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Thread: TKA or Fencer with Master Docter???
if you go master TKA you can surrender some of your doc skills (unless you actually want to be a doctor and not just do it to self buff)
The meditation line will heal poision, disease and bleeding. If you still want master doc then either one would be fine. Fencer has the best defenses of any melee profession. The reason people think it's "dependant" on master brawler is Fencer has no knockdown save one hand lunge 2 given at master brawler. Knockdowns are only effective in PvP since they only work on Non creature NPC's and other players. If you're intention is to "pwn" in PvP then go TKA. If you just want to enjoy PvE then either one will work for you.
Also consider this.
TKA's do have AR1 VK's (and the fencers have that vibro blade but it kinda sucks) but fencers do stun damage with their stun baton. Also TKA's can do kinetic damage only.
Tradeoffs tradeoffs tradeoffs
don't knock the vibro blade... lol I live and die by my sliced VB... lol
i'm almost a master fencer/tka per the holo instrudtions...(man i'll hate losing that kind of d...)
so i feel i have some room to speak on this topic...
In pVe, it really honestly doesn't make a difference... in groups you'll be out damaged by tkm's, but not by much... and solo, your just as effective, just alittle slower...
PvP, which i don't do much of, is alost a toss up... tkm's are faster and stronger, but our main attack, the dizzy knockdown, is hard to land on a fencer with his great defence...
fencers have nice bleeds, blinds attacks, and great AoE attacks... that don't make up for not having a knockdown, but it lessens the gap...
They are both fairly evenly matched... the only thing tka has over fencer is meditation... and that's, unfornitualy, a HUGE bonses for tka... heheh so much so that even if i ever take another combat class over tka, i'll always keep my lvl 4 mediatie...
depends on your play style really... that fist, i HATED Fencer with a passion...(i just master TKA and got spoiled with it's near superpower right out of the box...)
fencer started out much solor than tka. (not the novice skills, the advanced skills... geting novice fince took 2 days... getiing novice tka took 2 weeks.. lol, but master tka took a month... so far, i'm almost a month and i'm only just now getting into my 3's... (2 2 3 3)
but as i get closer to master fencer... i'm seeing what it's capple of... and it's impressive... I don't hate it anymore... infact, i've been having alot of fun this past week... the fencing life is good, even if we only have one ap weapon... at least the ap weapon is fast and has low ham costs... the stun baton has a huge mind bite, and i personly don't like using it...
basicly i'm just rambling and giving you my first had expearince with both classes... where i in your shoes, i'd go tka without heasiation... but that's me. even with fencer starting to come into it's own, i still had more fun with TKA...
KingSnake.
I dont think you should Master Doctor unless like previously stated you want to be one, I would just buy my buff kits and go 0-3-4-0 or 0-4-3-0 or 0-4-4-0 depending on if you wanted to rez or better buffs. You can buy buffs in crates and probaly make up what you spent in a couple hours buffing folks in towns for 6k.
In pvp the only thing I cannot hit harder than a TK on is against a TK any other class I avg 800 to 1149 One hand hit 3's, I dont care what some idiots say I rarely hit for over 500 as a TK. I have screenshots showing this and have asked Numerous TK's and it all points to that fact. Fencer have higher damage against all but TK's in pvp, but TK's have more utility than a fencer.
Just a question. How did you get that much combat xp? Mine maxed out at 300k which would only be enough for 3 boxes in TK.