Teras Kasi Archive

Quick question on Defensive Acuity: does it only operate while one is fighting unarmed, or does it operate no matter what weapon is equipped?

Since we get no natural dodge, counterattack or block I would think it's just for unarmed.

Just like dodge is just for one hand, counterattack fortwo hand and block for polearms.

Currently it's broken in the fact that it's our COB mod and COB doesn't work for us.

Thanks for the reply.

I'm not entirely convinced that our COB is broken; it seems to me like I see alot more counterattacks and evades when I use COB, although I haven't done any in depth testing.

The question about defensive acuity came up because I am considering taking up the bleed and defense lines of fencer to supplement my TKA, and since the bleed line contains the mods for 1-handed COB, I was curious if our DA would substitute for the Fencer's dodge, since I'm not really interested in the line that confers the big dodge bonuses.

Ah well, I guess the improved state defenses, bleeds, and melee/ranged defenses are worth it, even our DA won't transfer over.

This actually came up in a recent thread... Here is what we put together...

Block only works when a blocking weapon is readied such as a staff or rifle. The blocks from staff and rifle both stack so you benifit from all the block with one of those weapons in hand. your block skill does NOT work if you are unarmed.

Defensive acuity stacks on top of block/dodge/counter attack only when you are unarmed.

So... Defensive acuity only works when you are unarmed to complement skills that work only when you are armed.

Conclusion - I am suprised this is not a driod engineering skill. Its useless...

Yep Yep Defensive acuity is the only of the only of the melee dodge/block/counter mods that dont stack with anything. So in a way its the most balanced even tho its broken hehe, well not sure but I do near the same evade, miss with as without it. Especially when I compare it to the fencer dodge I have when I cob with fencer and only 2 boxes in dodge its evade, evade, evade. So maybe it is working but def. not at the same lvls as the other melees.

I'm a master and I rarely bother with it.

Maybe I'll start messing around with it to see if it works.