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Was Teras Kasi the best thing about SWG?
BigBlackWook
Member Posts: 133
With all the uproar around SWG demise, all the major things that got ripped from the game, one aspect that slipped through the cracks was the loss of the Teras Kasi profession with the NGE. People talk about losing CH, but CH was nerfed long before that to the point of uselessness. TKM was a staple in SWG. Everyone had one. That class was a blast to play with. TKMs were the jedi of SWG long before any of those glow stick wielding fight clubbers came stumbling in.
My first class was BH, and I did pretty well in most pvp, except against TKMs. It was like shooting a brick wall with a water gun. Before the CH nerf you had TKM/Master CHs running around with Gurreks. That combo could take on twelve guys at a time.
Force of Will alone made that class absolutely badass. I can't remember how many hate tells I would get from coming back from an incapp and db'ing the seemingly victorious player dancing over my corpse. My TKM was also a master doc, and my guild would not do any sort of group hunt unless we brought him along, period. Think your rifleman/cm is the end all be all? Think again.
Then you had the stackers. A tkm/fencer/master brawler? Forget about it. Those guys were unstoppable.
TKMs could regen mind, and we also one of only four classes that could attack mind. Essential in any kind of pvp.
Just one more reason why SOE wil be remembered always as the purple butted baboons who screwed up Star Wars.
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C
Only problem with any Melee class was that blasters were underpowered. They overcorrected in the CU and they shot it all to hell in the nge.
I miss my Swordsman/Smuggler/CH
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Unfortunately I fall for the hologrind and ultimately gave up my TKM for the BH that I was suppose to grind out... didn't finished it.. got so bored of it.
Then I was gonna do TKM/Swordman/Carbineer before the CU hit, but didn't finished it. So after CU hits, I think I went TKM/Master Swordsman/Doc (or medic.. can't remember now)...
When NGE hits.... my TKM died... and all I had to show for it is the damn title of Teras Kasi Master that used.
I actually like TKM (which I had try to kept throughout the time I play SWG, except I gave up during the hologrind. But I got it back)
Man, I miss my TKM and my template (was gonna test a few others)
Current MMO: FFXIV:ARR
Past MMO: Way too many (P2P and F2P)
My Favorite combo was Swordsman / Ranger I could solo the Rancors with my area attack, and harvest tons of hide, bone or meat.
I want my Swordsman Back Please!!!!!
Ajax
There was one SWG template that was UBER and never nerfed, (pre NGE/CU)
Lancer/Carbineer with the rest in medic.
Im sure you guys remember that Carbine Lancer whooping EVERYBODY down.
Yeah that was me.
Sure i had to farm DoT lances for many hours a day
Not even a 4444 Jedi could mess with that template as long as you had some good lances.
Nobody could touch it 1 on 1, nobody could touch it period.
But that you could do that, if you wanted, was something that made SWG so special. No other game ever gave you this kind of freedom.
C
Never had a TKM. I loved 2H though and had it combined with smuggler, CH and a couple other professions during the precu days. Gave it up with the CU though...it was never the same after that hit.
Crafting (at least for a while) was my thing. I loved being a master artisan/master architect, and even chef for a while.
I think the reason that CH is the "iconic" victim of the NGE is that so many CHs were in it for the fun of having a rancor or gurreck trail behind you, not for the combat chops, which were zapped into near nothingness by the Great Nerf of CH in December 2003. For many hardcore CHs, it was never about being uber, it was about having those critters at your command, and of course the NGE did away with that entirely.
I had some TK in my template for a long time, and it was great fun. One of the classic imbalances of the preCU period was that blasters, which totally dominated the original trilogy, were underpowered. Then, of course, in typical SWG fashion, they were overpowered in the CU.
The SWG devs never used the nerf bat in moderation. They always over buffed or over nerfed.
CH, Jedi, Commando, Smuggler, BH, Scout, Doctor, Chef, BE...yeah, lots of SWG time invested.
