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Thread: FAQ for Mind Buff Crystals
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tuls
Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:12 am
#1
1. What is mind buff crystal?
It is a reward given after completing "Melee Accuracy" quest in Aurillian village if you make it with a friend.
2. What does it do?
It adds +900 mind primary stat for 1 hours 30 minutes
3. How frequent can it be used?
It can be used only once per 96 hours. (4 days) so it is more like emergency crystal since mind is the only non-healable pool.
4. IfI trade crystal, even I used it, can my friend use it too?
No. Usage and recharge is per crystal, not per character. So basically once it is used, it cannot be used by anyone till it is charged (4 days)
5. Does it stack with dancer buffs?
No, like its sister "Health Buff Crystal" it doesnt stack with any other player base modifiers.
6. Does this effect dancer community much?
Here my opinion... Not at all, 4 days is a long period and people play everyday and some freaks 24/7 when it is thought, this is a force-sensitive quest reward and to complete skill boxes, people needs to fight day and night. 4 days is a long term. To be honest, brandy & Canape should be discussed more than this poor crystal.3 canapes & 2 brandies, can make +900 more mind for least 40 minutes, +900 more focus & willpower for least 40 minutes(+3200 more focus & willpower for 10 minutes - canape) and those does not have 4 days usage limits.
Goldy_Lhim
Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:17 am
#2
hmmm but they could trade it to me. Like if I kinda nudged my hubby to get me one I could have a 900 mind buff every 4 days rather than diddly squat.. or asking another dancer for a buff?
hmmmm....
DarkY0da
Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:18 am
#3
Someone can own more then 1. So how ever extremely unlikely it is. Someone could get enough of them together to where they can constantly use crystals.
+900 for an Hour and half isn't a big deal to me or anyone really. But when this was on TC we had Panthu ask about it and we never heard anything back. Now we know they didn't want her saying anything. If the item was a non-trade item(which they could have done) I myself wouldn't have even had the slight hesatation(sp) about it.
tuls
Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:23 am
#4
If you have 64 crystals, you can use them constantly yes. But whoever has money to buy over 4-5 probably has knowledge of entertainer buffs last long, In village quest, you can only get one, even if you do over and over with others, you are not given another crystal.
DarkY0da wrote:
Someone can own more then 1. So how ever extremely unlikely it is. Someone could get enough of them together to where they can constantly use crystals.
+900 for an Hour and half isn't a big deal to me or anyone really. But when this was on TC we had Panthu ask about it and we never heard anything back. Now we know they didn't want her saying anything. If the item was a non-trade item(which they could have done) I myself wouldn't have even had the slight hesatation(sp) about it.
Drygo
Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:32 am
#5
tuls wrote:
If you have 64 crystals, you can use them constantly yes. But whoever has money to buy over 4-5 probably has knowledge of entertainer buffs last long, In village quest, you can only get one, even if you do over and over with others, you are not given another crystal.
DarkY0da wrote:
Someone can own more then 1. So how ever extremely unlikely it is. Someone could get enough of them together to where they can constantly use crystals.
+900 for an Hour and half isn't a big deal to me or anyone really. But when this was on TC we had Panthu ask about it and we never heard anything back. Now we know they didn't want her saying anything. If the item was a non-trade item(which they could have done) I myself wouldn't have even had the slight hesatation(sp) about it.
That's the key then. It doesn't bother me if someone, somehow ends up with multiple crystals. But, the fact that only a handful of people can get the crystal in the first place, and people are only limited to getting one on their own, it puts my mind at ease, and I don't see how this could negatively affect us.
DarkY0da
Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:41 am
#6
But what gets me is they locked Panthu down about saying anything about the crystals. We had her ask. Yes the numbers are limited. I still would have liked to seen it a non-tradeable item. But
a. We get Panthu to ask. They tell us nothing and she isn't "allowed" to post about it or something...
b. There is now some other way in the game to get the mechanics for buffing that was given to us to make money. They can now point to this and look at how it effects the game. And if they decide to put something else in that buffs people... (not like most of us can make money selling buffs anyways) pfft... you get what I mean I hope. It's the foot in the door and I think the Devs really are looking at different options. So then maybe by the time they get around to the macro change they also add in something to help off-set the lack of Entertainers being around... say some rare loot item or npc that spawns on adventure planets to buff/heal those poor players that can't find an entertainer...
pfft
Panthu
Mon Oct 18, 2004 11:55 am
#7
Wow, you guys really don't miss anything... I only mentioned it once!Yes though, I did try to go after this before it went live and couldn't get a response. I brought it up again a few weeks ago and had my thread locked and no Dev response. Soooo yeah, I don't really know that we can do anything about these even if we want to.
Really, the whole Village thing has been such a weird thing for us, I was just going to try to quietly handle this on my own. I asked that either the crystal's buff be made to stack or for us to be given a chance to "recharge"* them.
I'll try again if this is a big issue for us. My motivation was more to secure our attachment to mind buffing, making money from mind buffing, and just getting some inclusion period. Our Ent Healing, Income, and Content Inclusion were all looking a little wobbly to me so I was trying to get some real answers on each point.
