Musician Archive
Thread: Where is the link for the 30 second buff, is it legal to use?
you guys are not very smart are you?
this is so going to be nerfed
The Devs have SO already been informed of it and have not even commented in the month since it was brought to their attention....
No love for music.
Fragpuppie Uber
Master Entertainer, Master Musician, Master Marksman
Guild Leader - Performer United Professional Society (PUPS)
Band Leader and Booking Agent - Frag's Puppies
President and CEO - Fragpuppie Enterprises and Uber Instruments
Coronet, Corellia, Chilastra
LeBob wrote:
you guys are not very smart are you?
this is so going to be nerfed
In able to perform the 30 seconds buff, the performer needs to either eat an expensive food Accarragam or be Action buffed. I think it's a fair amount ofpayoff in able to perform a quick buff.
I get asked about this so often now that I'm almost tempted to add it to the FAQ. But until the devs give me an answer, I don't know what to say in the FAQ.
Yesterday I posted in the Correspondent Forum yet another request for clarification as to whether the 3-minute buff or the 30-second buff is an exploit. Another Correspondent chimed in with a follow-up question on the same topic. We still haven't received an answer.
10 minutes for applying a simple single stat or dual stat buff is ridiculuous. Whoever came up with that or whoever likes that hasn't been an entertainer very long. For the *FIRST* time ever, people are really looking me up for buffs and actually bothering to stop by and wait for it to complete. The 30 second buff has only advantages for both the entertainers and the customers. Dancing is now actually fun, again in my humble opinion. I hope they a) never ever fix the speedbuff or b) reduce the full buff for Masters to take max. 60 seconds.
If they fix the speedbuff, customers will just run back to Val's brandy.
If someone could explain to me exactly how to have fun dancing for one person for 10 ridiculuous minutes (that's like three times the length of a real life lapdance too!), please do. Stop the insanity - leave the speedbuff alone!
Well, I can buff to max without the speedbuff in about six minutes, depending on whether my Mind Enhancement skill is itself buffed. Maybe less. It doesn't have to take 10 minutes.
But yeah, I wouldn't object to a somewhat speedier buff. I'm just doubtful that the devs intend us to be able to buff in as little as 30 seconds. We are Musicians, not doctors; we play music, we don't inject people. A 3-minute buff seems like a reasonable compromise to me.
The max flourishes able to be performed seems to be roughly around 10 per minute, or every 6 seconds. Each animation appears to be roughly that length. This is how I originally began performing buffs, it still took effect in 3 minutes, and would provide 15 minutes per 1 minute the recipient listened.
After testing overlapping of flourishes it was found that it is not required to perform the flourish. This is what lowers the time down. I now perform my buffs flourishing a little over twice as fast as my regular macro. This lowers the time to about 3 minutes and 30 seconds. This is what I have stuck with, it seems like a fair compromise, still requires extensive energy on the part of the entertainer so it is not available to me if a healer is not around or I do not have any food.
Just thought i'd put in my two bits.
-Ghrey Ke'lok
(Performer of Arts - Sunrunner)
Geburah wrote:
LeBob wrote:
you guys are not very smart are you?
this is so going to be nerfed
In able to perform the 30 seconds buff, the performer needs to either eat an expensive food Accarragam or be Action buffed. I think it's a fair amount ofpayoff in able to perform a quick buff.
that's not exactly for you or I to decide, is it?