Is this a viable thing? I see a lot of people talking about TK blades, and that is fine and good. But can a character be built on using the ranged powers that TK has at their disposal? I am clearly a noob to this game btw.

It is more than viable, honestly. My main is ranged tk, and the build tears most of the game up on elite, solo. Dex/ego with empathic healing and some shields, daaaaaayum.

Thank you for your reply.

In my opinion, I don't know what others think, you definately want tk assault and tk lance, along with mental discipline.

Burst and Lance is really all I find myself needing attack-wise. Tap Burst builds stacks of Ego Leech like a champ and a fully charged Lance with full stacks will make some pretty big holes in stuff if it crits.

It's not bad to get assault I guess and I haven't checked but I guess you would need it before you get a chance to respec out of it, it's just not something I think you'd miss once you actually ditch it.

Yeah .. Burst and Lance are the main powers .. Maelstrom is however also nice for building up stacks fast.
Also a full charged burst otten one-shotted henchmen even on my invuln-char, so if you play offense
that should happen maybe most of the time. And lance often one-shotted villains if i had 5 stacks and
enough energy to start with that )

As far as aoe goes the range of TK Burst feels a bit lacking, but maybe it's just me. Also don't forget that TK Assault can turn into a small aoe attack with its advantage, and the chance for crit goes up as you gain stacks. Very nice power for clearing henchmen.

Yeah i also went with assault at the beginning, but its annoying since it gives not full damage to all targets
and so you have to select the next target after the first is dead and restart it .. and then again ...
The playing really started to be much more fun after i took Burst ;)

This =). My current is just Assault until you get 5 Leech, then Lance to return energy and just like that and enjoy the crit. =). Burst is good but i dont like the charge thing from it =__=

Non-blade TK is a damned BEAST if you build it right.