Teras Kasi Archive

Hey just checking out other melee boards. We are all very envious of you guys. Seems like the Devs pay 90% of their attention to the classes that most people are. Makes sense. Anyways I've noticed a lot of you posting that you recognize the fact that the other 3 melee classes need quite a bit more attention then you guys do and I just wanted to show my appreciation.

Yeah, we know your plight. TKA has definitely become the benchmark with which other melee professions should be balanced against. And even then we're still broken in PvP (i.e. the Target out of range blues). Hopefully the fencers, swordsman and pikemen will get some love. Just hope they don't make you heavier versions of us, be nice to have variety in the melee ranks.

Give it up for our Melee Brothers and Sisters!!!! Fist, sword, stick we are all one and the same!

I have GREAT respect for the Master Fencers especially. Even with the stun baton's fixed its still a pain. I STILL don't get why they're call fencers when onlyone weapon they useisa swords.

Pikeman.... ho boy. I know the swordman/pikeman do this tradeoff with swordman getting accuracy and pikeman getting damage. But the pikeman accuracy is just too low from what I hear. I have a feeling the pikemen would gladly lose some speed or damage for accuracy.

the pikemen acuracy is so bad, its simply not worth playing.

ofcourse they do have frontload dmg, and pared with another melee, they become a sizeable force, but 1vs1 they are just too much of a broken wheel.

swords are not bad at all, and compared to TKA have some clear advanges over TKA. the devistating mind shots, mind bleeds, and posture changes blow TKA out of the water, while TKA has shorter range and higher dmg per second ratios.

Mostly the reason why TKA is ahead of other melee professions is because of a line most TKAs consider broke.

That is meditation. although our abilities are retardly gimped atm, the ability to cure wounds and rather quickly is more then a plus, its somthing we have come to rely on.

I suspect however that some prerequsite for jedi is closly aligned with pike, fencing, swords, and if thats true, then those class's dont really need too much incerases, if they are going to be wielding the most powerfull weapons in the game, and have force abilities. On that note, i never hard of a jedi TKM have you?

Just thought I would make a correction...

Our posture changes are a joke. We have 5 posture lowering specials, 3 of them area. They were great BEFORE the posture timer. Now we basically lack a profession "special attack" definition. The only viable specials we have in PvP are Mindhit and Headhit. In PvE the master level area attack is okay if that is the situation you are in.

I dueled a TKM friend of mine (I am a master heavy swordsman) for about an hour and found out that TKMs are capable of dealing out more raw mind damage then we are with headhit3. Basically all we have is that mind bleed. If you get dizzy/knocked down about 50-75% of the time you are just finished. The only thing we can really do to a TKM is mind bleed and kite and hope we don't get knockdown/dizzied. TKAs also get a ton more defensive bonuses + meditation. No one thinks any other melee class should be nerfed just everyone needs to be vamped up against ranged users and balanced out amongst each other.

All of this was geared toward the comment of swordsman "blowing TKA out of the water"