Advice for a small cost-effective fr00b subway twink.

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Advice for a small cost-effective fr00b subway twink.

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Any of you uberleet peeps have any advice for making a small, cheap subway twink?

My main was unpaid for a few months and I was playing lots of small fr00b toons. What I eventually decided to do was have an army of fr00b alts parked at increasing levels to be able to assist leveling up new froob toons. I figure about a level 20ish subway toon would be a good start. My goal would be to eventually have a self sufficient froob army for all the most common froob buffs and nanos (like a neutral engy beacon warp).

What prof would be best? Currently I was thinking a small enforcer. I have an Icebreaker somewhere in the bank it could use. I don't have the cash for uber items like GTA. I'd think an Exarch Robe would be a nice back item. I have some QL40 Carb armor I had squeezed into on a previous subway toon. It would be very nice to get a Collar Casero de la Cripta on, but I have no idea of how to get 470 BM on a level 20 toon.

How much NCU is equippable without spending millions of credits? I'm a bit rusty on twinking these days, but I assume NCU is the best place to start.

I have my main available to tradeskill the implants for the next 3 months.

This toon doesnt have to devour the bosses (tho that would be nice), just tear thru the normal mobs at blinding speed.
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In short it isn't too hard to make a good subway twink, but cost effiecient you should probably aim for a pet class, it's pretty easy at level 25 to get on ToTW/SoM belt and some decent cheap NCUs (read again ToTW/SoM). when having some decent NCU varying between 150 and 250 you can just focus on getting some good implants on, level 75 should be your aim although if you create custom ones higher qls are possible depending on how much time you want to spend putting them on. After this you can simply calculate the best pet you can keep out of OE without buffs/with buffs and get the nano to cast it. For armor you can use some nano buffing/max nano adding armor to help you cast pets, carb and miys nano work well. All in all you can put together a good pet toon with say 2m in creds in total that's including the implants, carb and ncus. Or less if you decide to roll/hunt some stuff yourself.

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Thanks for the reply, Ax.

That made me remember one other point of interest: self buffed. The worst part about casting the big bots is constantly having to beg for outside buffs. I'd like to be able to just log in and get to killin'

I just found http://forums.anarchy-online.com/showth ... p?t=525818 Dredds Twinking Guide. I saw the blog earlier, but just now found the thread on the forums which is much more detailed. I guess I'm now at step 2 (besides the couple points I lack to get the QL 50 CL head imp in). Very good guide. I'm hoping alot of the stuff I'll just have to buy once and share between twink projects. I should have most of the buffing guns in the bank somewhere.

I started a trox enforcer, it helped me to remember how much i dont like trox enforcers.
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Got a little trader to lvl 17 with level 60 imps. For those shiny weapons I wanted, they'd all require some hefty OSBs to keep them out of OE - never fun begging for buffs. So...

So lets see how creating an agent goes. No "twinking" just a bit of imp-laddering to get a decent yatamutchy, caterwaul, or gripo that's not OE, and can cast a few good buffs for smaller toons...
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what are you doing dude!

3 toons already?

I thought you were making a subway twink?

trader/agent will not suffice.

atrox enf is dead easy, easy to twink, easy to play, OP'd weap choice, you're gold!

whats the hold up? just stick with it, and, if you're a little short on this or that, once you've exhausted your options, check around.

I'll tell you straight up, that filigree platinum rings make life a LOT easier.
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Thanks Noobas. Your reply is what I was hoping this thread could bring to light. That ring = do want. Never heard of it, and I'm sure it's as expensive as all (like poly pillows). My toons get by with being functionally retarded (I always have that INT hole - and they aren't even atrox), that ring would be nice (I dont even have the NCU ring on my small toons yet).

