Teras Kasi Archive

Well, i finally hit TKA master. Joy for me. Now i'm working on creature handler since i can't call my pets anymore. (Fair nerf there).

So, i was looking and i see the love commando's are getting. So i'm thinking, do i stay TKA or do i drop that and go Commando? I must stay a CH since we can't tank anything worthwhile anyway. I quote:

"We see the TKA as both tanks and kinda monklike.

We also see them as part of the SW mythology, of course.

As far as the other question, because we already put accuracy penalties on them for firing while running, so it seemed like a double penalty, plus it's moderately difficult to do.

-Raph Koster, Creative Director - Halo"

A tank...and monk like? What is this a joke? What can we tank now that knockdown is completely useless. We can't dodge for **edit** and even with full comp armor you'll never tank anything that takes a group of people to kill. We're no better tanks as TKA master then we were as novice brawler. Same HAM, can have same armor if you want, and the bonuses don't make a difference. So since we're not tanks we're monks of the game. Joy...i'm a master monk.

Oh yes, they also see tka as part of the sw mythology. AKA "We just put them in because they exist in the sw universe. That's really it, we wont do anything with them, just put them in for show".

Ummm, i'm slightly above a novice Carbiner and was able to kite an ancient bull rancor without much problems. Nightsisters? Same thing, get them to switch to melee then switch to gun and run and shoot. It doesn't matter if i miss a shot or two every now and again, the fact that she cant come into melee range means it's over. So your not penalizing them much with the decreased accuracy. Leave the accuracy the SAME but lower the run speed while shooting. There's a compromise for you.

So, really, i don't see them fixing melee classes much....or at all. We'll never make better tanks then a 10k HAM pet, we'll never be able to stand and fight something that hits for 600 damage every 2 seconds since they never miss, and knockdown is pointless since using it once (and if you miss) and the monster hitting you once and you are d-e-a-d.

So, i'm a Teras Kasi Master...and i'll be deciding over the weekend if it's time to surrender all these skills and pump them into commando. I love tka, i have fun playing and roleplaying a tka...i'm a martial artist at heart...and it's what i want to play. But, if i'm having no fun playing it...then i might as well accept the fact that this game is a shooter rpg and forget the notion of melee D&D type classes and just either quit this game and wait for WoW or play something else like Anarchy Online again (Where melee and ranged WAS balanced at least) or...i keep playing this game but i play it the way it's meant to be played...with guns.

I'm leaning strongly towards playing a Master CH and a commando or a master commando and as much as possible in CH. Will wait and see if the Dev's do anything to fix us soon or i'll just realize this game isn't meant for melee fighters and play a ranged gun user as 99% of the population already is.

It may seem honorable to say "I have faith and will wait..."but remember, your paying monthly to play a game to have 'fun'. If you're not having fun, time to quit or play something else. You've heard what Holo said, put 2 and 2 together and play the game it's meant to be played. As a shooter rpg.

Righteous post!

I am sorry to say I do not have the patience you have though, I have had my fill of patches which "nerf" the ever loving **edit** out of whatever professions I choose to play. I am sick and tired of ranged classes being able to string together special move attacks while TKA chews up his ham bar with one or two, and because the mobs immediately whip out their most debilitating attack for whichever HAM bar is lowest like a shark who senses blood in the water.

I chose TKA because I liked getting up close and personal, sure when I first made my char he had some ranged skills I surrendered them all after watching another trandoshan go toe to toe with a sharnaff bull while his two buddies stayed back and fired on it from ranged, I knew then I wanted to be a TKA.

Those days are gone. Every patch removes abilities, this "new content" is a placebo and a joke, most of it doesnt work and the quests are not worth the reward. The real issues are class balancing and making the classes viable, those are all but forgotten.

I hope the game becomes what we all hoped it would be maybe I will come back in a year or so and see but until then Im outta here, its just not worth all this crap.