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I am still not satisfied with the banal explanations for burdening entertainers withthe 15 second delay AND the 2 minute /watch-listen penalities. As I understand it, the AFKers are already macroing around the 15 second delay and the 2 minute for buffs has caused little changefor the buffbots either. Now we seem to have a stealth nerf (or a neglected bug) withapplying musician and dancer buffs at the same time and for the life of me I don't get that one at all!!

So the devs were all at E3 . . .but, you know what? I don't care. In my business you don't send an entire department on a mini-vacation and tell you customers to sit on their hands and wait for answers or satisfaction - and you certainly don't make major changes to your service/product just before you (in effect) shut down your company for a week!

You can't buff in 2 minutes - the patron has to watch or listen for a minimum of 2 minutes for the buff to take effect at all now. The minimum from there with 120 flos for the entiredance/setis 3 minutes 20 seconds (although I usually round it up to 4 minutes anyway).

I honestly don't know how or if there is a way to "get around" the 15 second delay; I'm not the type of person to hack a way to break hard coded rules. I've been told there is some way to, buthaven't heard specifics and I would not like to see new macros on the forums showing others how to bypass the 15 second delay since I feel that we should not break the rules set in place(as unjustified as it is to penalize the entire permenententplayer basebecause of the abuse of some temp grinders).

Message Edited by kirah_ashlin on 05-26-2004 10:18 AM

I buff a 100% buff in 120 seconds with 2 shots of BE stuff and just powerfourish with no pause inbetween. I have not timed how low it will go but 2 min is 100% buff for me. Do it daily 4x a day for my group krayt hunting.

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I also have no idea how to get around the 15 sec delay.

Of course you get a 100% buff at master... the time spentapplying the buffisn't for setting the percentage increase, but the duration.

Next time you do a 2 minute buff, ask your patron how long that buff is good for. By all tests we've done, the minimum time spent buffing to grant the full 2 hour duration is 3:20.

As, Deila said,its not the percentage we are talking about. Non-masters can't do more than 75% (although I believe BE clothing and skill tapes can increase that) and masters can't do less. However, the duration is what is in question. If you can manage a 2 hour buff time for every buff you do in less than 3 minuted 20 seconds, then you are THE exception. As a master, I currently havenocontrol over the duration time - even with a longer buff - because of the buff bug. By comparision, the 15 second wait time is a mere inconvenience to the embarrassment of having to re-buff a patron, or worse, having them chose to rely on brandy instead of wasting even more of their time on a buff that still might not take! Now, with the developers refusing to do anything about an UI window (let alone self-buffs) until after their precious space expansion, and the lack of response on their part regarding this buff bug I have to wonder how long the "live"entertainment profession will be able to continue in this game . . . . or how long it will be before my name is placed on the SWG Dancer Memorial Wall . . . .