Dancer Archive
Thread: New Buff question
Simple: You get a better buff!!!
If you could buff yourself then you would overwrite any buff you had 10seconds after you started performing (you can only ever have one buff at a time).
But...
If you find an ATK Musician you can get a dedicated Dancer buff (+15% experience and more props use)
I think it's just awful to say we can do something for others that we can't make use of ourselves. I don't care what the fiction is or what you are trying to promote, it's a bad idea. 
Panthu wrote:
People need more reasons to play a Dancer, not just use one.
Thank you for speaking the truth, dear.
I was starting to think that you were a hopeless fangirl.
umm...I want to be able to buff myself. When that finally happened thought dancers/musicans actually got something /shrug...seems to me if i can use /inspire xxx i should be able to use /inspire Kacy and buff myself.
sorry, but I like this feature we have now..and it suxs it's being taken away.
Yeah, I said thanks for the "broken dance fix", I said thanks for the props, and I say thanks for the new buffs and the attempt to make them ATK only. If that makes me a fangirl, heh, I can live with that. I thought it just made me sane, but whatever. *shrug*
You can't fault me for being happy/excited/grateful when we get worked onfor one area, Sirii. I remember too well the Dark Ages of Ent development when any Dev who tried to do anything to improve our play experience was told no and that we were "working as intended."
Just because I amthankful for the improvement and excited to see it doesn't mean I think it's enough to cure all of our ills or fill all of our desires by itself.
There's nothing wrong with saying thank you for what they are doing though while we ask for additions beyond it. Not in my opinion at least.
Are we "working as intended," now?
Because I think they may have painted the professions in a corner. If we are to "sell buffs," then I don't think we'd be eligable for real rewarding system-driven play. If our only raison d'erte for dancing is to sell buffs, there is no reason for the system to subsidize our performance.
I don't think that's where we are, Sirii. They didn't say "here you go, new buffs, please get back to us never, buh buh."
If they did, I'd be freaking out too. Buffs are fine as part of a plan for us though. They can't be expected to give us a full game experience, but they can be very useful as part of a plan for us. They are just a vehicle to chatting up another prof set - just like BF, Mind Wound healing, and Mind buffing were meant to be.
As far as vehicles to chatting up other prof sets go, this is a nice one.
I still want active content for us, real missions and quests, things to do, ways to actively play with others, and ways to make money all as a Dancer. I just think these buffs seem to go with that big vision just fine though... and I've seen no reason to believe the Devs feel otherwise.
When they say "this is it, never ask us for anything ever again, be happy with what you have" and stop letting our corrs submit lists - let me know and I'll freak out too.
PoetDancer wrote:Are we "working as intended," now?
Because I think they may have painted the professions in a corner.
Interesting statement there... they have painted "the professions" into a corner.
You meant dancers and other entertainers, I know. But to be honest I think we are not the only one. I think the CU ended up with the devs painting most professions into a very tiny, narrow, uber-specialized corner (including all the combat profs), and it has really shallowed out the former depth of the game. Even in combat... I had no real choice but to turn my TKA/Scout/CH/Artisan into a TKA/Swordswoman because she just was not able to be effective without the dual-prof "template." The game is built now assuming all combatants will "template" themselves with a dual class (or you are forced to be in a group if you don't, and grouping just is not always convenient or sometimes possible). That eats so many points that variety is taken away. Gone are the days when you could dabble effectively... nobody that I know dabbles in anything anymore. People are pure crafters or pure entertainers or pure combatants, and the variety is gone... and I think you are right, that the devs have painted the profs into a corner... but it's not just us... it's with everything.
I think in the long run they are going to end up being very, very sorry they have done this. But time will tell.
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Kassidi wrote:Sorry if this has been asked before...search is down for me.but can someone please explain to me why it's intentional that dancers cannot buff themselves?
I think the idea is that they don't want crafters to just redo their templates to fit in novice dance or novice music and remove the need to see an entertainer.
For some reason I think the devs still see an extra account bot as a relatively rare occurance instead of 3/4 of the playerbase having at least 2 accounts and another 3/4 of that percentage having more than 2 and willing to buy another whenever there is something they want.
So I see the lack of self-buffing as a way to encourage people to go see entertainers instead of doing it themselves. But unfortunately the result seems to be "Darn now I have to buy a buffbot account" instead.