Dancer Archive
Thread: Levelers' Guide to Dance
I have to make a few coments here
No way Jose, it's my dancer and I won't let someone band flourish me unless they have a good reason, and I dont think having it on will make a room full of AFK tags dancing exotic in leotards with SW1 playing in the background any prettier
If a Master Dancer should walk into your cantina and offer to group with you, bow down.
Please don't I'm just a dancer.
Once you no longer need Dancing XP, you no longer need to flourish.
WHAT?! I can't even begin to tell you how untrue that is! I have to dance thats what I was made to do and to dance I need to flourish!
Message Edited by Sultrina on 04-27-2004 12:42 AM
Musicians are to be respected, Try and do a dance to their song...aka no poplock to Ballad. Also, try and get them to play songs that go with your dancing. Tip them if you have to. Nothing irons out differences of opinion like sharing the wealth...but I warn you. Never, never NEVERcompare tips with your coworkers. Nothing good can come of it.
Personally I'd be happy with a guide that said while not flourishing as a dancer may be fine, if you're a musician you better be flourishing or things will sound awful.
I've done some numbers posts in the past, but they were more along the lines of being experimentation and writing up the results. I haven't made any attempt to draw useful conclusions from them though.. Such as "If you invite the master to the group, you will get the xp from everyone that watches them."
Since you mentioned learning from others.. Perhaps a really useful guide would be a guide on the basics of what it means to be an entertainer. A tome to gather the knowledge passed down from master to student that is being lost as the keepers of the knowledge fade from the game. The basics, like grouping and bands, solo vs group performances, how to actually be entertaining (From chatting to choreography), how to get along with other entertainers, that sort of thing. I've long held the belief that people will play an entertainer the way they are taught. Right now the way they are taught often involves an email with a macro in it they can use when they go to bed. TH has been asking for an entertainer guide to list under Advanced Guides, and I haven't had anything for him. Something like that would fit the bill nicely. Perhaps I'll tackle it if nobody else gets to it first.
I see what the guide is trying to say... When I'm dancing solo in a cantina, even a crowded cantina, and even not wearing my title, eventually I start getting healing xp coming in, and I know that means the group isn't getting that xp. The big problem is you're using RP language to speak to the non-RPers.
My suggestion is to focus more on numbers, less on performance. Perhaps then have a separate etiquette guide to cover the other pats. Or maybe the same guide but different well marked sections.
kirah_ashlin wrote:
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I came up the ranks under masters like Javier and Shianse. I even learned a lot from Leivi!
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Hehe silly. 
Well I agree with the first part in any case. Shia and Javy were my role models too.
I can't believe I didn't see this thread untill now. Then againI thinkit wasstarted during my little absence. (Lei wonders when her stupid past mistakes will stop creeping up and kicking her in the derriere.) Anyway, I Really like this thread idea. Lots I agree with some I don't. It has germinated a seed in the back of my mind for a little thread of my own I think I might start.
Go Lei go! /chant guide guide guide!
ArgentWulf wrote:
Anyway, I Really like this thread idea. Lots I agree with some I don't. It has germinated a seed in the back of my mind for a little thread of my own I think I might start.
