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Thread: Mind Buff Guide and Other Tips
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lykos888
Wed Dec 03, 2003 8:52 am
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Since there seems to be some confusion about mind buffs, my girlfriend wrote this up. Customers don't have to unequip anything. They can sit, stand, walk around, heal you, it DOESN'T matter. She spent 6 hours testing all this last night, ruling out several scenarios and having people send tells when the buff ran out.
Master Guide to Mind Buffs and Other Tips
By Maev Darksun, Master Dancer, Naritus
I earned Master Dancer a few short hours ago. Up until this point, I had been dancing off and on since the game was delivered to my door in July. I spent a total of 12 hours away from the keyboard and macroed, the rest of the time I was at the keyboard pressing hotkeys, so I have a pretty good feeling of accomplishment right now. I also think I know a thing or two about dancing because I did it the hard way, at small cantinas, without any other dancers around to train me. Some dancers spent all their money on clothes, I spent it on training and spaceport tickets. I have had a lot of fun dancing and interacting since July.
Mind Buffs
These are very handy to anyone that uses their mind pool (the little blue bar). Most of those people are doctors, who will be your best friends because they will keep you dancing by healing you action bar (the green bar).
Any Novice Dancer can do these (Novice Musicians too, I hear). All it takes is a few easy steps and a watch, or timer. Remember, as easy as they are to do, they’re just as easy to screw up.
1. Make a macro advertising Mind Buffs. Mine says /shout “Mind Buffs available in the cantina! Double you Mind Pool in just five minutes for only 1k credits! Buffs can last up to two hours!” It gets people to come in.
2. When a customer comes in and asks you about mind buffs, ask if they want a one hour buff, or a two hour buff. Most will say two.
3. Inform them of this scale: A five minute dance yields a one hour buff, and a ten minute dance yields a two hour buff.
4. Now, the tricky part… Click on the person asking and type “/setperform”. They need to “/watch” you. Here’s where it can get screwed up. DON’T click on any other person or object. You are focusing all your energy and attention on one person. If you click on something else, at any time during the five minutes, the buff fails and you have to start over.
5. Here’s where you need the watch or timer. Have the person tell you when they are /watch ing you. Have them give you a signal, so you can keep track of the time. This is the next part where it can screw up. ANYTHING less than exactly five minutes cancels the buff. Five minutes to 9 minutes and 59 seconds will give them a one hour buff. Anything over ten minutes will give them a two hour buff.
6. Now you put on a show. Just flourish like normal. Light effects don’t really help, they just wear you out faster. When one flourish ends, do another. You might be able to macro something, but I haven’t tried that. Really, though, what’s five minutes of actually interacting with the customer? It made me feel like I was actually doing something.
7. At the end of the five or ten minute mark, depending on the buff, tell the customer to type “/stopwatch”. The buff will not kick in until then. If you did it right, you will see their mind pool bar jump up. Novice Dancers on up do a 75% mind buff, while a Master Dancer does a 100% buff. If their bar doesn’t go up, you have to start over.
8. People pay about 1k for a 1 hour buff and 2k for a 2 hour buff. Some will even tip more, but try not to ask. The only thing you should ask them to do, is tell their friends about you. I made about 49k credits last night not counting the system crash that stole 5k from me.
Mind buffs are great, I think, and a very nice addition to the game. If we could increase the secondary bars as well, that’d be great. The buffs are great because you actually have to be at the keyboard which means people who are AFK can’t do them. This means no more complaining about how much it sucks that they get all the tips without being there. This also means that a Novice can earn some pretty good money even with a Master in the same bar. A 75% buff is nothing to look down on.
That’s it for mind buffs. I have quite a few Dancer tips as well.
*Decide how you want to dance. Clothes on like a professional dancer, or revealing clothes like an exotic dancer. Remember: A person with a fun personality doesn’t always need to wear revealing clothing just to make tips.
*You will get licked and fondled, but you don’t have to put up with it. I’ve been harassed on many nights while wearing pants and a shirt. It’s just part of the territory. Employ a bouncer. It’s a fun roleplaying thing. Have a guy that always hangs out in the cantina threaten to duel the people that harass you. It works. Plus, bar fights get you healing XP. (And 15 incapped people on the floor all because of little old you is a nice ego boost!)
