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you can use the swordsman specials without epuipping a sword

i mean barehanded

i personally have 4/x/x/x swords to get the powerhit which is a stonger hit unarmed than our own advanced combo hit

Any other profession attack is better than adv combo attack this is where i see a problem tkm +mdoc makes for horrible dps.

It sound silly i used adv impale how does one impale with a fist??.

LOL lets leave that to the DEVs for now. But i use the advanced head hit combo and critical attacks. They are my absolute favorites i havent been on to tes tthe new animations hope it looks cool. But personally the TK attacks are lacking power. we have i think 4 attacks with little power behind them. Combo takes 5 uses and bye bye action pool.

I'm a TKM, 4-x-x-1 Doctor,and currently 4-4-3-3 into sword. I pretty much onlyuse sword specials when fighting unarmed now (with the exception of ICOB, and Adv. Leg Sweep). Advanced Armor Break, alone,has made playing TKM much more effectivesince it nearly doublesmy normal output damage (not to mention thatit last 30 secs, as opposed to the Armor Break in the TK tree that only lasts a couple seconds).Coupled with the other sword specials, and using no weapon, I can hit pretty consistentlywithin the 500-1000 damage range against opponents around mycombat level, which is currently 79. Once I started using sword specials as a TKM I could fightopponentsup to 9 combat levels higher than me without much problem at all. Plus the battles go by much faster which makes the gameplay,speaking as a solo player, much more enjoyable.

Namaste,

D'shan Kaen - Starsider

I have another question?

ifusing knucklers, is the damage output higher than bare hands, now with the publish 18?

does it worth it to buy them?

TKM sucks by itself. I never go unarmed vs an opponent because you cant do enough damage + with no weapon we still have a pretty highish SAC (i would like to see this lowere to around 80-85 as i believe its more like 100).

I use a power hammer as im a master swordsman aswel and i just rock with TK defenses and swordsman damage output. Its just pathetic that you only get TK for defenses and COB tbh if you want to survive.

Theyve added the animations which has brought back the sexyness of this profession but we still do low damage so whats the point

its true the animations are back but offense is still horrendous and the defense seems to me to have dropped a bit on its own, on TC i played a tkm/masterdoctor/2020 swords for some power moves, i didnt lose to either ranged nor melee, it just took me a long time to win, about 12 min per duel to beat them, with a necrosis knuckler good lord its sad, hehe we can only hope they fix it, that was in TC i havent played live publish 18 yet hope to tonight and see if the token respec will make me a master doctor master swords or not, i would worship SOE for just a little boost in damage plz, i mean not that 85 damage isnt amazing but i think in light of swordsmans 1500+ hit, we should try to give the tkm about i dont know 450-500 per hit in pvp, plz and give us spin attack back and unarmed 2 and all our other moves plz

I got both new tka weapons. Their damage is in the 700's. Now I looted a pike, which was easy to get btw and it has 800+. We are suppose to do more damage than Pike, but we aren't even equal. Why does our damage suck? Oh wait we get advance cob, which really makes us the best tanks. Thing is we don't and we aren't.

Mswords/Mpike/0010 tka is the best tank.

Great damage with a weapon that can be crafted.

Area attacks.

Advanced Intimidate

the best cob.

area taunts

and crafted armor which is not hard to get and is as good or better than innate.

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SettingSun wrote:

I got both new tka weapons. Their damage is in the 700's. Now I looted a pike, which was easy to get btw and it has 800+. We are suppose to do more damage than Pike, but we aren't even equal. Why does our damage suck? Oh wait we get advance cob, which really makes us the best tanks. Thing is we don't and we aren't.

Mswords/Mpike/0010 tka is the best tank. need healing and COB

Great damage with a weapon that can be crafted. ive heard using swords/pike specials with katarn knucles is better than any pike or swords weapon

Area attacks.

Advanced Intimidate

the best cob. i *think* its 0100 TK thats gives you improved COB and tk also gives you area taunt.

area taunts not sure what you are saying but TK gives area taunts (not sure if pike does). but you dont need pike for this.

and crafted armor which is not hard to get and is as good or better than innate. i can still use crafted armor as tkm/pikeman. its my choice.

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i think its 0100 TK that gives improved cob. and no thats not the best tank. you NEED healing to be the best tank otherwise you will die quicker. 4000 doctor in there would make it the best tank.i think tkm/mpike/4000 doc is the best tank. if you would rather use crafted armor than innate, then tk 0100/doc4000/mpike/as much swords as possible might be better. but that would lower CL i think? also, mpike/mdoc/tk0100 if possible is great tank (for improved COB)

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quitch wrote:

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SettingSun wrote:

I got both new tka weapons. Their damage is in the 700's. Now I looted a pike, which was easy to get btw and it has 800+. We are suppose to do more damage than Pike, but we aren't even equal. Why does our damage suck? Oh wait we get advance cob, which really makes us the best tanks. Thing is we don't and we aren't.

Mswords/Mpike/0010 tka is the best tank. need healing and COB

Great damage with a weapon that can be crafted. ive heard using swords/pike specials with katarn knucles is better than any pike or swords weapon

Area attacks.

Advanced Intimidate

the best cob. i *think* its 0100 TK thats gives you improved COB and tk also gives you area taunt.

area taunts not sure what you are saying but TK gives area taunts (not sure if pike does). but you dont need pike for this.

and crafted armor which is not hard to get and is as good or better than innate. i can still use crafted armor as tkm/pikeman. its my choice.

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i think its 0100 TK that gives improved cob. and no thats not the best tank. you NEED healing to be the best tank otherwise you will die quicker. 4000 doctor in there would make it the best tank.i think tkm/mpike/4000 doc is the best tank. if you would rather use crafted armor than innate, then tk 0100/doc4000/mpike/as much swords as possible might be better. but that would lower CL i think? also, mpike/mdoc/tk0100 if possible is great tank (for improved COB)

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nope sorry mate, I ampure tkm (no fencer, no pike, only the 4 boxes in brawler swords that is required), no area taunt or advanced taunt, that comes from pike i believe (not sure 'cause I don't have pike). I do know I don't have it tho.

If they could just fix the display bug with adv combo, and make it so we can actually do more damage than a pikeman, we might have a chance of being a decent profession on our own. As it stands a tkm can be out damaged by ANY other combat profession (not counting combat medic and doc). The thing that I really can't stand is that our 3 in offense means nothing what so ever, and weare easily out damaged by a pikeman who gets a 2 in offense.