Teras Kasi Archive

Of all the combat professions I have tried (Commando, BH, Fencer, Pike, Pistoleer) TKA is the most fun, as well as the profession I have consistently outperformed in terms of combat.

I was Master pistoleer master commando, and i thouh it was great for PvE (not so hot PvP). but i dropped pistoleer for TKM. The only down side ive found to TKA is only being able to do one damage type, other than that we are extremely powerful. Im PvE i can solo almost anything. in PvP, its harder but i can still take soem of the other PvP proffections. amour isnt a very big issue becuase most melee Pvper only were a helmet and chest plate, unarmed combo hits arms and legs every time. with the right combo of food and technique you can do very well in PvP

I don't know how long it has been since you were a BH, but since the introduction of the geo caves, a BH (dabbling in pistoleer or the smuggler pistol line) with a high end geo pistol is far more effective in pvp than a TKA when eye shot spamming in PvP.

Pinner Augustin


"I'll be sober tomorrow, but you'll be crazy for the rest of your life."
- W.C. [William Claude] Fields (1879 - 1946)

Try out other professions before you call TKA almost useless. I used to be a BH, Pistoleer, Commando, Carbineer, Swordsman,etc and none of them in my mind have been as effective as TKA. As a BH I used basically 3 times as many skill points as I used to get TKM, and TKM's in my view are more powerful than BH's when used properly. Now thats useless....200+ skill points to master BH and as a TKM I only use a fraction of that amount of skill points and I do better. Don't even get me started with Commando...at one time I was a Master Commando/TKM...master commando is the definition of "useless". We got certifications for 50 million different weapons...only 2 of them were worth carrying...arguably 3. That being said of those 3 weapons chances are even as a master commando you couldn't hit the broad side of a barn in pvp. I was outdamaging my master commando when I was hardly even half way up the tka tree. Now thats useless. In pvp i'd always be known as the guy who would light people on fire...big deal....I get1...MAYBE 2...flame cones off and I'm on my back being kicked, stabbed, hammered, and punched by 5 different people. Until you try other professions you really have no right to call one useless. TKM is an AMAZING profession...I was a TKA within 4 days of launch and now I'm one again...by far the most fun I've ever had with a profession.

People have to realize that the whole idea behind MMORPG's is that no one is supposed to be "uber" and no one is supposed to be able to "solo" everything. The whole idea of those kind of games is to build a community based on teamwork and friendships. I'm sorry if you can't solo everything in the game and I'm sorry if your mad that a certain group of enemies have high resists to your main damage but thats why this game is based around teams so if you can't do it, someone else will be able to. So what if your not the man at PVP...being a TKM insures you to at least have a CHANCE in pvp. You may not win all the time but your not supposed to. If someone flat out, out prepares you and out fights you then you have no reason to scream "we are almost useless"...what it means is go out buy a better set of armor, get some more high quality foods and spices and beat him up and down theed next time you see him.

I have one. The strength and potency are horrible, but it gives me hope that someone else out there has decent ones.

Dirty Hairy

I think the main point of the post was a BH who spend 217 skill points compared to a TKA who spend 93 SP the TK gets way more bang for their buck (Many status effects, target any pool, fast attack, high damage, self buff) with many skill points left over to persue a hobby or increase their battle power.A TKA can stand alone on the PvP field and fair pretty well where as a BH with nothing but BH skills is the red headed step child of PvP.

If you know how to play them, almost no professions sucks, its just the lack of experience and the "no thinking go buffed, wear adv comp and spam uh3 or uhh" that destroys it for ya.

This coming from a guy whos doc/pikeman, not what you would call def stacker eh?