Entertainer Archive
Thread: What is the best way as an entertainer to get action points to regen quicker?
brentgueth wrote:
um why don't you try to ACTUALLY play something instead of grinding out xp with flourishes back to ack to back. I can play (only without using special effects) for hours without ever sitting. This is also without a healer present, because I don't feel the need to just grind out flourishes.
Brent;
While this is good advice from an artistic point of view, you're overlooking something important. Many, many entertainers start out in some other profession and take up entertainer later in life. That means that their stats are optimized for some other activity and, as likely as not, they'll have some problems keeping themselves going for any length of time during a performance. I started life as an artisan because I wanted the crafting kit and scanners out of the starting gate. Later on, I found in the cantina that I was resting twice as often as anyone else there. It wasn't from spamming. I was an entertainer all through beta and I know how to handle my music properly. It was simply that, as an artisan, my stats were all optimized toward mind instead of action. I had to do a few days worth of stat migration to get my character optimized towards physical instead of mental pursuits.
I don't ask for heals while I am dancing. I have a few regulars who will come in and heal the entertainers to practice, cause they like us, what ever reason.
The only time I ever wish I had a healer is when I am the only entertainer in the cantina and people are watching me and I have to sit down and take a break. I feel bad for them.
So sometimes we want heals not so we can "grind our exp" but so we can help those watching/listening to us.
Kurda wrote:
The only time I ever wish I had a healer is when I am the only entertainer in the cantina and people are watching me and I have to sit down and take a break. I feel bad for them.
Easy solution for that: Go to the medic trainer and buy novice medic. Cost you 100cr and 15 skill points. Now you can target yourself (Ctrl-1) and type /tenddamage. You'll heal yourself 50-100 pts (more if you actually work up your medic skills a bit) at the cost of a bit of fatigue and mind wounds. Just /tenddamage until you're fully healed or you're out of mind,then go back to dancing. It cuts downtime tremendously, and the fatigue and mind wounds get danced away. I'm always surprised that hardly any entertainers seem to do this simple trick.
Be a Rodian. My rodian entertainer (eeyo on the valcyn server) has never had a problem with the action bar because he regenerates it so much more quickly than others. So much so that I even took a hefty slice of action and passed it to health
on Kettemoor:
Well, I know that I XP grind for dance (still need dance4, and footloose is quite possibly the worst dance ever), but when I'm playing music, I can last for a few hours without stopping. Just space out the flourishes and it's fine. I'm a wookiee so I don't know how the species-based refresh acts. I just play to have fun, and personally, dancing isn't very fun. Something about an 8 foot tall wookiee doing rhythmic 2 for an hour.... Oh well. I don't particularly like some of the lower songs anymore (10hrs of starwars1 gives you a headache, less time if there are more people flourish-spamming) so when I'm forced to change to a lower song, I just turn off my headphones.
Alich
Tyrena Cantina, Cornellia, Intrepid
20k to master entertainer (thus the XP spamming)
Possible entertainer at Dragon Star Inn
MedelMAX wrote:
I don't particularly like some of the lower songs anymore (10hrs of starwars1 gives you a headache, less time if there are more people flourish-spamming) so when I'm forced to change to a lower song, I just turn off my headphones.
Open up your options dialog and look for either Audio or Sound (can't remember which they call it). In that screen, there should be, at the very bottom, a slider for Player Music. You can run it all the way down when you're tired of hearing SW1, and still hear the muted fzzzaap! of blaster bolts outside the cantina, as well as all the rest of the wonderful sounds in the game without having to suffer through a few more hours of StarWars1.
Tatoonie Sunburn , ask your servers chef too make you up a ton
they give +1500 stamina +1500 str for 7 mins that means endless action points..
A good chef can make them for +1800 and in stacks of 7 for about 9 mins thats even beter!
Shaylen,
If I remember correctly, they set up a pretty good default set... but you can use "Stat Migration" from your character screen to make them whatever you want. Just adjust the sliders and the stats will slowly head in that direction. (To avoid confusion, it is sometimes best to adjust these when you are unwounded until you get the hang of it)
Thanks, Oversight (hehe, appropriate name to give me advice on my oversight).
I'll give it a try.