Teras Kasi Archive

Grettings Fellow TKMs,

I last played SWG over a year and a half ago. As much as I hated some of the things about this game I must admit that I missed it.

The first thing I noticed when I logged in was that as a TKM all of the old attacks I remember are not there anymore. While I was sitting there in a cantina trying to look at the abilities list I guess I got inspected by a stormtrooper and was caught carring "contraband" he attacked me. In the old days I would have mopped the floor with him but this was not the case at all. I had to perform the /sissy-girlie-runaway maneuver.

I would appreciate it if you would give me the best tips (or point me to the right forum posts) on relearning my chosen profession.

Thanks,

It doesn't take too long to get the feel for it. As was stated in the clicky we are TANKS. It's a pretty great role if you can get into it. It does mean that fighting with at least one or a few other people might be key, but that's pretty easy to come by these days. If you want to solo big mobs really fast, TK is not the right prof. But if you have any interest in tactics, being an extremely supportive group member then it's a lot of fun. The few main points to know IMO would be:

- center of being is your best friend in the world... make a macro (wait time is about 45 seconds) -> /pause 45

- taunt is very useful when trying to control the flow of the fight. In some cases you don't need it, but it can be fun to use anyway.

- spamming you biggest attack may drain your action, but a combo of melee hit and melee strike can do quite well and won't drain you.

- Katarn is the best weapon, find it on Kashyyk.

If you want to be truely useful to say a guild, or just a group taking out big mobs, you want to consider a second prof that will compliment TKA.

I was gone for a year and I really like the new system. Didn't take too much to get the hang of. I have been able to tank for guild mates against pretty large mobs, and find that if I am with a group and things start to get out of hand, I am always able to take control and set things straight, but grabbing agro, healing (cause I'm a doc) and tanking to give people time to heal. We're no Jedi, they are the top tanks, but in some cases, we can be a close second.

TAELAS

"When Sony and Lucas set out, we said, 'How can we do this and not make another EQ?' We didn't want it to be all about Luke, or combat, or lock our players into a class.So we created a system that would allow players to switch professions during the game, and there would be a lot of gameplay around making that change.If you want to go from architect to scout we've created a system to make that happen." - JULIO TORRES
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