Doctor Archive
Thread: just got reported....
However I don't think you can expect people to know the ins and outs of buffing, anymore than someone who'd never made any armour would know the quirks of layering or whatever (I'm guessing here... never crafted armour either). It doesn't take much to shout your amount enchanced adding "(assuming less than 250 BF)". I see many docs shouting merely "Buffing for 8K" and always think they're just making life much harder for themselves with the inevitable barrage of questions, but that's another ramble.
if they have bf i usually try to warn them. i tell them they have high bf and it will effect the buff.. then i ask if they would like me to continue. Some people dont realise BF will effect the buff.
But no.. if someone gets a bad buff because of bf, you should not rebuff them for free. you are using the same amount of applications as though you buffed two people. If you warn them in the beginning, then you are not at fault
Sounds like there were two "noobs" in this situation. The buffee and the buffer. The buffee for not realizing that his BF does actually affects the final numbers on the buff he is getting, and then whining about not getting re-buffed. And the buffer for buffing more than one stat at a very noticably lower level and continuing to buff at said lower level, and then whining in the boards about the buffee whining.
Pleeter - Ahazi - MD/MCH
my question to you is why did you ignore the poor guy? If you would have replied and explained it to him, the situation might have been contained. the problem I find with most docs, it that most docs I have run into in the game have this superiority complex or a mightier than thou attitude?? I wonder why. Many times I have seen docs standing around an outpost and I politely send them a tell" hi there, are you buffing today?" everytime i ask this lately I just get ignored, no response?? are docs too good to respond to the average player now? do you guys actually think other players unworthy of your responses? and that is the problem I see with your issue. a simple explanation would have saved you the trouble you had.
I am currently working on master doc with an alt, lets see how it goes, so far its been fun, I have met lots of cool people. I have found no need to simply ignore people so far, but we'll see as I move up the ladder.
I am a master Doc, and I generally don't mind people asking me to buff them. If I am busy, I'll tell them I can't, but if I'm standing around, waiting for a shuttle or deciding where I should go, why not make a quick 9k. On the other hand, I never do buff lines, so I am not swamped all the time.
A recent post of 10 most annoying things said to a doctor listed, "Are you buffing?" Because if a doctor was buffing, they would advertise, or have a line. People like me mess that up though, because I have no interest in doing long lines, but i have no problem popping off some buffs - I keep my prices a little higher than many, which helps keep down the number off buffs I'm asked to do to a manageable level. I see where these other doctors are coming from though - if you are not a doctor or artisan, you wouldn't understand the amount of #$% these classes have to put up with. People seem to forget that there are players on the other end of the toons, because I am always amazed at the level of rudeness I had to put up with from perfect strangers. People think you are a buff bot, they pay, they get buffed. They don't want to wait, they want super buffs, and they want them yesterday - why aren't they buffed yet, how come another doctor buffed for 100 points higher yesterday, you're a #$%^*@# rip off; it never ends. Same thing happened to me when I was a tailor specializing in BIO-WARE. It got to the point where I cut and pasted some BE faqs into an Email message and told the person to read before ordering - after that, I made exactly what they ordered, and if it wasn't what they wanted, they could re-order and repay, because most customers thought if I made what they ordered, and it wasn't what they wanted, it was my fault, and I should replace for free and suck up the loss (I was not a BE, so I had to buy my components)
I guess the point is, if a doctor is ignoring someone, its probably not because they feel superior or smug, its because that the defense mechanism they use to deal with constant streams of demands, whines, and rudeness. Sometimes some legitimate questions might fall through the cracks, but as humanswe can only take so much before we shut down. I generally answer the first question- if it starts to look like a stream of questions, I direct them to the FAQ - if they annoy me, like "why cant you buff me right now", "Your buffs are too expensive" or whatever - i just /addignore - I get enough tells that I won't miss a few more.
Listen heres the main point (if you believe BF is common knowledge):
How many people reading this have recieved someone with mind wounds and BF and were asked to heal or called names because you wouldn't heal?
I've had it happen quite a few times, just my $.02
Ethalsar wrote:
...However, I think you might have been a little severe to a noob. The poster above says he now /diags all clients, not a bad idea in principle but a pain! I'd probably have re-buffed for free if I was convinced this was an honest case of new player not knowing how this worked.
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While this would be better customer service, I would have an issue breaking up my very expensive matched buffs just to rebuff their one stat.
My suggestion is to buff: action, health, quick, str, stam, con
If action is only 1100 when it should be 2200, it's not that big of a deal (unless you're hunting mobs of carbineers/pikemen). Just stop the buff, educate them, and then continue it once they've been to the cantina.