Dancer Archive

This is really upsetting me. I worked hard when the game first came out doing nothing but dancing and entertaining. I stood in cantinas, putting up with /licks from twits, smiling at everyone, pushing my way up the skill ladder -- and I thought that Dancing may have given me a new vision of MMRPGs. I found myself optimistic after so many years of fairies, elves, XP and camping that perhaps there could be another way to have fun online without selling out to The Sims.

Even knowing that Dancers need a few things still (an elite-elite class, more flourishes, better polish on the new ones they added, etc) I have been optimistic that if I hung onto my Master Dancer title long enough, things would get better. Even if it took a year or more, it had to get better.

I also thought that the solution for a Master Dancer, once the need to perform in public cantinas for XP was gone, was to find a nice quiet private cantina that had steady business, a nice crowd, and the ability to /kick unruly twits. I got my 5th such offer today, and as I've said before, 3 of those bombed. One has kind of worked out, but not on a consistent enough basis to go anywhere. The offer I got today is "future" - they haven't built their building yet. We'll see how busy they are. It's a tough business, and that has nothing to do with SOE's game design. I'm almost convinced it's going to take Player Cities to get private cantinas to really work at all.

So today I qualified for my last bar of scout skill I needed beforebecoming Creature Handler. I'm already a TK Novice and love 'working with my hands', with the goal of becoming a Teras Kasi Master. I've also added more medic skill and started working harder at crafting my own food for self-buffs. I'm getting too spread out here -- and the allure of Creature Handler is calling me. And I have 11 skill points left

I know the moment I surrender my hard-won Master Dancer title, I'm going to be very depressed and disappointed. It was my first love, and really still my main source of joy in this game. I don't know for sure what the point of this post was, except to cry a little and get some understanding - maybe even some advice from y'all. I want to stay a Dancer, but I'm not sure how I can stay a Dancer when there's nothing to Dance for. Tell me there is? Where is the hope?

Ok, here's some advice, DON'T go Teras Kasi. I'm a Teras Kasi master and i'm dropping it for commando when i get home. And if commando isn't fixed next patch i'm saying screw it and going Bounty Hunter. Teras Kasi are completely broken. Knockdown is a joke, pvp is a joke and mass pvp is even more of a joke. You'll hear people say "just use unarmed lunge, then get close and hit them". Please, as a carbiner right now i can just ranged knockdown and keep running and shooting with very little ham cost. Use tka knockdown 3 times and you incap yourself with the damage you take.

Don't go any melee class, that's my advice. It's the advice of a tka master...soon to be former master once i get home tonight. I myself am tired of waiting for fixes that will never come. If that's how you feel about dancer, drop it and do something else. I'm also a CH right now, very fun and a MUST if you want to solo. You could juggle CH with Carbiner and Medic. Good combo.

I know it's sad to drop things we've worked hard to get. But face it, if your not having fun anymore with it and the dev's really won't fix anything soon (or ever) regarding it, then drop it and try something else. It took me a long time to get Tka master and i'm sure you a long time to get master dancer. My first love will always be TKA, as will dancer for you...but...time to face facts for myself. I wont pay monthly to play a broken class. I want to have fun. If your having fun, stay dancer. If your not, time to change.

My character is a dancer first all otherthings aresecond. I too was a teras kasi artist/dancer... After the last publish though it became quite clear to me that Teras Kasi is not meant to be anything other than a filler profession. I am dropping it to take other skills.

"Ok, here's some advice, DON'T go Teras Kasi. I'm a Teras Kasi master and i'm dropping it for commando when i get home. "

You know whats funny. Im thinking of dropping Commando to try TKM. Heh sorry for higjacking the thread. Anyways one good thing about this game is you can drop,change, redo and profession you want. Try em all what else do you got to do with your time?

Don't drop commando. Did you see Halo's post on the patch 2 weeks from now? Oh maaan Commando's are getting some serious luv. Commando weapons are going to be doing big time damage. Give it 2 weeks and see how the patch fixes things.

And to drop it to go tka....trust me, it's really not a smart idea. Even flamethrowers are better then Tka skills right now.

My suggestion is some different then the before.

Do what you just think is fun for you. Drop dancing learn TRK or CH or medic.... .

This game allows you to come back to dancer again, if you like to do. If you are TRK and does not like it later, drop it andlearn comando or tailor.

I hope I could point up, what I wanted to amplify.

I can anderstand you well. After reaching the master I am searching for perspectives too. I am in moment happy with the dancer being, but stand anyhow sometimes there , thinking what I shall do now.

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Aniella (Gorath) Dancer

You know...class jumping may 'seem' like a good idea, but really, do you know how long it takes to master a combat class? Combat xp takes forever to get...and when you need over 4million xp to master 1 combat class...that's weeks of playing, if not months for some people. If you keep mastering, dropping, mastering...etc etc...you'll always be playing a novice character while having logged in hundreds of hours.

