Teras Kasi Archive
Thread: What makes TKM good at tanking?
Then again they also make tailors great tanks.
Atama wrote:
It's the buffs and armor.
Then again they also make tailors great tanks.
Amen to that...
/sarchasm on
oh and its gotta be our uber defensive acuity too! While centered I Dodge, CA and Block nightsisters, battledroids and and other high end content all the time, while tearing through them with my AP1 weapon.
/sarchasm off
Anyway, it is the unarmed toughness (only works against melee attacks) that make us good tanks, as well as melee damage mitigation 3 (which master fencers swords and pikes have as well).
Atama wrote:
It's the buffs and armor.
Then again they also make tailors great tanks.
In TK's case the buffs are less of a factor in my opinion but thats as I know I can tank DWB SBDs & even Gorax's unbuffed. 57-62% natural melee armour stacked with 80% Comp with mitigation thrown in does just meen so little damage. Throw in novice Medic & you can take more of a beating then you want to give Jar-Jar with a sledge hammer. Though I know Buffs are a huge factor in it as well just not the key factor like they are for other proffesions.
I acctuly find it sad that we can tank that well, even unbuffed, to be honnest. I so hope the CU/R/B will do something like stop armour stacking with toughness, or just anything acctuly to stop such things from beign so easy.
Mankind00 wrote:
Atama wrote:
It's the buffs and armor.
Then again they also make tailors great tanks.In TK's case the buffs are less of a factor in my opinion but thats as I know I can tank DWB SBDs & even Gorax's unbuffed. 57-62% natural melee armour stacked with 80% Comp with mitigation thrown in does just meen so little damage. Throw in novice Medic & you can take more of a beating then you want to give Jar-Jar with a sledge hammer. Though I know Buffs are a huge factor in it as well just not the key factor like they are for other proffesions.
I acctuly find it sad that we can tank that well, even unbuffed, to be honnest. I so hope the CU/R/B will do something like stop armour stacking with toughness, or just anything acctuly to stop such things from beign so easy.
I don't believe you tank the Gorax and SBD's unbuffed
Orim wrote:
I don't believe you tank the Gorax and SBD's unbuffed
Trust me it's true. Each Friday on FarStar theres the Friday Hunt which basicly involves a big group of mixed faction/guild players going on a hunt while drowning themselves in vast amounts of booze, normaly we end up on Endor starting at smugglers & we just go walking. Anyway the week before Christmas we went on a Gorax hunt, we agreed that insted of our normal no armour / no buffs we would do either armour or buffs, which ever the individual person prefered but not both. Anyway I went for my light kinetic armour. I only died once, that was when we managed to agro two & I was trying to drag one of the dead docs to safty. We all died on that one. But many of the Gorax we killed I did most the tanking. I had to heal a fair bit & a dedicated healer kept picking my arse up off the floor when I was dizzy but I don't think I even incaped.
As for SBDs, the DWB ones are very easy to tank, they can go in to melee combat unarmed so do so little damage, one of our hunts was to just go kick in some Ewoks for the sake of it, anyway we ended up at the 0 0 Tree Village & someone draged an SBD in, I tanked while a commando just kept flaming it, it droped in no time. I deffinatly can't tank the Corvette ones though, they just cut though me as they fight ranged. But as a TKM - Master Brawler with light kinetic armour you can tank most things unbuffed as long as you can heal.