Musician Archive

hey all.. i was wanting to go musician a while back but didnt do to not being able to buff my own stats as well as others.

has there been any change in this? Can you now buff your own mind?

No self-buff yet. We may get one eventually; I've asked the devs about it, and the obstacle is apparently more technical than conceptual. The buff is triggered by /stoplisten, but we're not supposed to /stoplisten to ourselves.

I'll bug 'em again this week.

thanks.. I believe alot more ppl would go to this profession (i know myself at least) if we could buff ourselves.

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NewJedi wrote:

The buff is triggered by /stoplisten, but we're not supposed to /stoplisten to ourselves.

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Is it posible to simply change it so /setperform activates the buff? and you could have a command like /stopperform to stop the buff.I noticed that when a lot of people come up to me and ask for a buff they don't realy /startlistening befor i start /setperform.

I am not sure if they have to be listening to you before you setperformance but I always make sure they are just to be sure and all of my buffs have worked so far.Maybe it is a good idea to just to make sure

ya i guess ill try it out and see what happens

I also insist that the listener start /listening *before* I type /setperform. I'm not convinced this is required, but I have close to a 100% success rate doing it that way.

The trouble with having /setperform trigger the buff is that it would be instantaneous; the client would have no reason to listen to our music at all. I don't think the devs would sacrifice that design feature. Anyway, I'm hopeful that they can find some other way to trigger a self-buff. I'll keep after 'em.

The way I do buffs, and get a 100% success on it, is I make sure I'm getting xp for it. You should get 7xp a tick for doing master level entertainment, 6xp a tick for doing knowledge IV level, and so on.. I think 4xp for novice elite level... And it's a steady xp, unchanging (Unless others in the group start buffing, or someone in the group is getting a passive buff.. But then it will just be higher - ie 14)

Don't know what I'll do when I cap on healing xp.. Drop master and a line of healing, then retrain it?

a question, i just hit MM and wondered why some of the people i tried to buff didnt get it. do they have to be watching me before i setperform??

Heh, Tiaga, my main Ricky hasn't had Musician XP in six months. If the listener isn't doing any of the /listen animations, or if the cantina is crowded, then I pretty much have to harangue him or her to make sure he is she is really /listening to me -- and then, eventually, /stoplistening.

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gaundi wrote:

/bump

has this changed yet?

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Not yet, and it's not changed in the coming patch, as far as I can tell. It's one of the Top Ten Questions we just submitted to Thunderheart; we'll see what he says in response.

Speaking of which, TH, if you're reading this: it's been a week now...

As to the comment of /setperform for buffing and the /stoplisten to end timing on a buff, and a musicians own inability to /stoplisten....couldn't you just stop playing for 60 seconds or some set amount of time to in effect stop listening?