Teras Kasi Archive

TKM here, no pets.

I was a MD/MCM for a time and as I climbed the TKA profession I utilized my CM Poisons as an aide to taking on the tougher critters.

I am now MD/TKM and what I've found that truly helped was the ability to buff myself.

If you can get to 0/1/1/0 in TKA, you can get the dizzy knockdown...then go work on NPC's. I suggest maurauders on Endor... from then on its 4-5k xp each time.

I used a mountain krevol until 0/1/1/0 , after that it didn't really make sense.. I'd use the pet to distract them, but that's about it.

Olvenskol said right when he said. It just makes leveling faster. I am a TKM and i did it with pets. It definately more of a challenge but i was so bored being a pistoleer/CH that I was goin to give the game up. Your mods you get with master Brawler/TK. Alow you to take on almost anything solo. I havent went up against anything I couldnt beat. Still havent fought a kimo or kryat.

If you want level fast as hell. Get Kd2 and hit fort Tusken. Make sure you have armor or itll be a short trip. Youll easily make 100k and hour there. And thats great for melee.

If you dont use pets, compensate by using COB, intimidate, stun, blind(works incredibly well with COB) and warcry.

Good luck and dont take the easy road.
Youll end up getting tired with the game.
Rush

took me 2 days to become a tka novice . pets help you alot. i just go to tattoine and hunt valarians, banthas, and other stuff till novice tka. so you should get a pet. it really helps you alot. get at least a greater sludge panther as a pet

oh yeah hunt mountain worrts in tattoine. i see alot of them at AH. gives 1k+ exp and pretty easy to kill.

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RaijinE wrote:

I'm just about to get Novice TKA myself, took about a month. I don't even have any med skills so it takes forever. You can do it without CH, just takes longer. But I feel it is more fun to do it on your own. Hey, people don't get black belt in Tae Kwon Do in two days. Keep up the good fight!

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You could get some med skills and later toss them out if you have enough points to spare.

Li-Se

I don't use pets. If I am going after large creatures I go with a group or use sonic pulse trap to dizzy thenknockdown. Not to knock CHs because they work hard also to move up in their profession, but I think pets are just way too powerful in this game. I get annoyed sometimes when I am in a large group and I can't see the target because three grauls are attacking it. Of course on the other hand, I like the three graul helping do some major damage. So it's the old double-edged sword thing.

Pets help alot with convenience factor. It's like having a full set of buffs whenever you want. I'd definitely recommend you get a little rock beetle to help your XP'ing. It's currently a non-CH pet, and I think you'll enjoy the company. If you want to fight without a pet, then obtain a full set of buffs (musician, dancer, and doctor) and a good set of 70% kinetic advanced ubese. Good luck to you.

Oh, I forgot food buffs . Breath of Heaven and Ryshcate are superb food buffs. If you can get several crates of these, you can use for those times when you can't get buffed. Poor chefs, sorry I left you out. I love your food!

No pets for me. Even though now i keep a cowardly gurreck in my data pad, on my way to TKA i did not use pets... I found that all my pet did was take away from the xp that i was earning (maybe if a had a rancor or somthing i would have been diffrent being that iwould have been able to pull larger mobs)... I think the best advice i can give you is to get yourself a VK, even though your not certified you will still hit much faster with it equiped.

I was a Master Pistoleer / Master Smuggler before I started messing around with TKA, and now Iuse itfor extra state defenses, the Dizzy/KD, and Powerboost. I never once used a pet, though I occasionally grouped with CH friends (and totally ignored the old 'send the pets in first' rule).

My advice for breaking into TKA without using pets:

• Use speed powerups on your VK. Buy them by the crate. I prefer ones that drop Action HAM.


• Get a good set of kinetic-resistant Ubese. Hold out for at least 65%, and then make sure you get it sliced to see if you can drop the encumbrance. Migrate your stats so you don't need food or spice to put the full suit on.


• Get Novice Pistoleer and stack Health Shot 1 and Health Shot 2 before closing in to fight.


• Keep good Stim Bs hotkeyed for when you get beat down. If you can, group with someone working their way up any sort of Medical profession. You'll be great practice for them and they'll keep you alive and kicking.


• Keep Muon Gold and Mind-enhancing food and drink hotkeyed for tough patches.


• Get Bioengineered clothes with Intimidate/Warcry mods to make the effects stick more often (this might require tradeoffs with armor, but landing either one will extend your life - landing both will severely cramp your enemy's style). Remember to use Intimidate/Warcry, too, especially if you're alone. Most people don't.


• [Smugglers Only: Use Feign Death when the going gets rough, especially after laying on two bleeds.]

There's a lot to remember, but if you follow that advice, you'll hit the ground running in TKA. Once you get the basic KD, things will fly along for you.

I have never been so happy as I was with my spat mount and me leveling on Dant. No stupid tanking pet, just me and the mobs. It was great, challanging and utterly more fun than sitting in the back shooting at whatever my pet was holding off.

btw: don't use comp armor for creature mobs, use high % ubese, i had 71% sliced for encumbrance so i could wear it all without buffing.