Teras Kasi Archive

('cause this one's gonna get flamed)

If you think the rest of us are going to feel sorry for you when your profession gets cracked upside the head with the nerf bat, guess again.

Let's analyze the common excuse TKs use to justify their profession's strengths, shall we?

"I GET OWNED BY RANGED PROFESSIONS!"

Suck it the hell up - I'm sick of hearing this sh*tty excuse. The SP cost of TKM is so low you could Master Commando at the same **edit** time and still have enough left over for Novice Medic and Diagnostics I. Of course, I understand it's hard to master commando when so many TKMs are Master CHes at the same time!

Additionally, you have an attack range of 5-15m. Think about that for a second. For those of you who can't do the goddamned math, that's a 16.4 foot REACH you have. Kickboxers have only the length of their arms and legs. And with lunge, you get a 15m ranged attack that can make us kneel so you can get to use your precious KD/DIZZY! That's 49.21 feet, done with just the push of a button! WOW! I'm sure Olympic long jumpers would LOVE to have that since none of them have even broken 30 feet yet IRL!

Additionally, I'm a Master CM right now as well (holo profession I'm hanging onto to max Medical xp for). I have a combo on me called my "Mindscrewer" combo which diseases not only mind, but the two substats of mind, focus and willpower (the latter two being area diseases so a targets "buddies" get a taste too). I hit a Master TK with it tonight and it gets meditated away in less than a minute. Not even DOCTORS can cure my combo that goddamned fast it's so virulent.

So guess what, guys? I'm not going to campaign to get you nerfed, I'm gonna do something much, much worse. I'm going to BECOME a KD-spamming TKM in addition to a smuggler and pistoleer (all masteries, since I don't believe in dabbling). I'm going to then proceed to gay the hell out of your prized profession spamming every controversial attack on every non-TKM in the game that I meet in battle or in duels, and have THEM come on here to b*tch and moan to get your profession properly "balanced," as the Devs put it. Besides, I'm only ONE person, so it'd be oh so much more damaging to get more and more people to campaign to get you nerfed FOR me, whilst I have the precious "I Win, You Lose" button.

Besides, an "I Win, You Lose" button sounds pretty sweet! And since I'll have no attachments or love for the profession, I won't mind when it gets screwed over! I'll just try something else!

And no, I'm not bitter, I'll be ONE of you soon! Hopefully not for TOO long, though - better start thinking of a new profession, guys, or trade your Swoops in for Chocobos.

Toodles!

Woo - that was my 150th post, too!

wow you trolled your own post nice one NEWB!!

Men's long jump record:

"The men's long jump record is held by Mike Powell (USA), who jumped a distance of 8.95 m (29 ft 4.5 in) on August 30, 1991, at the World Championships in Tokyo, Japan."

Must be the reduced GRAVITY on SW planets, yeah!

Lol, want a clue?

anyway may the great sinderflap spit on you while the thousands of TKA's pummle you into canceling.

No seriously, you should really play the profession then decide.

also understand its not ONE profession that beats you to a pulp.. its the combining of the many that win in the end.

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Drakforge wrote:

Lol, want a clue?

anyway may the great sinderflap spit on you while the thousands of TKA's pummle you into canceling.

No seriously, you should really play the profession then decide.

also understand its not ONE profession that beats you to a pulp.. its the combining of the many that win in the end.

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I INTEND on playing the profession, if you had read the whole post you'd have seen that!

See, I wouldn't have that much of a problem with TKM if you all actually varied your attacks (same goes for BHes with their overspammed attacks).

And I don't intend on cancelling anytime soon, besides, I'll have the "I Win" button soon!

BTW, it's "pummel," and it wouldn't shock me if there ARE thousands of TKMs. Being able to solo entire lairs of enraged rancors and FS NPCs would sure be a positive draw! Even some TKMs are saying they're too powerful, hence the now-famous "Nerf Teras Kasi Please" screenshot.

***also understand its not ONE profession that beats you to a pulp.. its the combining of the many that win in the end.***

And I MENTIONED the variety TKM can achieve! WOW! In addition to being able to meditate poisons, disease, and wounds away with no medical experience (not even with a surgical droid!), you could master an elite ranged profession and NEARLY master another! For sh*ts and grins I decided to plug it in, and you could be a Master TK, Master Rifleman, and a 3341 Pistoleer. Or if Bodyshot 3 doesn't do it for ya, go 1334 for another precious KD and 40 more melee defense points! Not to mention being able to get Master Commando and 0100 Medic to not only have the most powerful ranged attacks in the game with the consumable heavy weapons, but also have an uncurable dual-stackable DOT! God, I'm sure other professions wish they could stack that many defenses along with the much mentioned "I Win" button. Now I know why Doctors and BHes are always so bitter. :/

You know, even if my becoming a KD-spammer makes MORE people become TKMs I accomplish what I set out to do - if a large percentage of all players take on TKM the Devs will be FORCED to do something about it to balance it out and get people into other professions.

So I win even if I lose. CH got it last time, it's your turn next.

Every one is overpowered when you always get your ass kicked. KD/dizzy is overpowered but TKA isnt the only professions that gets that. It shouldnt be allowed in PvP and it makes any npc humanoid a joke.

