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Thread: Buying Buffs, what skills are necessary
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IbisskkiOti
Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:55 pm
#1
If I plan on buying my buffpacks, do I have to master doctor, or is 0440 enough. I realize if I want to craft buff packs Master Doc is necessary, but what about if I plan on buying them?
Twitchie
Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:17 pm
#2
You won't be able to use most uber-buffs, as they require 90 med use stats. As long as they're the Med Use 89 packs, you can use them. Also, keep in mind, your buff power will be lower. For example:
You: Med Use 89 buffs at 915 power
Bivoli
BE Clothing
Droid
= 2314 buff power
Master: Med use 89 buffs at 915 power
Bivoli
BE clothing
Droid
= 2516 buff power
The trade-off is that (generally) lower power buffs have longer duration, which is generally more important to the buffee. Even at Master Doc, I tend to use 89 level buffs, just for the duration, at the expense of 80 or so power.
Rorck
Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:46 pm
#3
Surely at doc x/4/4/x you will have med use 90 and can use med use 90 meds, also med use 89 meds will generally not have longer duration then med use 90/91 as th only difference in those packs assuming the same resources are used is that the doc has an extra expermentation point or 2 to use lowering the med use. The DR on the Gas and Avian are what determine the duration of the packs not the med use.
Obata
Tue Mar 15, 2005 7:03 pm
#4
Twitchie wrote:
The trade-off is that (generally) lower power buffs have longer duration, which is generally more important to the buffee. Even at Master Doc, I tend to use 89 level buffs, just for the duration, at the expense of 80 or so power.
That's simply not true. Duration is experimented ont he same line as effectiveness (power), so it has no link to med use. Typically, the only drawback to buying med use 89/90 packs is fewer charges. I only put 89/90 med use packs on my vendor because the effectiveness and duration are exactly the same as they would be if I didn't experiment on ease of use, and it means making fewer schematics.
Eskie
Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:42 am
#5
With doc 0440, +25 bivoli, +25 BE clothing and a 110 med droid you will buff at 90% power and the same duration as a master doc using the same items, but will be restricted to packs with at most 90 med use, which means about 1 or 2 charges less than master doc packs with 92 med use usually.
Obata
Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:26 pm
#6
An 11 or 12 point doc crafter can make 90 med use packs with exactly the same power and duration as 90+ med use packs. It generally only takes 10 points to max the effectiveness line.
Twitchie
Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:12 am
#7
Obata wrote:
Twitchie wrote:
The trade-off is that (generally) lower power buffs have longer duration, which is generally more important to the buffee. Even at Master Doc, I tend to use 89 level buffs, just for the duration, at the expense of 80 or so power.
That's simply not true. Duration is experimented ont he same line as effectiveness (power), so it has no link to med use. Typically, the only drawback to buying med use 89/90 packs is fewer charges. I only put 89/90 med use packs on my vendor because the effectiveness and duration are exactly the same as they would be if I didn't experiment on ease of use, and it means making fewer schematics.
I said generally............I'm well aware there's higher power/long duration buffs, I have 20 sets of them myself right now. I'm just saying they're hard to find, or at least were. Depends on the resource cycle. I stock up when I find 'em, but those would be out of his range anyway.
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