Teras Kasi Archive

When I use my VK's, I hit very quickly for decent damage. However, when I use a special, it nukes my HAM bars. If I remove my VK's, I hit much slower, but when I use specials, my HAM bars aren't taking too much of a beating. My VK's are 1.6 secs, and without, I believe the normal attack is 3 secs (correct me if I'm wrong).

My question is, based on personal experiences, which way is better? Faster normal damage with VK's, or slower, higher damage attacks without VK's?

Phalx

Personally since reaching power 4 and TKM, I only use VK's against armoured targets (even then it varies depending on what they are).

If you must use specials with VK's (which can be suicidal) the best fix I found is

Use 'tatooine sunburn' this will boost your strength and quickness to high levels the specials will not use much ham. A doctors Buff on these stats will have same effect. If you get a doctors buff on health and action it will also allow you to 'special with VK's' longer.

For Mind you need to listen to a master musician to boost the focus and willpower stats, to reduce ham costs on mind.

Or use muon gold which will boost all 3 mind pools by 500 for 10 minutes, downside is the downer the then takes 500 from your mind pool base stats, so if low will incap you apparentlysince patch (I have not been incapped from muon gold myself so cannot confirm this).

If you haven't already, drag your VKs from your inventory to a slot on your hotkeys bar. Throw specials at the beginning of combat without VKs until two or three stick (Stun, Blind, Intimidate or whatever you like). Berserk until it sticks, then equip VKs using the hotkey.

If you need to reapply specials or throw heavies like Knockdown, unequip the VKs, throw the specials, equip VKs.

As an addition to Taigei's post, if you are wearing armor, make a macro to equip/unequip your armor.Once the mob isIntimidated, Blinded, orDizzy/KnockedOut thenyou put on your weapon and armor and watchit die.