Teras Kasi Archive
Thread: how does master tka fair against the other combat professions?
Outta Control
Is carbineer charge shot still broken so it's not affected by the KD timer (not being a carbineer, I don't know). If it isn't, I'd say you can own him even without TKA =).
But.. if your friend is using an LLC in PvP (ESPECIALLY against a TKA), I don't think he'll be much of a problem. Until the next big patch, toons wielding heavy weapons take 2.5x damage from melee attacks. Use your carbineer ranged KD (BHs have no KD defense), burst run over to him, dizzy and just spam UH3.. if you catch him still on the ground, with the mod for being on the ground plus that 2.5x melee damage.. ouch.
If your going against other melee professions you'll find a tough battle. It would seem that for the most part a tka can very possibly win against another melee, however it would seem the other melee professions are somewhat slanted in that they are fairly resistant to a tka, while a tka has no real defenses against them.
Aside from toughness, TKA have very little in terms of defense.
Against Ranged professions... you get sufficiently kited you lose, you get within the 3 - 10m killzone you will probably win.
A BH is one of the toughest opponents I've faced. I've owned plenty of them in battle.... but when it's been on my terms so to speak. Meaning they are distracted and don't see me till it's too late, or just let me get too close whatever the case may be.If they do see me at a good range, then they will in all likely hood land a ranged knockdown+dizzy, torso shot a few times, then just eyeshot till your dead. No LLC needed.
Concidering the unbelievable amount of points the Devs force the BHers to give up, they SHOULD be the strongest combat character. Whether they are or not I dont know. The most I have gone up against was last night actually: Commando, CM, CH, 3 other unnamed and a House Decorator? 
This group was initially scattered so the first two went down easy, then the rest got the message in the end I killed them all. The most was 3 on me, I had 2 unbuffed friends who were nereby, but the commando took them out easily.
My towns cloner was only 800m away so about 30 seconds after I finished off the last guy the first was back to finish me. I was on fire, poisoned, diseased, and blinded LOL.
I had much fun, even when an hour later there was a group of 10 Rebels in my town and someone fired off a shot and everything went to Hell fast. Managed to kill two that time before they took me down. Cloned, rebuffed and ran the 200m back to the battle sight, all Imperials dead. All Rebels looking at me, just picked one and actually killed him will 10 players plus there pets took me down.
**edit** I love being a Master Doc and only 2 certs from Master TKA!
Well i'll tell you what... Im not complaining, but last night i went on a PvP excursion. Very seldom do i ever do this due to the item decay factorbut i had a few drinks in me so i said "what the heck."
we ran out to bestine only to find that there was almost no one there. We thanran out of town to gather our thoughts and went back in....searched the cantina...nothing... shuttleport....nothing....everywhere we went we found no covert imps...
THEN all of a sudden we see one near the north entrance to the city.... He sees us and begins to run.... needless to say hes a commado so i decide theres no use in chasing him and getting burnt to death before i even begin this battle... but despite my judgement about 2 or 3 memebers of the group begin to chase him... The next thing we know were all split up... It was just me and another guy.
As we attempted to reform our group we saw him again. I charged him and he began to run. Icouldn't have run anymore that 20m and then i see 2 red dots on the screen... well i figured im either going to die running or at least trying to fight... before i could even get to the commado he had set me on fire and began to kite me.... At this point I had no idea where the guy that i was with had gone but all i knew was that i was on fire and i was being kited.
well needless to say, after about 15-20 seconds of trying to catch this commando he had flamed me to death......ZOOOOOM, back to the cloning tube.
After that ordeal i was done for the night due to my frustraions. Not that im going to stop PvP,kiting justgetsme so mad sometimesbecuase of that feeling of helplessness. Im sure i to will havemy day to shine.But i'll tell you one thing.... they better not even THINK about nerfing us becuase we are "overpowered"... I think there are plenty of professions that can take us out just fine withno problems if they know what they are doing.Commandos are definatly one of them,i really think that they are one of the strogest professions in PvP becuaseeven ifyou kill them, once theyget that flame off on you and your not near wateryou can kiss your butt good bye too.
Word of advice.... DONT CHASE PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE... your better off fighting in a small area rather than a wide open feild. Run and find an enclosed area where you target has no choice but to fight with in a closer distance(if thats even an option)...LOL
Currently I'm only a 4/4/3/3 TKA. I was 4/4/3/4 yesterday, until a bug ate my Master Precision striking. /sigh 1.5 million Unarmed exp to go to get it back...
That uses generic combat XP, not unarmed, so your road is a bit tougher.
Last night I was heading into the theed starport fearing all the overts around there. So I buy my ticket and run, but before I know it im targeted. I pop acouple of my spices/drinks and get to work. Being inside helps alot. Killed about 11 people Incapped about 4. Dusted off and headed toCoronet.