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Message Edited by Starphire on 03-18-2004 06:52 AM

My top issue: bank tips

I like this change. I know my buffs will be over 2200, so if it says they have been enhanced 122, that just tells me they were buffed before and they want to get rebuffed. I think this system was made for the ones that dont want to sit around for 20 minutes waiting for their buff to die out cuz they know if they take a mission, they will lose their buff during the mission. I know what youre saying tho when you say you are wasting buffpacks cuz you click on them individually....heres a macro that would really help you out in that case but just make sure you are always on your target.

/healenhance constitution;
/pause 17;
/healenhance stamina;
/pause 17;
/healenhance quickness;
/pause 17;
/healenhance strength;
/pause 17;
/healenhance health;
/pause 17;
/healenhance action;
/say Thank you, your buff is complete! Please tip =);
/pause 2;
/bow;

The ending is up to you, what you wanna do after you give a buff but you get the general idea. IF you just make this a shortcut, you never have to worry about wasting buffs. Just buff away and let the good times roll! hehe

By the way, the above macro is made for master docs, cuz the pauses have been made for the docs timer. If you are not a master doc, I suggest you do trial and error to figure out what your timer between enhancements is.

Well to be honest with you from what I can gather the majority of the Doc community is happy with the latest publish. I am very happy with it, no more randomness means I can actually be 100% sure what my buffs will be like. And it can only be better for our customers.

The fact that it enhanced for that small amount actually means that it re-applied the buff with that extra amount (it still resets the timer though) so basically your buff was that amount higher than the previous doc that buffed that customer. Also, yes I admit that it is a pain rebuffing a stat that you've already buffed, but to be honest with you while you're buffing you should be paying attention to what you're doing, so at the end of the day it's really your loss if you don't want to use the above macro or concentrate on what you're doing.

Oh and btw, when you re-apply your own buff, there will not be a difference in the amount if you're using the same pack, same BE clothes etc because there will no longer be a difference in your total buff strength. Hence the reason that all it says is "You re-apply so-and-so's buff".

I do 30-50 buffs a day, and thats when I start after 6PM, since I work during the day. If I didnt have that macro, my fingers would fall off and I would get so damn annoyed. Most doctors use macros so they wouldnt have any problems with the patch. If youre looking for people to agree with you, you might be only 1/10 who hate this rebuffing patch.

Macros are our friends =D

I would hate to show you the people who complain that sometimes the docs either forget to buff one of their stats or some docs take such long pauses after each buff....I think macros are just helpful for everyone in general. Just my 2 cents....

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Starphire wrote:

This re-apply thing is driving me NUTS, totally nuts.

1. When it re-apply's it simply tells me it re-apply's and doesn't tell me if there is a numerical difference in the buff now

2. One time it just said "You enhance ***** quickness by 113". Wow, I assume that was a re-apply but it was a weird message and the only time I got that message. I have never buffed that low in my life.

3. I am WASTING buff packs like crazy with this STUPID re-apply feature. How I work is I sit in coronet with a line of like 20 people and buff like mad for hours. I have each buff pack in my tool bar slots, and I just click through each one on each person. Sometimes I work on more then one person at a time. This allows me to chat in guild chat, respond to tells and craft etc. What I used to do to make sure I got all the persons stats was just run through and re-click everything and it would say "They already have this enhanced blah blah". Now I wind up re-enhancing it all. YUCK!

What would be ideal for me would be when you hit someone a second time with something a pop-up comes and says "would you like to re-apply this buff" and you click yes or no. If i click no then easy cheese, I know not to hit quickness again and I can run through each one the same way till I find the one I didn't get.

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD change the way this works, I wanted to kill last night it was awful. Not to mention how WACKED out crafting is (yes I know that's gonna be re-nerfed).

Does anyone else feel aggrevated by this change??

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None of these are actually bugs. this is all intended.

1.) If no number is given, then the buffs are the same (intended).

2.) the difference between buffs is an important flag, because it is also linked to XP gained by overwrite (you only get XP for the difference). This is important to non-master docs.

3.) Questions of play style will most likely not get enough support to generate new code (like a pop-up box). I'll add this to the lsit of issues for the next top 5 vote (I'll have the list up on saturday), but I don't think enough players will back you on it for it to become a top issue.

-T

They are issues though, and I will add them to the list on the next top-5 vote

>symmetry,

While bivoli may make a 0,4,4,0 doc buff the same as master (though not really, since the master can eat bivoli too), it does not make the 0,4,4,0 equal to master doc.

Master doc box is a bit light on perks at the moment, but there are schematics and + skills in master doc that a 0,4,4,0 does not have.

Docs are not all about buffing.

-T