Teras Kasi Archive

Well I played a warrior in EQ for over a year and surprisingly it's not all autoattack. You need to keep taunt going well, and every race has something like a kick or a bash (it uses stamina as a special attack, much like SWG). Other MMORPGs I've played have specials of some kind in combat (I've also played AC2, DAoC, Saga of Ryzom, and Rubies of Eventide). But none come even close to SWG when it comes to variety and usefulness of specials.

No. Dancers/Musicians give a percentage buff depending on their skill level. It's something like 25% for Novice, up to 100% for Master and then up to 125 with SEAs. It's that coupled with the time you spend watching them and the amount of flourishes they do while you're watching them. I don't think any dancer/musician will actually work out exactly what strength and duration buff they'll give you, but most have an idea of how long it will take to give you a 2 hr buff that's the max they can according to their level.

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AuShun wrote:

Anyone notice their mind pools draining dramatically faster since the patch this morning? I usually wear full composite (sliced) and use an unsliced VK, and have musician buffs going. With that setup for the past couple of months there was no way I could special my own mind pool down faster than it would rebuild. The only mind damage I took was when I got hits to that HAM pool.

Today however, I finished up the buffs and ran out, grabbed a mission and went back to the 'usual grind'. To my immediate shock though I did one round of spin kicks on a couple of Mokks (enough spin kicks to fill up the combat queue once), and my mind pool dropped to slightly below half! That's an insane amount of mind pool loss seeing as how just yesterday I was fighting Sith on Dathomir and special attacking with wild abandon without any risk to myself (except the bizarre damage those Sith do).

I did notice that normally the numbers above my head indicating the cost of doing a special run in the lower single digits (2, 3, or even 4pts), and today they were running anywhere from 12 to 22pts per special. The thing that has me perturbed is I havent' changed a single thing, bought nothing new, equipped nothing new, etc...

Anyone else notice anything like this?

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i havent noticed any changes...

as for mokks...if you run the Center of being continously you wont get hit as much or hard...besides its under 30s to take out the lair with UA hit3 and move on...altho i do run with a comp chestplate on normally just in case you get hit by one of their "dying breathe" attacks that seem to do max damage to you.

as for ham costs...i use vks with (base stats) 146max/2.1sp/+11acc mods/31H 38A 31M costs

so with my chars mind stats at 1.1k/700/700 i can get away with 2 brandies, and encumb sliced chestplate...and still only have a 2M cost per each UA hit3...with spin its 0M cost at all.

with a musician buff and brandy i can wear full comp (all encumbrance sliced..ex cm/doc...encumbrance is the life killer lol) and only have a 5M cost on UA hit3...and a simple canape takes that off.

all i can tell you tho...is find a good MWS you can work with and test what mind cost ranges you can afford on vks and get a crate of them

btw...chestplate and occasional helmet is all you need if you run CoB fulltime for just about anything upto NS...was a sad day when i whacked a enraged rancor bull lair solo in just chestplate,brandy and buffs afk while i was talking to firends on my other comp