Musician Archive

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ThreeTimesOneMinusOne wrote:

Ok, I've recently finally got to Master Musician, and I've had my Sheet Music reward for Western saved for a long time, so I decided this is a good time to grind out the 400k of Musician XP to learn it. Spend the next few days working on it, get 430k of XP. Use the sheet music and pick yes when it asks am I sure I want to spend 400k of Musician XP on this. I get the message "You've lost 440000 of Musician XP" My inspiration buffs apprently added 10% to my cost, so I figure "Great, there goes whatever little extra XP I had." I check my Skills menu, I still got just under 30k left. Figure I'm fine, and decides it's time to try Western. While messing around with my new song I notice my Musician XP is actually going down now. I get the message you gain 10 Musician XP, and my Musician XP drops by 10 actually. I've tried relogging, going to a differnt planet, differnt instruments, I always lose XP it says I gain. I even lose Musician XP from crafting instruments now. Kinda of a problem since I'm going to need another 400k of Musician XP to eventually learn Western II. Has anyone else ever heard of this happening?

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Well you do not need to worry about "Western 2" as we have no "2"s at all (well except SW2-4 but those are not related styles, they are just a poor naming set)and every dance does.....except Exotic that goes to 4. Personally this is yet another reason why the XP requirements for Western and Theatrical need to be eliminated. No other profession has ever had to spend xp for content so why should we be singled out? Come on Devs....TAKE OUT THE XP REQUIREMENT!

On a related "Western" note.....The XP gains for Western are WAY wonky. First off the base single flo XP is the same as Music 4 Entertainer (even though you need to have Nov Music to read the scroll, MK1 to bank enough XP, but only Novice Ent to continue to play it after its been learned). Second, the XP does not double for double flos for any instrument played. Either way, I wouldn't play western for XP unless you have surrendered everything and are starting the grind again.

Fragpuppie Uber
Master Entertainer, Master Musician
Founding Member - Frag's Puppies
President and CEO - Fragpuppie Enterprises and Uber Instruments
Coronet, Corellia, Chilastra

Message Edited by Fragpuppie on 06-10-2005 05:58 PM

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Esharra wrote:

Onething to check, please, if you don't mind: Is your banked xp in the Experience Pane of the Skill Window showing a negative amount?

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Yep, it does, that explains it I guess. It's going down because I'm apprently paying back my Musical Debt to society or something. If you're about to learn Theatrical or Western, don't have inspiiration buffs.

Felt like adding it's worth mentioning that Jedi aren't the only ones who can get negative XP anymore.

Message Edited by ThreeTimesOneMinusOne on 06-10-2005 10:34 PM