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Takei...I was all set to be upset with you, then you had to go post some good points!!!. The devs do make it sound like they want us to have a role in combat, but that is taken care of by broken trapns and broken camps. I still say we are not a combat class, but a combat support class. As I said, I do like the Creature Damage mitigation idea, but I don't think it is the place of a support class to get the mods thattrue combat classes get. I think that most of those resist mods you suggested (avoid dizzy, stun, poison) could betaken care of in a creature dodge bonus, but adding a combat mod to almost every skill box is not viable IMO. What I mean by the resist mods being taken care of by a creature dodge bonus is instead of resisting stun and dizzy (which could resist NPC and PC stun and dizzy as well, taking us away from the Outdoorsman concept) we could avoid the stun or dizzy by dodging the actual attacknot the stun part of it. I hope that makes sense, as I rewrote it dozens of times for clarity.

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AgonThalia wrote:
you Rangers are amazing and thanks for being productive

/salute takei
/salute calc

good hunting

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I do not plan on using TK much, I am using pistoleer/ Smuggler DF for combat I just want defense mods and the meditation. So the fourth line isn't meditation then what is it and does the meditation line have defense mods?

Meditation is the first line, and it does not have any defensive mods. It does offer the ability to heal bleeds, then poison, then disease, and then wounds, as well as Powerboost and Force of Will. No defenses though.

The fourth line (Precision Striking) grants Ranged Defense, Melee Defense, and Defensive Acuity (which seems broken atm).

The Second line is Balance Conditioning, and it offers defense versus state changes and Melee Mitigation.

Personally, I would go Meditation and Precision striking if you are only looking at some TK.

The second and fourth lines grant the best combination of defensive bonuses, and the State Change Defenses stack fairly nicely with Pistoleer (although nowhere near what you could achieve with some other professions).

Honestly, though, if you plan to do much with TKA you will want to go up the Power Techniques line (third line) for the speed and damage mods. If not I would do the Precision Striking line (fourth) for the Melee and Ranged Defense.