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I'm just curious and this isn't any sort of flame towards CH. I'm working on getting my last half of xp for Novice TKA. It seems like its taking me forever. I'm fighting Pekos (yellow con) to me on Naboo. I do well since I'm also a Novice Doctor(no buffs yet).

There is someone in my guild who is almost TKM..blew past me..and they use pets. Am I nerfing myself to not use a pet? Should I get CH to help me along? How many of you folks use them? I read alot about folks hunting harder planets but without a pet..I just dont see how they do it. Educate me folks. Have a great day.

If any class out there doesn't need CH, it's TKA. You need to get yourself some nice kinetic resist armor, keep the mob intimidated, and once you get to novice tka you'll just fly through the boxes until master. I've personally always thought TKA/CH combo was silly, but I want start arguing that here

*won't

Thanks. I was hoping I wouldn't have to rely on pets. Not that its a bad class but I just dont like having to bother with them.

I agree... wouldn't be doing MCH myself if it wasn't for that holo...

It depends on what you're after. If you want to fill in the skill boxes quickly, or hit master quickly, or make more money faster, then yes you want a pet. You can kill harder things for more money in less time with a pet tanking for you. Send in the pet, wait until he draws aggro, then kill 'em all.

If you're a serious role-player, though, who thinks you shouldn't wear armor or use vibro-knucks, then you probably don't want a pet.

You can get a non-CH pet, such as a rock beetle or a male roba (great pet, by the way), to see if it fits your playstyle. Your friendly neighborhood creature handler should set you up for a reasonable fee (if you're on Lowca, Setapa Hsu gets all my pet business and I highly recommend him to all and sundry).

I finished TKM back in the dark days before decent VKs and with no pets. It was an extremely tough grind. CH makes everything in this game a ton easier. I became a MCH after I was a TKM. I actually got bored of the game because it was so extremely easy after that.

To answer your question, if you want an easier grind get a pet.

The trick to soloing TKA without a CH pet is the buffs. You can get a full set of buffs from a master doctor for around 5k. Combine that with a buff from a musician (+500 willpower/focus), and you'll be ready to solo many things (as long as you are smart about it). The buffs will usually last about 2 hours, which is just enough time to get over to Fort Tusken and rack up a couple hundred thousand XP. Just keep your Stims and some Fishack Surprise (or Muon Gold) for emergencies.

You can easily do TKA without pets like many have stated. Just don't expect your char to be able to tank just like a graul mauler or something. Taking on 3 rancors is probably a dead TKA.

I'm just about to get Novice TKA myself, took about a month. I don't even have any med skills so it takes forever. You can do it without CH, just takes longer. But I feel it is more fun to do it on your own. Hey, people don't get black belt in Tae Kwon Do in two days. Keep up the good fight!

I did it without pets too. Don't care for them. Takes a little longer is all.

Getting to novice is the hard part of TK. After TK novice, it's all easy and fun. Hang in there!

Gwenevie Moonchaser
Master dancer / master TK

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Jux wrote:

I'm just curious and this isn't any sort of flame towards CH. I'm working on getting my last half of xp for Novice TKA. It seems like its taking me forever. I'm fighting Pekos (yellow con) to me on Naboo. I do well since I'm also a Novice Doctor(no buffs yet).

There is someone in my guild who is almost TKM..blew past me..and they use pets. Am I nerfing myself to not use a pet? Should I get CH to help me along? How many of you folks use them? I read alot about folks hunting harder planets but without a pet..I just dont see how they do it. Educate me folks. Have a great day.

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To use a pet or not use a pet, that is the question..... I, like many other people new to SWG fell into the way of the CH. I found that some professions lead themselves toward needing CH however TKA is not one of them. Personally, when I did my TKA (went to 0444), I did not use a pet. However, one aspect that greatly helped me was using bleeds or dot's. Having a ranged combat bleed helps you mow down those yellow mobs soo much faster. Once I got to TKA 0404, I could pretty much kill just as fast without a dot though. As far as hunting harder stuff, you really should get into the power and/or balance trees before you can start doing that too much. I originally chose balance for the unarmed toughness since it was complementing my commando skills, but i think most people say to take balance 1 (for KD) and then go up power 1-4.

I am currently TKA 1-2-4-2 with no Ch skills at all. My only pet is my lesser Bol mount, who is utterly useless in a fight.