*Learn the Dance Knowledge column first. High level dances get you more XP and you’ll move up the other ranks faster by doing them.
*Join entertainer groups. You earn double, sometimes triple, your XP by dancing in groups with musicians and other dancers.
*If you are just looking for XP, go to either Theed on Naboo, or Coronet on Corellia. Those two cantinas have the biggest groups normally.
*Be nice to image designers. Those are the people begging for a practice dummy and puking in the corner from all the spice. Give them a free mind buff and let them practice on you. They’ll do things for free and they have some great hairstyles for you to try. Sometimes they’ll even pay you because nobody wants to help them and you can work as free advertising.
*The life of a dancer is all about making friends and getting connections. I have a list of new cantinas to visit, a list of up and coming clothing designers, a list of doctors, and a pretty good list of repeat customers who tip me way too much.
*The fastest way for a dancer to get killed, is by picking up a rifle and trying to participate in Player Vs. Player. Brawler, pistols, fencer, and Teras Kasai are the way to go and you get a dodge bonus from Master Dancer to help you out.
Hope this helps!
Master Guide to Mind Buffs and Other Tips
By Maev Darksun, Master Dancer, Naritus
I earned Master Dancer a few short hours ago. Up until this point, I had been dancing off and on since the game was delivered to my door in July. I spent a total of 12 hours away from the keyboard and macroed, the rest of the time I was at the keyboard pressing hotkeys, so I have a pretty good feeling of accomplishment right now. I also think I know a thing or two about dancing because I did it the hard way, at small cantinas, without any other dancers around to train me. Some dancers spent all their money on clothes, I spent it on training and spaceport tickets. I have had a lot of fun dancing and interacting since July.
Mind Buffs
These are very handy to anyone that uses their mind pool (the little blue bar). Most of those people are doctors, who will be your best friends because they will keep you dancing by healing you action bar (the green bar).
Any Novice Dancer can do these (Novice Musicians too, I hear). All it takes is a few easy steps and a watch, or timer. Remember, as easy as they are to do, they’re just as easy to screw up.
1. Make a macro advertising Mind Buffs. Mine says /shout “Mind Buffs available in the cantina! Double you Mind Pool in just five minutes for only 1k credits! Buffs can last up to two hours!” It gets people to come in.
2. When a customer comes in and asks you about mind buffs, ask if they want a one hour buff, or a two hour buff. Most will say two.
3. Inform them of this scale: A five minute dance yields a one hour buff, and a ten minute dance yields a two hour buff.
4. Now, the tricky part… Click on the person asking and type “/setperform”. They need to “/watch” you. Here’s where it can get screwed up. DON’T click on any other person or object. You are focusing all your energy and attention on one person. If you click on something else, at any time during the five minutes, the buff fails and you have to start over.
5. Here’s where you need the watch or timer. Have the person tell you when they are /watch ing you. Have them give you a signal, so you can keep track of the time. This is the next part where it can screw up. ANYTHING less than exactly five minutes cancels the buff. Five minutes to 9 minutes and 59 seconds will give them a one hour buff. Anything over ten minutes will give them a two hour buff.
6. Now you put on a show. Just flourish like normal. Light effects don’t really help, they just wear you out faster. When one flourish ends, do another. You might be able to macro something, but I haven’t tried that. Really, though, what’s five minutes of actually interacting with the customer? It made me feel like I was actually doing something.
7. At the end of the five or ten minute mark, depending on the buff, tell the customer to type “/stopwatch”. The buff will not kick in until then. If you did it right, you will see their mind pool bar jump up. Novice Dancers on up do a 75% mind buff, while a Master Dancer does a 100% buff. If their bar doesn’t go up, you have to start over.
8. People pay about 1k for a 1 hour buff and 2k for a 2 hour buff. Some will even tip more, but try not to ask. The only thing you should ask them to do, is tell their friends about you. I made about 49k credits last night not counting the system crash that stole 5k from me.
Mind buffs are great, I think, and a very nice addition to the game. If we could increase the secondary bars as well, that’d be great. The buffs are great because you actually have to be at the keyboard which means people who are AFK can’t do them. This means no more complaining about how much it sucks that they get all the tips without being there. This also means that a Novice can earn some pretty good money even with a Master in the same bar. A 75% buff is nothing to look down on.
