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Thread: Been dancing a couple of days, now some more questions about XP...
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EuroTrash
Fri Feb 27, 2004 8:34 am
#1
1. I understand you want to dance your best dance. I read how you need to have a flourish at least one a tick. What's a tick? I know what is a tick (DOT) gut never really thought how long is a Tick - 3, or 5 seconds?
2. If you have Doc buffed Action/Stamina (you really don't need quickness and stamina - did you knwo that) - do you need to - should you - use any /pause in macro - or just flourish away non stop in a loop?
3. If you have a someones second toon whos hurth himself or got hurt (all black bars, you know what I mean), does it matter if the hurt guy is in Ent. group - or not and just watching?
2. If you have Doc buffed Action/Stamina (you really don't need quickness and stamina - did you knwo that) - do you need to - should you - use any /pause in macro - or just flourish away non stop in a loop?
3. If you have a someones second toon whos hurth himself or got hurt (all black bars, you know what I mean), does it matter if the hurt guy is in Ent. group - or not and just watching?
Breestan
Fri Feb 27, 2004 8:51 am
#2
You know when you do a flourish? Say you execute a flourish then up pops "You recieve 10 dancing experience" .... there is a pause.... then "You recieve 9 dancing experience" The time between 10 and 9 is a tick. Each tick is one more number in the countdown to 0. I never timed out how long it is.
I have pauses in my macros because mine were not to grind. But also- say you are getting 10 exp for the first tick of a flourish- but before that tick goes to 9 you do 6 flourishes, instead of getting 60 exp from 6 flourishes you only seem to get 20. 10 from the first tick and 10 from the last flourish before the next tick. You only get exp at each tick- not any sneaky ones crammed in there. So it is more frugal to let there be a pause. Let it go to 9 before doing another.
Besides- you most likel want to get the most out of each flourish. Let's say you are currently getting 10 exp at the first tick of the flourish..... if you wait until it says "You recieve 5 dancing exp" at that point you have gotten 45 exp off of one flourish. (Add 10, 9, 8, 7, 6 and 5 together.) Buffs are great, but you still want to get the most out of each flourish. Why settle for draining your action (buffed ot no) really fast for a few easly points, when you could effectively tripple the ammount of exp. At the very least, do one flourish per tick- you get 40 exp in 4 ticks. But you won't get any more by doing 8 flourishes in 4 ticks.
Healing is healing. The only time grouping seems to do any good is for passive mind buffing. People walk ing, sit down and watch the dancers. I'm not sure how it is now, but when I was a young dancer I don't remember ever being able to heal mind wounds (heck, I can't remember if mind wounds existed....) It's been a long time though since I recieved exp for healing anyone hehehe.
nvoigt
Fri Feb 27, 2004 9:04 am
#3
A tick as already mentioned is the time that passes when you flourish between one xp gain and the next.
Dancers can flourish once per tick for optimal xp gain, Musicians twice. You can flourish 5 times per tick maximum, but you will only get xp for 1 flourish ( dancer ) or 2 flourishes ( musician ), so flourishing more often is a waste of action as far as xp is concerned.
Lam517
Fri Feb 27, 2004 9:49 am
#4
to fully maximize downtime (unbuffed) I do a /flo every other tick you only loose 1xp for the tick after you /flo'd so by skipping ticks you maximize action and eliminate Down time
EuroTrash
Fri Feb 27, 2004 11:15 am
#5
and in other words - will someone translate to:
/flo1;
/pause x;
/flo2;
x=?
thanks.
/flo1;
/pause x;
/flo2;
x=?
thanks.
ArgentWulf
Sat Feb 28, 2004 5:19 am
#7
5 might be a little fast unless you are a musician try 8 also vary them with the dance so the flow can end and you get a visually appealing dance. How do you get to the Royal Place? ...practice...practice...practice...
also vary them with the dance so the flow can end and you get a visually appealing dance. How do you get to the Royal Place? ...practice...practice...practice...
MonkeyofDoom
Mon Mar 01, 2004 6:39 am
#8
I think I have pause 8 on my dancer's macro, but she does have 1100 Health and 700 on both secondaries.
EuroTrash
Mon Mar 01, 2004 8:59 am
#9
Thanks! Done dancing
So for musician someone said you can flourish twice a tick?! so
/pause 4?
So for musician someone said you can flourish twice a tick?! so
/pause 4?
TempestSquad01
Wed Mar 03, 2004 9:44 am
#10
I think the cap for musician is 5. Almost 100% sure that if you do it any faster it won't do anything. Not sure about dancer thou, was trying to find out myself. I was told 10 seconds was the fastest you could do flourishes, might be 8 thou.
*Edit* Just tested it. I had flourishes every 8 seconds and was only getting exp every 10 seconds. So tick for dancer is 10 seconds for cap.
Message Edited by TempestSquad01 on 03-03-2004 08:46 AM
GerRob
Thu Mar 04, 2004 6:19 am
#11
try
/flo 1
/flo 1
/pause 10
---repeat---
gets max xp, change the pause length to work with your action bar
/flo 1
/flo 1
/pause 10
---repeat---
gets max xp, change the pause length to work with your action bar
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