Image Designer Archive

Message Edited by GKWookie on 05-03-2005 10:03 PM

ya i get less money and im stuck with a large house eating money faster than i can make it... ugg. hopfully i get the 50k tippers for a hair change more oftend. hint image design jedis they tip like 200k.

I doubt any entertainer profession or crafting profession will get respec and to be honest, i understand that. It's a combat revamp after all... not an entertainer one and not a crafters one... personally i didn't respec with dofe (as dofe can't respec as a master tailor/master image designer/dancer 0040). I did with baijha, but that was well minimal and i found it quite strange that i could go with her from being a master pistoleer to beingfor example a combat medicwithout ever having earned any cm xp...it felt a bit like cheating so i turned her back into a pistoleer

If you don't like image designing without the statmigration, i'm afraid there is only one solution : get xp for another profession. It shouldn't be that hard finding groups now to hunt with or to go on hunting trips to heal people and get medic or doctor for example. Even when just for example having master marksman/ master brawlernow, you can respec for example your entire brawler and get a box in pistoleer or rifleman for example.

I haven't been online much since the CU, but when online, i did geta number of requests for an image design session ... unfortunately due to the fact that i can't seem to get the markings palette to work properly, i had to turn some down who wanted a different colour marking . Then again, i didn't really do many statmigrations any more (before timers were deleted iusually suggested people to go see a novice as they needed the xp, and if they couldn't find one, i would give them their stat migration)

But if you don't like image designing anymore, i do suggest you just go out and hunt and gather some xp during this double xp week. As i sincerely doubt we'll get respec.

Enjoy whatever comes next.

Edit: i make too many spelling mistakes

Message Edited by dofey on 05-04-2005 11:34 AM

Message Edited by dofey on 05-04-2005 11:34 AM

I understand your feelings masterim but don't share them.

for image designers, the only thing that changed really is that there are no more stat migrations. For dancers and musicians, the only thing that changed is that there are no more mind buffs. Buffs for dancers/musicians were replaced by the 'inspiration buff'.

I believe dancers and musicians should get new things for their profession as they deserve that. Basically now one line of their profession is no longer necessary (the mind wound healing - though i don't actually know if it has been replaced allready by something else as i'm just a dancer 0040 and no longer master dancer at the moment and i didn't check ingame).

I'm sure some entertainers will leave, i do hope however it will only be the buffbots that leave and that the ones who do keep up the entertainer profession will be the atk entertainers who have been neglected by so many for such a long time.

Doctor is indeed not really a combat profession, however much more changed for doctors as to the content of their profession then it did for image designers. Doctors no longer craft anything, whereas this was the case before. I know pure crafting doctors who have just used the respec to go BE, as they could keep on crafting then.

As for crafting professions... I'm a tailor, there hasn't been a big change to my crafting (except off course the new BE tissues). I do realise that crafting has changed for weaponsmiths and armoursmiths (i don't know for sure for architects/shipwrights or DE's), but the content of their profession is still the same aswell. They craft weapons, armour, clothing, ...

To be honest, this update didn't really take away any of my business. And i can't really mourn for the loss of stat migrations. I don't oppose them, but i'm not sad to see them go either.

I don't feel image designers/entertainers/craftersshould be allowed respec and in all honesty i don't thinkSOE will allow respec for those profession at this moment either. If there is ever a crafter upgrade or an entertainer upgrade, i don't think combat characters should get the possibility to respec at that time either. But it's just my opinion and well as i said.. i don't really feel that for me personally the combat upgrade changed much.

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GKWookie wrote:

Was stat migration, I really have done little in the way of actual image design. I think ID's should be allowed to respec as well. Not trying to offend, but if I had known this would turn into EQ: Galaxies I never would have taken ID.

Let me explain a bit more. I took ID because we (guild) had a heck of a time ever finding one. As it went guildmates would tell people they would group with etc.. about me. So here I am MID, MEnt, and a tad bit of marksman. It is safe to say the CU has left me scratching my head a bit.

