Dancer Archive

Hi all, its valenia a former master dancer now a lowly novice dancer. Wondering how many ppl have left dancer because after you get master and see how broke you are and wonder why you are a master and no one cares, even demand you heal faster, you quit?

I myself am also a former Master Dancer. I didn't quit because of lack of money (I'm a Master IDer), I quit because there was no real use in keeping Dance trained. I was one of the first Master Dancers on my server, and I'll always look fondly on my memories of the "good ole days". Boredom set in and with not enough skill points to fully explore other professions - it had to go.
Dancing is fun at times but in my opinion not rewarding enough in comparison to some of the other professions in the game.

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vionerd wrote:
Hi all, its valenia a former master dancer now a lowly novice dancer. Wondering how many ppl have left dancer because after you get master and see how broke you are and wonder why you are a master and no one cares, even demand you heal faster, you quit?

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I am still a master dancer and with the people I travel with I see the need to be a dancer still. Although I am at the verge of dropping the Master status. I am training to be a ranger currently. I will retain my dancer healing status by keeping the healing wounds and fatigue 4 and just losing Tech and Knowledge.

You may want to keep the dance Knowledge. I did a quick check and it seems that the higher the dance level the quicker you heal.

Or at least the more healing exp you get.

I plan on doing more experimenting with this

I've spent the last several days battling with myself over surrendering Dancing altogether (up to and including Novice Entertainer) and going BE, or just surrending the few skill boxes I need to keep novice medic with, soon,Master CH.

I've pretty much decided to give BE a shot. I never dance in the cantinas anymore anyway, only for myself when I need a quick heal or just "want" to dance. I'm not getting enough value out of such a large skillpoint investment, to look at it critically.

Funny thing is, the hardest part aboutdeciding to giveup dancing is not being "beautiful" anymore. I will greatly miss Exotic and Lyrical. Greatly.

And I haven't a clue of what to do with my rather extensive wardrobe. I was thinking about opening a gallery.

I earned my dancing points and I'm keeping em. Dancing is in keeping with my character's Zeltron heritage. For that matter, I'm going to keep my pistoleer skills, but until things get better and the fighting classes learn to stop crying nerf on one another, Dancing's gonna be my profession. I do think I may take a month or so away from the game to come back and see if any beneficial changes have come about. But I will NOT surrender my Master Dancer skills. I have too much fun coming up with outfits to dance in and coming up with songs to sing while doing it.

-Rookery DeCarabas, The Zeltron Zabrak, GunDancer
Coronet, Corellia, Eclipse.

I was almost at master when I quit being a dancer. Infact I completely deleted my character, I really wish I hadn't now though...

Reasons I quit:

1. Dancing was becoming slow and dull.

2. If I went into a Cantina either I was the only Dancer there or the other 15 or so dancers were all AFK macro dancers grinding there way to the top. ( I really don't much mind the AFKers anymore, but it's lonely if theres no one to talk to while you dance)

3. I was a twi'lek and a dancer. I sucked at fighting and yet I was in the empire, and I was an alien. Result, pain in the **edit** to earn faction.

4. I rarely ever got thanked for my services, money was no issue, I did faction missions 75% of my game time, I always had plenty of cash, but you don't feel appreciated if no one ever thanks you.

5.I wanted to be a Squadleader, can't be that and be a Master Dancer.

Result: I deleted my dancer and started over. I'm not insanely wealthy, am a Novice rifleman and very close to my goals in scouting required to begin climbing the Squadleader tree, have two Dark Troopers, two Gualama's and a Storm Commando.

Reasons I wish I hadn't re-rolled my character:

1. Doing missions all day is boring as hell!

2. They're nerfing faction pets so that they'll no longer defend you from neutral NPCs. I do not need my dark troopers for PvP, infact i make it a point to STORE THEM when I'm going into a city because I don't want them killed in battle. I have my pets for my own defense from the ungodly strong dangers on my home planet (Rori), where my house and harvestors are. If not for my Dark Troopers I'd be dead alot more often then I am now. Once they're made where they won't defend you from animals that attack and Neutral NPC's that attack you I will have no use for them, and will probably run a suicide mission on moenia with them, get them and myself killed, and then resign from the empire, go neutral, and take up dancing again.

3. I never meet new people in game anymore because I'm constantly running missions.

4. Dancer was a much better profession for my RolePlay enjoyment

5.I miss being dark blue... Being human I look like every other person on my server, with the exception that my character is white with black hair, which is rarity for me to see.


