Dancer Archive
Thread: patch 13 changes....buffs working?
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SianGali
Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:23 pm
#1
Profession Entertainer / Dancer / Musician
- The minimum time required to watch an Entertainer before having a mind buff applied has been reduced from 2 minutes to 1 minute.
- Increased Entertainer/Dancer/Musician wound healing
- It now takes half as long to apply an Entertainer mind buff.
- It now takes a quarter of the time it used to take to heal Mind/Focus/Willpower wounds.
I am at work all night &curiousabout what I will be logging into later. Anyone have time to let me know if these changes are working right? After the last patch "broke" buffs temporarily....I am a bit nervous! 
Thank you 
Else-Whira
Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:25 pm
#2
I was able to give mind buffs this morning with problem.
(Was in a group did several at one time. All of my SEAs worked as well.)
(Was in a group did several at one time. All of my SEAs worked as well.)
Xyrdre
Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:43 pm
#3
Else-Whira wrote:
I was able to give mind buffs this morning with problem.
(Was in a group did several at one time. All of my SEAs worked as well.)
Err... with problem, or without problem?
Makin' me nervous here...
Else-Whira
Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:36 pm
#4
Sorry *no* problem.
My forum is too new to allow me to edit. :/
My forum is too new to allow me to edit. :/
SianGali
Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:44 pm
#6
Aww hope you feel better Else!
/hugs and some advil for you.
/hugs and some advil for you. Thanks for the good news!
DanceRulez
Fri Feb 11, 2005 3:55 am
#7
Actually got a buff request from a guildie tonight. It worked just fine, and I delivered a full buff in less than 3 minutes I think. I figure the new minimum buff time must be under 2 minutes by now, but I didn't get him to stop watching fast enough.
kirah_ashlin
Fri Feb 11, 2005 4:58 am
#8
Isn't thatthe minimum time the patron has to watch for a buff to be applied - not the minimum time to apply a full buff? I haven't buffed yet, but I'm assuming it now takes a little over a minute and a half to apply a 2 hour buff with 120 flos (like I want to dance that fast . . . . ).
Drygo
Fri Feb 11, 2005 5:37 am
#9
For whatever reason, I had a lot of people ask me for buffs last night. There also happened to be a master musician there too. So, people were able to receive buffs from both of us at the same time, and I was able to do buffs in 2 minutes, whereas before I did it in 4.
The buff only failed once. And, I think that's because I kept telling the person he could stop watching, but he seemed to be afk. After a little bit, I just decided to go on to the next person rather than keep them waiting. So, I started my /setperf on someone else, and when the first person came back he said it didn't work. So, I think that's why. People are going to have to get used to actually staying there while I buff because I'm not gonna wait for someone's 30 minute toilet break.
Um, anyway...it worked on the second attempt on this guy. So, it seems to have worked.
Xyrdre
Fri Feb 11, 2005 6:21 am
#10
When I was testing theshorter timerequirements on TC, I was able to deliver full duration buffs using our standard 5 flo/tick method in 1:30, although 1:20 would probably get it too. An extra 10 seconds to make sure, and the inevitable few extra seconds before they actually /stopwatch after saying they're good to go, and we had no problems. Except the one guy in testing who refused to believe that the full buff was ready that fast... I couldn't get him to /stopwatch for 3 more minutes.
DanceRulez
Fri Feb 11, 2005 12:30 pm
#11
kirah_ashlin wrote:Isn't that the minimum time the patron has to watch for a buff to be applied - not the minimum time to apply a full buff? I haven't buffed yet, but I'm assuming it now takes a little over a minute and a half to apply a 2 hour buff with 120 flos (like I want to dance that fast . . . . ).
There were two comments in the patch notes on buffing, Kirah. One was the the minimum watch/listen time to receive a buff had been cut in half from 2 minutes to 1 minute. The other comment was that buffing time was cut in half. Since the minimum time before for a max buff was something like 3 minutes 20 seconds, now it should be maybe 1 minute 40 seconds. I'm waiting to see who verifies the minimum time first.
Maisland
Fri Feb 11, 2005 12:33 pm
#12
I use a personalized variation of one of the non-recursive buff macros that were posted here awhile back. These macros do the 5 flo/pause 8 enough times that I used to need to run it 4 times to give a buff. I can now give a full buff by running it twice instead. So we only need to do 60 flourishes now. 
I have tested it with both group and directed buffs. Everything works fine.
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