Dancer Archive

Musicians and dancers have different buffs...you might want to take a look at the "idiots guide to inspiration buffs" stickied above.

I could be wrong but I thought DE and SW were under musician.

Message Edited by Esharra on 08-31-2005 09:20 AM

So, to be a fully useable ATK ent you need tu use points on both elite ent profs? How friggin annoying, I was gonna take chef but that'll go out the window now.

I take it novice musician will b enough, just alot slower?

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Yiddo-Chimaera wrote:

So, to be a fully useable ATK ent you need tu use points on both elite ent profs? How friggin annoying, I was gonna take chef but that'll go out the window now.

I take it novice musician will b enough, just alot slower?

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It depends on if you want to be a buffbot, or a real player.

A buffbot needs both, yes.

A real player on the other hand has the ability to say "I choose not to do that and only dance."

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Doriana wrote:

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Yiddo-Chimaera wrote:

So, to be a fully useable ATK ent you need tu use points on both elite ent profs? How friggin annoying, I was gonna take chef but that'll go out the window now.

I take it novice musician will b enough, just alot slower?

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It depends on if you want to be a buffbot, or a real player.

A buffbot needs both, yes.

A real player on the other hand has the ability to say "I choose not to do that and only dance."

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Well, as my 3rd account I created this char to help my guild as a whole. Dancer/ID I chose as I like the profs and chef so I can actually make some money and seeing as my alt is a DE/SW it means I have to take a prof I didn't wanna take to help myself ... see the frustration?

Sorry I didn't read the forum before choosing my profs but I took the profs I liked not the ones I could see the best advantage in.

I can sorta see the point in what SoE have done but I personally don't like it so i'll have to make the choice ... novice musician or just get my buffs frm someone else.

*shrug* It's our version of "combat stacking". If you want to be a CL80 combat wombat, you have to take two elite masteries and maybe master marksman on top of it. If you want to be a "full service entertainer" you need to take two elite masteries and maybe master entertainer for the extra buffing bonus.

Welcome to the new world of Star Wars: Galaxy of Specialists. The current crop of devs don't want us to have broad character templates, they want us to have narrow ones (or they at least believe that PLAYERS want to have narrow ones).

The "novice box" buffs frustrate me a bit because:

1) It devalues the rest of the musician and dancer trees and

2) Rewards function over aesthetics

On the other hand, it makes dancers and musicians "useful" earlier, rather than making the profession without income until master.

Well if i can work out a viable alternative im pretty much dropping to dancer 0040, see no reason to be master anymore and this may stop me wanting to drop dancer completely.

What a joke.

more importantly what a shame.

Is that the only boxes u need then?

It is tempting just to go musician and dancer x x 4 x and forget mastery .... pity but I don't wanna just be a 'buffbot' as someone said, just able to do several things for guild in addition to what i wanna do for myself.

Well, gonna take a while to get used to it for sure ....

Novice Musician and Novice Dancer provide the full range of buffing options. The only thing advancing in either profession will give you is a longer duration on those buffs - from about 1.5 hours to about 3.5 hours from what I understand. If that's all you're interested in, then I think the Enhancement line (0x00) is all you need.

Message Edited by DanceRulez on 08-31-2005 11:35 AM

So far I haven't given anyone an inspration buff. The ASes are going to the musicians and it's looking to me as if dancers have got the worse deal. Hope that changes once the word gets around.