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Thread: How long should a Master Dancer take to LEGALLY buff someone with the 2 min watching time?
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Cry4Dawn
Sun Jul 11, 2004 9:24 am
#1
I thought we had to buff for like 8 mins to get a legal buff done at master level. Can anyone give me a time that always works for them that is a legal time frame?
Redleg34
Sun Jul 11, 2004 9:52 am
#2
I've done them in 4 mins flat.I use a quickness or stamina buff and have a macro that flourishes 4 times in a row then pause for 8 seconds then another block of 4 flourishes, and so on.
Cry4Dawn
Sun Jul 11, 2004 7:19 pm
#3
Anyone else have a better answer.. that doesnt sound very helpful
Goldshadow
Sun Jul 11, 2004 8:13 pm
#4
It works perfectly. I do 5 flos with a pause 8 and I can full master buff in 3 min 20 sec.
Roho
DarkY0da
Sun Jul 11, 2004 9:41 pm
#5
3:20 doing the 5 flourish per tick.(flourish every 2 seconds). There was a thread around here about doing it faster then that but I haven't tried it. I tend to just set the alarm for 3 minutes and then wait a few seconds after it goes off to tell them it's done.
Lesia
Wed Jul 14, 2004 2:10 am
#6
About 12 minutes to do a buff using a normal dance macro. The fast buff is neither approved nor disapproved, so it seems to be okay to use, but it doesn't look very nice. I resisted using the fast buff for a long time but player pressure eventually caused me to give into the 3.5 minute ugly buff. You can also do an under buff by having them /stopwatch when you finish the first buff and /startwatch for another buff, but they can't /stopwatch until the first buff disappears and you need to be nearby (it's good for group buffing and can give your group 4 hours of mind buffing).
bawler14
Wed Jul 14, 2004 10:32 pm
#7
I can pull a Master Musician Buff in 3:10... it is all about flourish count. Anything above 2 min is technically legal... But 3:10 is fastest I've seen and that drains action like none other... As a Twi, I can pull it off once before dropping, barely.
Dancer flos cost more action and take longer... Don't know if you can spam them as quickly. So 3:10 - 3:20 is the best you'll likely get.
As to 8 min buff, that is if you flourish at the normal rate. There is no "illegal" buff times anymore to my knowledge... You can over flo... and hit 3:10, but that is fastest I've heard of.
kirah_ashlin
Thu Jul 15, 2004 4:03 am
#8
Lesia wrote:
About 12 minutes to do a buff using a normal dance macro. The fast buff is neither approved nor disapproved, so it seems to be okay to use, but it doesn't look very nice. I resisted using the fast buff for a long time but player pressure eventually caused me to give into the 3.5 minute ugly buff. You can also do an under buff by having them /stopwatch when you finish the first buff and /startwatch for another buff, but they can't /stopwatch until the first buff disappears and you need to be nearby (it's good for group buffing and can give your group 4 hours of mind buffing).
I use the 3:20 buff and its anything but ugly with E3. Its a very simple 2 flo macro and thepatron "sees" 1 out of every threemoves. I've asked many of my patrons about the look of the dance and they allsaid it looks normal and lovely.
Also, while I've nevertried that secondary buff you are talking about (to be honest, to me it seems like a possible exploit), we had a discussion about it a few weeks ago and I thought it was determined not to be viable anymore.
Beliala
Thu Jul 15, 2004 9:50 am
#10
I use to do it in 3.5 mins just to be sure when it's base defense, but with the quick buff it can be done in 3.2 mins, just use it in emergencies, never tell anyone in my guild about that quick buff (and strange thing noone knows :smileytongue
so i can have fun doing long buffs all the time
so i can have fun doing long buffs all the time
Pthalio
Tue Jul 20, 2004 6:15 am
#11
I use the 3:20 buff and its anything but ugly with E3. Its a very simple 2 flo macro and thepatron "sees" 1 out of every threemoves. I've asked many of my patrons about the look of the dance and they allsaid it looks normal and lovely.
Also, while I've nevertried that secondary buff you are talking about (to be honest, to me it seems like a possible exploit), we had a discussion about it a few weeks ago and I thought it was determined not to be viable anymore.
I also always use E3 for buffing and everyone always says it looks nice even with the macro.
KindredUK
Wed Jul 21, 2004 5:24 am
#12
Theoretically if you flourished every second you would full buff in 1:40 (100 seconds/100 flourishes), but since theres a 2 minute minimum you'd have to carry on for another 20 seconds anyway. But still, full buff in 2 min should be possible shouldn't it?
Xyrdre
Wed Jul 21, 2004 5:32 am
#13
Except that the system has a cap of 5 flourishes per 8 second tick. You can't flourish once per second and have the game recognize it.
Last we counted it was 3:20 minimum for full duration, with the apparently intended 'overflo' method of 5 flos per tick.
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