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Thread: Newbie TKA Stat Migration Questions
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DeadlyWinter
Fri Jun 18, 2004 1:32 pm
#1
Hello all,
Well, for the most part I'm a new TKA and loving. I'm blazing through the trees but as now that I have Power IV and I'm getting some more high end styles, I'm running into issues.
I see posts here all the time about leveling TKA and good places to go hunting (Jinda caves, gurrecks, Huurtons, etc) and gurreck missions have been good to me, but when I go to caves buffed and with armor... I start having serious issues with my mind pool.
Currentlty I have my H/A stats at 900 and around the 450-500 area in the secondaries. Mind is at 800 and again in the 450-500 range on the secondaries (or right around there). Even when I pop a couple of +400 brandies and go for awhile using spin attack around a bunch of mobs, my mind just takes a real hit. If I have a dancer buff, it's all good... but those are really hard to get since the holo grind (at least on my server). I went through the Jinda cave with a Master Pistoleer and I'm glad he was there... because I would have ended up incapping myself a couple of times had I been trying to handle it alone.
How high should I migrate my mind and secondary stats? I mean... I can push it way over the top, but that means I'm required to be buffed anytime I go hunting or go anywhere in general where there's lots of aggro.
Is there a happy medium? What's the best way to do it? How do all you veteran TKAs handle this? Any input is very much appreciated. 
Cheers!
Jacyn
Jacyn
gladiatory2k
Fri Jun 18, 2004 2:19 pm
#2
I have my mind stats fully pumped since I usually get buffs. One thing that is expensive, but keeps me alive.....If I am about to go after something tough (black suns, Dark Jedi, Force crystal hunters) I take 2 shots of Brandy. This bumps all of your mind stats, as you know. Then I pop an ahrisa which has a 45 minute 403 stat bump to your focus. This helps your mindregen quickly. I also pop a canape which has a 702 stat bump.....once done, I have barely any effects from using unarmed 3.......that move is like sticking a faucet to your brain and opening up. Also, I can't emphasize enough the power of a musician/dancer buff. If you have the food buffs, med buffs, and entertainer buffs, no move you do will bleed your mind for at least 10 to 45 minutes. stomachs take about 45 minutes to clear so you can rinse lather repeat.
To Keep combat cheap, when you aren't fighting things that hit for high damage, just use a couple of shots of brandy and pop the canape in an emergency... Also, stick to the old unarmed stun and unarmed hit 2 to help you take down easy creatures. These two moves chain into each other (UA Stun>UA Hit 2) quite nicely with little mind hit. Also, when shopping for VK's check the mind costs and balance those against the damage output.
Macdon
Fri Jun 18, 2004 6:24 pm
#3
My mind stats are maxed out 1100/920/920 but I never run without buffs even weak ones, it is well worth getting your main Mind stat as high as you can afford for power boost for examle my health and action are 400 each but add my power boost which is 50% of you mind and poof my health and action are 950 respectable without buffs. So I would set the main mind stat to 1100 if you are human and as high as you can if another race and take from your main health and action pools, ifyou do it that way you can still have your regen ratesand in the end it is well worth the migration because thepowerboost buffsthe points you took from health and action to get it.
EremiticWolf
Sat Jun 19, 2004 1:49 pm
#4
Yeah my stats are almost the same.
My character is human:
Mind:1000
Focus:1000
willpower:1000
All other stats are 400.
I get buffs as soon as I log on, when I get ready to hunt I'll drink some brandy and power boost, and wear my composite armor. My other stats barely move no matter what I hunt. (Well I haven't tried hunting the Dragons on Tat by myself yet. I might be crazy, but not stupid. lol)
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