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Thread: A price check from the dancers, please :-)
WhiteHindu wrote:
SEA
Skill Enhancing Attachment
That's it! 
You can read more about them on the tailor forum... they come in two flavors: Clothing and Armor. They are loot only items, so you can also read about them on the Game Guides and other loot talking forums. 
Our own dancing Tarotfrom Starsider is something of an expert on them IMO (she's Echinacea on the forums).
There is some goofiness right now with attaching multiples with the same modifier... the +Battle Fatigue ones are pretty useful too.
(Male or unisex BE buffed clothing is getting harder to find again lately, you might want to test your market with unisex items )
My other character, Carenzi,is Master Tailor and my (rl) partner's character is Master BE/Chef. We've had the Tailor/BE combo going since early September (when I originally mastered Tailor on Esharra). My pricing forclothing containing theentertainer tissue is 7k foritems that contain1-2 tissues and add +15 - +18 to healing, items containing 2-4 tissues for +25 are 14k and items containing5 or moretissues for +25 are 20k.
Entertainer tissues contain eggs which are considered a rare resource and hard to obtain in the quantity needed for many to consider it worth their while to make a factory run. I collect my own eggs. Combat & Medical related clothing require no rare resources (I use leftover stuff from Tenner'schef projects..btw..like most BEs, he hates making tissues..I use his character & make them myself)andI price them thesame as my Entertainer clothing. The Creature Taming and Cover tissues contain rare resources, milk & mollusc and for them I charge more.
I priceEntertainer itemslower than the otherrare resource itemsbecause I am a dancer first and foremost. My prices are lower than most but no tailor has ever complained to me about my pricing, probably because I've been doing it for so long. My friends are dancers and I know how credits can be hard to come by and we all still want nice things regardless of how much or how littlecash we have coming in. About once or month, very inconsistently and really dependent upon my whims (and available time), I load up my droid and head for the Coronet cantina where I make free BE clothes for any entertainers who are ATK. Just a little prezzie for those who prefer not to be a bot.I often hear that a customer has been referred to me by someone for whom I made dance clothes in the cantina.
Are they worth it? The entertainer gains nothing from wearing them after reaching master but our customers do. I always wear +25 when dancing. If those watching me dance have ever noticed, they've not mentioned it. They probably would notice if I healed them more slowly.
Do they sell? Yes! Especially the more formal dresses and tons..absolutely tons of +25 hot pants!
Hunt carefully for a BE to work with. I see a lot of tissues on BE vendors for 5k each and all I can figure is they don't want the business. If I didn't have a BE in the family, I would not pay more than 2k. Occassionally, I will selltissue in crates for 2k each(rare occassion and usually because I'm running out of storagespace).I've 2 friends who have BEs they work with regularly& theyboth pay 2k per tissue. If possible, see if you can find a BE who will let you supply the eggs instead of buying off a vendor and payinga huge mark up. (Edit: Upon re-reading your post, I see you're a BE.)
You may expect to get 5-6k for a +12 item. Don't be discouraged if sales start out slow. BE clothing is not something people expect to find but once they know you have it stocked regularly, they'll beat a path to your door.
Good luck to you!
Message Edited by Esharra on 05-27-2004 11:13 PM
True, do keep in mind that wound healing BE or skill tape enhancements are really most effective for leveling dancers. As dancers, they really do US little good, but provide the patron with faster healing times - something they probably wouldn't notice, anyway. Genderless clothing is preferable and having that clothing with the same BE for both dancers and musicians widens your customer base even more. Restricting the wearer to one piece of clothing that is anything less than +25, however will not set well. Since that was a dress with +12, the wearer can't increase that amount to +25 as easily as if you had make it a skirt and top.
Also, if you create mind enhancement BE clothing, you will attacted ALL the masters in your galaxy! I don't know about anyone else, but I can't find any mind enhancement clothing anywhere on Bria. I have one piece with a +1 skill tape on it . . . /pout
kirah_ashlin wrote:
Also, if you create mind enhancement BE clothing, you will attacted ALL the masters in your galaxy!
Well, before we accidentally go spreading misinformation here. Bonuses to wound healing won't increase the XP gain for entertainerhealing, at least as I understand it.
It will speed up the healing process, getting the patron on their way faster, and generating the same amount of XP for the healing that it normally would... just you'll get the total amount of XP that could be generated from those wound amounts sooner. But you won't get more Entertainer Healing XP by using SEA's or BE enhanced clothing. Since patrons don't have to stand in line to get entertainer healing, quicker healing does not equal more XP per hour. There's no real benefit to grinders that I see.