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Message Edited by Warenth on 03-01-2005 08:35 AM

It certainly sounds like you made the effort. I don't think you owe anybody an apology.

the latest patch has changed a lot of details about how buffing works, but I think duration is still tied to how often you flourish, with a maximum of two hours or so. Attachments only affect the strength of the buff, not the duration. I'm sure others in the forum will have more information for you shortly.


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I find that flourishing every 2 secs and dancing for 2.5 mins gets me a full 2 hour buff.

Ok buffing basics... The most important thing to remember is that it's all about the flourishes. The max buff duration is a little over 2 hours, and to get that you need to do 60 flourishes I think. (You can also get there with fewer flourishes and high level dances and longer periods of time, like 20 minutes I think, but most people expect faster buffs.) The system will cap you at no more than 5 flourishes every 8 seconds so if you do the math that's a little over a minute and a half minimum to get full effect. If you want, you can design a macro to deliver exactly the right number of flourishes in the minimum time and then stop. If you want you can spread the flourishes out more to make it take a little longer - a flourish every 2 seconds will deliver 60 flourishes (a full buff) in 2 minutes. What I usually do is to flourish manually as much as I can for about 2 minutes and it usually seems to work fine.

Note that I haven't said anything about which dance to do - the number of flourishes has more effect on the buffing process than anything else, so you may do any dance you choose - even Basic. You'll have to watch your action, though as higher level dances may use up all your energy before you can finish the buff if you haven't taken any action enhancers. If this does happen, it's ok to stop, wait till your action recovers or is healed and pick up again where you left off without affecting the buff (as long as you can remember how far along you were before you stopped). To get around this you can either use a low level dances with low flourish costs, get a quickness buff to minimize your action drain, or use action enhancing foods or whatever such as Accaragm.

As far Mind enhancement bonuses, these have no effect on duration, but do affect the percentage buff you give. I believe at master Dancer our base buff is 100% so if someone comes in with 1000 mind, they would be buffed to 2000 mind. Every point of Mind Enhancement bonus you can add will add 1% to the amount of the buff up to a max of 125%. Your +5 buff outfit should allow you to buff at 105% so the same player would be buffed to 2050 mind. While clothing tapes are available that could allow you to reach 125% (i.e. 20 more points in one or more tapes), these are usually looted off of certain mobs by other players and are generally priced out of the domain that most real dancers can afford, and usually just wind up with the buffbots.

If you did happen to wind up with one or more such tapes, be careful how you use them. Clothing tapes go into clothing with available sockets. Most clothing items will have one or more available sockets, and you will see the number available (if any) when you examine the clothing. Unfortunately clothing tapes with the same bonus do not stack in the same clothing item. If you have a +5 Mind Enhancement leotard, and you get a +3 Mind Enhancement skill tape, if you add it to that leotard it will still be only +5 when you're done, and your tape will have been wasted. If you had a +8 skill tape and add it to the leotard, the leotard will end up with +8 Mind Enhancement and not +13. What happens is that the larger value overwrites the smaller value for the same skill on the same item in both cases (if instead you'd added a +3 Instrument Assembly tape to the leotard, it would have both +5 Mind Enhancement and +3 Instrument Assembly because these are different skills and do stack).What you would then need to do with a +3 (or +8 or whatever actual bonus you might have) skill tape is to put it into a different item that you can wear at the same time and that has spare sockets. So maybe you have a pair of shoes, with a spare socket, that you wear with the leotard and that doesn't have any Mind Enhancement bonus. Add the +3 tape to the shoes, then when you wear them with the leotard, you will end up with a +8 Mind Enhancement bonus. If you get another Mind Enhancement skill tape later, add it to another clothing item - maybe headwear, or gloves. The bonus from each clothing item will stack together up to a max bonus of +25. I hope that helps.

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Warenth wrote:

Also the buff section in the sticky at the top is saying its no longer availabe.

