Teras Kasi Archive
Thread: Why MAX HAM Mind????
I would be very appreciative if this was explained to me, plus any suggestion on how to place all my HAM stats would be great. Thanks
There are two reasons to max your mind score.
The first is that it's not easily healable. You can use stim Bs to heal 400 points a shot to both your action and health, but if your Mind goes down, you're in trouble.
The second reason that TKAs in particular max out their mind is because PowerBoost bases it's buff off your mind value. If you have 1000 mind, you'll get a 500 point boost to health, action and mind. So every 2 points you spend on your mind pool give you 3 extra points of PB. You can take your HAM from 900/900/1000 to 1400/1400/1500. It's extremely helpful.
Someone elsemay be able to explain better but its becasue of powerboost... When you get powerboost at meditate II, it takes you base mind(before buffs) and adds itto your health, action, and mind.So basicly what im trying to say is the higher your mind bar the more benifit you will get from powerboost.
someone else may be able to clarify this better for you 
well i dont have tka, not sure but one reason can be that its easier get health action buffs than mind buffs.
Other reason its that mind cant be healed and other stats yes.
If i was tka i would have lot of mind, maybe not maxed but almost.
HTH
This is the long and the short of it (a few points already mentioned)
1. Mind is unhealable unless you're grouped with a combat medic (im unsure if this is in game yet, it may be due for the next patch.) You can heal many thousands of points worth of damage to your H/A bars with a large mind bar.
2. Powerboost works from your base mind level to improve your other stats.
3. Mind is harder to buff (you need to sit in a cantina and watch a dancer who is specifically targetting you for a buff for about 10 minutes, which makes it an extremely slow process if there arent many buffing entertainers around and you're in a queue) whilst health and action bars can be buffed in seconds.
Generally in combat, high mind is your friend, and doubly so for TKAs.
Double edged sword if you ask me.
I am Trandoshan, also a novice medic. I have my mind, focus and willpower maxed. I bet 85% of the time I get incapped it's from my mind. The problem is that healing your health and action using stims requires.. yes, ....mind. I have to be very carefull because even with powerboost I can get incapped if I don't watch my mind and the creature I am fighting hits it a time or two.
On a side note.. yesterday I was preparing to fight a force sensitive dude on Dantooine, I sends in my pet, was power boosted(sic), .......dude shoots at me once and blows my mind away with a 1350 hit to the 'ol mind pool..
Somedays you just can't win 
Aceblade wrote:
Actually with the new combat changes on TC you really don't need to max your mind as the specials now effect overall ham and not specific ham bars.
You still would want to max mind due to powerboost.
Simply max mind because doctor buffs are readily available, take about a minute to apply and last for 2 hours. Mind buffs are few and far between, I'd say a ratio of 20:1 Master Docs to Master Dancers or Musicians.
Once doctor buffed, I'd say 99% of the time I'm restricted from using specials or get incapped because of a low mind.