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How long do enhancements last? I have never been buffed by a doc. I know buffs in EQ can last anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour heck to even 3 hours if you have the right items. Some of the richest people in the games were enchanters who sold buffs to people. I think if swg buffs lasted long enough (i.e. more then the 5 minutes I have heard) that a decent market would open up to those persuing this profession. I am surprised that buff duration has not appeared on "the doc list" as, if what I heard is true, 5 minutes just seems too short in comparision to other buffs in other games.

The reason you don't hear alot about buffs is because the bastards are bugged, to bad I didn't know that when I gave up CM and went Doc.

I don't take credit for recognizing the problem, but someone seemed to think the problem is when you cross the zones. You can't tell when you are crossing most zones though because you don't get a warning like when you are leaving the city. To even make it worse you can only cast these in med centers, with droid, or in camp; so right now they are just undependable.

If the buffs are still actually holding, then someone please correct me. I sure can't tell it though...

hard to say since buffs are so buggy right now..they drop for no reason or when u zone or a number of other reasons so

but to answer your question about the length

the A's i'm making state on them duration 1500. i'm taking that as 1500 seconds or close to 30 mins.

Osskizz

Novice TK / Novice Doctor

And the max I can get is a Enhancement pack D - with 5500 give or take...and that = about 1 hour and 30 minutes.. but the second you walk in or walk out of a city, poof its gone...

Thats actually pretty nice IMO. Once they hash out the buggs, I think you guys are gonna make a ton of cash. Worthy of what RL docs make in comparison to scrubs like myself. Anyhow, I just like to see this kind of cohesion and interdependence. I'm kinda sick of seeing peeps saying stuff like, dude you better pick up this skill or that skill, else you won't be able to do such and such.

I have the same problems with my buffs dropping when I leave the city too. I mostly was running in and out of Coronet and I can almost tell you right when they are going to drop. I have now moved on to Lok to hunt and I can buff my self there in the city and run out as far as I want and the buffs do not drop. This also effects droids. At about the same time your droid will stop following you and you have to tell it again to follow you. But again on Lok I have no problems with this. I wonder why?

Stings

You should be able to use them anywhere and I agree the duration should be fixed it'd be nice if these were in demand like buffs in EQ

Once more people actually realize that a D pack can buff you for 1200+ health/action for over an hour, more people will be clamouring for them to be debugged.

aye atm u can only fight hard stuff with enh packs... and its damm crappy that they still dont work... we dont hunt with tamer pets since ins lame and no challenge .. rancor x3 attack bal bla everything is owned.. no skills needed.

We want phat PC tanks not damm tamer stuff and so we need enh packs working

I would be happy if it was only dropping after crossing a zone-line. My biggest problem is that it completely freezes by HAM bar if I buff myself. I can be at half-health and I am blissfully going along like I have full health. Last night was a new bug for me too -- buffed a friend andHE FRICKIN DISAPPEARED!!! His group icon went dark as if he was too far away and in the range it said (2m). He was able to target and attack mobs fine, I just couldn't target him to heal at all.

Dakani

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Grimror wrote:
How long do enhancements last?

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My Enhance D's average about1 hour 15 minutes. The best one I've produced lasted 1 hour 45minutes. But as soon as you cross an internal server boundary or die, the effects vanish and you can't reapply the buff until the original timer wears off (which we have no way of knowing unless we wrote down the time we buffed).

A work around the city limit bug for now is...

Go out of town and just drop into any vendors house buff up and your fine. It's a bit of a pain but it works well.