Teras Kasi Archive

All the sudden there is an outbreak of TKA's on my server. Theres almost as many as there are Commandos. Its crazy. I started TKA cause I thought it was cool, effiecient, and not too many people were doing it. Well I was wrong. I should have been a Heavy Swordsman. -_-

I would think it has something to do with the upcoming changes that are in the "final" update which will make the TKA a definite melee bada$$. Also, a lot of people have been seeing powerboost in effect and several have specifically gone for TKA just to get Meditative 2 - 4 to get powerboost and/or the ability to heal wounds. Rather lame, if you ask me. It's just another one of those FOTM things, IMHO.

What "final" patch. I dont even know about this!

By the way, I'm from Moenia too.

well i was half way to the swordsman tree and wanted to dabble on the meditate tree, i ended up dropping sword for master tka. alot of people are like me, they want meditate and enjoy too much the profession to stop there.

Why? Because its such an easy melee proff compared to the rest.

It really shouldn't be that big of a surprise. Out of all 4 brawler trees. Only unarmed is required for smuggler and commando. Smugglers have no hand to hand abilities in thier profession, yet seeing as how they are already set for TKA. Why not? Pistoleer also makes sense for them. As a matter of fact. There are enough skill points to do that too! No big surprise.

Commando's tend to take TKA for the defenses seeing as how currently they are severely lacking in that area. Next up, you have the newly fixed power boost. TKA is the only melee prof that can gain even greater HAM pool numbers combined with doc. Not mention with the constant adding of damage to the profession. You will see more and more swordsman probably putting down their weapons and going unarmed. On my server, Starsider. I see alot of heavyswordsman, TKA's and the occasional pikeman. I rarely see fencers.

TKA is a favor of the month. It will probably get worse after the next patch too. Especially seeing as how said Commando/TKA combo is going to get nasty in terms of melee/ranged defense.

Well, I'm a Master Swordsman/Master Brawler...not enough skill points left to do anything worthwhile with a ranged or hybrid class. So I'm grinding the Meditate and Precision lines of TKA right now. I hope they keep the Defense Acuity bonuses in Precision....

Being one of Star Wars Galaxies original TK's I'll never give up TK and its no FOTM to me lol. My entire gameplay style revolves around TK and its not a 'easy' melee prof. Most solo stuff is gone and if youre gonna group being a Swordsman and landing one 3k hit will eb enough to get you significant XP So it seems easier to me.

On my server (Corbantis) I'm seeing a lot of Commandoes and Bountyhunters picking up the balance and precision line to enhance their defenses.

If a nerf comes I dont think its going to be theincreasing numbers of dedicated Teras Kasi that cause it, but rather the dabblers that use some of our skill blocks to enhance already powerful classes.

Interesting. I wonder how long afterTKAs getthat big buff patch that we will see alot of "Master vs Dabbler" threads on this board.

i agree, the boards are half filled with people asking us how to grind to tka novice or unarmed 4

I first decided to pick it up beacuse I got bored with my current professions(Chef and Pistoleer). So, I looked at the different melee and TKA seemed the best and a PA member helped me with the decision. And now, I'm going to Master Brawler and TKA and dabble in all the other melee for the defense bonuses, hopefully it'll come out a good decision... and I'm only a TKN and it already seems like I'll have a great time becoming a TKM

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