Musician Archive
Thread: Flourishes
I just picked up entertainer and I am trying to get musicianship points. However all I get is netertainer healing points. I am told I need to do flourishes. What are flourishes and how do I use them?
A flourish is done by typing /flourish # (where # is 1 to 8) while you are performing. Example /flourish 5
You can also write macros to perform many flourishes in a row.
These use up youraction and mindbars eventually.
Not a dumb question really.
There are two bugs that I know of to prevent you flourishing normally.
1) The startband bug...in which if you are the person who does the command /startband, everyone starts including yourself and it looks like you are playing, but when you try to flourish it says you cannot. Simply stop playing or move a step to stop and then start again. Other than flourishes, all else is normal.
2) The /Change bug...if you are not playing but have an instrument equipped and someone else in your groupdoes a /change to a song you can play, you will start playing...sorta. You will annimate the "vamp" just like the other bug and not be able to flourish...again like the other bug, however you will not respond to /stopband or even stop playing if you move. The only way to stop is to do a /stopmusic. Do this and restart and you should be OK.
Hope it was one of the known bugs and not something new.
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Hmm, I haven't had a bug like this for awhile (then again, I haven't been entertaining a whole lot lately, but I still do some).
The only time I've had this happen to me is when I'm in a group and have used /startbandmusic. Then I always have to stop playing and then start up again using the regular /startmusic.
'fraid I can't be of much help on this
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/startband rock;/changeband rock
I just finished Mastering Musician. I never had my volume on so I don't think that would be an issue. I know that the flourishes vary by instrument. With the horn I used I only had one flourish that changed how I moved all others affected the song sound. But I would expect that if you are losing action with your flourish command then everything is good.... even better if you get XP with each
Suntydt
A couple of months ago, I and a couple other players on my server suddenly stopped doing flourish animations too. I reported it to the devs, but the problem seemed to resolve itself of its own accord. The flourish sounded right; it just didn't look right. You're saying you hear the flourish but don't see it?
If so, I'll report it again.