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Sorry if this has been covered somewhere else, I tried to look for it, but we all know how bad the forum search sucks, especially on a Friday.

I'm having some problems with buffing in a certain situation, here's an example: I buff PlayerX, I confirm PlayerX has in fact received the full mind buff, PlayerX runs out and gets eaten by a rancor and dies, thus PlayerX loses thier mind buff. Now, PlayerX returns to me 15 minutes later and wants another buff, unfortunately, I am unable to buff PlayerX after several careful attempts and following all the rules.

Is this a bug? Some of my customers have claimed that dying with a mind buff requires them to wait until the next server reset to receive another mind buff.

Anyone else noticed this problem? Anyone know if its being investigated or worked on?

As a coder, I wonder if maybe its a timing issue and maybe if I waited 2 hours after PlayerX had received the original buff to try the new buff it might work, but I haven't had that opportunity yet since no one wants to run out and get eaten by a rancor for my test.

Please advise, thanks.

I'm not a dancer...but I can answer this...

Yes, it's a known issue.

Same thing happens with spices and doc buffs. If you die while buffed, you cannot recieve another buff until the duration of your original buff has passed...even though you don't have the original buff any longer.

What's really funny, is that with Spices, you will even go through the downer...even though you died and are no longer under the effects of the spice after you clone.

bumping cause I hate this bug

I have also heard that if I go ahead and redo the mind buff that as soon as the timer resets they can /stopwatch and the the buff will activate even though some amount of time has passed since I applied the 2nd mind buff. I have not verified if this is true, but I have quite a few people coming back to be rebuffed.

A tip for PvP: when I do a group passive buff for PvP, I always make sure it's a short buff so that in case we get wiped out 15 min after buffing we're not waiting for the buff timer to reset an 1hr 45 min later.

As a Doc, when I run into this problem I /duel, kill, DB and rez the person that is bugged if I have time. The deathblow resets the timers. Although dancers/musicians would not be able to rez after DB unless they had doc or one was around.