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...shouldn't I get a new title and combined toughness rating of both my master skills?

Long title, simply put, I master 2 melee elites and still pike is horrible compaired to tka and thus i use tka more because i get hit twice as hard as when i hold a pike. It seems to me that if I take the time to master 2 elites I should get some sort of additional bonuses and combine the two toughness of unarmed and pike to work together when I wield either a pike or bare fists.

Additionaly I want a cool title for being masterpike/tkm/masterbrawler.

Thoughts?

Posting this in the general forum as well.

What ever you do, dont dont dont dont dont dont dont go pikeman

I had planned on taking up the precision striking line in TKA to supplement my pike for the ranged and melee defense modifiers. Are you telling me that those don't stack? That would suck!

I am 50k xp away from master, and I had planned to start that TKA line after I reach master.

Somebody please confirm and let me know now, before I waste my time heading down that path!

I was masterpike/ch for the longest time and just dropped ch for tka so now i'm master pike/teras kasi master. It seems like i should beable to a few combined skills such as toughness of unarmed and pike to work together and a new title and some bonus defense for having the 2 elite masteries under one base proffession.

I don't agree that they should stack. Toughness is such a powerfullmod that stacking it would make characters too powerfull, imho.

Pikeman toughness is borked, even as masterpike/TKM i get hit twice as hard when i have the pike out which is bogus since I'm master in both and the damage from the pike is a joke compared to tkm. By the way, who keeps trolling the pikeman forums?

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Cyborg-Shoryuken wrote:

I had planned on taking up the precision striking line in TKA to supplement my pike for the ranged and melee defense modifiers. Are you telling me that those don't stack? That would suck!

I am 50k xp away from master, and I had planned to start that TKA line after I reach master.

Somebody please confirm and let me know now, before I waste my time heading down that path!

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The Ranged and Melee Defense mods do stack. It's Toughness that doesn't.

Ah, cool, thanks, that's what I meant. I just hope stacking the ranged and melee defense mods from tka to my master pike is worth it, or else I'm wasting a bunch of time and combat xp.

i think they should change Unarmed Toughness, one-handed toughness, two handed toughness, and polearm toughness, to Melee toughness, so you only get the mods when you equip a melee weapon. Ranged people with toughness would be dumb.