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TKA is a great profession. However, I owuld not say that it beats 2hand that easily. If you enjoy PVE (as it seems you do) you will miss the medium armor piercing as well as the bleed attacks. These are extremly useful when taking on high level critters.

You may also miss the swordsman COB. The TKA COB is nearly useless when using specials.

Just my thoughts. TKA is very effective against unarmored NPCs and unarmored critters.

Between the melee professions I have a hard time saying one is better than the other. We all just seem different.

Ive fought 2h masters, I can say if they don't land that mind bleed they'll probably lose... but it's far from a guarentee. They seem to get up from a dizzy+knockdown fairly consistent.

1h masters.. yikes.... I hate em

Pikeman.... what pikeman??

TKA may be the biggest dmg dealers, but we take that role with a few flaws... lack of AP being a big one. Lack of any worthwhile defenses another. But that's just life IMHO.

I recently heard a deep voice telling me I should master TK. Being a master 2-handed swordsman I figured I got a good deal. In a recent combat, when checking my 3-6k hits in the combat log I noted a TKM doing three Spitting Rawl 2.5k hits for every one of my hits. To say they got looting rights is an understatement!

Summary: TKM tops 2H for PvE without a doubt. Having played 2H for a few months I feel I can speak from experience.

But then it gets better. I have been a Master Doctor for a long time. I regularly buff up and find myself rarely dying. In fact, judicious use of 70% composite armour and 50% shield gens (gens used only when pushed) is enough to put off many PvE deaths. Then I rest for a minute or two and am back into the next critters.

And so I came to the TKA forum. Firstly, the correspondent and experienced TKA'ers here are doing a top-notch job. I am getting a really nice insight on the details of the profession - thanx!!!

But most importantly, I am coming to realize that when I master TK and combine it with being a Doctor I will be one potent individual. Here are some of the benefits:
- I can cure all poisons/diseases. I never have to come into a hospital to heal. A soloing adventure on Dath and Endor is a reality I live even with unarmed 3 and 4. All I need is the monthly trip to my 37.8 FP food and chem crafter and factory. Of course, a lapdance now and then are'nt a bad thing either

- I can buff my 6 action/health stats to 3k on a good day. And now I am to get Powerboost on top of that??? Holy MoG!!!

- I already have my mind at 1100 from my Doctoring days

- As a master Sword I can drop mind bleed 1 and 2, then switch to VKs.

- I use VKs, specialsand bezerk1 to deal with the movement bug. In fact, when I first started reading the forums I wondered why people had a problem with attacking and moving. If I use the lofty stun or blind 1 (*snicker* gotta love unarmed 4), or use Berzerk, I always finish off the running critters. (Am I just lucky here?)

- I am dealing with the grind to TKN by using VKs at 1.3 speed, and dropping stun/blind and bezerk. I get 200 dmg hits at unarmed 4 in rapid succession. If I take the VKs off, the speed of hits seem to take 3 times as long.

All in all, having done fencer, Swordsman but not pikeman (never tried) TKA is the best of those 3 hands down. Admittedly I can't stack ranged passive defenses (counterattack), but why would I want to when I can keep master doctor? I get 3k stats for the 6, and with Powerboost it looks like all stats is about get a bigger boost. (still salivating over that one)

Soon I will be able /force my way from incap, use my E stims to heal 3000 pts in one shot, still have my mind high, and fry you with a true KD/Dizzy combo that I never had with a sword and then wander off to enjoy places like Endor with only Unarmed 4 as my friend (admittedly I will be tKN this evening, but it sounds more dramatic that way

WOW. Notwithstanding, the idea of being able to meditate is very cool.

Oh, and I regularly read the combat log. Equipped with VKs I seem to getting alot of Counterattacks in my favour. My experience is that I am receiving the benefit of being a master 2h when I am using a TKA weapon. Thoughts anyone? I have not done any serious study but when I see multiple counterattacks every combat as unarmed 1-4 that has to be due to my 2handed skills, no?

Cheerz
Cayne