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I'm in a similar boat. I'm going to wait for this next patch and see if the damage and HAM decreases are as promised. Then decide whether or not to keep my TKA abilities, and perhaps my entire character.

I'd like to cheer you up Arc, but I'd be telling a lie.

No, don't give up TKA. Here's what you do.....

Solo light blue mobs until you get 20,000 combat exp saved up....

Then, train novice marksman. This is key....

Next, get a good pistol and start training up the pistol tree. Use the combat exp you got from TKA to train up ranged weapon support.

As your advancing up the marksman trees, TEMPORARILY drop some TKA skills so you have enough skill points.

When you get pistol maxed and ranged weapon support maxed (now listen carefully, this is the critical part)... TRAIN PISTOLEER!

Continue to advance up the Pistoleer tree until you have mastered Pistoleer. Keep dropping TKA skills so you have the skill points to do so.

Now, when you have become a Master Pistoleer, you can finally acheive the TKA's full potential by..... Dropping any remaining TKA skills and dropping all brawler skills.

Make sure you get the best pistol weapon available as you advance up the pistoleer tree. They are cheap, readily available and do more damage faster thanany carbine or rifle.

Once you have completely dropped all TKA skills, you will have reached the full potential of the master of melee class.

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TexKSAH wrote:

No, don't give up TKA. Here's what you do.....

Solo light blue mobs until you get 20,000 combat exp saved up....

Then, train novice marksman. This is key....

Next, get a good pistol and start training up the pistol tree. Use the combat exp you got from TKA to train up ranged weapon support.

As your advancing up the marksman trees, TEMPORARILY drop some TKA skills so you have enough skill points.

When you get pistol maxed and ranged weapon support maxed (now listen carefully, this is the critical part)... TRAIN PISTOLEER!

Continue to advance up the Pistoleer tree until you have mastered Pistoleer. Keep dropping TKA skills so you have the skill points to do so.

Now, when you have become a Master Pistoleer, you can finally acheive the TKA's full potential by..... Dropping any remaining TKA skills and dropping all brawler skills.

Make sure you get the best pistol weapon available as you advance up the pistoleer tree. They are cheap, readily available and do more damage faster than any carbine or rifle.

Once you have completely dropped all TKA skills, you will have reached the full potential of the master of melee class.

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LOL that was great

I am seriously scorned by the TKA nerf. First I was angry, now I feel sad and dejected. I hardly use my TKA anymore and it sucks because I chose a Trandoshan and they are supposed to have an extra boost for unarmed combat. I am considering just dropping TKA completely, losing the meditate line when I get my medic skills up. I am also a Rifleman and I plan to PvP a lot and my TKA skills hardly get used at all. Sometimes I use it but only indoors really and that is pretty rare since most of PvP is out in the open.

I need some guidance or something to keep me from dropping the TKA. I got TKA master one night and in the morning he was nerfed. All that work for nothing.

Is this new patch going to fix us or will it take a lot more time?

Thanks for reading.

Well, it's finally happened... I'm wavering on whether to ditch Master Smuggler and overhaul my template.

At the moment I'm Master Smuggler, Master Pistoleer, and Master TK, and strangely enough I'm having trouble finding fun content.

Unfortunately the times I play and rl commitments seem to prevent me from joining group or guild events most of the time, so I need to find something that I can enjoy on my own.

So what do you guys all do? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, especially if it means I can keep my template as is.

Again, I'm one of the people that always wanted to play a Smuggler. It was the first profession that I Mastered and it'll kill me to let it all go, but I think I need to find something fun to do while I wait for the Smuggler revamp.

If that means dropping it all and then coming back ('cos I would in a heartbeat if we got some love) then so be it, but I'd rather not.

I was toying with the idea of trying out running BH missions for a bit and see what that's like, but if anyone has any suggestions for other content that they enjoy, then I'd love to hear it.

I'm going to carry on trying to rp, but as a lot of people find, it's often too much like hard work to be fun most of the time when other people have no interest or idea what you're doing.

Much as I like playing the tortured masochist, I'd at least like to have fun while I'm doing it

Thanks for your help.

Hey, I used to be a Smuggler/Squad Leader/Gunfighter. I know all about masochism.

Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll definitely add them all to my list of things to try out if I decide to ditch Smuggler.

Cheers