Dancer Archive

Some of you know me from my (more than) brash posts on the ID forums. Well, recently I decided to pick up dancer for the second time in my SWG tenure because I loved dancer when I did it, and honestly, there are only so many rancors a girl can kill before it gets old, quick.

The first time I mastered dancer was right after the game launched- infact I was among the first master entertainers on the Eclipse server. This was back when macros were still a mystery to the majority, AFK dancing was not an epidemic, and entertainers really entertained. I loved it. But soon as AFK macros with annoying spam came into the picture and the jedi grind became huge, I hauled tushy from the profession and took up combat classes... and ID... twice... because I am a sick human being.

Back then entertainer groups were fun... not only because there were less afks (not saying that people sat ATK the entire time), but because we all monitored each other's BS. Even if you hated someone in the cantina, you'd group together as a way to help each other out. There was comradery. Leadership of the group was always handed over easily from one person to another without an issue.

These are not true of dancer groups anymore.

I see so much cattiness it makes me sick. Last night I was dancing in the Theed cantina and I ran to my kitchen for a PB&J and some water. I get back and see I'm leader. The person who was leader did not ask to do this, they just did it and went AFK. Now, in my eyes this is rude. I wasn't there, and had I not been paying attention, I would not have realized the position I was in. So I verbalized this anger (quite tamely, I must add) in groupchat. One player decided my anger was funny and would say LOL after each thing I said. Growing annoyed, I told him to knock it off or I'd kick him from the group and put him on ignore for the night. He then began becoming INISISTANT on me making him leader. Realizing he'd kick me right away, I told him saracasticly that I'd rather choke on my own tongue than give it to him. I then put him on ignore. But I did not kick him. Even though he was annoying the garbage out of me, we needed each other for the experience.

So tonight I log back in to dance. I get into a group, which he happens to be in. As usual, he is in the group telling the leader what to do. After about fifteen minutes, he finally becomes leader... and what happens? I GET KICKED. Ok, no big deal, there are two groups in the cantina, so I just join the other one. I then send him a tell: "What the hell?"--- His reply "ignored "

Ok, so I am dealing with Mr. Maturity here.

Then the icing on the cake (and, I hope you all find this as amusing as I did) he DENIED ME SERVICE. (And yes, when this happened, I chuckled, I seriously did). Yeah, so, since when has a 1440 dancer relied on a novice musician for healing? Was this some kind of punishment? Ooooh, deny me service? PLEASE!

Honestly, last night I was annoyed when I told him I'd kick him and ignore him... but I didn't. All I did was ignore him. What has happened to this game that people are so vindictive? This is the normal garbage that makes the PvP in this game suck so bad... and it has entered the cantina. He might as well have sent me a tell saying that I was "pwned" and calling me "noob" or something ridiculous like that. It was on that level. I am now sitting here considering remastering dancer for the tag (I dropped it before the patch that gave the badges) and then dropping it immediately because I just don't want to deal with this garbage.

Back in the day, the worst abuse an entertainer could get was from a customer. Now it seems that it is our own colleauges that perpetuate the garbage. It is such a shame.

Ok, I'm done venting.

I don't know, the public cantinas aren't really the domain of the live Master Dancer anymore so I'm not sure that you'd really be running into this as a Master. I mean, I don't really see the point in mastering and dropping just because of this type of thing which is mostly just a leveling nasty.

Of course, if you are craving the cantina scene from pre-holos, no, we aren't really back to that.

Anyway, sorry you had a bad night. I'd go somewhere else to levelif this was me. Mean people make me cry.

LOL

I guess my wishes for the days of old show how long I've been playing.

Oh well, mean people get what they deserve eventually. This guy thrives on seeing others upset and angry... I shall just kill him with unending kindness...

He's probably somebody's alt grinding to be a bot anyway, thats the main problem with most of these rude grinders, they don't want to be part of the entertainer comunity, they want to grind thru it asap so they can bot somewhere and make thier main money.