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Another reason why we should be left alone.

I was pvping last night and beforehand I was dueling my friend who has the carbine and LLC line in BH and is close to master Carbineer.

With confusion shot, charge shot, and crippling shot, I, the master TKA had no chance against him in spite of my composite armor and all my defenses. One of his charge shots dealt me over 600 damage even after my armor took effect.

I also PVP'ed with a MBH and would have been killed if he hadn't moved up to me with his LLCin hand. He had confused and Fire KD'd me along with a healthy dose of eye shot to the point where I was getting fairly worried. However, he made the silly mistake of thinking I was done and shortly after he pulled out his LLC and moved in on me, I stood up, Unarmed KD 2'ed him and within seconds he was dead.

I killed him with relative ease because Dizzy/Knockdown is a powerful combination and because he was unbuffed.

With the proper tactic used, any TKM can be quickly disposed of in PVP.

So stop trying to say we should be nerfed.

Good day

-Damodred.

Damodred
1st Lieutenant
Axis Alliance, Imperial Guild
Dominion, Talus

Oops

Where I said "one of his charge shots dealt me over 600 damage...", charge shot should be changed to crippling shot.

*cough* Edit button *cough*

Damodred
1st Lieutenant
Axis Alliance, Imperial Guild
Dominion, Talus

Hi all, I like to start by saying I am not a TKA, I am a Master Pikeman. I do have serveral friends from work that play SWG and two of which are TKM.

With all the rumors flying around that TKA's will be nerfed, we decided to pull a little friendly duel test to see if we could figure out why people are complaining so much. We don't PVP, mainly becuase we simply do not enjoy it due to terrible lag etc, but we are not against it for those who want to.

My friend PB'ed, and I used some Buff B's, since that was the closest I could get to being even. (We are assuming of course that a TKA would PB before a battle). We started the duel. He of course hit me with UAKD2 and began to spam UAH3 like most TKA's. I got up after only a second of being down, Hit him with Polearm Spin 2 to get a dizzy, then hit my polearm 3 attack with a Vibro Lance. This brought him to about a quarter life, with me around the same. I then used Polearm AH 2 to get a bleed, then spammed Leg Hit 2 and let it ride.

The end result was that he did end up beating me but not by much. He did of course have more health but his action bar was almost mine. We repeated a couple duels, with me using my KD and such and came to the same conclusion.

1. Yes TKA's have great defense vs most attacks, but the are supposed to have them. I mean come on this is and MMORPG even if you don't roleplay, you are still assuming a life of the profession(s) you choose and it makes sense that a Master Martial Artist would hav learned to resist melee attacks.

2.) TKA's ARE NOT overpowered, they just have a broad range of attacks to draw on, unlike the other melee professions which are SPECIFIC to the HAM damage they do. So yes they may SEEM to do more damage just because they hit faster and can concentrate there attacks on one bar, but it in essence is the same as the other melee professions IF people would learn to use the attacks they have.

3.) Nerfing TKA will simply cause there to be another bandwagon jump on whatever the next powergamer finds to be the best resistant template and/or summarization of templates put together. Then it will cause those who were happy with their character to perhaps quit, making the commuinity less diverse and causing more unhappy people in the long run.

In conclusion, and I know this is beating a dead horse, but to those who visit this board and cry nerf WHY are you crying it? Does it make you mad that you got beat? I mean this is not a FPS where you can qw0nz0r every l33t d00d just because you have quick reflexes. Are you sad because you got decay? Thats being removed from PVP anyway next patch! Loss of faction? Farm 2 reb/imp soldiers you have your death penalty back.

I am fairly new to MMO's and Star Wars is my first. I very much enjoy it and I think the concept is outstanding, I just cannot understand why people are so whiny about getting beat. I mean strategy is part of every game. Its not like in rl the army just runs all its tanks into a minefield without surveying it, researching it, testing probabal (sp) outcomes. The same applys to this game. Research your character, find their strengths and form a strategy! If that doesn't work, try again. If you find something wrong, try to work with the community to get it fixed. This rant is basically based on the fact that I have alot of fun playing with my friends, who are long time MMO players. And like many others are very discouraged that their hard work may be turned back on them due to complainers, and I think thats wrong.

So please people, if you come here, ask around for some tips on perhaps how you might strenthen your PvP strategy, not just cry about getting beat and not being the "l33test d00d" on your sever.

Sorry for the rant

I hope all you TKA's are left alone and are still left loving the game like I do.

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