Teras Kasi Archive

I usually try to wade through the people who claim they cant kill blue cons and not respond because they honestly cant be serious. Prior to this patch I could kill red cons maybe 75% of the time. Which shouldn't be the case according to SOE. Yellows I killed 100% of the time and White cons 2 and 3 at once. Using nothing but TKA skills 0/1/3/2. For red cons I would drop a bleed on it and use a trap to increase the damage I do on it. Knockdown, intimidate and use war cry. With war cry broken right now I am not sure if I can still do it with knockdown reduced to 5 seconds. But I have had no problem taking yellow cons with little tactics. Even when intimidate fails...

Maest da Wookie TKA 0/1/3/2 Master Scout Novice Pistoleer Smuggler 0/4/2/4

I can kill Yellows with a bit of tactics. I am a 0/0/3/1 and it is alot of fun doing it. My tactic is to take a 1/4 of their health, pop off a unarmed combo 1. This will hit their mind and health then pop off intimadate after their mind is damaged. 8/10 it will stick since I have damaged two of their ham bars. With the decrease in ham costs i now pop off three unarmed health hits to get their health down, then finish them off.

I have a marksman friend who I team up with and we can take three reds without stopping. He does bleed and I hit unarmed health. My capped damaged I have see is 900 for that move with VKS on. I don't even have knockdown and yellows are no problem. Not to mean i don't get incapped or die, just that this patch has made it easier on me to grind that exp.

My advice is to get power up to three, you will see a increase in damage. KD is nice and all but I am scared to even obtain the skill much less use it. Your going to take damage that much will not change, they need to raise our defense by a lot. But this patch is in the right direction I think. I came close to quitting TKA but this patch has given me some hope.

ONLY thing bad about todays patch is the inablity to use warcry ... it doesnt work other then that 2 thumbs up

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Streetracer81 wrote:

Put the crackpipe down. We get killed now by white conning junk npc's. Our defense sux, it literally sux.

They didnt improve us, they took away our defense and added some offense. Its nice and all, but I get killed trying to solo stuff.

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i'm sorry, but what are YOU smoking? whites weren't a problem pre-patch and they sure as hell aren't a problem now. i even ignored balance and conditioning so i won't have to rely on KD and i can still tank yellow monsters. try wearing some armor next time so you won't get smacked around.

i wonder sometimes if people just don't bother learning how to play a profession and just come whine on the boards because the one button they kept spamming gets taken away from them.

RicoUnderworld: Regarding tactics…

I have 2 macros that I use often..

Macro #1:
/ui action toolbarSlot22; (unequip vibroknuckler)
/unarmedStun1;
/unarmedBlind1;
/unarmedDizzy1;
/unarmedKnockdown1;
/pause 8;
/ui action toolbarSlot22; (equip vibroknuckler)

Macro #2:
/berserk1;
/berserk1;
/berserk1;
/berserk1;

I will open with macro #1 and usually follow up with macro #2. I keep hotkeys for tun, blind, dizzy, knockdown, lunge, and warcry on the bar in case something fails that I feel I need, or I want to add in a warcry. The /pause 8; at the end of the first macro allows some time to fail to berserk a few times before putting on the knucklers and incurring the added HAM cost.

My human stats are:
800, 400, 400
700, 400, 400
1100, 600, 600

This works well in tandem with a healer, who can keep my alive until my mind is worn down. Even fighting solo I can kill whites and yellows, though never with 100% certainty. In my opinion, you should never have 100% certainty of killing something of ‘equal’ level. For some reason there are people who expect to always be more equal than others. I guess they pay their $15 for their daily ego boost.

I think that simply landing a solid dizzy on a ranged opponent can work wonders, as they will often crouch for accuracy if you stop chasing them, at which point they fall over dizzy and you can run up and pummel them.

I agree with the original post on this thread. I am MORE effective than before the patch. Before the patch, I was killing red cons solo. After the patch? You guessed it, killing red cons solo, back to back. Someone asked the how of it. I never really used KD much before because of the insane costs, I just used stun. Anyhow now, I use KD1, Stun attack and then spam unarmedhit2 or body hit. I am using VKs that have like 1.4 spd and 156 max dmg. I hit SO FAST that I do regular attacks in the middle of my specials. The extra damage helps greatly. Hope this helps. And a pet along with ya comes in handy sometimes too.

Litzo
Intrepid Galaxy
TKA practitioner (future master)/future master CH/future Master Scout and partial ranger