Dancer Archive
Thread: Dancer/Musician 30 sec. speed buff Macro
MovieMania007 wrote:
I believe they intended the buff to be reduced to +15-24% from the 8 min mark. With a Bio-Enhanced T'ssolok, the tbuff time could bre reduced to 4 minutes from 8.
...expect Dancer/Musicians, like every Master Doc to invest in their trade by purchasing buffs to help increase speed time there for increasing their bank account
The problem with T'ssolok is that the customer has to drink it. Not the performer. This makes it completely useless, as most people getting a mind buff from a performer also use Vasarian Brandy, in my experience.
I also think the 3 minute, 10 second buff, while taking the system to its extreme limit, is perfectly valid. So that's how I buff. I use Accarragam to do it if I don't have doctor enhancements to my Action/Quickness/Stamina.
I don't do the 30 second buff for two reasons:
- I think it's utilizing the system in a manner not intended, and thus constitutes an exploit even if the developers can't be bothered to say so
- My system is technically below spec for playing the game, and since the calls to perform actions are coming from my client, I lag too badly to do this effectively
I would hope that if it is an unintended manner of buffing, it'll be fixed somehow. Perhaps as with Surveying, where one can't re-start surveying for a delayed period after initiating it.
That would require someone on the development team paying attention to The Girlfriend Professions™, though, and that's not allowed. Well, the Image Designers get some love soon, because the art team is on the ball.
Ok this is just wrong. It HAS to be an exploit. I tried it last night without any action buffs, just normal. it ran, my action went away and Idid a /dump to stop it.
I'm not a master dancer yet so I didn't expect mindx2 for 2 hours. I asked my victim (volunteer) what happened, she said 450 mind for 1 hour duration. My macro ran for 3 seconds. I would say to get that kind of a buff in about 3 secs was unintended. But then again, the cost to me was all of my action bar, so I do not see this as "free money" or "something for nothing".
Wokka wrote:
Ok this is just wrong. It HAS to be an exploit.... This has already gotten out of hand, look forward to it being changed (nerfed, whatever).
Wokka-wokka
I've been wondering which way entertainer opinion leans on this one. One of your fellow dancers just posted in the Musician forum in favor of the speedbuff. I'm pretty sure that non-entertainers love it, but does it undermine our professions by turning us into instabuff bots? Ordinarily I'd start a Musician poll on such an issue, but in this case I'm really trying to get some "statement of policy" out of the devs so that we know whether any form of the speedbuff is acceptable to them.
While it is still here, I just thought I would add my two cents. I heard of a way to get rid of the jumpy wierd animation. All you do is write the macro with the wrong stop command. If it is the dancer buff, then put stop music. If it is the music buff, put stop dance. Either way, the computer will say you are not doing Blank, but it will still have the same effect as stopping you as far as the buff is concerned. The patron still gets the spammed text, but not the choppy movements or sound! Looks much more like we know what we are doing! And nownobody will grab a priest and a cross!
Wokka wrote:
I logged in my regular character on Live and went to the cantina for BF healing. There were spammers in there charging 8k for a full dance and music buff in 45 seconds. This has already gotten out of hand, look forward to it being changed (nerfed, whatever).
Wokka-wokka
I do the buff for a minute to make sure and I don't charge 8k. I charge 3k. I'm not going to charge for 8 minutes of time if I'm not using it but I will charge a bit for the convenience of a quick buff. Some docs charge 8k , some charge 12k for buffs. If people didn't want to pay that amount they wouldn't. If these dancers didn't get any customers charging those prices, they would lower it.
Like I said before though, if the devs decide to change it, that's no problem with me. I happy either way.
If they do decide to do something about this, I really hope they only 'nerf' it and don't ban people that have used the 30second buff. Buffing someone in 30seconds is hardly gamebreaking. It would be a shame to see her get banned for doing something that she's been forced into.
I have used the speed buff a number of times already, and try not to use it unless someone is in a hurry to get somewhere ie. faction raids. It also seems to lessen the actual "performance" as you're just spamming a macro very quickly. Even when performing thefastest non-"exploit" buffing possible it will still take me 8 minutes total to buff people,as I will be doing dance/music buffs. I'm pretty suremost peopledo not wish to spend that much time waiting in line for a buff, that is not necessary given the new chef food(brandy/canape= ~800mind/2400focus/2400will).
All that is needed would be to either lower the time for both buffs by somewhere around 50%, or increase the buff duration close to doctor buffs(3-3.5hours). This would make dancer/music buffs more usefull and appealing to everyone.
I don't think anyone should be banned for using it. If the devs take it out, or give us an officialstatement saying its an exploit, then i t should no longer be used. But they should not punish anyone who has used it. They should take into account that every holotainer on the planet is using a quick way to master our chosen profession, why should we not have a quick way to use the profession we love and enjoy?