Dancer Archive
Thread: Healing XP spikes?
I've only noticed them for about the last week; I could've easily missed them earlier, because watching my XP counters tick away has never been my idea of fun, and only then because another dancer in my group got a sequential pair of 'hits' of over 1k healing XP each, and asked if everyone received the spike. Scrolling back... nope, it was just a spike for the one dancer. About a half hour later, she got another pair... and again, it seemed to just be her.
A few days later, it happened to me as well. Two healing XP spike pairs, one pair of which was 13xx and 5103 in the two consecutive hits.
Although a quick spike in healing XP is most welcome, I don't know why or how this happened. At the time of these spikes, I was dancing Exotic 2, in a fairly large group, wasn't using any lights or effects, and just splitting time between chatting with patrons, group chat and hitting periodic flourishes... nothing that I'd consider to be 'special' to trigger a huge healing XP hit.
Haven't seen anything mentioned on the forums about this yet... is this a known bug or feature? It sure felt like a reward... but I have no idea what I might have done to be so rewarded, so my first assumption was that it is random. Might it have something to do with those that are watching, i.e., if enough people with a certain combined amount of bf or mind wounds are watching a dancer or group, does it initiate the possibility of these spikes occuring?
Back when I was working up the Dancer skills (October) I used to get healing xp spikes as well. Didn't really take any notice until I was on the last healing xp skill box. I tested it out a few times to try and see what was going on. I checked my group was all dancing in the main room of the cantina as a customer walked in and started watching. I'd start getting the xp and then it would just stop for no reason. Later I'd get a spike of healing xp, usually a few hundred but on occasion 1000 odd and once I'm sure I got a 3000 spike.
I found out that when I stopped getting xp it wasn't because there was no more healing to be done because I could stop dancing, start again and start getting the xp again. I should of /bug'd it really but it was back when I was new and didn't even know about /bug.
I think Rangergirl is on the right track with her theory. I've seen this happen often but usually only with large groups and many patrons. I think it is a "lump sum" of xp the system has stored up that wasn't doled outin the smaller amounts like a dancer wouldnomrally get. Its been ages since I really paid attention to xp since after reaching masteryour xpjust becomes a bunch of meaningless numbers on the side of the character screen until it maxes.
Healing spikes have been in existence since launch. But it seems to catch up sooner or later,,
Worry about either dance or music exp,,healing will come naturally
Yes, it was a large group on a busy day. But I'm sure I was getting the system ticks. Unless it's a really weird bug, where the system messages say you're getting the XP, but you really aren't (I didn't check against the XP totals on the skills screen... this would be difficult to test anyway, as you'd have to pretty much know that a spike was coming to start tracking). If that were the case, and we still got a system message for the 'payback' of owed and previously earned XP, that would make sense at least.
Well, in either case it's certainly a lot of fun for a brief moment to look down and see those kinds of numbers. If it was just lump payments of previously earned XP, that's fair. If it was a huge bonus due to a bug or hidden feature, I'll still take it.