Todays agent excursion went as well as I could have expected. I got an even lower level toon into no less than 55 to 60 implants without going too crazy having to beg for buffs and not having to buy new stuff (imp disassembly station FTW), after that was all done I just went ahead and blitzed some missions to get a decent low QL rifle that wouldnt be OE without wrangles, masteries, and such. After all was done I now have several of the rifles I mentioned before (and got lucky at a shop and gobbled up an entire large backpack of ql60 4 slot belts). I ended up not using any of the rifles I blitzed, instead using an even lower ql Yatamutchy that was looted off a dyna three days ago. It's by no means good, but it got the job done. I put "project #4" on /follow, and chugged away xp from some the weak subway mobs up until I had accumulated about 5 levels on both toons (I know... 5 lvls, wtf?! But thats how I roll).

With my rl work I can only have a slow-paced play style. But it works. I dont have that much time to farm, but I do have all the time I need to roll a mish and if I need to park it and wait 3 hours, it's there when I return.

Off topic, but heard on Alliance chat someone was taking a toon from level 1 to 150 in a day... Srsly?!?
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if you need filigree rings, I can help with +5 int/stam x2.

I've only got 2 of the agi/strength ones, and I'm loathe to lend em out due to the rarity of em.
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I've got a level 15 trox enf (going to equip the noob rod) in the works as well. I think I've got him on level 40-50 implants at the moment, obviously trying to get them higher, just a matter of finding the right level parts.
If you want to test yours out we could do a couple of subway runs/duels?
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my froob trader is parked in Subway...he's lvl 13 I think...if you need a hand teaming or anything lemme know.
But just reading your posts your knowledge and abilities are waaaaaay above mine... Im LOUSY at twinking...so that part of help Im no good at...truth to tell...Im probably not good for much in there but helping kill...even that I can crew up royally on...but I know how to die with honor! :wink:
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Thanks Fisty. We'll definitely team up soon.

Today i got to level 10 (I wanted him a little higher in level but trying to level in the subway got to me after about 3 levels, and I said 'screw it, level 10 it is'.

I got all my imps in except one. Sookie loaned me those uber-rings Noobas mentioned. Thanks Sookie!

If anyone is on later tonight that has a pair (or anything that can get me 7 STR), can I borrow them for 30 seconds? I just need 7 points in STR to equip my final imp and then throw on the Icebreaker (i need the rings because my NCU is maxxed out and I dont think I can lose anymore med-suit pieces.

I'll be on at 15:30 GMT (23:30 CDT-6). *fingers crossed* I get it done. I'm itching to finally see some combat. Spent the last few days just doing the numbers and tradeskilling :D
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thats me on sookie, and I lended them to you. I'll get you them again if needed after work (4 hours from now.)
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Thanks you both Noobas and Beneficial. Those are some mighty nice rings :D

The ice-breaker went on easily. The little fella is no where near where I want him, but so far he makes very quick work of most of the mobs. Even without some of the more uber-items he'll be a nice escort for all the small toons fresh off n00b island.

Needing something different, I started working on a small Agent. What a fun profession (currently locked at level 25). I'm not trying to twink the agent, just have enough powah! and farm some NCU rings and agility rifles. Right now level ql60 imps in every slot, 148 NCU, some carbonum armor that I'll probably upgrade to ql50 tomorrow, and a pretty low Yatamutchy rifle that is easily hot-swappable. You'll probably find me parked in a basic shop's Nano department for a while, as I'm browsing AO mainframes nano listings (right now trying to find the right profession to FP for maximum survivability - the damage modifiers and heals of MAs are nice).
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./scratch, for max survivability I'd suggest FPing MP fer a heal pet, else you'll be casting heals once every 20 secs or so.

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yup, FP MP is a very popular choice due to not havign to cast heals, whatever is but havign a reliable pet going during fighting. getting a decent QL pet though is tricky.
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FP:MP is still a bit out of my league at the moment (thenano skills to cast, i dont have quite that much at this level, but I'm close), still its all fun even sans meatballs.

Got a bigger gun on today, tho its still not anything special. Also got into some higher armor and also grabbed 4 ncu rings for other projects).

I plan on leveling this toon, but at the moment it's a blast doing what it's good at, while building up a nice pool of XP in the process.
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