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Selandria wrote:

Okies, Velara (original poster of this thread) and I (plus a few test subjects) did some systematic testing of this drink tonight. Conclusion: it is bugged and does absolutely nothing.

First, as most of you probably don't know me, let me just say that if there was a 'Master Buffer' title in this game, I'd have earned it many a moon ago. I am well known on Eclipse, and do a *LOT* of mind buffing every day. I am both a dancer and a musician. People come to me all the time for help on how to give mind buffs when they master either dancer or musician. In short, I know what I'm doing when it comes to giving mind buffs.

My standard buff is the 3min 20s 'fast' buff, done by doing 5 flourishes every 8 seconds (the flourish cap enforced by the servers). For those that don't know how mind buffs work, you might want to go read this thread: "Hard numbers on buffs" (

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=entertainer&message.id=9535. In short every flourish and every 'tick' (occurs every 10 seconds) adds 1 minute of duration to the mind buff. So for a 2 hour buff (the maximum duration of a mind buff), you need 120 flourishes or ticks. When overflowing, this works out to the magic 3min 20s. The 2 miniute minimum instituded in publish 8 only affects if you will receive a buff or not. It is not 'dead time'; flourishes and ticks during the first 2 minutes *DO* accure duration for the mind buff.

The tests:

1) Ran mybuff flourish macro for exactly 2 minutes. Resulting duration: 1 hr 15min (the anticipated result)

2) I take a sip of Velara's 43% reduction T'ssolok, do another 2 minute buff. Resulting duration: 1 hr 11min

3) Next, since there is speculation that the buffee is the one that has to drink the T'ssolok, we tested the buffee taking a hit, then did buff macro for 2 min. Resulting duration: 1hr 14min

So far, it's looking like it doesn't help. But knowing that buffs accrue duration based on two different items, flourishes and ticks, surmised that maybe the drink works by making the 'tick' accural higher without influencing the flourishes. In a 2min buff, there are only 12 ticks -- the bulk of the accrual is coming from flourishes. To test this, we then did some experiments with 'slow' buffs, where I did not overflo.

* 6 minute music buff (2 flourishes per tick), no T'ssolok: duration 1hr 48min

* 6 minute music buff (2 flourishes per tick), with T'ssolok: duration 1hr 48min

So again, no difference.

In summary, this drink does not work, regardless of if it is the buffer or the buffee that is consuming it.

If I've missed something, please let me know and I'd be happy to test it again. With 43% reduction, the 3min 20s buff would basically become capped by the 2 minute minimum duration enforcement. While I wouldn't use this as a course of regular buffing (for one, the stomach filling vs. duration of the drinks' effect wouldn't allow continuous use), it would be handy to have the option of a 2 min T'ssolok 'speed' buff for those special situations.

Sel

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