then change all the rules when you reach it.
Fivo Asia
Yeah, it's fun, isn't it!?
Ackehece wrote:
Ebonfire wrote:
I was waiting around at the Storm Lord earlier today, and the group I put together was taking some time, so I got to watch another group go at it for a while. They seemed pretty well put together with a mix of healing, ranged, and Jedi/melee.. Can anyone guess who was tanking?Even though they had a M. Defender, itwas a Pikesman in kinetic layered, AB sliced RIS
Master Defender has been cycled out as the premier tankbecause we have no counter to armor break, and it seems that all high level boss mobs use it quite liberally after Pub 24. I would like to thankthe powers that be for my 80 skill point armor that can be outdone at a cost of ZERO skill points by any normal melee profession.
/bow
actually you can get armor break resistance quite easy now for M.Def. It is a quest that starts in the mustafar mining facility and is quite easy (if you call killing a cl 84 jedi easy)
sith holocron : 1 forbidden knowledge
gain immunity to armor break for a health cost
reuse 3600 secs
If armour break resistance on armour only lasted for 2 minutes then you would be 100 accurate. Unfortuntely considering the resuse and the time of the effect that does not come anywhere close.
Sure its better than nothing for a non-tank template but as a tanker its not much.