In short; I would do ANYTHING to have back my beloved dancer now, and I hate myself for ever having deleted her. I have her old Exotic Leotard and Lekku wrap set up in a place of honor in my house with a cargo pocket named "Cirroco's Memorial" set at the feet.

The moral, unless you like hours of endless boredum, crappy PvP, and pointless killing of NPCs, NEVER, EVER, EVER give up your Dancing skills, and DEFINITELY don't completely delete your character.

(Apologies for posting this twice, but I thinkthis belongs here as well as in the other thread)

I'm a Master Dancer, but I'm finding it hard to dance anymore. I can get good conversation from my fellow dancers in Coronet, but tips are virtually nonexistent (and as we all know, missions are not reallyworth the effort). Then if I go elsewhere, 99% of players come into the cantina, sit down, and promptly go AFK. Tips are sometimes better in these places, but there's just no-one to talk to. Even if I try to talk to customers in these places, they are often curt and dismissive - I try to be helpful, but if I remind them of how to get best use from the cantina (many don't know), I often findsome folksare rude, saying "of course I know that, I'm not a noob!" or something similar - this makes metimid about helping others.I guessthe 'L33t DudeZ' would rather assume I'm patronizing them than admit that I might actually be trying to help people.

If I dance in Coronet, I can't make any money, and if I dance elsewhere I have to be prepared for hours of tedium and disrespectin order to make some cash. This just isn't fun anymore. I hate to give up my Master Dancer title, but almost any other profession seems to be more rewarding, both in terms of fun, respect, and money.

I have been tempted on many occasions to drop master dancer. All the people I got to Master dancer with, apart from about 2 or 3, have now compleatly given up on it due to the abuse, the lack of funds, and that it was no longer fun. The only reason I probally still have it, is it is fun to meet up with 1 or 2 of the old girls and dance in some cantina, doing band flourish

I have yet to leave master dancer, and the reasons are quite simple:

1) It took me three months of non-afk and non-macro dancing to earn it, and I'm definitely not giving it up now after all that work!

2) I moved away from the large cantinas early in my life (I now reside in Kaadara), so LAMErs and "l33t d00dz" are practically nonexistant. On top of that, I have two friends who are also master dancers, and we have a ball with matching outfits and bandflo's.

It's the interaction that keeps you in dancing, I think, no matter what. If you have bad experiences with fellow players, it seems you're a lot more likely to leave the profession - however, if you have many entertaining friends and good patrons, you're never going to leave! One of my aforementioned master dancer friends only picked it up for her guild, but ended up loving it so much that she went all the way to master!

I just released all of my novice skills yesterday.

I will probably be releasing all my novice entertainer skills in a week.

I loved dancing the first 6 weeks I played. after I hit master, all my friends had moved on to other things. i started spending less and less time in the cantina. I took up tailoring and have been working hard on that. But, now I don't know how much longer I will keep up with that. I have enjoyed being a part of the GCW and I have been working on getting more combat skills. So, that is why I finally had to release dance.

It's not like it is gone forever. I could always come back. But every time I would dance in the cantina, I would get frustrated. There is such a lack of discipline with so many of these dancers. So many are AFK, the others are either begging for tips or dancing in their undies. When you suggest to them that they stop behaving in that manor, they get very nasty to you, tell you to mind your business. One guy even kept sending me very nasty /tells which led me to report him.

I got tired of people finding me through search, begging me to come in the cantina to heal them, dropping what I was doing, going there, dancing and they leave without a thank you or tip. One guy even said "I would tip you but I am cheap." i was so insulted. Next day that same guy was in the cantina playing a slitherhorn begging for tips.

So, goodbye to my dancing career. I will always cherish the memories. I had some great times in the cantina. I met some great people. Now we all hunt together. I'm having more fun than every with this game now. I think that is what is important. Do whatever you have the most fun with.

I'm still Master dancer, but I might not be for much longer unless things change very drastically for the better.

The things I enjoy about being a dancer are:

- having fun with everyone in the cantina
- being able try out new dance/flourish combinations to put on a good act
- being 'useful' because I can heal mind wounds
- being able to heal my fellow PA members while I'm out on a hunt

I can do all of these things perfectly well without being a Master. [0444] would be perfectly acceptable. In fact I'd venture that dropping to say [0242] wouldn't make much of an impact on my game play.

I also enjoy being out and about hunting, and as it stands I'd get more benefit (in terms of what I can achieve and do in the game, which affects how much I enjoy playing) from putting the skill points elsewhere. Which is a shame, because I'm proud of having put the time in to get to Master Dancer.

i still dance in my orange tactical skinsuit and do some crazy poplock.

Fear the rodians.