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Nobody is beingcocky here, I was just pointing out that a few hours of entertaining at my keyboard gets around 3 times as much healing xp as someone macroing for 20 hours.

/shrug

Denisa..

Shouldnt that be the case at master though? Shouldnt you gain more healing exp? I must admit that I am an entertaining noob so I'm unsure of what skills do what in the tree but this seems logical to me. I know if I was grinding it out I would have been begging you to join the group though. I know as a combat profession I am going to listen the master first and thats just the way it is. It makes no sense why they wouldnt invite you to there group. All 20 of them afk at once lol?? And for the record I get about 50K healing exp for 8 hours of work with just normal traffic. This is still crazy low but only 20k is nuts.

For the record, I made master musician last week, that is why I know exactly how much XP I was getting, because I wanted to get out of there with allthe AFK group leaders and tip beggars and everything. I was only there for the healing XP, I got my music XP over the 5 weeks before I wentto Coronet, playing smaller cantinas where there weren't so many AFK people.

And Torean, I was not there to jack their XP, I was there because I was bored and I figured I could contribute to the group because it was there that I finished my musician tree. But the healing XP helps, should I decide to finish dancing someday...

I know ya werent

My comment was just thinking out loud

I used to love the 20 player bands in Theed or Coronet. Was fun for me and good for the levelers.

I dont anymore. Slowly but steadily Masters are avoiding these old time hangouts for we really don't wish to hear how much our class sucks from visitors to the class.

And thats if your lucky enough for them to be actually ATK

Regards!!!

I posted this on the entertainer board as well, but I havent seen this method posted anywhere else. If it is then this is just redundant, but what the heck. A friend of mine is trying to master musician and entertainment healing xp is very slow to accumulate. We came up with the following method. It is slow as well, but it keeps the xp coming in during those dead times in the cantina. I think that he is getting around 600xp per hour, but it could be more.

You will need one or more Medics/Doctors to help you with this method, but the more the merrier. I am a Master Doc, but I'm sure there are many Medics in the Med Centers that would be willing to partner with you on this as they get XP as well. Here's what to do:

1. The Medic/Doctor creates the following macro

/tenddamage

/pause 10

/tenddamage

/pause 10

/tenddamage

/pause 10

/ui action toolbarSlot00

2. Target the entertainer and listen/watch

/tendwound will create 5 focus and 5 willpower wounds everytime a successful damage heal occurs. Since Entertainers go through the Action bar fairly quickly the xp is constant, and the medic/doctors mind heals from listening/watching. Adding things that drain it faster are better. The entertainer cannot be buffed when doing this. If several medics were involved in this you would get even more xp.

There is some timing optimization that can be done with this. I just threw this together to test it out. Your mind bar may not heal fast enough to keep up with this macro, but it does generate constant xp.

Anyway Ididnt see this method posted anywere so I thought I would throw it out there.Hope it helps. I sympathize with the holo entertainers because EHXPseems very hard to get, and I think you need like 500,000EHXP.

Augustus Devine (Gorath)

Master Doctor/Master Merchant

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Festril wrote:

I think that he is getting around 600xp per hour, but it could be more.

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Ummm I hope you meant 600k xp. If so.. that's a good idea. Thanks for the info, I'm sure some folks could use it!

Another way is u duel with combat med who horribly mind diseases an entertainer if there is a bunch of entertainers grouped with horrible mind disease u will get more exp than u ever will

Nope I meant 600xp. From what I hear you get 1xp for every 10 wounds healed. Thats why it is so horrible to accumulate. However, if you get 10 medics that is 6000 xp per hour in theory anyway. Everything that was posted on EHXP that I read said that there was nothing that you can do to speed it up. This will speed it up, but it isnt an exploit.

Augustus Devine (Gorath)

Master Doctor/Master Merchant

He means 600xp...not 600k. I'm currently mastering Dancing. All I have left is the Battle Fatigue line. I started the Dancer profession on Dec 23rd. Just need about 300k more healing xp. I got 50k of healing xp yesterday to finish Wound Healing 4. Bestine is a great place to get healing xp. Its where I get all mine. I tried Coronet and Theed, but there are too many entertainer groups in those cantina to compete for watching/listening from customers.

In Bestine, usually just one group getting all the customers. Same for AnchorHead...its a decent place too. Hoping to get Fatigue 1 and 2 today while afk dancing....currently at work.

I will go ahead and master entertainer (might unlock) if not, then on to ID, from ID...might do Smuggler.. I have the necessary exp to get novice.

Oh man, 600 xp per hour? That's horrid. I need to repost my message in this thread to make more people see it. It will give you about 80-120 xp per tick per participating artisan. That's 28-43k EH xp per hour.
Needed (minimum, more is better):

1 entertainer (more always preferred for group xp bonuses)
1 artisan that can sample
1 medic (optional, but a great way to get medic xp)
1 Doctor / dancer (optionally musician) buffs for artisans and entertainer

First the artisan should survey for radioactive to find a spot outside a cantina or other location where both BF and damage can be healed (you can do this in a camp but with no BF healing you miss out on half the XP).

A doctor should buff the artisan's health, action and probably one or both of quickness and stamina.
You also need a dancer buff (food works, but drugs are discouraged since they will incap). You only need a couple of hundred extra on health, action and mind but you want enough quickness to basically remove the cost of surveying. A musician buff is preferred to speed up mind recovery.

Start sampling radioactive with the artisan. He / she should of course be watching / listening to the entertainer(group) as appropriate. If you find "good" radioactive (this could be related to PE, I am not sure) you'll get 1000 BF and max out mind wounds in minutes. You'll need a lot of entertainers to keep up with this. The medic student would of course concentrate on healing wounds while the entertainers do their thing (they should also be buffed in quickness and/or stamina with optional action buff btw).

The more people participating, the faster the xp will come. Do this with 4-5 artisans and you'll get 1-3k EH xp per minute if not more. Medics will get an infinite source of wounds to heal as well.

With a 2 person entertainer group (one musician, one dancer) and two artisans (with a third one for a short while), I got one box (125k xp) in a matter of hours.

This to watch out for: If a primary buff runs out (H/A/M) the artisan will incap on the next sample event. He/she will only have one point left due to all the wounds. Thus you'll need to redo these buffs as needed (again I recommend doctor/entertainer buffs over food/drugs).

So here you have it. The absolute best way of gaining various kinds of XP as a group effort. The biggest one is Entertainer Healing, with medical xp coming at a close second (actually, I never did this with a medic so it might be the best source of medic xp as well - unlimited wounds to heal is NICE). Survey xp will be coming in at the normal rate, but you'll get healing (no running out of action!) and help others while doing it.

It's hard to do this unattended for all parties, but most can be afk most of the time... Also, the upcoming change to the HAM system will not nerf this way of gaining xp (other kinds of healing will be removed such as tumble, cantina healing etc). Here you're healing wounds on PC's and they can't really stop that from giving xp, now can they?

That is a much better method. Funny how this wasnt out on the entertainer boards. Thanks. I will let my friend know about this. I forgot about the radioactive damage.

it really isnt necessary to do hardly any of this, I mastered Musician in 7 days with just a basic flourish macro that id set up in the morning and check in the evening and train, then set up for the night. Granted the EH xp was what came last but for the amount of xp that is required.....I dont think 7 days is too bad.

With the above method you can get the EH boxes done in a matter of hours if you have enough artisans. Prior to doing this two nights, I had 250k xp left. Two nights later, I was done (idling during the day in coronet hardly gives any EH xp). At the time of mastering, I had 700k musician xp or something I think.