Dancer Archive

**edit** is with dancer buffs? I buff a guy he comes back 3 hours later, and I cannot buff him, no matter how hard I try..

Sometimes they buff, othertimes they don't. There seems to be no Rhyme or Reason to how they work!!!

I've come to the conclusion that these are just another buggy as hell aspect to this buggy as hell game. Or am I wrong?

From what I've seen, when someone is buffed... then dies... they can not be buffed again.

There have been several 'fixes' mentioned by dancers. The biggest one I see combatants do is have someone else kill them. That's always worked for me (Though it's beyond me why - when death causes the bug- death fixes it. )

But perhaps the logging will work, I don't remember anyone doing it. It may, or may not. ....perhaps everyone I buff just likes letting others kill them. >.>

I know when doc buffs get bugged, you have to get killed or log out for a long period for a rebuff to work, but I have never had a problem when I did mind buffs with my hunting party. Every thime the buffs ran out, we poped up camp and rebuffed and it always worked.

I ran into this bug last night. I never had problems with mind buffs before but I found a player who I could not buff no matter what I tried. Logging in and out didn't work. Death didn't work either.

This is a CROCK OF CRAP....

TIME AFTER TIME I cannot buff people.. 7 different customers tonight..

SONY FIX THIS CRAP..

I'm so pissed off, i'm ready to delete dancer right now, I swear, this is annoying beyond godly believe...

I have had it happen to this very nice lady, Stefanie, who already tipped me and no matter we tried I could not get her buffed. Tho she told me I could keep the tip for a next time I still felt very sad that it had to go that way.

It also can get nasty when customers don't understand there is a bug and they get violent with you. That too happened, but as others have witnessed I somehow seem to attrack the problem crowd. *shrug*

This happens with every profession- and it is garaunteed to happen in a game of this size- bugs show up and if you make a patch that works on a small scale you don't see the whole picture until you have it live with thousands of people playing to give you better odds of finding the bug.

However, this has been around for a while. It is nothing new. I dealt with it back in october and I know others have as well. This is why I keep an eye on them to make sure the buff takes.

The only thing that I have seen work to get rid of the 'bug' is the character being Death blowed by someone or something else. Yes it is a hassle, but it's a fact of life right now. The doctors have the same problem. It's not just you, it's not your character's fault. Actually, it's the dweeb who got the buff then got killed anyway. ::snickers:: I think that's what does it. Dying while buffed. (Some have said it may also be linked to going link dead, but I've done that and not had a problem)

But, while the bug is repeatable, it can not really be produced on command. Sometimes it happens sometimes it doesn't. All we know is that dying a second time tends to fix it. SOE is not ignorant of this problem.

Besides, the DEVS don't read these boards, the corospondents do. Posting on a Dev forum is more likely to bring this to their attention again.