Teras Kasi Archive

so help me god, if i see the word nerf one more time, i'm gonna start swingin fists

people, stop coming in here to **edit** about how "overpowered" friggin TKAs are

we're not that strong. so we have a couple of good attacks. all professions have thsir strengths and weeaknesses

if you're tired of getting beat down by TKAs, change to a profession that is good against TKAs. like rifleman.

we have dizzy/kd to take care of you ranged whiners from runnin out of our attack range. stop kiting us, maybe we'll stop kd/dizzying you sucks

if anybody has a problem with what i'm saying, come settle it in game. i have no problems with a fair fight.

bunch of whiners, just cause you get beat down by someone doesn't mean there's something wrong with them, maybe you just suck.

nerf-criers, go sit in the corner.

"my character just got tired of running and i gave up."

Hmm I'm a bit surprised why some people mention meditation as a problem. The line is only effective after the fight is over.. you can't meditate your wounds/disease whatever away as long as your fighting, so the only class which has a reason to dislike it are doc cause we don't need em to heal us.

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Cebus wrote:

You summed it up in your first paragraph you dopey **edit**. People don't like getting their asses kicked when they can't fight back, and that's what tka do right when a fight starts, kd2, because they can't fight any other way. You may say it's the upper hand, but beating someone when they can't fight back is having the only hand, coward. They don't like how everyone forgets who they are, and what they wanted to be to become a tka just because it's strong. Suddenly, you don't wear anything but a sungard and a skirt, because that's what you think looks ninjaish, to bad you look like a phoney piece of **edit**. Meditating every chance you get, you never miss a chance to remind someone that you're a tkm. Ever seen 2 tkm fight? I'd say 9 out of 10 times it's nothing but a race to kd the other person. Pathetic, takes no skill to win as a tka. You don't really have to be good to be the victor and that's why so many people want it. I've mastered tka 4 times, brawler and pikeman twice, and fencer and swordsman. Tka is the most powerfullofall of themand probably has more smack-talking 13 year-olds than any other profession.

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YOU NEED A **edit**ING MIDOL

I geuss your a rifleman and they repaired strafe2on you, lol .. anyways, you whine and **edit** about our knockdown, and yet pistoliers have it, and knockdowns not a win all anyhow, anyone with a dizzy hit can knock us down ... just learn how to play instead of cry here ! ...

more of the same. I understand why people would feel we are overpowered. And I believe everyone is entitled to their opinions. But I have to remind those that feel TK is overpowered, unfair etc etc. You MUST look at the big picture. The simple fact is TK IS NOT overpowered. In my opinion, TK is probably one of if not the best "working" profession. Our specials work as intended. We are masters of hand to hand combat. Ofcourse I will use KD and dizzy then pound your mind into oblivian if given the opportunity. Its how the profession is used. You keep us away and you have the advantage. We cant hit you if you are 20+m away yet you can hit us. You can still hit us up close.. anyway Im rambling..

Bottom line is this. People need to feel empowered and need to feel that their profession of choosing is a good one and that they can kick butt with it. Each profession has its strengths and weaknesses, but still today, many profession's specials arent really workin correctly. I would hate to see TK get weakened to "balance it with other professions" when in fact TK should be the model for the devs to use to get the broken professions fixed!

Concentrate on getting each profession working properly. Then let us fight it out. THEN you can look at the data and see where the inbalances are. You cannot effectively diagnose a problem if the equipment you are using doesnt work properly.. You shouldnt break a profession to bring it into line with a currently broken profession.

Post your profession's problems on the appropriate forum and stay after your Correspondant to get your concerns addressed. Keep on top of him/her to keep you informed etc.etc. Work within your profession to the kinks ironed out then we can talk balance.

If you really are sincere in wanting input about why people hate your profession I'll see if I can help.

SWG combat system is very poorly designed and we all know very imbalanced. Whenever an attempt is made to "Balance" the classes one or two classes always wind up on the top, right now that's TKAs. At one time it was CHers then it was BH then Combat Medics then Commandoes, next it maybe DE but who knows.

For now it's TKA that have the baton of power, and that makes you a hated class. If the power you have is simply because the other classes are more broken than yours, or you are overpowered makes no difference. I personally believe the former, but the source of hatred is only that you have power that the other classes do not for whatever reason.

I've heard some say TKA is not StarWarzy that may cause resentment as well. I think the classes that may resent you the most would be the other (broken) melee classes. In real life unarmed combatants should have little chance against equally skilled armed opponents. Range should be the greatest enemy to melee classes and it should be huge one. Swords, Pikes, Staffs in reality have a big advantage over unarmed or lightly armed (read short range) combatants. I say in reality but the real question is how do the Devs see reality, to my mind they watch too many cartoons.

There is an attempt to balance the combat system overall and there are many changes yet to come they say. Enjoy your time at the top TKA for surely it won't last. Right now your ranks are swollen with the power gamers that migrate to the current "most powerful". These guys are not well known to be great ambassadors for any profession. I think a large part of your poor PR can be attributed to them. Look for the ex-CH, ex-BH , ex-CM, ex-Commandoes in your ranks I bet there are quite a few.

this has been gone over so many times and usually it is the idiot with a pistol or rifle running around a place like Fort Tuskin without any armor or maybe bone armor and without buffs and wondering why he gets killed and I don't.

1: it looks cool

2: mostly we are buffed to the hilt so it doesn't look like we take damage

3: it looks cool

4: in Fort Tuskin, or anywhere I get shot alot, I wear 70% electric/energy/kinetic composite so I don't take much damage. I also wear bio-enhanced clothing. This appears to be uber.

5: it looks cool

6: I have played a TKM since July and know my profession, especially its weaknesses and play accordingly. To noobs and such this looks uber.

7: it looks cool

8: it is more fun to play than any other profession IMO. This creates envy.

9: and lastly it looks cool

Message Edited by 64Bit on 03-20-2004 03:12 PM

Message Edited by MagusZDark on 03-20-2004 03:05 PM