That’s it for mind buffs. I have quite a few Dancer tips as well.
*Decide how you want to dance. Clothes on like a professional dancer, or revealing clothes like an exotic dancer. Remember: A person with a fun personality doesn’t always need to wear revealing clothing just to make tips.
*You will get licked and fondled, but you don’t have to put up with it. I’ve been harassed on many nights while wearing pants and a shirt. It’s just part of the territory. Employ a bouncer. It’s a fun roleplaying thing. Have a guy that always hangs out in the cantina threaten to duel the people that harass you. It works. Plus, bar fights get you healing XP. (And 15 incapped people on the floor all because of little old you is a nice ego boost!)
*Learn the Dance Knowledge column first. High level dances get you more XP and you’ll move up the other ranks faster by doing them.
*Join entertainer groups. You earn double, sometimes triple, your XP by dancing in groups with musicians and other dancers.
*If you are just looking for XP, go to either Theed on Naboo, or Coronet on Corellia. Those two cantinas have the biggest groups normally.
*Be nice to image designers. Those are the people begging for a practice dummy and puking in the corner from all the spice. Give them a free mind buff and let them practice on you. They’ll do things for free and they have some great hairstyles for you to try. Sometimes they’ll even pay you because nobody wants to help them and you can work as free advertising.
*The life of a dancer is all about making friends and getting connections. I have a list of new cantinas to visit, a list of up and coming clothing designers, a list of doctors, and a pretty good list of repeat customers who tip me way too much.
*The fastest way for a dancer to get killed, is by picking up a rifle and trying to participate in Player Vs. Player. Brawler, pistols, fencer, and Teras Kasai are the way to go and you get a dodge bonus from Master Dancer to help you out.
Hope this helps!
Rikilii
Wed Dec 03, 2003 8:58 am
#2
Is that 10 minutes for a 2 hour buff to all three stats, or just Mind?
Kuildeous
Wed Dec 03, 2003 9:07 am
#3
Rikilii wrote:
Is that 10 minutes for a 2 hour buff to all three stats, or just Mind?
It is just Mind. Musicians affect Focus and Willpower.
The write-up is nice, but there are a few inaccuracies that I need to point out. I will try to not sound too nitpicky (I'm overly critical anyway).
You can buff with less than 5 minutes. It just won't last too long.
Your buff is equal to your Mind Enhancement skill. You give a 75% buff only when you have Technique IV. If you have less than that, then your buff will be less than 75%.
There is no mention of the passive buff. I'd suggest including this because it's a great way to rake in tens of thousands of credits if you buff an entire group in half an hour (instead of spending 10 minutes per group member).
I'm not going to touch the uselessness of the special effects because in my mind this is still unproven territory. Some people say that the special effects help while some say they don't. It is my superstitious belief that the duration of the buff depends on how much strenuous activity you do, including flourishes and special effects. But I haven't done any scientific tests on that. I'll leave those arguments to those who have experimented more with this.
Good luck with the primer, though. It is definitely something we need.
Ravenmist
Wed Dec 03, 2003 9:18 am
#4
Still a lot of room for question, its just the nature of the system.. its just so darn screwy. I've been told things will get more simple for us here sometime in the future.. hopefully sooner then later. I can't give any specifics yet but just know that it won't always be this bloody complicated. 
Rikilii
Wed Dec 03, 2003 11:43 am
#5
So if musicians do the secondaries, and dancers do the primaries, can you get buffed by both simultaneously?
Groovymarlin
Wed Dec 03, 2003 12:48 pm
#6
Yes. A customer can watch a dancer and listen to a musician and get both buffs at the same time.
Ravenmist
Wed Dec 03, 2003 12:48 pm
#7
Rikilii wrote:
So if musicians do the secondaries, and dancers do the primaries, can you get buffed by both simultaneously?
No.. have to get one and then the other if your getting an active buff. You can with the passive buff but not the active as far as I know. You can have both buffs at the same time but they must be applied sepperately unless your grouped with them and doing the passive thing.
Message Edited by Ravenmist on 12-03-2003 11:50 AM
Ravenmist
Wed Dec 03, 2003 12:49 pm
#8
Groovymarlin wrote:
Yes. A customer can watch a dancer and listen to a musician and get both buffs at the same time.
Your talking about the passive buff right?
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