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Last night I did some testing. I have a few TK Master friends and I convinced one of them last night to spend several hours doing some Profession vs Profession with me. A few things were not equal and a few things are broken, therefore the tests results will change as the game becomes corrected/ updated.

Basically, the first test was raw offensive/ defensive damage out put/ defensive abilities. This included our 3 prime choice weapons the lance, the vibro lance, and the LVA.

The fights began with no buffs, no special skills, no armor, no nothing. Just raw nakkid fighting and seeing who dropped first.

A few things that made the test not completely equal are my Health and Action are much lower then his. I duo with a Master Doctor so most my migration points are pumped into Mind and Willpower. The TKA has about a raw 300 points of Health and Action then I do, natural.

First test was lance vs vibro knuckles. I didn't expect to do well but I was a bit suprised. The lance never missed. In fact it connected blow for blow with equal damage to that of the vibro knuckles. BTW vibro knuckles are a +9 to hit every range and a lance is +10 to hit every range. Again I never missed my target and hit blow for blow. Hitting equal speed and damage by the numbers the TKA did win everytime. We decided this is due to the fact TKA has natual better defensive line.

The next 2 weapons need to be retested since armor piercing seems to be completely broken as does armor. Armor was not factored into the test at this point, but last night we couldn'tsince armor is broken in PvP and has no damage absorbion propertiesat this time.

Vibro lance slightly performed better but not by a lot. It's quick and does a bit more damage but not much more. Again this is with no AP factors due to the patching bug.

Lastly was LVA, I missed quite a bit but none the less the damage output is much greater. Much greater and this in not factoring in any AP abilities, again because they appear to be broken. The end result was a very close battle. Now, this TK does have a raw natural 300 more Health and Action compared to myself, by the time I became incapacitated up to half or more then half his life was gone, subtracting 300 points from his pools leaves him with a fairly close 200 HAM left till incapacation.

Things I want to do and what does this all mean. Well, I'd like to migrate my stats equal to the test partner first, so no mathmatical guessing is factored in. Second, when AP is fixed to where is should be, meaning a damage bonus, how close will the fights be. I suspect near equal during raw testing. We will see.

Eventually we duoed using special skills of the players choice. The fights at this point are near equal, sometimes he would win and sometimes I would. Special skills with an LVA will kill you but using a lance to sweep, dizzy, intimidate, stun uses near nothing and therefore shifting the tide in the Pikemans favor. Trying to debuff with a LVA is pointless IMHO unless your on Doctor buffs. Even then why take the chance of missing when the lance never seems to miss.