Entertainer Archive

For over a year since the first of us mastered, we have watched as patch after patch tweaks this combat special or that Jedi function. Month after month we have been passed up, gradually forgeting that we were once proud of what we are and thought of ourselves as a dancer, forgeting that once we didn't care about any other profession because we had an art that we enjoyed, that we loved, an art of which we were proud to be a performer.

We healed others gladly, not demanding tips but appreciating those mature enough to understand the social interaction. We suffered the harrassments of those not mature enough to know when to keep their mouths shut and the CSR service that would tell us to just add them to ignore and do nothing else.

We thanked the devs for deny service as it was Something to be able to use against the jerks that there are.

We got excited about the announcement that they would be adding more flourishes to dances, then were disappointed as the dances that were "fixed" were in entertainer and the two lowest ones of the dancer profession. Still we said thank you because, after all, it was Something.

We rejoiced when entertainer buffs were introduced because it gave us something to be important to the combat classes and get paid for ... then watched as most combat guilds and players created doctor/dancer alts to place in cantinas as buffbots to once again relegate us to uselessness for anyone other than players that really want to play a MMORPG and interact with others.

And still we fall unless we carry a weapon that detracts from the beauty and grace of what we do...

I made the post about providing service on September 6, 2003. This was before buffs, the holocron nightmare, and when most of us still had the pride in what we do to look down on AFK macroers. The passive buff and healing process of being grouped with people has killed us even more than the hologrind did by combat players setting up a toon as a buffbot. This is something that won't ever change, most likely ... something we'll have to live with forever.

Perhaps, though, we can change falling, to hope for more than one unique flourish on exotic 3, 2 unique flourishes on exotics 2 and 4, four unique flourishes on lyrical 2, and for exotic and lyrical to be something other than a complete embarrassment.

Musicians NEVER make mistakes, even at novice entertainer ... they never sound like an inept clarinet player ... yet we fall all the way into our glory days as a master dancer and forever, as long as we don't carry a weapon.

So I propose this ... once a day, every day, dance without a weapon until you fall. Submit a bug report. Every dancer, every galaxy. I'm posting this in every galaxy and the dancer, entertainer and musician forums. Maybe I get forum banned, who knows, but I shouldn't. We deserve this, we've been silent long enough. The only way the developers are going to notice is if we make them notice.

Much love to you all,

Liliahi hae'Lilitu, proud to be a Master Dancer, Scylla Galaxy

For over a year since the first of us mastered, we have watched as patch after patch tweaks this combat special or that Jedi function. Month after month we have been passed up, gradually forgeting that we were once proud of what we are and thought of ourselves as a dancer, forgeting that once we didn't care about any other profession because we had an art that we enjoyed, that we loved, an art of which we were proud to be a performer.

We healed others gladly, not demanding tips but appreciating those mature enough to understand the social interaction. We suffered the harrassments of those not mature enough to know when to keep their mouths shut and the CSR service that would tell us to just add them to ignore and do nothing else.

We thanked the devs for deny service as it was Something to be able to use against the jerks that there are.

We got excited about the announcement that they would be adding more flourishes to dances, then were disappointed as the dances that were "fixed" were in entertainer and the two lowest ones of the dancer profession. Still we said thank you because, after all, it was Something.

We rejoiced when entertainer buffs were introduced because it gave us something to be important to the combat classes and get paid for ... then watched as most combat guilds and players created doctor/dancer alts to place in cantinas as buffbots to once again relegate us to uselessness for anyone other than players that really want to play a MMORPG and interact with others.

And still we fall unless we carry a weapon that detracts from the beauty and grace of what we do...

I made the post about providing service on September 6, 2003. This was before buffs, the holocron nightmare, and when most of us still had the pride in what we do to look down on AFK macroers. The passive buff and healing process of being grouped with people has killed us even more than the hologrind did by combat players setting up a toon as a buffbot. This is something that won't ever change, most likely ... something we'll have to live with forever.

Perhaps, though, we can change falling, to hope for more than one unique flourish on exotic 3, 2 unique flourishes on exotics 2 and 4, four unique flourishes on lyrical 2, and for exotic and lyrical to be something other than a complete embarrassment.

Musicians NEVER make mistakes, even at novice entertainer ... they never sound like an inept clarinet player ... yet we fall all the way into our glory days as a master dancer and forever, as long as we don't carry a weapon.

So I propose this ... once a day, every day, dance without a weapon until you fall. Submit a bug report. Every dancer, every galaxy. I'm posting this in every galaxy and the dancer, entertainer and musician forums. Maybe I get forum banned, who knows, but I shouldn't. We deserve this, we've been silent long enough. The only way the developers are going to notice is if we make them notice.

Much love to you all,

Liliahi hae'Lilitu, proud to be a Master Dancer, Scylla Galaxy