*It would make the item more useful if it could take multiple charges with out a timerand we could still be included and maybe make some money... it's a lot like the often suggested "holo recording buff charges"
Message Edited by Panthu on 10-18-2004 02:56 PM
Petronela
Tue Oct 19, 2004 4:20 am
#8
If the way the Crystals are atm is all there is to it, then I don’t have a problem with it at all.
Would have been nice if there was a limit of one per person but still, it doesn’t sound so bad.
However in the very back of my mind where the cynical part of me is I do harbor similar worries as DarkYoda.
If this is only a beginning of Devs way to make Mind buffs available for those who are too good to look for an entertainer because they are too busy being uber then I definitely wont be happy about it.
I hope I am wrong but if they really planning on over time replacing BoTs with various items then our problems wouldn’t change, they just get a new name and we will still remain on the end of the soup line.
So my question is:
Is this the only item we can expect being added in or is this just a prototype of new plague to come?
Deli'ah
Would have been nice if there was a limit of one per person but still, it doesn’t sound so bad.
However in the very back of my mind where the cynical part of me is I do harbor similar worries as DarkYoda.
If this is only a beginning of Devs way to make Mind buffs available for those who are too good to look for an entertainer because they are too busy being uber then I definitely wont be happy about it.
I hope I am wrong but if they really planning on over time replacing BoTs with various items then our problems wouldn’t change, they just get a new name and we will still remain on the end of the soup line.
So my question is:
Is this the only item we can expect being added in or is this just a prototype of new plague to come?
Deli'ah
tuls
Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:43 am
#9
Petronela wrote:
If the way the Crystals are atm is all there is to it, then I don’t have a problem with it at all.
Would have been nice if there was a limit of one per person but still, it doesn’t sound so bad.
However in the very back of my mind where the cynical part of me is I do harbor similar worries as DarkYoda.
If this is only a beginning of Devs way to make Mind buffs available for those who are too good to look for an entertainer because they are too busy being uber then I definitely wont be happy about it.
I hope I am wrong but if they really planning on over time replacing BoTs with various items then our problems wouldn’t change, they just get a new name and we will still remain on the end of the soup line.
So my question is:
Is this the only item we can expect being added in or is this just a prototype of new plague to come?
Deli'ah
Basically we can say it is just an item that seems like "super helpful" so it can be called "reward"but actually does not affect much things in practical application. What is in future is "mind damage healing" by Stims like old days or pet stims. But again that does not effect entertainers because we dont heal mind damage (not to confuse with mind wounds)
tuls
Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:47 am
#10
Panthu wrote:
Yes though, I did try to go after this before it went live and couldn't get a response. I brought it up again a few weeks ago and had my thread locked and no Dev response. Soooo yeah, I don't really know that we can do anything about these even if we want to.
Really, the whole Village thing has been such a weird thing for us, I was just going to try to quietly handle this on my own. I asked that either the crystal's buff be made to stack or for us to be given a chance to "recharge"* them.
I'll try again if this is a big issue for us. My motivation was more to secure our attachment to mind buffing, making money from mind buffing, and just getting some inclusion period. Our Ent Healing, Income, and Content Inclusion were all looking a little wobbly to me so I was trying to get some real answers on each point.
*It would make the item more useful if it could take multiple charges with out a timerand we could still be included and maybe make some money... it's a lot like the often suggested "holo recording buff charges"
Message Edited by Panthu on 10-18-2004 02:56 PM
ANY, ANY item that can be stacked is a danger for entertainer community. Rechargers, Holo-recordings and all... Do you think we will earn money in that kind of system? or a monopolised merchant sell them in their vendors with his/her alt pre-recorded. Any items that can be put in an 'inventory' means abondoned cantinas...
At least with that crystal, we are sure only too rich people can use it more than once in 4 days. Besides having it one time only means everyone will want to keep it for himself/herself.
Message Edited by tuls on 10-19-2004 09:50 AM
Goldy_Lhim
Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:55 am
#11
to anyone with 720 mind and higher my buff will be better (125%) and last longer. Anyone with 900 mind and betterwill receive a bonus going to a100% dancer. Most people max out that mind bar so most haveover this. It's good for a one time use every 4 days. I think its a good mix of rewards without hurting us. I'm not worried about it. Let them have their pukey crystal. I'm still the superior buffer.
One question though, does it do all mind stats or just what we can buff?
tuls
Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:05 am
#12
Goldy_Lhim wrote:
to anyone with 720 mind and higher my buff will be better (125%) and last longer. Anyone with 900 mind and betterwill receive a bonus going to a100% dancer. Most people max out that mind bar so most haveover this. It's good for a one time use every 4 days. I think its a good mix of rewards without hurting us. I'm not worried about it. Let them have their pukey crystal. I'm still the superior buffer.
One question though, does it do all mind stats or just what we can buff?
Just primary stats, so only mind pool, not focus & willpower
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