Teras Kasi Archive
Thread: Teras Kasi, and What the Art Means.
Greetings Fellow Teras Kasi,
I'm sure by now we've all read the responses to questions submitted by our correspondent. Some of have taken the answers lightly, and others have been sadened by the answers. However I feel I must remind you of something. To be a Teras Kasi is to be set apart from everyone else. No other profession in the game, (Save Jedi) is as unique as us. No other profession has the same history, or the same focus, or discipline as our art form. No other profession has the power in combat that we do. How many of us have stood fighting creatures in close combat with others, and had our friends and allies stop, and watched as we fought our opponenets, delivering devestating blows, for untold amounts of damage. How many of us have reached into the thousands with that damage? How many other classes can lay deep in meditation and in a period of two minutes heal several hundred, nay a thousand points of wounds? How many of the other melee can compare to us in close combat, how many other stand a chance, and how many others will be able to use their knockdown in close combat still even after the approaching nerf?
We've defiently been dealt some set backs along the way, and we've taken our few hits with the nerf bat, maybe more than some of the other classes. What does this mean for us. We've been told that in one and one fight, ranged against a melee, we will lose. Why is this not an easy concept to accept. Should we be able to dodge these blasts, we're not superhuman by any means, but we are above average, agreed. Our place is not one on one ina ranged duel, nay our place is grouped with comrades in large fights, in which there's large amount of chaos, and we can slowly pick off the ones that stop, and once they stop running, they become our prey. We've been given our place in this world. Our place is in large fights. In the front of the line during fights against npcs, taking the main amount of damage, and giving it back ten fold. This our place in the universe. We're meant to move about during large fights against players, moving here and there, and picking off the slow ones, or the ones that stop for the moment. This is where we thrive.
The very fact of the matter is, each time we've been dealt a blow by the so-called nerf bat, we've risen to the challenge, and we've still found ways to strive in our art. They still cry nerf the TKs, and nerf our skills, and we still come back stronger than ever in face of these nerfs. If you find yourself discouraged in these times, then stop, think back and remember what is to be Teras Kasi. It is strength, and it is power, and as long as we breathe, and as long as were still here, we will continue to be strong, and we will continue to be powerful, and seems not even the Devs can take that away from us, save from a total elimination of the class.
This is what it is to be Teras Kasi, and if you cannot accept this, if this isn't what you got into it for, then maybe its time to leave.
