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This is just a suggestion. I know I'm new here and it's up to you guys.

Message Edited by MCORipper on 07-27-2004 02:33 PM

Message Edited by MCORipper on 07-28-2004 01:14 PM

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MCORipper wrote:

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OnlyMaestro wrote:

Also if people here don't think I'd be qualified, I'd happily withdraw. (wanna throw that in here, cause I'd be working for all of ya)

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OnlyMaestro I for one was hoping you would apply. You were my other personal choice for the job.

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I havesome morequestions (and if you haven't answered the first one yet, pleasetry to):

1) How well do you understand the mechanics of the profession? For example, if someone asks you what the multiplier for a prone opponent in PvP is for UH3--do you at least have a rough idea of the answer off the top of your head?

Im a software engineer, its in my blood to test. 1.5x btw Ive done more tests on Defensive Acuity, the affects of Fencer CoB when using pistols, The affect of unarmed toughness when armored, when not armored, the affects of lightsaber damage when no armor but with PSG and all the permeatations there... So yes I like to think I know the way the sytem works (to the best of our ability to know). I know how to create a precise and well worded design document because its part of my job.

2) What percentage of time do you spend engaging in PvP and PvE?

I spend more time PVE'ing, the only time I PVP is when there are folks in Coronet or Theed, and I have also participated in defense of Rebel bases (well Ive been hit by area poisons while trying to chase someone down) but limiting kiting is something I have in mind as a part of the CB.

3) Do you do the high-end (Corvette and DWB)dungeons with any regularity?

Ive visited just about every high end dungeon you can. DWB, Corvette (did not finish in time ), Geonosian dungeon. Ive been on Krayt Hunts and Ive hunted nightsisters. Teras kasi is a great tank no matter where you go. We have the best toughness and combat equilibrium and we can take the brunt of the assault while the big guns work the mob down.

4) What other professions do you have along with TKM?

I was originally a weaponsmith/merchant I knew more about what weapons people should use and how well weapons were proportioned more often then the people using. Im still active on the weaponsmith boards and I will be there when we finally get the RK or another weapon. I turned over to Pistoleer/Smuggler for a little while just to try them out. I had always been a pistoleer with weaponsmithing and I liked adding smuggler into the mix. Then I finally came to Teras Kasi and have kept it ever since. For a while I was a TKM/Pistoleer/Rogue and it worked pretty well TK being my main combat and pistols for alt damage and ranged KD to stop kiters. Ive since switched to an all melee template of TKM/Master Sword/Master Brawler/Fencer 3400/Novice Medic. I love this template because of the ranged 20m KD, Intimidate 2 and alternate damage type of swordsman and punching power when medium AP is necessary. I still use TK for dueling and PVE against enraged rancors and Janta. For Nightsister elders, its the hammer

Thank you for any and all answers! Many of these questions are really to help you assess your own abilities in regard to the position--but the answers are very informative (I hope) for the rest of us, too!

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Hope we get more questions Id like you guys to find out how much I like being a TKM and how much I understand where the average TKA is coming from.

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1) How well do you understand the mechanics of the profession? For example, if someone asks you what the multiplier for a prone opponent in PvP is for UH3--do you at least have a rough idea of the answer off the top of your head?

I'm assuming you mean when knocked down? When prone you are able to deal 50% more damage to the prone target, however knockdown is a different effect and different code within the game itself, the modifier for KD used to be an extra 100% damage, however it is 150% damage increase as of now. (the 1.5x modifier that was stated previously

Unless of course you're intimidated, which reduces your damage...or your target is intimidated and stunned, which means you'll do more damage added in.

...or if your target is armored, or buffed...or on damage reduction food...then the modifier stays the same, it just seems much much lower.

2) What percentage of time do you spend engaging in PvP and PvE?

Easily 50/50 for me. I engage in a wide variety of PvE, going from money grinding, to NS Hunts, to cave crawls, high-end dungeons, the Corvette, DWB, Geo Caves...etc etc.

PvP is more challenging for a TKA. I wrote that PvP Guide not only to help everyone else, but it helped me a lot by writing it and gathering my ideas as I wrote it. I've learned a lot from PvP, and realize that the current state of PvP is in need of a major overhaul, it is currently dominated by mind damage, DOTs, and as of late Jedi. My hope for TKA is to return to a true respected and feared member of the PvP community, not just a KD/Dizzy character, but a character that is as diverse, and open to all forms of PvP combat. Buffed, unbuffed, armored, unarmored.

3) Do you do the high-end (Corvette and DWB)dungeons with any regularity?

Every sunday we do a DWB group, and every sunday we get closer and closer. We have our lines laid out, we know whom our tanks are, and aren't -- who our damage dealers our, our crafters, our medics...I've done the DWB so much we now lead other people down into it just to show them around, we go and get keys in advanced to prepare for the next encounter.

We're building an entire Mando suit for the City of Wrenpire to go on display, after that's done every person who goes weekly will also be given a piece, probably a helmet or chest piece. (depends on what they want)

4) What other professions do you have along with TKM?

I'm currently a TKM/MRifleman with Scout 1/0/4/0 and Medic 2/4/0/0. I enjoy being well rounded with ranged options, and melee options. The good levels of scout and medic make me a great harvester, and a great field medic, not as good as Doctors or CMs, but a great resort if a main healer is not there.

I use my TKM for everything, from money missions, to PvP. I use my rifleman skills in PvP if fighting a buffed, armored, mindbuffed foe, because the game mechanics currently have made a system where AP and damage to mind pool is major. However when I see a CM or Doctor, I switch to TKA to go to'em, KD, intimidate, dizzy, blind, and keep a Warcry on the CM. (nothing makes a CM more angry than being unable to throw posion)

Rifleman is a great ranged profession, and the perfect compliment to TKM, it gives you an ability to hunt Nightsisters at high-end levels (Elders) you can take part in Krayt/Kimo hunts, gives you many more options for the Corvette and DWB if you don't want to tank - and gives TKM a great tool to combat kiters.

Rifles also made me much better at TKA, I've learned plenty of new strategies from simply watching how I play rifleman, and have learned how to counter them pretty effectively in PvP.

TKM is my workhorse though, when I drop Rifles, I'll keep TKM. When I drop anything, I always keep TKM. It's my steady source, my main fighting potential, and the most fun I've ever had!

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