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I just started out as a tka and i save up and got some VK , but everyone i looked at had a high ham cost. Is this across the board for all VK.

Thanks

Thaide

This is one of the main issues that this board is trying to get the devs to change. Conventional wisdom is to hotkey your VKs and remove them immediately before executing a special move, re-equiping them immediately thereafter.

But if you take them off will your dmg still be as high ?

Agree . That ham cost kills. specially when you have to hit beserk 3 times in a row to get it working, and queing a bunch of special moves with the VK equipped, uh yeh watch the action bar drop.

If you take them off say when you hit beserk, you re equip them and your hitting like you hit with them before, nothing changes cept your cost for the special move is less without it being equipped.

I just got Novice TKA early this morning. I am wondering what is the best speed, damage, and HAM that people have seen on the VKs.

Alexyys - Tempest - Novice TKA (0-0-0-0) and Novice Creature Handler (0-0-0-0)

Please use the search feature at the bottom of your screen. This question and many others like it have been answered so many times, we're all blue in the face.

People asking repeat questions is inevitable, if you took the time to tell him to use the search feature you might as well have used it to help him out.

mines 2.1 speed with (don't quote me) 36-145 damage not to sure on the rest of the stats

sisko

VKs in the 2.2 - 2.0 speed range are common (unsliced). Damage usually hangs around 35-140 or so for good VK's. Those are VERY rounded numbers. HAM costs are similar to 45/55/35. Don't quote me on that but I think that's pretty close to average.

From my experience, you want to go with a fast knuckler (in the 1.5 sliced range) with a damage in the range of ~140 max. When you get a few levels in your Power line, find a pair of slower knucklers (2.2 sliced) with a high damage stat of around ~200. That will keep you at your speed cap while giving you better damage. 1.5 speed knucklers are a waste at higher Power levels.

My VK's were like this. From Power line 0 - 3, I used knucklers with 1.5 speed and 143 max damage. After I got Power 4, I used ones with 2.2 speed and 208 max damage. With Power 4 you will attack at the same speed with the slow VKs as you would the faster ones because of the cap.

Some people say they don't even use VK's after Power 4, which I have yet to experiment with, so I can't help you much there.

As for HAM costs, try to find knucklers with a cost of around 40 or so. That's your best bet. Anything higher will utterly kill you if you try to use certain specials with them.

I have knucklers maxing out at 215 ( Lokian Vibromotor + damageslice ). I assume yours are the same Orson ?

Thank you for your post and information. I see everyone point as I advance, the speed will go down on it's own (relatively) and the damage will increase. I agree I need to watch HAMs. I was burning through my own HAM without knowing about. After the first incap, I was better aware of how to fight.

Alexyys - Novice TKA and Creature Handler