Teras Kasi Archive

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Atama wrote:
My template is:

Master TK, Master Brawler, 4440 Fencer, 0340 Pistoleer.

Master TK and Master Brawler simply gives you the best TK moves and unarmed bonuses, and Master Brawler in particular gives you that must-have Unarmed Lunge2.

4440 Fencer gives you all those famous Fencer defenses and skips the Finesse line, which pretty much only gives you accuracy with fencing weapons and blinding fencer strikes, both of which are useless to a TK.

Mastering the Stances and Grips line of Pistoleer gives you 4 very cool things. First off, you get Ranged Mitigation 2, which really helps against people with ranged weapons. Second, you get the best pistol attacks (including fan shot which does high damage in a cone attack!) for when you feel the need to use a gun. Third, you get some really good defenses (+40 vs blind/stun/dizzy, +50 vs knockdown!). Fourth, you get the Geonosian Blaster certification, letting you use (arguably) the best PvP pistol in the game.

You have 13 points left over, so I recommend getting Expert Pistol Marksmanship so you can actually hit something with that pistol.

When all is said and done, here are your defense bonuses:

Combat Equilibrium +55
Defense vs Blind +90
Defense vs Dizzy +85
Defense vs Intimidate +20
Defense vs Knockdown +120
Defense vs Posture Change +100
Defense vs Stun +55
Dodge +100
Melee Defense +136
Ranged Defense +121

A lightweight backpack and/or an attachment or two will let that ranged defense cap.

Anyways I think this is a great template for defense, makes you a powerhouse with unarmed attacks with master TK and brawler, and gives you a little ranged ability for variety. I'm enjoying it so far.

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That is an excellent template, but I would consider working in the dirty fighting line from smuggler for the ranged KD low blow. Nothing is better than stopping a kiting ranged profession than low blow. You also get last ditch which is a very powerful pistol attack with a geo pistol.

Here is the final breakdown for my recommended template.

Master Teras Kasi
Fencer 4,4,4,0
Pistoleer 3,4,4,0
Smuggler 0,0,4,0

Defense Bonuses

Combat Equilibrium +55
Defense vs Blind +90
Defense vs Dizzy +85
Defense vs Intimidate +20
Defense vs Knockdown +120
Defense vs Posture Change +100
Defense vs Stun +55
Dodge +125
Melee Defense +131
Ranged Defense +116

As you can see this template will give you capped dodge with very good ranged and melee defenses.

I would also consider dropping last ditch and another pistol skill in order to pick up slicing 1 in smuggler. This will allow you to slice terminal on bases and will make you very handy in the galactic cival war...

My template is:

Master TK, Master Brawler, 4440 Fencer, 0340 Pistoleer.

Master TK and Master Brawler simply gives you the best TK moves and unarmed bonuses, and Master Brawler in particular gives you that must-have Unarmed Lunge2.

4440 Fencer gives you all those famous Fencer defenses and skips the Finesse line, which pretty much only gives you accuracy with fencing weapons and blinding fencer strikes, both of which are useless to a TK.

Mastering the Stances and Grips line of Pistoleer gives you 4 very cool things. First off, you get Ranged Mitigation 2, which really helps against people with ranged weapons. Second, you get the best pistol attacks (including fan shot which does high damage in a cone attack!) for when you feel the need to use a gun. Third, you get some really good defenses (+40 vs blind/stun/dizzy, +50 vs knockdown!). Fourth, you get the Geonosian Blaster certification, letting you use (arguably) the best PvP pistol in the game.

You have 13 points left over, so I recommend getting Expert Pistol Marksmanship so you can actually hit something with that pistol.

When all is said and done, here are your defense bonuses:

Combat Equilibrium +55
Defense vs Blind +90
Defense vs Dizzy +85
Defense vs Intimidate +20
Defense vs Knockdown +120
Defense vs Posture Change +100
Defense vs Stun +55
Dodge +100
Melee Defense +136
Ranged Defense +121

A lightweight backpack and/or an attachment or two will let that ranged defense cap.

Anyways I think this is a great template for defense, makes you a powerhouse with unarmed attacks with master TK and brawler, and gives you a little ranged ability for variety. I'm enjoying it so far.

TKM, Commando Flame 4, Rifleman 3-0-0-4, Medic 0-0-4-0

All depends on you and what you want to do.

that being said--

doc does take alot of points but if you go 0-4-4-0 you can buff yourself just fine and have extra points.

Do get BE clothes (i like the hat) with +25 to injury wound treatment, a 110 med droid, and some bivoli (food) and buy your buff packs.

With my other points I usually have scout skills for either harvesting (hunting line) or terrain negotian (exploration I think).

thinking of using those points for some CM

I am very partial to pistoleers, sop thats a big factor in my template:

Master TKA

Master Pistoleer

Marksman 0/4/0/1 (lets you train for AP)

Brawler 4/4/0/0

Fencer 4/0/2/0

Smuggler 0/0/4/0 (The best pistoleer specials are in the smuggler tree)

What this nets you is:

+55 vs dizzy

+70 vs knockdown

+10 vs Intimidate (lol, doesn't hurt right?)

+55 vs stun

+60 vs blind

+50 vs posture change

+125 in dodge (only works with pistol equiped) (Capped)

+176 Melee Defense (Capped)

+123 Ranged defense (Can be capped very easily with a military BP or skilltape, or Aaukan ring)

Ranged Mitigation 3

Melee Mitagation 3

+All the things you love about being TKA master

Very defensive and not too shabby offensive.