Teras Kasi Archive

Message Edited by Burnz3 on 06-24-2005 03:36 PM

I am talking about the 106 points I spent in MTK. Before the CU we had an area attack it's not something new. Having four boxes for taunt, when it could be something more useful like another attack or area attack, is redundant and useless. The only other profession that gets this is commando with the heavy weapons in the exact same 4 spots as TK and if I was a commandoI wouldsay having 4 heavy weapons boxes was useless and redundant as well.A pikeman with intimidate and warcry on something can tank that one creature better than a TKA plus they get an area attack and an area knockdown. Lets forget what your doing with your other points and focus on what you spent to get master TK.

Explain to me why having 4 boxes dedicated to taunt (not even area taunt) is useful? Seriously you want to tell me they couldn't put something better in one of those trees for both TK and commando?

I also made other sugestions in my initial post as well.

i agree we are very limited in our abilities, i would hate to see a tkm go against even a white belt karate student, lol they have more moves then we do as tkm, and would most likely whip us hardcore

while tkm is hurting as far as actual moves go everyone understands, and im sure all who have played it and other professions have noticed the difference, when i was dabbling in other professions they had an average of nearly 7-8 moves per profession master, after all was said and done, now with tkm we have melee strike, leg sweep, armor break, dizzy attack, and unarmed combo, and CoB (if it counts as a move, its really just a macro when you break it down thats all people use it for) the only thing tkm should ask for is possibly another debuff or damage move, along with and area attack, as far as i have seen, most of the other professions in teh game recieve more moves, so it would seem fair, however, tkm can be combined with other professions to recieve extra moves to use in combat, however other profession in the game do not need this, so i see both sides of the arguement, and both are right, tkm can learn to play with other professions to get extra moves to make game play more viable and fun, but my question is why dont the other professions have to?

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ssosvissirz wrote:

I am talking about the 106 points I spent in MTK. Before the CU we had an area attack it's not something new. Having four boxes for taunt, when it could be something more useful like another attack or area attack, is redundant and useless. The only other profession that gets this is commando with the heavy weapons in the exact same 4 spots as TK and if I was a commandoI wouldsay having 4 heavy weapons boxes was useless and redundant as well.A pikeman with intimidate and warcry on something can tank that one creature better than a TKA plus they get an area attack and an area knockdown. Lets forget what your doing with your other points and focus on what you spent to get master TK.

Explain to me why having 4 boxes dedicated to taunt (not even area taunt) is useful? Seriously you want to tell me they couldn't put something better in one of those trees for both TK and commando?

I also made other sugestions in my initial post as well.

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Teras Kasi Artist
Primary Role: Melee Tanking Specialist (Avoidance)
Secondary Role: Close Range Damage Dealer
Offense: Moderate(3)
Defense: Very Strong (5)
Crowd Control: Minimal (1)

Teras Kasi Artists are experts at avoiding damage. TKAs have several utility abilities to further help them survive standing toe to toe with the most powerful opponents in the galaxy. Their damage output is only moderate however making them less than ideal for taking opponents on their own.

Professions and Variety
These changes to the combat professions provide a much better role definition for each of the combat professions. Group and solo play are both enhanced by enriching the professions with these new ability assignments and most importantly, these changes make "profession stacking" a strong game challenge. Profession mixing is an exciting choice that players can use to personalize their characters and make them more unique and effective in combat.

this is how TKA is post CU, it is a tanking profession, secondary damage dealer, that last paragraph has the answer to your problem, if you want more offense then take another melee profession. the CU was made with stacking in mind, therefore if you only use TKA as your combat role then you are cutting yourself short. TKA is a tank, but only with another melee profession can it have better damage potential.

this is the way of the CU, if you don't like it then no hope for you.

Teras Kasi Artist
Primary Role: Melee Tanking Specialist (COB macro)
Secondary Role: Close Range Damage Dealer
Offense:Very Weak(1)
Defense: Very Strong (5)
Crowd Control:Minimal (1)

ThereI fixed it for you sinceI can't remember the last time anything missed me twice in a row andI hit like a three-legged durni. Do you seriously want to claim we avoid damage?

Funny how nobody touched the 4 taunt boxes topic.

Keep bringing in profession mixing. You know what that says to me? TKA can not stand on it's own two legs. But hey I do have another master profession. Creature handler. Now can you see why I need TKA to be better?

He's my next suggestion:

Let's put it to the test. Take combat logs of a pikeman and swordsman to see how we compare in taking and dealing damage. Numbers do not lie. In fact I think I'll fight a level 80 bol and then post for a master swordsman and pikeman to do the same and get numbers to compare and finally put this to rest.

while our defense is one of the best its claimed to be the best, and it is not clearly the best, i have seen various other professions tank as well as do, and deal more damage, most of the other numbers from the CU stay true to what they are able to do, although we come semi close to the original promise, we still dont have a level 5 defensive ability, nor do we deal a level 3 damage, sorry we are far worse then pikeman which are rated a 2 in offense, we hit for 250-300 while a pikeman hits for 700+ anyone care to answer that with more CU document posts? cause thats where the proof is