My wife is a master dancer, aftet dealing with the lack of tips and rude customers she went and became a CH.

after the last patch CH blows,unless your love downtime even as a novice medic.

become a combat class other than CH and just have fun in groups killing till they do something to the game as a whole.

dont drop Master Dancer, you may regret it later on IF they put the fun back into the game.

Bottom line, Sinda. Do what's fun for you. This is a game. By definition that means it should and must be fun, or there's no point.

If Dancer isn't fun for you, drop it. If it is still fun, keep it. That's really all there is to it.

C

So today I finally qualified for next level of CH and Pistol. Looking over my skill trees I had to decide which ones I would surrender.

I only clicked on Master Dancer for the briefest of moments. It crossed my mind like a soft summers breeze. I worked so hard to get it. All the good and the bad, but it's special to me, my first love.

So I threw out every skill I could to get those precious points and none of them were from dancing

Hang in there. I do believe they have not abandoned us and there is hope. However, playing a game you pay for is something that has to make you happy. So do just that, what makes you keep wanting to come back to this wonderous universe we have entered.

On a side note: I believe they will have to implement more skill points in the near future. What happens when the space expansion hits? How will 250 skill points suffice then?

Wonder if we will be able to dance on ships.

Fyre

Kaadara, Eclipse

Still proud to be a Master Dancer

Sinda,

Don't give up hun. First off if you remain in the TK tree realize that Master dancer gives you +7 melee defense +7 Ranged defense thats nothing to scoff at. Secondly, i have considered not goin to Master TKA, not because i don't think that its worthwhile, but i think with some good ehancement bonus items attached to your clothing you can jack your Unarmed skills up pretty good, and frankly the first tier skills at this point in TK tree are the best the profession has to offer. I plan on maybe dropping most of my medic skills except for Organic chem IV and maybe work into the Bio engineer tree a bit, especially since now non CH's can have pets it might be a good niche for a Novice BE.

And also For those of you who are TK's and upset about the KD nerf, try going backwards just a bit in your specials, like all the way back. I find with 1 knock down and using War cry with Dizzy thrown in for good measure i can solo pretty much anything i did before the patch.

Syl

Sinda,

Hello again! I would like to say, 'No, don't surrender your Dancer skills!' really, I would. BUT . . . no, I am not saying that is my advice. Dancing is my own first love and I really don't see ever giving it up myself. I'm still chugging along toward Master myself, having split my time somewhat (okay, a lot) in my efforts to also learn some Tailoring. But Dance is still my 'primary' profession and interest.
I'd like to say stick with it, hang in there, because that is what I would hope to do myself. I can be pretty stubborn once I get an idea in my head, sometimes a good thing, sometimes not. For me, I have certain hopes and dreams that I want to pursue as a Dancer. As I've said before, I really want to form a band or at least be part of one and I am constantly coming up with ideas for things I really want to try once that becomes a reality. Just the other day I learned about the new 'sequencer' fireworks kits that can be made to launch a coordinated volley of fireworks and I couldn't help but think what cool potential that would have for an outdoor performance. I've some grandiose dreams, I guess -- I'd be happy to talk with you about them more in-game if you'd like. Was typing out ideas here, but realized it was getting really too long and rambling from the point.
So yes, the point. Well, the point is that these are my dreams, but not necessarily yours. Maybe you share them, maybe you don't. I can't really advise you to do the same thing I would. All in all, you have to do whatever's best for you. The hard part is just figuring out what that is. What makes you happy, what you look forward to and have hopes for, what inspires you. It's more a matter of figuring out what that is and pursuing it, though that's easier said than done.
If Dancing is still appealing to you, think about it a little. Think about what you'd like to do with it, where you'd like to go with it. If you find answers to that, then maybe Dancing still has some life for you and you have something to work toward. I would be more than happy to get together with you if you find you want to work toward similar goals to my own. I can't be a band all by myself, after all. Also, you might consider contacting Kif and/or Teedo in game too. They are currrently forming an Entertainer's PA called Nabooine Entertainers. I am not yet a part of it, already being a member of another PA, but I hope to learn more about them and perhaps work with them in pursuit of my own Dancing goals. Give me a tell sometime, we can talk.
If you find that you just don't have any desires to Dance anymore, then I guess maybe surrendering it may actually be best for you. It would be a sad thing, I think, for the rest of us as well as for you. But the most important thing is to do what you want to do, what you like to do -- to have fun. Of course, there are problems with many professions right now. You can see that in some of the previous posts right here, of people hopping from one profession to another, some going into the very same ones others are leaving in disgust. None are perfect. Most are far from it. The grass is not always greener, especially in a game that was, IMO, released well before it was ready. There will be problems and there will be changes, hopefully in the long run they will work out for the better. Only time can really tell.

-- 'Seph Iridan, aspiring Dancer, Moenia, Naboo (or thereabouts)

Arrgh. My apologies for the formatting of that last -- or the lack of it. I went and forgot that this thing eats my indents, so now the paragraphs are all run together. (Sighs)