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DanceRulez wrote:
Ok buffing basics... The most important thing to remember is that it's all about the flourishes. The max buff duration is a little over 2 hours, and to get that you need to do 60 flourishes I think. (You can also get there with fewer flourishes and high level dances and longer periods of time, like 20 minutes I think, but most people expect faster buffs.) The system will cap you at no more than 5 flourishes every 8 seconds so if you do the math that's a little over a minute and a half minimum to get full effect. If you want, you can design a macro to deliver exactly the right number of flourishes in the minimum time and then stop. If you want you can spread the flourishes out more to make it take a little longer - a flourish every 2 seconds will deliver 60 flourishes (a full buff) in 2 minutes. What I usually do is to flourish manually as much as I can for about 2 minutes and it usually seems to work fine.

Note that I haven't said anything about which dance to do - the number of flourishes has more effect on the buffing process than anything else, so you may do any dance you choose - even Basic. You'll have to watch your action, though as higher level dances may use up all your energy before you can finish the buff if you haven't taken any action enhancers. If this does happen, it's ok to stop, wait till your action recovers or is healed and pick up again where you left off without affecting the buff (as long as you can remember how far along you were before you stopped). To get around this you can either use a low level dances with low flourish costs, get a quickness buff to minimize your action drain, or use action enhancing foods or whatever such as Accaragm.

As far Mind enhancement bonuses, these have no effect on duration, but do affect the percentage buff you give. I believe at master Dancer our base buff is 100% so if someone comes in with 1000 mind, they would be buffed to 2000 mind. Every point of Mind Enhancement bonus you can add will add 1% to the amount of the buff up to a max of 125%. Your +5 buff outfit should allow you to buff at 105% so the same player would be buffed to 2050 mind. While clothing tapes are available that could allow you to reach 125% (i.e. 20 more points in one or more tapes), these are usually looted off of certain mobs by other players and are generally priced out of the domain that most real dancers can afford, and usually just wind up with the buffbots.

If you did happen to wind up with one or more such tapes, be careful how you use them. Clothing tapes go into clothing with available sockets. Most clothing items will have one or more available sockets, and you will see the number available (if any) when you examine the clothing. Unfortunately clothing tapes with the same bonus do not stack in the same clothing item. If you have a +5 Mind Enhancement leotard, and you get a +3 Mind Enhancement skill tape, if you add it to that leotard it will still be only +5 when you're done, and your tape will have been wasted. If you had a +8 skill tape and add it to the leotard, the leotard will end up with +8 Mind Enhancement and not +13. What happens is that the larger value overwrites the smaller value for the same skill on the same item in both cases (if instead you'd added a +3 Instrument Assembly tape to the leotard, it would have both +5 Mind Enhancement and +3 Instrument Assembly because these are different skills and do stack).What you would then need to do with a +3 (or +8 or whatever actual bonus you might have) skill tape is to put it into a different item that you can wear at the same time and that has spare sockets. So maybe you have a pair of shoes, with a spare socket, that you wear with the leotard and that doesn't have any Mind Enhancement bonus. Add the +3 tape to the shoes, then when you wear them with the leotard, you will end up with a +8 Mind Enhancement bonus. If you get another Mind Enhancement skill tape later, add it to another clothing item - maybe headwear, or gloves. The bonus from each clothing item will stack together up to a max bonus of +25. I hope that helps.

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so there is a leotard with +5 to dance mind enhance, but no item of clothing that can add to music?
also, what else can be worn with a leotard?

Message Edited by Devil_Tiger on 03-11-2005 10:28 AM

thanks for the reply, sadly it didnt help at all but it could be that i phrased my question badly...i'll try again

My guild has pitched in for a lot of CAs for our entertainer and we want to know if we need +20 (and can use some BE clothing)OR +25 in music AND dance mind enhancement to get her capped.

Im hearing that there are leotards with +5 to dance, but nothign for music. Can somebody confirm that for me?