Dancer Archive

1. Reduce the rate of failure (falling) by at least a factor of ten. The current rate is absurdly high.

2. Increase the payouts for dancer missions. The current rate is absurdly low.

3. Give each dance 8 different flourishes.

4. Add some kind of interrupt like samplers get. Make the reward signficant to provideincentive for dancers to actually be at the keyboard.

#1 Let us buff our own minds.

#2 Add more flourishes to the higher dance lines, exotic and lyrical. We have done the work for those dances and there are only 2 maybe 3 good flourishes. Reward us for being a Master.

1) Falling- too many times as a Master

2) Buffing self- We should be able to buff ourselves with our own ability

3) Dances- Add more dances for master, maybe add some exotic 4 flourishes 3-8

These are the main ones for me

1. as a cantina owner, i have no real way of making sure my cantina is staffed, 24/7 (at least not any way that i'm going to do ). could we get some npc backup dancers/musicians i can set up in there 24/7, so people will know that if they come to my place, they'll be able to get healed up?

2. self buffing

3. falling

4. afkers - what i would REALLY like to see is some enforcement here. i don't want some sort of popup, like surveying has. we're a social profession, and something like that might interfere with our ability to talk to customers, and it would certainly interfere with some of the nice performance macros i know some of us have got. this is a big issue, but i don't think the solution is easy.

5. buff timers/data - would be really really nice to know for sure when we've hit someone's max buff, and max duration limits

My most pressing issue is falling! I hate it..makes me look stupid and unprofessional..and inevitably I do it multiple times in a row....

I would like an auto timer for setperform or a sys message that says you have completed buffing so and so.

I REALLY want to heal BF in the field ( 3) ...REALLY...I know not everyone wants this but I travel with my MCM husband and it's awful to have to stop what we are doing just hike to back to some winky cantina where I cannot even register (4th issue) and heal up his BF. As for the argument that it would empty cantinas...how many filled cantinas have you been in lately? Our ranks are thinning cause our missions stink (5th) and people seek other avenues for $$

LuLa Luvlee Y'Da

Master Dancer

GASP Social Director

Dearic, Talus

I've only got four issues, mostly what other people have said!

Issue 1: FALLING!!!!! I'm almost to Master Dancer, and I swear I fall more than I did as a Novice Entertainer. As someone who worked and taught in a professional company, I can promise you that the better you get, the less you fall. And the less 'action' you use, but that's another matter entirely!

Issue 2: Targeting for mind buffs stinks. Just make it an action that we can hotkey!

Issue 3: I often go in the field (my secondary profession is pikeman), and it would be spiffy if I could use our 'distract' and 'smoke bomb' as distraction tools in PvE and PvP. Being able to set off a smoke effect would definately help when I'm fleeing for my life!

Issue 4: Our missions still stinky. Phew-yuck! Scale them so that the higher level you are, the better pay you get?

First issue:

Fix the "playing music getting dance xp" exploit!

Second issue:

Fill out the missing flourishes for exotic/lyrical. Put exotic I on Dance Knowledge III and give the male master dancer a new dance (you said that there are already some new dances motion captured).

Third Isssue:

Do something about the afk people. I'm really getting offended and annoyed by people who dance afk and do spam macros (the best one I have seen was on Lexii (eclipse, coronet), who announced her new macro which she was running nearly 24/7 since 3 weeks now. If you go afk -> no xp at all (exclude macros from the afk status). Especially these new "got a holocron who told me to become master dancer" afk people like Indescive (eclipse, coronet), who dance afk and get their buddies to come by and cheer for them in a macro to get their xps up (16 people cheering permanently for one person by using a macro while the person is afk is not what i think of "becoming a jedi").

Fourth Issue:

Fix entertainer missions. At least update them. We had some great ideas about them.

Fifth Issue:

Fix one and for all falling (although i nearly never fall, but still, my skill is 100, so why do I still fall?). Just fix it to the level of the entertainer. Skill 100 - no falling, skill 90 - rarely, etc...

Other Issues:

Register location on the outer planets: Most people go to the cantina anyway and outposts are too small to register your location anywhere else, so no need to pull this one into the first line (still should be fixed).

Targeting buffs and information about the buff: Yep, is somehow missing and could be easier accomplished. At least recognize the name you are targeting (i tried it out with different names that dont exists and you got no error. Please look up if the names are correct). The rest is imho just something that you can acknowledge through conversation (like asking if the buff succeeded or if the customer is watching you etc.). About a hot-key: Just write yourself a macro... easiest way to go...

Buff yourself: Medics can buff thereself, why cant we? Please change that. Thanks

Synchdance: Would be nice but we have other problems *smiles*

Hello again everyone phew finally i can post again.

anywho.

1) Falling down is my biggest pet peeve of the week. Falling down 6 or 8 times in a row as a master is not very masterful now is it?

2) Buffing our own mind, i agree with most here that agree!

3) Also i agree that we need some kind of data about our buff, i don't care what form it comes in. It could be an ingame meter, or just some solid documentation from our developer.

4) I would like to see an action cost reduction for special effects. They serve no purpose other then eye candy, Its not a balance issue because it doesnt do anything but make us look good. As far as action costs for dancing thats debatable, but Special effects do need reduced costs.

5) "airplane dancing" in Lyrical and formal, also seeing it now in Popular and Ryhthmic2 This has to stop. It ruins some of our "Best dances"

Syl

1. AFK tainers.

2. Registering at small taverns and remote cantinas.

3. Group startdance / changedance / lighteffect commands.

4. Too high action cost for the higher dances.

5. Some kind of indicator when the buff is finished.

1) Leave the AFKers alone for god's sake... you all act like they are the greatest calamity in the world. If they choose to pay $15 a month to not play the game, that's their problem. (No, I did not AFK my way to Master... I didn't even know a macro could be made infinitely repeatable until I was less than 2 blocks from Master Dancer)

2) Lower Action costs for Masters!

3) Something... ANYTHING.... to let us better apply the Mind buff. An interface with a timer, or a "number of flourishes needed", a countdown... just something... please!!! I hate guessing.

4) Falling is silly!

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Medea42 wrote:

Issue 2: Targeting for mind buffs stinks. Just make it an action that we can hotkey!

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You can already make a hotkey to target the mindbuff. Just make a macro that says /setperform. Then stick it on your hotkey bar and tada!

Good job with ideas btw everyone, seems like there is definately some issues that are very common with you all which I expected. I'll give this one another few days since I can afford to this time just to make sure everyone has a chance to post.

My list:

1. Self-buffing

2. Reduced fall rate

3. AFKer's (especially important now that holocrons are forcing people to become dancers)

4. More flourishes in the high-end dances

5. Better buffing notification (especially duration)

Issue #1: It's kinda a tie but I think my main issue is falling. Like many before me have said it makes one look inexperienced. Falling on basic at master is a problem...

Issue #2: My second issue is LAMErs. We've all seen them, heard their non stop tip-begging macros, and sometimes if we're lucky we actually meet them...

Issue #3: Third Issue is entertainer mission rewards. Just make them bigger...

Please ^^