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Thread: New to TKM since CU
What kind of SEAs should I look for? Any good foods/drinks that will last a while and not cost a lot?
One thing I wanted to do was make a macro to start off combat, right now I'm using
/follow;
/armorbreak; (or breakarmor, I forget which right now)
/comboattack;
but I'm not sure it's working correctly, I'm not getting the =armor break= system message, or the comboattack new animation. Do I need to put in some pauses or something? How about a /legsweep after the follow to knock them down, then armorbreak, then combo.
Welcome to the ranks of the, in your case, Teras Kasi Masters. I'll just quote your post and add the information I can supply in.
Br-10n wrote:
OK, I just used to CU respec to go from a CL1 Pure Crafter to a CL54 Master TKA/Master Shipwright. Are there any hints & tips for n00b masters?
What kind of SEAs should I look for? Any good foods/drinks that will last a while and not cost a lot? On SEA's I'm not even sure which ones actually work right now, hopefully someone else here can enlighten both of us on that subject. As far as the food/drinks go I'll have to defer to someone else on that but I will say that I don't use either one and have yet to miss them, same with spices. I do recommend however getting at least a factory crate or two of whatever stim you can use that's closest to your combat level and pull one out and keep it on your hotbar for emergencies. Oh which reminds me actually, Ruby Bliel is a drink to get, made by an Artisan with Domestic Arts 3, it reduces the reuse time on stims by 50%, i.e. 30 seconds for the next stim used after you take it, lasts an average of 20 minutes but basically has 1 "charge" that can gets used during that time when you use a stim.
One thing I wanted to do was make a macro to start off combat, right now I'm using
/follow;
/armorbreak; (or breakarmor, I forget which right now)
/comboattack;
but I'm not sure it's working correctly, I'm not getting the =armor break= system message, or the comboattack new animation. Do I need to put in some pauses or something? How about a /legsweep after the follow to knock them down, then armorbreak, then combo. I'd recommend doing armor break, then legsweep, then combo for the fact that it gets you doing extra damage sooner but of course it's whatever seems to work best for you, some people don't have that much luck with getting armor break to hit. Though what I'd really recommend is to not even use a macro for that as it's too easy for lag to mess it up and potentially get you in trouble during the battle.
Message Edited by Ronaj on 06-17-2005 12:37 AM
Message Edited by Ronaj on 06-17-2005 07:59 AM
If you have the skill pts left over, I strongly suggest getting advanced armor break from 0030 swords. Its a lot more accurate, decreases armor rating even more and also lasts about 30 secs I think, possibly longer. You also get headhit at novice swordsman which is very close to adv combo dmg wise.
I also recommend using adv. dizzy attack as the opening move. It lowers defense and accuracy of the target, resulting in less dmg, and a much higher chance to land your armor break. I always follow up dizzy with armor break, then KD. KD doesnt last very long in the CU so you'd want to use your most powerful attack right after leg sweep. Its much better to already have the dizzy/armorbreak on your target when he goes down, so you can strictly concentrate on dmg when he is.
If you get an adrenaline buff, and have some good action buffs, you could use melee hit and melee strike in succession over and over. This combination provides decent dmg, because you can use the two really fast together. Be careful though, if your action isnt buffed up melee strike will drain it pretty quickly.
Other than that, Ronaj had some great tips and should get you started.
What other professions do you plan on using alongisde TKM?
DATA-LUX wrote:
Does the _1 and _2 now work? I always got the message no such command
Not sure to be honest, I always just hit the button on my hotbar, give me a minute to check on one of my TKM's and I'll let you know.
Ok, just tested, nope it doesn't work, not sure which other ones don't work either. Guess I'll /bug that real quick while I'm logged in. When you hold the mouse over the attack in your list of attacks it shows /comboAttack_2 and it used to be that you actually had to have all that correct, capitilization etc, right in order for it to work but it has been quite some time since I've tried doing a combat attack like that so I apologize for initially giving wrong info, I've edited my first post to inaccuracies.
Message Edited by Ronaj on 06-17-2005 08:01 AM
) because since CU i use them in scripts without _1 and _2 )