Why are Fanfares 3 second casts?

[Zindrix]

Is there any reason as to why Fanfares need to have a 3 second cast time? Is it because the sound effect is 3 seconds and you can't edit it?

[Ailene]

Whatever the reason is, I hope they find a reason soon to remove it. It's just a pain to rebuff dead people and it's a pain to use in PvP.

[Fudge]

Whatever the reason is, I hope they find a reason soon to remove it. It's just a pain to rebuff dead people and it's a pain to use in PvP.

Yeah I would prefer it to be an aura, even if you lose range on it... or just make it instant cast or close to

[Archongamer]

Is there any reason as to why Fanfares need to have a 3 second cast time? Is it because the sound effect is 3 seconds and you can't edit it?

Good point. Are any other buffs not instant cast? Cleric Mage?

[Inshalla]

The thought behind the cast time back in the day was the fact that the fanfares have 3 second long music associated.

Purifier's oh crap heal buff is still a cast time I believe. Up until recently one of the warden buffs still had a cast time.

[Chaszar]

Just leave it alone, it takes nothing away from anything, even during a fight.

You are support, work it into your activities, you don't have to stop everything to totally rebuff someone who was just rezzed, continue your rotations and tap a buff here then a buff there. 3 seconds popped in between other activities aren't going to skew anything badly at all, considering all other buffers are also not stopping everything just to rebuff a fresh rezzed player.

Continue on.............

[erct657]

all other buffers are also not stopping everything just to rebuff a fresh rezzed player.

Mainly because they don't really need to. Archons have auras and the other buffs bards provide can be applied as simply as hitting a 5CP finisher. The 3 second cast time is what is onerous about fanfares and the only real reason to keep that 3 second cast time is because of the sound effect that accompanies the application of the buff.

[Snap]

Back in the day, you had to LoS Fanfares to give Mage/Cleric and Warrior/Rogue their own buffs and you could only have 1 at a time.

Plus, rogues can't have everything.

[AlwaysHealNeverDie]

Just allow movemenet while casting, all I ask for.

[Primalthirst]

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[Violacea]

Rift Bard, I'd like you to meet the Eq2 bard. Now you are going to learn everything he has to teach from his support effectiveness/fluidity, active participation in making player performance equate to stronger support and mechanics that flow well (like aura buffs, less redundancy and 'dead' time casting long moot things).

And when the Rift Bard comes back it will be an amazing machine.

Dirge says hi.

[Zindrix]

Good point. Are any other buffs not instant cast? Cleric Mage?

Excluding Latent Blaze(which is less so a buff and more of a death deterrent[heal]), no.

[Vladd]

Is there any reason as to why Fanfares need to have a 3 second cast time? Is it because the sound effect is 3 seconds and you can't edit it?

This is a good question... one that I've asked myself many times. Course now that I can change it, I'm pretty sure it is gonna happen unless someone can give me a good reason not to.

Also, audio is never a good reason to keep an ability where it is.

[TekBlk]

Yay for no more 6 sec of buffing when someone is rezzed. I would enjoy this change.

[spowers454]

This is a good question... one that I've asked myself many times. Course now that I can change it, I'm pretty sure it is gonna happen unless someone can give me a good reason not to.

Also, audio is never a good reason to keep an ability where it is.

*crickets* make it so