Marital Arts

Is this supposed to be a more RP set? The animations look kinda cool but so far the set for me (I'm 35lv) does absoult jank damage, no to mention the only aoe is that sweep thing which is only borderline ok.

I think this set need srs buffs whos with me

It was just buffed. What attacks do you have right now?

So far, I'm not.
And a lot of people, too I guess.

Martial Arts is a great set, and I really can't see why you are that disappointed with the damage. I made a MA/Regen Scrapper a long time ago and he was fun from level 1 and he is to this very day. With the i19 changes even more. There aren't any real useless powers and whats the deal with only one AoE? Martial Arts is single damage (which makes sense with the concept).

And for single damage, MA is pretty nice, hitting hard, being accurate and provides some nice little side effects.

And in my opinion the Dragons Tail is one of the better AoE, the damage isn't superior but I've never considered it to be. DT is best used as a kind of soft control (the Knockdown), mobs lying down can't attack. As the first attack or as the second in a mob (after Eagles Claw, if you enjoy seeing alot of "criticals" in the air^^)

But if you want to fight multiple targets at once, try the Chackie Chan way:
Trigger the tab-key.

dragon's tail is actually an awesome AOE

Knocks a lot of baddies over
Does reasonable damage

but the best part is it animates a lot faster than the other PBAOEs


MA may not be competitive AOE wise - but it is not because Dragon's tail is bad.

it is a lot harder on End than claws

Other than that its pretty much normal.

Well my lowest attack does no damage so I 1 slot it with a dmg SO and it does like 35-45. My storm kick is 2xdmg SO and 1xAcc SO, it says it does 130dmg but it actually does around 85. I think the Cobra attack got buffed because it does around the same as my Crane kick now (around 120), and my Dragon tail deals around 85 as well. My Eagle kick does the most but it has high recharge.

So on a that blue Leut I storm kick, thunder kick, cobra strike,crane kick and he still not dead (he I think had like 1 hp left because his bar was basiaclly gone) and I have to kill him with Eagle kick.

What enemy group that you fought caused the most trouble?

But anyway, its strange. The lowest attack should deal more damage even unslotted....

And your attack chain is a bit unfortunate. The eagle's claw as finisher? You know you waste a huge load of damage plus a high chance for a stun plus a additional (ridiculous hig) critchance for your next attack with using it this way?

Tunderkick could be skipped (especially since the cobra strike deals a huge load of damage and can be used for damage in first place.), its only use was for the mentioned last hp from a mob but your attacks recharges fast enough that you can easily spend a crane kick or a storm kick to do that.

And where's the crippling axe kick? Sure it animates pretty long (feeled, in fact the animationtime is even 0,07s shorter than for crane kick or cobra strike.) , but the damage is more than considerable. Take it, asap.^^
Oh and it does some neat little debuffs, too.

So.... try that and let us know if your experiences with MA improved.


I would do some tests in game, but its too late now (here in Europe, of course :P). But I'll see what I can do tomorrow.

this character that you describe is at least 32 and yet has only 3 slots in storm kick, and presumably the other attacks

With no end reducers

That is probably why the aforementioned problems took place.

You would have the same problems with any Scrapper slotted that way

Or Blaster, or any other AT you could mention

Seems like perhaps you should post your build and let people look at the whole character and how you're slotted -- maybe we can help.

Don't really have much to add, just wanted to mention that the misspelling of the thread title highly amused me.

Marital Arts indeed....

And its dreadfull Tier 9 Plate Throwing skill.

Yeah i have every attack except taunt and axe kick and slotted them.
I got 6 slots in crane kick (I slot with 4 force knock back IO to kick people further and get +10regen)
cobra stike (pretty cool after buff)
dragoon tail (I think is a waste since it still does no damage, and I only use for the KB)
Eagle claw (my only good attack)
The rest I have 1 slot in thunder kick and 3 in storm kick (2 dmg 1acc). I also have boxing wtih a ACC SO so I can get tough.

And yes I'm usiing Focus Chi which is basically build up. I do decent dmg then that's about it.

Am I supposed to slot end reducers in my attacks? On my SS brute I kill so fast I don't even need them and I though scraps were more dps than them.

I usually start off the chain with Eagles Claw since it's recharge is longer than the others, I wouldn't save it for the last attack. Once you spam through your other attacks, then hopefully Eagle's Claw has had enough time to recharge back and you can maybe finish with it. I would slot Crane Kick w/ a damage set, not a knock back set- I don't think it's worth capitalizing on the KB or the +Regen from the proc.

Post your build so maybe we can help. I've levelled up 4 Martial Arts toons to 50 (2 MA/SR scraps, MA/WP scrap, and MA/Nin stalker), I've rarely had a problem with them and I've had loads of fun levelling them up.

This post very much makes me want to call the troll busters.

I farm with my MA scrappers (I have four at level 50). Not the fastest farmers of course, but I can assure you that killing even-con and even +2 minions in one hit happens routinely. Lts as well if I get a lucky crit.