Teras Kasi Archive

Melee and Ranged mitigation will not stack.

I.E. if you dabble if you are melee and dabble in ranged they will not stack according to the patch notes.

Just making everyone aware if you have not read yet.

Thanks

Shazo

Can you point me in the direction of this info i cant seem to find it. Thanks

Are you sure they didn't mean if you dabble or master 2 prof with the same type of mitigation they will not stack? i.e. Master Pistoleer and Master Rifleman would give you ranged mitigation of 6, BUT they do not stack so you only end up with 3.

However, Master Pistoleer and Teras Kasi Master would give you melee mitigation of 3 and ranged mitigation of 3. And they are not suppose to stack?

Can we get a clarification on this?

Nyah Prentiss - TKM.MCH

Melee Damage Mit doesn't stack with Melee Damage Mit, but it does stack with Range Damage Mit 1, II or III. Just the highest in each branch is taken into account.

This post is completely misleading and incorrect.

just relaying what i read in the patch notes from the test center.

Sorry if I confused anyone, where I got the information from is on the test center patch notes. What I read is that the damage mitigation will not stack. Thunderheart did not quote exactly what would not stack. So I cannot clarify it for anyone. Maybe I have misread it. Just thought I would pass along what I read and where I read it at.

If I have misread it then I apologize for confusing anyone.

Thanks

Shazo

Right--it doesn't stack, but melee and ranged mitigation are independent. What this means is that a person can't get an enormous advantage by getting multiple mitigation skills of the same type, but a person *can* get both types of skills for a more "rounded" character by getting both types of professions. Which... makes a lot of sense, really. The most a person can get without mastering two elite professions is level 3 in one and level 2 in the other, which is to say, 60% mitigation in melee and 40% in ranged, or 60% in ranged and 40% in melee. Both of those are mastering one profession and getting at least three skill boxes in the other.

For a melee profession to get ranged mitigation 2: 15 skill points for novice marksman, 14 skill points to master one line, 6 skill points for novice advanced marksman, 12 skill points for three boxes, total 47 skill points spent dabbling for level 2. For level 1 (20%), you need to spend 40 skill points. For level 3, you need to master an elite ranged profession, for a total of 92 skill points "outside" your primary profession (although with a dual mastery, it's not really outside your profession any more...)

My real disagreement with this way of doing things is that you need to dabble so very much to get any mitigation. To go from 0 to 20%, 40 points, to go from 20% to 40%, 7 more points, to go from 40% to 60%, 45 more points. I don't think there's anybody who'll cross-train just to get level 1 mitigation when level 2 mitigation costs only seven more points. I'm not sure what would be the best way to change this, however. Moving basic defenses into the non-advanced professions seems to me like it might be reasonable, although that might make it *too* easy.