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I have been to 10 different dancers on my server Tarquinas. Not one of them has been able to buff my mind. I have tried every thing. Grouping, not grouping and being naked to being fully clothed. I have tried multiple times on severeal Master dancers and i get nothing! I am covert every time. They even buff people right after i have left. I need your help please to try and figure out what the problem is. Please leave any suggestions you have!

((Are you watching them? Not any entertainer, not someone in their group, but them specifically?))

The following order is confirmed to work properly:

1. Be in a cantina or camp. (It may work outside those areas but the one time I tried it in a space port it failed... not clear on that.)

2. Find a dancer with at least one box of Dance Technique skill. The more the better (this determines how much of a buff you get). Let the dancer start her highest available dance.

3. WATCH her. Unequip all hand-held items. Make sure your toon starts to clap while the items are unequipped. If he is not clapping, stop watching and start again. Make absolutely sure you are watching and the toon is clapping.

4. When you are sure of (3), then the dancer has to target you and type /setperform. She should get a message saying she is concentrating on you.

5. The dancer must flourish non-stop for 30 straight flourishes. This takes 8-10 minutes depending on which dance she is doing.

6. When the 8-10 minutes is over, STOP watching the dancer.

You should see the buff now take effect.

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Yes i am sure i have watched all these people! Ill will try those steps you gave me.

Keep in mind that dancer buffs don't work like doctor buffs. Whena doctor buffs you, you see the results right away on the status tab of your character sheet (cntrl +c).

When a dancer buffs you, you will not see the result until you /stopwatch. Through watching a master dancer, your buff will double your mind pool. If you normally have 500 mind unbuffed, you will get another 500 for a total of 1000 once you /stopwatch.

If you /stopwatch after only two minutes, you will still get a double mind pool buff. This would only last a few minutes though! By watching 8-10 minutes, your doubled mind pool should stay with you for at least two hours, barring death.

Unequip any items that would prevent your character from clapping to ensure that the /watch command worked. The clapping animation is the dancer's only reassurance that you are watching. Do the /stopwatch command before you leave the area so you can see your buff.

The other thing also is, you do need to do /stopwatch, just running away to where you get the message "soandso is too far away to watch" it may not work either.

This brings up an interesting point. I give mind buffs all the time, so I think I know how they work. But there is one guy I have never been able to buff. Tried dozens of times, no matter what, it just will not work. I can buff other people, he can get buffed from other dancers. But this one combo of me dancing and him watching NEVER works, no matter what. I think it is just some very weird bug.

what server are you on?

I did all those things listed of me and I still couldnt get my mind buffed? Any body got anythig else to say?

You are most likely bugged,I was unable to recieve musician buffs from the december vehicle patch untill a csr finaly met me in game and fixed it in mid January. Send tickets and you may not get a favorable reply at first because it took about 4 tickets before something was finaly done.

O! I forgot to mention that. The other day a CSR meet me and "restored my character". Went to cantina and got 2 different people to buff me. Didnt work. So i came here thinking that it HAS to be me! Reallt makes me mad becasue I cant be as effective in PVP becasue im a rifleman.

do mind buffs also increase secondary mind stats or just primary?

Drasmar - I don't see it mentioned above, but are you meditating by chance while watching the dancer when they are trying to buff you? Recently, as a Musician, I tried to buff someone who happened to be meditating while they watched me. So, after performing for them for 10 minutes, and then asking them to stop watching me, they still didn't receive a buff . A fellow Musician explained to me why it wasn't working. The same is probably true for Dancers.

BardoZuul - Dancers only buff the primary mind pool, while Musicians buff the secondary skill Focus and Willpower.