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Xx_Predator_xX wrote:
Every one is overpowered when you always get your ass kicked. KD/dizzy is overpowered but TKA isnt the only professions that gets that. It shouldnt be allowed in PvP and it makes any npc humanoid a joke.

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Au contraire, mon ami. You won't find a post by me complaining about being killed by a Rifleman/CM, BH, or pretty much any other combat profession.

Really the only beef I have with CM (being one, I can analyze this pretty well) is that somehow their diseases and poisons don't infect themselves or their teammates in PvP situations like true chemical and bioweapons would. If they themselves can't CURE them, it's sure enough that they aren't IMMUNE to them.

As for the ranged professions, the only one I really have a problem with is Commando. FTs don't have 64m ranges in real life. Give the FT a more realistic 20m max firing distance and beef up or replace the Heavy Acid Rifle with something more "Commandoish."

Let's break it down, shall we?

Riflemen kicking my ass? Considering I've known a few real life snipers from SWAT teams and the Marines, I don't really have a problem with them. Being able to use rifles like machine guns and having the most defenses of ALL ranged professions ticks me off a little, but Riflemen can be taken down if properly engaged.

Pistoleers? Personally I think all WE need is more ranged defense and fixed specials. +5 Ranged at Master doth not a balance make.

Carbineers? I don't think I've ever been killed by one so I can't comment.

Smugglers who aren't pistoleers miss with their specials half the time due to +50 accuracy...

BHes. If I get my ass housed by a Master BH, I'll stomach that. But when I look back in the combat window and see "XYZ uses Eye Shot on you for (random) points of damage!" about twenty times or more, THEN I lose respect. Other than that, BHes need some respect for being the most costly profession SP-wise but statistically the weakest defense-wise.

Swordsmen, Fencers, Pikemen. If anything, THESE are the guys who should be campaigning to get you guys nerfed. It's like the Devs just decided to put all the crap that was supposed to be spread out over ALL of the melee professions into TK and called it a day.

So when you get down to it, I don't really care about getting killed by any other profession but Teras Kasi, because you guys are the ultimate one-trick-ponies. Even CH doesn't tick me off so much anymore since I can solo most creatures one-on-one, since Pistoleer is so decent in PvE.

I've been working at TKA for a while now, and I enjoy the combat ability I get with it, but I still think I'm going to give it up, it's just too boring. As I said when I decided not to pursue my Holocron prof (Ranger, ugh) "This is a game, it's supposed to be fun, and this [grinding trapping/scouting/survival] isn't fun."

I wonder how rifleman will be?

It would be pretty kickass if they stealth-nerfed it where TKs tried to use Melee KD 2 in PvP and a system message flashed across the screen simply saying:

"We didn't spend manhours coding other specials into the Teras Kasi profession for you to spam just one and win against everyone without +100 (or more) Def vs. KD. At least pay us SOME respect and try the other ones. Love, SOE."

That'd make my year.

Even if TK gets neutered I'm still going to master it. I don't powergrind, but since I'll have Unarmed IV I figure "what the hell."

You tell us to "suck it up" when it comes to ranged professions kiting us...Here's an idea, why don't you "suck it up" that Brawlers can do a lunge. You still have 49m more meters that you can shoot at us and we can't fight back.

Use tactics on us. You're a smuggler, soif we get a lunge in on you, use Panic Shot to give yourself time to stand up and burst run out of 15m range.

If we get too close to you, we are deadly, if you can stay at least 16m away from us, we can't even touch you.

So "suck it up" and try to learn how to stayaway from us.

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RVE wrote:

You tell us to "suck it up" when it comes to ranged professions kiting us...Here's an idea, why don't you "suck it up" that Brawlers can do a lunge. You still have 49m more meters that you can shoot at us and we can't fight back.

Use tactics on us. You're a smuggler, so if we get a lunge in on you, use Panic Shot to give yourself time to stand up and burst run out of 15m range.

If we get too close to you, we are deadly, if you can stay at least 16m away from us, we can't even touch you.

So "suck it up" and try to learn how to stay away from us.

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Uhhh...most of you DIE in the process of trying to get close enough to spam your precious Lunge + KD/Dizzy move. Most of you never even equip a ranged weapon when you're doing so. Even if you don't have novice marksman you can equip a Republic Blaster. I know I might be confused and move closer since you all also seem to be nothing but "Novice Entertainers" or "Novice Medics" (or another BS title you use to try to lure people into your killzone) shooting at me with a pistol and missing so many times. Why, I might even think you're a fresh NEWBIE and try to get closer to REALLY kick your ass in! I might even neglect to examine you to see if you truly ARE a newbie, not seeing the "...has mastered the Teras Kasi Profession" badge)!

But no, evil thinking like this has NEVER been used on me (even less chance of it now with mastery badges). You all just burst run towards me like a spiced-up aggro NPC trying to get close enough to use your "I win" button. No tactics, no strategy, just a "I think I can I think I can I think I can" mentality.

Then in the instances where you die, you come online and say that TK is SOOOOOOO unfair since ranged professions can kick your ass...whilst you have enough SP to Master one elite ranged profession (and get 3/4 of the way through a second, like 0444 Pistoleer) of your choosing or even a hybrid like Commando and STILL have enough for Medic 0100.

wow you sure do like to see yourself write don't you. i didn't even bother reading the thread since it is about 95% you rambling on and on