Once a denizen of Ahazi
I made a thread about this a few weeks back. To paraphrase: If $OE wanted to compete with WoW they should have kept the melee professions. Now, bringing back CH/BE, seems like they still don't get what alot of vets want. No disrespect to CH/BE players but I think you guys are outnumbered and should have been brought back AFTER melee was reintroduced.
"Hurray, finally a game where I can fulfill my lifelong dream of taking emotionally dead women and finding the most financially viable means to exploit their bodies with the ultimate goal of making them Hugh Hefner's personal furniture."
But..but...they did have melee!
Glowsticks! Wonderful glowsticks! Be a tank with a 10k health pool heal!
CH, Jedi, Commando, Smuggler, BH, Scout, Doctor, Chef, BE...yeah, lots of SWG time invested.
Once a denizen of Ahazi
I also made millions of credits taking Jedi through the Knight trials by tracking Peko Albatrosses, Graul Marauders, Enraged Kimo's, etc.
I'm gonna get flamed....
A lot of what he praises is exactly what was wrong with Pre-CU. TKM's being God was absurd. they should've been the ultimate in melee classes, a skilled master being able to go toe to toe with a Jedi. Instead, they were being made into the uber class being able to stand up to both melee and ranged with little problem. TKM's should've been low on damage, and high on defenses. A true "tank" so to speak.
A TKM would've been fine I suppose if not for the wacked stacking system SOE had. Stackers didn't improve PvP. They ruined it. But the fault was not with them. The fault was with the over abundance of Jedi thanks to Pub 9, that made stacking essential to prevent PvP from becoming Jedi wars. The original plan for modifying stacking in the CURB was a very good one. Making stacking more realistic (instead of just taking the defensive trees in all professions) would've solved this problem right away.
I had in my posession a mind poison that ticked around 1.7k, and a mind disease that blacked any stat bar with one tick. with some rancor bile to give me a billion uses. I ONLY used that on stackers. And I always let them triple incap, just so I could say:
"You spent 500 hours number crunching the perfect template instead of enjoying the game, just to get triple incapped.
I honestly think people stopped enjoying the professions when they were trying to stack, instead just looking for the uber defenses.
Nah,TKA + Master Rifleman was a best solo temp and of course a little FD arm from Smuggler prof.=)Every know
The funny thing is, prior to the Great Nerf, player controlled meatshield pets were the tanks.
Because, they were high on defense (particularly those with high kinetic resists, like the midrange Greater Sludge Panthers and the high end Graul Maulers) and low on attack.
As a last box of pistols marksman, I outdamaged all my MCH pets. Pets were high defense, low damage.
The preCU melee classes, on the other hand, got both, particularly after they introduced mitigation in early 2004.
CH, Jedi, Commando, Smuggler, BH, Scout, Doctor, Chef, BE...yeah, lots of SWG time invested.
Once a denizen of Ahazi
TKM was a blast, no doubt. My first toon was a TKM and I loved going solo against anyone, npc or player alike. However, another profession that got taken away was my favorite.
Dueler. Fencer/Pistoleer hybrid if you remember had incredible defense and was the most fun I had playing SWG. I REALLY loved those hybrid professions.
I'm gonna get flamed....
A lot of what he praises is exactly what was wrong with Pre-CU. TKM's being God was absurd. they should've been the ultimate in melee classes, a skilled master being able to go toe to toe with a Jedi. Instead, they were being made into the uber class being able to stand up to both melee and ranged with little problem. TKM's should've been low on damage, and high on defenses. A true "tank" so to speak.
A TKM would've been fine I suppose if not for the wacked stacking system SOE had. Stackers didn't improve PvP. They ruined it. But the fault was not with them. The fault was with the over abundance of Jedi thanks to Pub 9, that made stacking essential to prevent PvP from becoming Jedi wars. The original plan for modifying stacking in the CURB was a very good one. Making stacking more realistic (instead of just taking the defensive trees in all professions) would've solved this problem right away.
I had in my posession a mind poison that ticked around 1.7k, and a mind disease that blacked any stat bar with one tick. with some rancor bile to give me a billion uses. I ONLY used that on stackers. And I always let them triple incap, just so I could say:
"You spent 500 hours number crunching the perfect template instead of enjoying the game, just to get triple incapped.