Message Edited by GKWookie on 05-03-2005 10:03 PM

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I hate to say, but I don't think you are going to get much sympathy here. The majority of Image Designers who *keep* this profession and excel at it, HATED stat migrations. We felt it actually "dumbed down" our profession and gave us a supposed "skill" that we never wanted to begin with.

The majority of us are completely happy that stat migrations are gone, as it should have never been throw on to our profession in the first place. I made a great amount of money on real image design. I'm good at it and I like it. I'm playing the profession now as it was when it started...a SOCIAL profession. I've been able to roleplay the profession again and I'm completely happy.

If you *want* to do real Image Design, you can easily get customers. But you have to want to do it, be good at it and then you will retain a good customer base. Your regular customers will then refer their friends, when they've had a GREAT image design session. It's slow to build up a good reputation, but it shouldn't be as much of a problem now that the Stat Migration folks are leaving our profession.

To the other comments about the music/dance buffs, again, I have zero sympathy for people who only do this profession for AFK buff bots. We the entertainrs should be that. Entertaining. Social. I made way more money right now dancing than some folks did as buff bots because so many more people enjoy an ATK entertainer. People will literally throw credits at you now. Especially if you head out to a remote place and register your location. When we had these HYOOOGE AFK groups in the cantinas, people never knew who was ATK or AFK. Now, it's quite easy to tell.

Me? I'm in love with the changes to my chosen professions. Yes, they're not perfect and could use their own updates. But I'm glad to have my professions back!

Message Edited by GKWookie on 05-04-2005 11:35 AM

I really enjoy iding myself I wouldn't feel to comfy doing much other than hair and eye color on someone else though. As for my guild... well they are gone. CU wwas to much for them. I am literally the only one left out of a guild of 77. Only about 30 players, the rest were alts. I am stuck because I love Star Wars. I just don't agree with the system put into place. They should have givin more consideration as to how it would impact non combat profs.

If I hated what my profession had become, I would prefer to earn a new profession and learn the way it works rather than having a respec handed to me.

There are so many combat types that have respec'd to a totally different profession and are experiencing a great deal of frustration and confusion about the intricacies of the new profession. Case in point, a master BH asking where the Spynet Ops were... and then finding out that the Ops in the starting towns couldn't handle his missions.

Stat migrations were NOT Image Designing. ID is artistic changes to either a customer's or you avatar, not the pushing of one stupid button and waiting for 4-10 minutes for someone's HAMs to change. The way they dropped migrations onto us out of a clear blue sky... I'm really not surprised that they took them away the same way.

I feel badly for anyone who came into ID expecting to have a 'guaranteed' income like the migrations. I, however, am ecstatic that they are gone.

Message Edited by FuschiaD on 05-04-2005 09:25 PM

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GKWookie wrote:
I really enjoy iding myself I wouldn't feel to comfy doing much other than hair and eye color on someone else though. As for my guild... well they are gone. CU wwas to much for them. I am literally the only one left out of a guild of 77. Only about 30 players, the rest were alts. I am stuck because I love Star Wars. I just don't agree with the system put into place. They should have givin more consideration as to how it would impact non combat profs.

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The thing about being a *money-making* ID is that you /do/ work on other players. I mean, sure, if you like to keep it around to change yourself, more power to you. However, if you are worried about making money as an ID, I'm afraid you will have to make the changes.

Again, I have to back up what other said. This was a /combat/ revamp. The entertainer revamp is coming down the road and I look forward to what my All-Entertainer Toon will be getting. And really, removing stat migrations has been exactly what the Image Designer community has wanted ever since before Publish 8 when we were begging them not to ruin our profession with the stat migrations.

I don't see my chosen #1 profession as ruined or lacking. YMMV, obviously. Sounds like you need a new guild or maybe a new server, if you aren't finding what you are looking for?