Musician Archive
Thread: When?...
Aleesa wrote:
I am sorry, but 1) when will Master Musician will have new songs and 2) be able to buff himself?
( I was hoping for proper attention to entertainer professions Most of us that do buffs...ARE MASTERS! Didnt they say something stupid like we gain xp for doing self buffs? What good is XP at master??? Also, you cant buff OVER a music/dancer buff, so who cares if someone gets a whoooping 50xp every 2 hours or 1.5 hours or however long their buff lasts from giving themselves a self buff? I love being a musician mind you, but not being able to ever buff ourselves suck. It really does. (sorry for this disheartning post, I just feel really jipped by not ever being able to buff ourselves, ive been an entertainer since beta, and it urks me that we keep getting shafts left and right, but ill continue to be a musician, in hopes somehow, someday, some kind dev will look down upon us and say, here, you guys are hard workers, you desurve this....*add item here*)
No biggie. so look on the brightside I guess...NEW SONGS...(too bad we couldnt be jedi playing musicians with uber mind buffing powers of cool affects...now that would be swell. give us long time musicians something new to play with.)
Echinacea wrote:
I have no way to verify that I'm mind enhancing a patron until the process is theoretically finished, and the patron can lie to me and say that it's not kicked in even if it has.
You know, I saw this line and inspiration struck...
This will only make sense to those that played EQ, but remember when a Bard starts playing a song that benefits players in a radius? Every 5-10 seconds, there's a glowie effect that goes off. It starts at their feet and lights them up.
Why can't this be used so that we know that they're actually getting the benefit of our buff while we're giving it?
Kreistor wrote:
Echinacea wrote:
I have no way to verify that I'm mind enhancing a patron until the process is theoretically finished, and the patron can lie to me and say that it's not kicked in even if it has.
You know, I saw this line and inspiration struck...
This will only make sense to those that played EQ, but remember when a Bard starts playing a song that benefits players in a radius? Every 5-10 seconds, there's a glowie effect that goes off. It starts at their feet and lights them up.
Why can't this be used so that we know that they're actually getting the benefit of our buff while we're giving it?
I've suggested many times we get a little symbol over our patron's head while we're buffing them, like docs get with heals. What would be so hard with that? Also, a simple, simple, simple system message of "you enhance soandso's Focus and Willpower by 700" would aid me in knowing if my ELITE PROFESSION buffs actually FREAKIN worked.
As Tarot said, it's painfully simple for someone to lie to a Musician and say they didn't get a buff. Dancers can see the mind bar jump. Docs get system messages. Musicians get the shaft. Inexcusable.
I've said it before and I'll say it again -
Musician IS broken. There is no reason why an Elite profession who can buff 2 stats should have to rely helplessly and blindly on the honesty of their customers to know if they've buffed someone or not. The buffing system for Musician, as far as I'm concerned, is broken and will continue to be broken until they actually give us some means of knowing we buffed someone. It's ridiculous that we have no idea whether we buffed someone or not, and we rely on the other person being honest.
Musicians buffs are the easiest thing to steal. That's a broken mechanic and should NOT be allowed to continue. Pathetic that no one has attempted to resolve that in any way. There needs to be more emphasis on this - when word of this spreads more, it's going to be a problem folks. We need to get that resolved ASAP.
Wait until everyone claims they don't get Musician buffs and won't pay.
Then you /report it, yet you can't prove you buffed any of them. SEE HOW WE GET THE SHAFT?
Warryyr wrote:
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Musician IS broken. There is no reason why an Elite profession who can buff 2 stats should have to rely helplessly and blindly on the honesty of their customers to know if they've buffed someone or not. The buffing system for Musician, as far as I'm concerned, is broken and will continue to be broken until they actually give us some means of knowing we buffed someone. It's ridiculous that we have no idea whether we buffed someone or not, and we rely on the other person being honest.
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Landlubber wrote:
Warryyr wrote:
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Musician IS broken. There is no reason why an Elite profession who can buff 2 stats should have to rely helplessly and blindly on the honesty of their customers to know if they've buffed someone or not. The buffing system for Musician, as far as I'm concerned, is broken and will continue to be broken until they actually give us some means of knowing we buffed someone. It's ridiculous that we have no idea whether we buffed someone or not, and we rely on the other person being honest.
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Hmm, a simple (but admittedly not very satisfactory) solution to that dilemma would be: stop buffing people.
That's what I have done - I don't buff strangers anymore, and I don't buff for money. The only ones who get my buffs are thosefor whom I would do it for free anyway, friends and guildmates. But then, I don't rely on music for my income, so that's easy for me to say...
I have this pretty dream of a galaxy without buffbots, a galaxy in which theentertainers are on strike, and Jedi can't find mindbuffs. I bet buffs would get fixed pretty quickly in that ideal world! That, or NPC buffbots would get implemented...