I honestly think people stopped enjoying the professions when they were trying to stack, instead just looking for the uber defenses.
No flame *coughs* lapdog of the oppressor *coughs*
Actually I think this post illustrates some serious points that drove what became the CU. You mentioned two key unbalances in swg, the defensive stacking and the dots. Make no mistake with my original post I wasn't defending stacking, I was just saying it was fun to play and hard to beat.
But the point is well taken, the population at that time was clamoring for the removal of stacking and the uber dots. The problem was, they couldn't leave it at that. Sony took everything out, everything that mattered, everything that was fun. And it stopped being a game. It became this wierd fragmented experience full of bad noise and false smiles. Who wants to play that?
One of the arguements the alternate view point is founded upon is how much the community had cried out for improvments. And I think that is what you are trying to get across here, but change for change's sake is never a good idea.
Anyway back on topic. Hijacking my own thread here. Who's got some more TKM stories? Here's one, it's my tkm/doc and his disease resists wailing the tar out of iceman's cm sonny corleone style.
I remember i didn't know what the whole tkm fuss was about when i first started, then I mastered it and was like...damn this is sick. Some of the most fun I had in SWG.
But what was really the most fun was Master Chef/Merchant and working forever to get a full chef suit with the max +food experimentation/assembly...then using that to mass produce bespin ports, Vasarian Brandy, and Tatooine Sunburns (< pwned). I still had crates of the sunburns left but I 'gave' the account to a friend and can't get it back...
the client base was what made the experience the most fun. which is why nge sucks. there are no players. if there were a large player base, i could still enjoy it.
tkm stories?
ooh, I loved my teras kasi / master doctor template...
beeing able to defeat jedis in 1on1's was a lot of fun, especially when they didnt understand how a non-jedi class could defeat a jedi, some of them even reported me for cheating and stuff like that lol
my secret:
I had an excellent katarn knuckler (damage sliced by a smuggler) and bacta jab enhancer and a few force sensitiv skills (force sensitiv unarmed defense)
and that bacta jab enhancer made it all,
it made it almost impossible to get me down, I was able to enhance my doctor heals and heal myself for much greater than the standard doctor heals every few seconds plus my skill tapes with +25 defense to unarmed combat which cost me all together 50 - 100 million credits, you can't imagine how much 50 million credits were back in those days
some guys even wanted to pay me real money for telling them my secret template but I never told them what my template/ secret was
I felt like god and people said that I walked arround like I had an "S" on my chest...
I will never forget those days
and thats exactly what makes us vets so angry when we read some NGE-fanbois talking about stuff they got no idea of, they dont know how much fun pre-cu was... simply eveything that used to be complex in this game has been taken away with the NGE.
"You must be either retarded or a fanboi..."
Fixed a bit, and QFE'd for truth.
Stackers never were a problem for me on any template.
Jedi vs stacker = use a one handed saber and attack the mind
Ranged vs stacker = kite the hell out of them
Of course, people thought that was too hard of thing to do and instead stood toe to toe with them (ranged vs melee duel retards).
The same people that loved their melee stacker templates are the same people that resulted in the NGE.
The above post is complete and total bull shit.
Katarn knucklers didn't come around until after CU (Rage of the Wookies IIRC).
Bacta Jab Enhancers didn't come around until after the CU
Ah, the fun days of SWG, where everyone would just create looping macros for combat... TKMs, that would knockdown, before targetting the mind pool... all you had to do was make sure your toon was 5m away from the target.
Fun.
Yet people have a go about the NGE, because you actually need to move your toon around, aim and shoot at people you want to kill, while selecting specials.
This is one BETA 2 player who is actually please they changed it and kudos for SOE / LA for having the balls to do so. Yes, they pissed off the community, but IMHO, without it, we wouldn't have had some of the great features we do now - the BM for example is the best type of Creature Handling system I've seen in any MMORPG and I've got a lot of experience of them, having starting playing UO in 1999 and most games since.