Dancer Archive

Hello. My name is Goldy Lhim, Master Dancer and former Master Doctor of the Kauri Galaxy and I'm Force Sensitive. I had 75 badges before publish 10 hit and did 3 holocrons. I've been a dancer since launch and the only time I wasn't a master dancer was while I did those 3 holocrons.

Here's the story of my FS journey thus far from a Dancer/Doctor (no combat what so ever) point of view. Its pretty lengthy, you don't have to read it if you don't want to, I just think documentation on the trials of a non-combat in this new system may prove useful later on. Perhaps not, but it can't hurt.

I had tried my template against the Sith on TC2 when those character builders were available. First time I got the Sith to spawn some guy, thinking I was in trouble, killed the Sith and "saved me". I was unable to loot and not able to continue on my path. So I deleted that character and tried again, this time I made sure I was in the middle of no where for the Sith attack. Second run, I was fully buffed and in composite armor with a republic blaster (very much like what I would have on live), it took me 1 hour to kill just 1of the Sith solo. Ugh. Why are they making me fight at all?

I was glowy after publish 10 went live and was visited by the old man 2 days later. From my test center romp I knew I did not want to be alone when these Sith attacked. So I latched onto my husband's (Illiam) side and followed the Master Ranger / Novice Bounty Hunter wherever he went.

We went to Endor. I buffed him and myself and we were off looking for specific meat for an order he had. I was bored out of my skull. With my doctor buffs (I was a master doctor still at this time) he needed very little attention so I preoccupied myself with important tasks like getting my lipstick to match my armor.

I had 15 minutes left on my doctor buffs, Illiam just set up one of his uber tents for me to dance and heal in when I was under attack! It was the Siths only this time they conned blue since I was grouped with Illiam and he killed them in about 5 seconds flat. Man it was a lot easier than solo! Still don't understand why killing Siths proves my FS-ness.

I loot the data disc and head to the next waypoint where Illiam killed the rest of the Sith and I was invited to Aurilia.

After driving through the dangerous planet of Dathomir and only getting incapacitated once by some of those evil miniature raptor things, I arrive in Aurilia. First thing I notice, I am the only dancer in the joint. People are surprised I am there and say things like "Woah, its Goldy! What are you doing here?" Undaunted by reactions, I pull up my guides on whom to talk to in the village.

My 3-holocron professions granted me 2 free unlocks. This is where it got difficult for me. Really difficult. You see the FS trees didn't really have a whole lot to offer me. My dancer and medical experience transferred into the Senses tree, my medical crafting transferred into the crafting tree. But the branches themselves had very little to offer me to enhance my character.

Since I hate crafting with a deadly passion, I blew away my 2 free unlocks on Experimentation and Assembly in the crafting line. I would have hated to have to grind out enough medicines to fill those. My Master Dancer / Master Doctor template only allowed 4 spare skillpoints, so I dropped some of the doctor crafting boxes to make enough room for those 8 skill points I needed.

Now with the majority of my skills going toward the senses experience, I decided it be best to just get master senses in order to get my remaining 4 lines needed for a Jedi.

Problems that may arise for folks in situations like mine, Phase 1 in the Senses line requires you to be a master medic to even get the quest. I was a 4/4/4/2 doctor so I could get the quest but not all dancers/musicians are medics.

My husband wanted to transfer his ranger skills (trapping, camps, etc) into this line but was also denied the persuasion skills because he's not a master medic. In fact there's not much he can do with his ranger skills, as you have to be a medic or artisan to complete them. He is neither but a good chunk of what he does transfers to this line. Just a note to show this isn't just effecting non-combat folks like us, this entire tree is sort of biased.

This quest is for the persuasion line, which (I would think) should be obtainable by everyone, not just master medics. It helps reduce costs from NPCs, it doesn't make them better medics so why this requirement is in place is a tad absurd. This quest should be changed to something more generic that anyone could unlock.

Looking ahead, I believe phase 2 requires you to survey to unlock. I'm unsure if it’s the survey branch or luck branch that is next as I've seen 2 guides that contradict each other on the order of the phases for this tree.

I believe it is luck in which case I would argue the same with the persuasion branch, forcing of artisan skills for something this generic of a bonus is darn silly. Why do I need to survey to gain some luck? It isn't a bonus to survey that I can figure. The description makes it look like you have a chance of finding better loot. I could be wrong though. If I'm not, this quest should be changed to something anyone can do, fighter or not.

If it's for the survey line, I can see it making sense. You want to enhance your surveying you should be able to survey. Some dancers may have artisan but I sure don't and I need to find room in my template to obtain this skill temporarily just to unlock 2 branches.

Now let me say right away, I'm dedicated to doing this. I shall be the first Master Dancer on Kauri to complete the Padawan Trials if I can help it. The idea of continuing to dance/heal/buff and play my character as I want while working toward my Jedi is a much better solution than the holocrons and constant profession swap. But this system could use some tweaking still, in my opinion.

Mostly my selection for FS skills is very limited. Only 1 line offers me a bonus to my healing, the rest is essentially junk to me. I don't craft often making those 2 lines I obtained for free pretty useless. I am at my finished template so persuasion doesn't help me at all, I don't hunt making luck not kick in and I am not an artisan yet I will be getting the survey tree just because I have no other choices to spend my Senses exp on. I suppose instead of the Luck and Survey line, I could get Crafting Mastery tree to full but even that has junk in it. Doctors don't need the repair or technique line for their medicines.

I'm feeling sort of left out on the neat new enhancements for non-combat lines. Like dancers and medics were an afterthought in the whole Jedi plan. Granted probably 80% of the combat profession want Jedi and they are a much larger audience than the healers/crafters, but that doesn't mean we don't deserve useful enhancements as well.

The dancer bonus in the healing branch is positively worthless. I could get those with BE clothes, why not give us a real bonus. Reduced action costs, a new song/dance, bonus to mind enhancements, the missing flourishes from exotic! I would have taken any of these over + to wound healing.

What I think needs to be looked at: