Teras Kasi Archive
Thread: Wondering if this has been brought up
I have absolutely NO problem with TKM being dominant PVPers, however i do have a problem with the ease of the profession. I am striving for MBH and had to master to skills to get there, and I am working on the Investigation XP which is taking along time. Now, my brother, decides he wants to go TK and i check the prerequisites(sp?) and im appauled that they only have to do unarmed???
He has already mastered it and my BH is coming slower than ever with droids. Now, with a profession thats harder to master and takes TONS of skill points, shouldnt we be better?
I dont mind getting owned by TK's as long as it takes them just as long and hard work to master as BH
/endrant
the requirements for bh are more to blame than teras kasi. i think its important that teras kasi is a dabbleable profession. the meditation line should be relatively available to all. this is one of the main reasons i dont think teras kasi is overpowered. swg is a skills based game, not class based, and this is an important distinction. unfortunately, the developers have never really gotten the correct mix for a balanced skill based game.
the real problem here is with bounty hunter, which requires 217 skill points to master, effectively making it a class. and for too little return i might add. bh would be the powerhouse its supposed to be if it only included an appropriate amount of defenses.
bh was the first profession i mastered, well, after marksman and scout i suppose. took me several months, with the investigation line being by far the most time consuming. but this was before player cities and vehicles. and more ram and a better graphics card. its a lot easier now.
on a side note, i never used to believe that the bh missions were really that much of a gift. in retrospect,theyare one of thebest thingsthis game has had to offer. its built in content for your profession. something almost all other combat classes lack. enjoy it while it lasts.
Just because you spend 217 point doesn’t mean you are the best.
With those 217 points come special bonuses.
Bounty Hunter is a very specified profession. They don’t craft they don’t tame pets they don’t take part in wars they don’t heal etc. They hunt bounties. They are not supposed to be able to do the same thing as a Rifleman or a Chef or a TKA.
If someone spends more points than you do, does that mean they should be better than you?
I think not.
As for the grind to TKA was the easiest thing I’ve ever done.
If you start out fresh, no money no nothing it will be hard but so will everything else be.
If you do have money just buy some vk’s some armor and get buffs.
SKoT9 wrote:
i never said it was easy, but you cannot honestly say its easier than BH, and i hope you are not
I'm not much of the pvp'er but if you're even decent pvp'er no tka will win you, stay out of range and shoot to death. You have master scout to back up the burst run speedand terrain negotiation. For the xp part yes BH is taking lot longer But you're mastering 3 professions not just one and investigation line is still a pain. Quite doable nowadays as I watched friend to do it.
And if you start to compare what tka can do and you can't, tka have ability to umm kill and meditate. You can kill, have jedi bounties, normal bh missions, master scout to hunt and earn creds with harvesting. tka fella of course can take master scout and other skills but if you compare prof vs. prof what they have to offer then BH clearly wins.
If I was HC pvp'er I'd definetly would not only be tka if at all least pistoleer/smuggler dirty fighting line to back up range, that just me.
its not that hard to see that it requires much more effort to master bounty hunter than teras kasi. ive done both, i should know. gaming style, time on task, and all that other stuff would affect the time it takes to master any profession, even two people trying to master the same prof. ultimately, time taken to master on an individual basis is irrelevant.
what is relevant is the number of skill boxes required to master a profession. it requires more skill points to become aNOVICE bh (including two masteries) than it does to MASTER teras kasi. this is a significant difference which demonstrates the obvious fact that mastering bounty hunter is more time consuming/harder than mastering teras kasi. oh, and then theres the investigation line. i probably mastered teras kasi in less time than i spent just waiting for droid updates and shuttles. that being said, i did enjoy the content end of bh quite a bit. i wish tk had more content.
SKoT9 wrote:
can anyone here honestly say they can master BH faster than TK? and for the scout/burst run thing, ummm TKs have MORE Thans enough SP left over to master TK and burst run right back... The Combat is not the hard part at all, but the investigation line seems like the slowest XP in the game to me