Entertainer Class proposal

Just give the entertainer class characters some sort of special Tactical move, similar to what Tharan Cedrax's holographic girlfriend, Holiday, does during combat... dancing as a CC effect. And maybe it would be a very short duration effect for higher level/Champion baddies, but it should work at least a little on *any* baddie. Then would Entertainers be useful in Ops? Also they could have Area effects on their entertain-CC ability, so that small mobs of Strong/Normal/Weak targets could be put out of the battle for a certain amount of time. This would make entertainers a possibly welcome addition to a 32-person Ops or WB group because of their Tactical ability.

And so they don't just get flattened by the first thing that attacks them and end up mostly a liability, they need a superior drop-out-of-combat invis ability also, that has as short a CD as seems appropriate. OK so maybe this would only make them useful for PvE, but there are probably additional abilities of some kind that would make them decent tactical members for PvP also. Perhaps decent off-heals as well as short-duration defensive buffs would be their point of excellence.

Ok I think i just described a Tinkerbelle, that flies in, wreaks havoc and stuns a bunch of enemies, then flits out unharmed to wait for what's left of the mob of baddies to attack, and helps defend the group against the attack.

you very obviously didnt read most of our postings....this class IS NOT combat oriented specifically...you get alot of exp from specifically doing time,action based group interactions,like group convo except with exp

and i already sketched out the complete gameplay post a few posts back

and shingara also illustrated how the presence boost wouldnt be that much

There are too much wall of texts in here so I didnt read it all but did someone already state that this is an action based MMO so it was intended to revolve around combat. Pretty much everything in game is made to support this one way or the other. The classes you are talking about would have to be in an instance all of the time. Plus SWTOR is about a galaxy-wide conflict, musicians and dancers will do very little to balance the conflict in either one direction.

No offense but what you are describing feels more like mini-games than actual classes. Implementing this will more likely create a whole seperate game than really add to the present one.

Now what I do agree with, is that I feel the the IA, for instance, does too little James Bond-like things and the smuggler does far too little smuggling.

I read the whole thread, but the questions I am asking are because those of the weird parts I see in your class design, Mayb3 part of it is calling it a social class , but to me it is anything less social then any of the current classes. say as a normal current class, besides going up to you on the fleet click on you a quick 2 or 3 lines of Voice over, I hit 1 , 2 or 3, to reply with voice over, you reply with another 1, 2 or 3, then a quick 30 seconds of guitar hero performance, I pay you I go on my way. with my buff. out in the PVE parts of the world to explore and play. See the problem I am having here is there is very little real social interaction going on,

For your Class quest part, I never saw an answer Are you see them as having 200 plus hours of class story to level up ( near 10 times all other classes ) or does your class have to slowly grind out exp barely able to do world quest or buffing players with your performance ?

I read the whole thread, but the questions I am asking are because those of the weird parts I see in your class design, Mayb3 part of it is calling it a social class , but to me it is anything less social then any of the current classes. say as a normal current class, besides going up to you on the fleet click on you a quick 2 or 3 lines of Voice over, I hit 1 , 2 or 3, to reply with voice over, you reply with another 1, 2 or 3, then a quick 30 seconds of guitar hero performance, I pay you I go on my way. with my buff. out in the PVE parts of the world to explore and play. See the problem I am having here is there is very little real social interaction going on,

For your Class quest part, I never saw an answer Are you see them as having 200 plus hours of class story to level up ( near 10 times all other classes ) or does your class have to slowly grind out exp barely able to do world quest or buffing players with your performance ?