Dancer Archive
Thread: When buffs fail :(
Yesterday I have had the worst buff day in my career as a master dancer (thanks for the peptalk Deila!) and I was about to log and forget about it. Buffs would work but were minor. I even had a customer log out of frustration, we would meet again today but I haven't seen him. These are the kind of encounters I really find hard to deal with. You flourish your butt off and you hear: damn, 45 min? this is not worth my time. Cya. I was about to pull out all my hair.
Of course, at a time like that many people start to ask for buffs. I explain that there are some problems and I haven't figured out why. People still wanted a buff, rather a crap one then none at all, but I dont WANT to give crap buffs. As with the original poster my confidence just hit rockbottom, but decided to help them out anyway. I think I buffed 6 other persons, 1 failed entirely, the rest 1 1/2 max (and that's 10 min, almost constant spamming flourishes). I also noticed that it didn't matter at the time whether it was active or passive, it was al stuck on 10 min 1 1/2 hrs. (2 groups of 2, 2 individual).
At some point I did a reset (maybe I should have done this right away), then more people came for buffs and I decided to give it a try again, givng the customers again fair warning. So I took a deep breath, got setup for another 4 1/2 min buff and once done I asked for duration. I don't think I've ever hated to ask this question. Finaly the words came (amazingly how yuo really need to know they take forever to respond). Yes, 2 hours. Weeee! Finaly.
Any buff from there on has been successful. Tho I hope that I will still be able to meet again the people I failed on, so that I can show them that I really can buff.
Do we know for sure that 150 flourishes is the magic number for a full duration buff? Because if that's the case, then my flourish every 8 seconds or so for 8 minutes should have never given a full duration buff, being only 60 flourishes. Yet, at one time, it seemed to work for the full two-hour buff.
Of course I know that flourishing every second for 4 minutes works, but that's 240 flourishes, way more than 150.
Only 20 percent of the time Drygo? I have it happen HALF of the time!Last night I gave buffs to4 people. On two of them I had to re-buff. AND - wouldn't you know that the oneplayer who stiffed me for my tip got the buff the first time?!
Grayluvsmari wrote:
Hi hi.
I'm a Master Dancer and I've only buffed once. I did okay, got paid a good amount...
and really didn't want to do it again for awhile. Why?
. . .
Too many unknowns...
Chiaa
Chiaa
Practice makes perfect! Or as far as SWG goes practice makes better!. . . .sometimes at least . . . Anyway its pretty much accepted that time has little to do with buffs, after the 2 minute minimum that is. It all has to do with flo count. The magic number kicked around is 120, I believe. Your buffs will double the patrons mind the flo count dictates the length. A max buff for us is 2 hours although I have had them go to 2 hours 5 minutes. (When Lei was in top form 
) So anyway practice on some people, advertise free buffs get your confidence up. Most people whofrequent the cantinas for buffs understand the quirky nature of the beastie, so don't let it throw you.Above alldon't worry about it. I'm the unofficial worrier for Bria and I'm sure you have one on Bloodfin, (unless of course its you) we do allthe worrying so you won't have to. 