Teras Kasi Archive
Thread: TKA is going to be nerfed....
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(2) Powerboost. Powerboost is way too powerful because it allows a player to, for all intents and purposes, have a permanent HAM increase at ZERO cost. Ramp-up time is neglible. Ramp-down time is negligible. Once a powerboost runs out, a player just need to stop and meditate for a moment and he's back up and running again. If they're going to fix powerboost, it should work like spice. Allow a person to have unlimited powerboost, but make it have something like a ten minute downer where mind is cut in half.
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TKA's also have some of the highest HAM costs for specials.Practically no other class can say this (except maybe Carbineer, and even then it's localized to a few specials...) In fact, it's been argued that the only useful TKA is a buffed/boosted TKA. WIthout buffs and/or power boost, our damage output is significantly marginalized. Power boost doesn't make a TKA godlike, it simply brings them more 'in line' with the other professions. (I say more 'in line', because, as we all know, power boost has it's limitations too.)
Gee, I wish I was a pistoleer who could spam multiple specials all day long, with little or know HAM cost.
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Metherian - TKM - Starsider
Just read a few posts regarding powerboost and skipped the rest to comment on it.
Powerboost (for humans at least) can only buff a TKA 550 at most (assuming they have a 1100 mind pool), and they don't even buff the secondary stats (not complaining about this, trying to prove that PB isn't overpowered). One could argue that since every other normal elite profession has their own defensive moves (counterattack, block, and dodge), while we have broken ol' defense acuity, etc., that PB evens it out. That's not even close. A fencer using CoB can mutilate a PB'ed TKM 9 times out of 10, unless either the TKM can find a weak point (I've killed Fencers with low mind pools with my headhit), or kd/dizzy manages to stick, or the Fencer is too dumb to stand still when you warcry + intim. After seeing all these players going crazy with absurd stackind defensive mods, I quit my TKM (or at least put him on hold), and started BH (which is basically the TKA of ranged professions, in that it has horrible defense (even worse than TKA, it doesn't even have melee or ranged defense)and has to contend with other professions with insane D. mods). However, I don't think TKA needs to be fixed or anything. I just want everyone else's D mods to be adjusted (I know everyone is going to think I'm calling for a nerf.. in reality I am - what can I say? Something needs to be done when a Fencer can dodge 100+ attacks in a row*) I guess that's all I have to say. With the devs working on a new combat system, I'm sure it will all be handled. I just like TKA how it is right now - it's perfect, IMO. Mold everything else to be balanced around it ^_^.
*A popular post on the general board that is around some other boards as well, is of a fencer who was banned for 7 days by a CSR. The fencer was fighting some creatures and dodged 109 times in a row - the CSR thought he was hacking and banned him right away. The Fencer was just using CoB and had his dodge stacked due to Master pistoleer. The poor guy is still banned, but it serves him right for being lame and using stacked d like that (j/k).
Tongue wrote:
well seeing as a novice fencer who is 0/4/4/0 can beat over and over TKMs leads me to believe that perhaps it isn't the TK that is over powered.
Clue, just because one profession is stronger and the rest are your victims don't mean your not overpowered. I wish I could swing the nerf bat myself.
With the new patch Novice Force Mystics can wipe the floor with you hurling their lightning and choke moves. Every FS character is overpowered now and they are only Force Sensitive.A Teras Kasi Master is supposed to be able to stand toe to toe with a Jedi. "
Don't be a moron. Nothing stands toe to toe with a jedi master besides another jedi or a sith.