Dancer Archive

Basic problem I see is this: While its true that public cantinas have gone to the kuasks, at least I can find work there. Ironically, Coronet is where I make a KILLING in buffs, simply because I'm usually the only girl online and at the keyboard. While the working environment in the private cities is much less cluttered and annoying, performing in private cantinas in player cities just don't give me the kind of foot traffic neccissary to make my in-game job interesting or economically viable. Thius, the BEST situation for us is to either get the foot traffic happening in the player cities, or get a lot of the clutter out of the public cities.

/bump_for_attention;

Good luck with this all. It is rather difficult getting the bull's attention.

The devs want there to be an excuse to come back to town - they don't want people to be able to heal up in camps if one member of the party has novice entertainer. Well... then make the camp-healing skill tied to level of dancer, and level of camp. For example, only novice dancers, novice musicians, or master entertainers can heal battle fatigue in a camp - so that it won't be just one dude in the group grabbing novice entertainer to become totally self-sufficient. Also, make it such that it must be a large ranger-y camp. In that way you'll need a true entertainer AND a ranger - diversifying the group. Most groups won't be able to get both, and will have to resort to the cantina. But having something like that in place will allow dancers to get out every so often.

I think high level dancers and musicians should be able to have some combat-useful skills. Just off the top of my head, a distraction move that freezes opponents, or the ability to heal bf in the field, or knockdown your target with your fizz, or a droppable stage (like a camp). I'm sure the bright minds at SOE could re-arrange the skill tree to make a Feild Entertainment tree. Doctors and CM's have feild capable tools and abilities, why not entertainers?

Hey, Bob Hope was a Master Entertainer.Think about it!

At this point, I think the developers and higher-ups in the company have decided to just wait us out.

Every day, another dedicated dancer quits the game. Eventually, all that will be left will be the 2nd account heal/buff bots and the like; nobody "playing" those "charactes" will give a hoot about the profession, so all the complaints will go away and the developers will be able to get back to the "real" professions.

They could argue, "Few people are really interested in playing the profession so we don't need to do any work on it," but it would be more accurate to say that few people are interested in playing the profession any longer because the developers have done what amounts to zero real work on it since launch. The few things they have added have been of the "throw them a bone to shut them up for a few months" variety. Not one of our REAL issues (other than mind buffing) has ever been seriously or even semi-seriously addressed.

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First off... If you're a master dancer, are imp, and unguilded, then e-mail ziffus in game. We need some good dancers for hunts (group buffing, healing... generaly large parties that spend 45+ minutes looking for mind buffs).

Second... I agree that entertainers need some type of portable stage for performances. I think this would be great for creating more realism and eliminate forcing people with lower end systems to hit up a cantina w/ 30+ afk entertainer grinders.

Third... I understand how horrible dancing seems. Yet despite the faults, any profession can match. Commando (horrible in pvp, nerfed once again, acid rifle w/ 14+ sec delay on specials, 50% grenade hit/miss ratio), Droid engineers (They make 2 disposable droids... The rest are limited to storage, crafting stations, or med bots. Plenty of bugs, last on the list), Pikeman with horrible accuracy, etc. Yet despite the flaws, when weighed, master dancers are saught after much more frequently then any I have listed.

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zoynk wrote:
Yet despite the flaws, when weighed, master dancers are saught after much more frequently then any I have listed.

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/bump

I agree - I hope this works out for everyone. Quite a change coming to this board than any other, as there is noone claiming to be uber l337 or whining about how their prof needs to be fixed. All the posts here seem to be well thought out and verbalized, instead of the spastic-skip-every-third-letter-and-every-other-vowel typing that some have begun to do...

I would imagine, though, that many of your AFK grinding masses will migrate elsewhere once the new way to open the FS slot comes into existance.

Good luck, I'm rooting for you...

Been promised to see some results on our questions by mid week, I know most of you don't believe them anymore, for me this is the last try before I give it to someone else to see if they have better luck then I do. I dont' think they intentionally mean to ignore us, but like some of you said, when it comes to priorities and their making their list of things to do today, the professions with the numbers are going to get more attention, not to mention as far as their concerned we more or less already serve our purpose.

On the bright side, I've heard that the new dances are almost finished. Course we have no word yet exactly what we'll be getting when their done and what we'll get with the expansion. Should see something at least. Of course they will continue to work on our buffs and are supposedly tryin to get our missions sorted out. So really we're going to see our buffs made so we can buff ourselves and they'll be easier to apply. Great! We'll see more dancers or at least flourishes semi soon. Very cool. And we'll see some changes to missions... maybe? Maybe cool. All the information I can get so far tho.

Raven,

You're doing a great job. It's just sad to see you so frustrated.