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seems teh new patch bugged the duration of enhance packs again.... i used a couple on me and others and they wear off after 10-60 seconds and u arnt able to rebuff ya for the next duration period..... damm when will they fix those damm packs finaly ... its a pain in the ..... now u cant even do silly Lok missions without a tamer pet since u cnat buff a human tank....

They were never fixed, so they weren't rebugged.

For the record: as of now, as it has been since the game began, enhance packs are bugged such that the effect wears off if you cross a zone boundary in the game. Some zone boundaries are obvious, such as when you enter or exit a city and get the "You have entered(left) Theed" message. Others aren't obvious and don't give status messages, so your enhancement just up and disappears.

This is the #2 issue being submitted by the doctor correspondant -- because not only do enhance packs have these problems, they can also "stick" your HAM bar so that you can't see how badly you're injured.

Caveat emptor.

not true i used enahnce packs before that patch and they "worked" at least in 90% of time if u did not die/zone and my packs hold around 60mins always on my group of friends.....?

i posted a list of all the high level doc bugs i found like 2 weeks after release, this was on it.

Daver is correct there. The only time they drop is when you zone/shuttle/die. And even then you have to wait the full duration to rebuff.

There is SOMETHING odd on Lok. More than once I have gone back to the city to get new missions and KEPT my buffs, but every so often they do fade. I have no clue why but that has happened to me both ways, keep buffs/not keep buffs. I guess it depends on which way you take into the city.

As for the locking HAM bars, I think I have found (least in my case) that they are not truly 'locked', but capped. If you have 2100 health you don't show damage till your health falls below 1200. So from 2100 to 1200 they are 'locked' (capped) and below that level they work fine.

I am getting used to it. When I can see white on the bars, its time to heal.

Yes, enhance packs (buffs) suffer from many bugs. When you do something just a little bit out of the ordinary, the bonus is CANCELLED but the timer remains so you cannot refresh until the buff was supposed to run out.

Buffs were half my reason for picking Doctor, and if they will remain bugged forever, I will seriously consider to ditch the whole deal (and all the time I put into it will have been more or less wasted).

This is a list of things that cancels my buffs (of course the timer remains so you are badly out of luck for the rest of your buff period, you cannot rebuff until the timer runs out):

These I have experienced many times to cancel buffs:
- Burstrun
- Place a harvester
- Buy a shuttle ticket from a terminal
- Go on a shuttle trip
- Die

Shuttle traffic and dying would be fine to reset the buff if only the timer was removed too. After all, you don't get from one planet to another in a split second, and death is special. PLEASE remove that timer when buffs are cancelled!

These I tried once (and I don't want to try again and waste more buffs):
- I entered a camp of a player not in my party
- I took a big hit from a rogue Falumpaset
- I was killing gnorts and the buff went away for some odd reason

--inka

Well the HAM not updating thing was certainly not attributed to Enhance buffs. I have a few friends who are not docs, and the were seeing this a while back without anyone buffing them. I have not seen it since they updated the DB or cleaned it out. Perhaps it was related to load, who knows.