Level 1 Trader: Lilgatester

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Sep 13th, 2009, 20:30:40
Gatester

Level 1 Trader: Lilgatester

Lilgatester

Lilgatester was born on Tue Feb 26 16:12:58 2008
Lilgatester has played 5 days 13 hours 48 minutes 48 seconds

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Lilgatester Planned Equip

6-Slot Belt + Complier

There have been many level 1 twinks, and many accomplishments over the years by talented players. We have had level 1 twinks solo abmouth in subway, equip Cure for Baldness on a doctor, and even make the journey to Inferno and Pandemonium. My accomplishment is equipping a 6-Slot Belt on a Level 1 Trader. Since this was done legitly, and is doable by any player in AO, I wish to share as much of the process and requirements as I can with the AO community.

This was done on a level 1 Clan Nanomage Trader with full expansions. All calcs will already include research, and as far as I know level 1's cannot recieve any Tower or City advantages so they will not be included. PLEASE PLEASE, be sure to disable all xp gains under the Behavior menu in your F10 options window.

First, the listing of items you will need to accomplish this:

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Twinking Toolset The Pioneer Backpack Pure Novictum Ring for the Control Unit 5-Slot Belt QL 100 Overclocked Belt Component Platform 6-Slot Belt QL 160 Collar Casero de la Cripta Explosif's Polychromatic Pillows x2 Ring of the Nucleus Basalis Rebuilt NCU Wrist Implant Shades of Lucubration Platinum Filigree Ring x2 Almandine x2 Red Beryl x2 Ruby Pearl X1 Sapphire Nova Dillon set QL35 Lowest +2 stat set, or as close as possible. Carbonum Armor set QL16 Lowest +2 NCU set. Loving Focus-Funneling Helper Primitive Focus-Funneling Helper Treatment Library QL20 Higher is possible but QL20 was all I needed. Pirate Cloak of Captain Jim Salabim Computer Literacy Tutoring Device Improved Ofab Trader Body Armor QL25 Penultimate Ofab Trader Pants QL25 Lya's Sangi Patch I had QL's 32, 46, and 52. Advanced Scent Sensor Solid Steel Hydraulic Legwear Drone Communication Unit I believe I had a +2 when equipping CoH collar. De'Valos Sleeves QL20 +3 nanoskill, +2 NCU sleeves are what I have to use. For Clan Guate's Cloak of Rock Counterfeit Omni Epaulet For Omni Omni Special Issue set I never went omni to use this, but it would have made the process easier. And lastly, as many of the +3-4 stat Miy's Armors as you can get your hands on. Good luck as they are very rare.

I hope that is everything lol. Since equipping a 4-Slot Belt and Shades of Lucubration should be doable without explanation I will jump straight to that point. With a 4-Slot on you should have enough NCU to equip ql 50 implants without too much effort. Also, try to equip some +5-7 Rebuilt NCU wrist implants. From this point I went through the following chain of twinking:

Equipped Collar Casero de la Cripta
Equipped HUD Upgrade: Enhanced Target Acquisition
Began my trip through Shadowlands
Arrived at Inferno and Looted Pure Novictum Ring for the Control Unit
Equipped 5-Slot Belt QL 100
Looted Phobia Beads in Albatreum to acquire Wen-Wen Decoy
Equipped Overclocked Belt Component Platform
Equipped 6-Slot Belt QL 160

I equipped the collar, TIM scope, and arrived in inferno about a year ago. I wanted to equip the 5-slot belt for a long time, but I hit a twinking problem that took me around 8 months to realize how to get around lol. After that I went back to inferno to get my Wen-Wen, which was about 2 or 3 months ago. Finally this past week I equipped the Overclocked Belt and 6-slot belt.

The next post will describe the processes for each of these items.

To verify that you can reach 351 Computer Literacy at Level 1

Actual Equip at the Time of Equipping (-1 intel as the ring will only add +5 intel+sense)
Along with +12 ability buff
+20 CL expertise
+3 intel from ICRT
+20 intel from NS
+160 CL from bulk trader
+16 CL from tutoring device

4 Default Computer Literacy
4 Points from IP
180 From buffs
15 From armor
77 From Implants
35 Trickle
20 From Utils
16 From tutoring device

4+4+180+15+77+35+20+16 = 351
Sep 13th, 2009, 20:32:45
Gatester

I highly recommend keeping AO-Universe available, because the guides to acquiring many of the items, as well as Shadowlands progression quests are there. Now to see how much I can remember from a year ago about my twinking process lol.

Collar Casero de la Cripta
Now, when I equipped my CoH collar, I had full NCU gear on. De'Valos sleeves, Carb armor, NCU ring, the Sapphire ring, and Rebuilt NCU wrist implants. The NCU's were 189 CL req and my NCU was approximately 150. From there you simply get the assistance of an MP and a Trader and head to the nearest Backyard. Using ql 50 bio mat implants, you should be able to drain up using PM and TS infuses to reach enough drained skill.

140 bio mat from mochams
131 bio mat from wrangle
20 from expertise
60 from implants
then the last bit from drains.
Pretty basic here so I hope I do not need to go into too much detail on this part.

HUD Upgrade: Enhanced Target Acquisition
To get the TIM scope, I simply went through Foremans alongside my 100 Engineer. It was not too difficult as I knew the PF pretty well, and simply killing T.I.M and looting the scope is probly one of the easier acquisitions I experienced :)

When equipping the scope the first thing you will want to do is have a high ql Targeting Scope The benefit of this is that the Aimed Shot from that scope can be hotswapped with theTIM scope, so the only stat you have to focus on is the rifle stat. Simply get buffed by an agent, get a 131 wrangle, ql50 rifle implants, and drain up and the scope is on.

At this point I decided I wanted the Pure Novictum Ring from Inferno, so it was time to begin the journey. The first thing you need to do, is collect the 4 no drop items from Subway that can be traded to one of the various Ergo's on Rubi-Ka for a +1 ring. You will need it to progress from Elysium to Scheol. Check ao-universe.com for guides about various Shadowlands Zone progressions.

Now some of you may be wondering about the DoT effects from Adonis Underwater, Penumbra, Inferno, and even Pandemonium. Luckily for you they cap at 30% of your health. The reason for this is that the DoT effects are not cast by the playfield, but by the player on themselves, and since damage caused to yourself is counted as pvp damage it follows the same restrictions based on max health. The only really difficult parts are Adonis Underwater RS debuffs, and Eremites. AAAARRRGGHHH EREMITES!!!!!! Yes, I have been killed by Eremites over a dozen times on my excursions into SL :)

The other issue will be Guardian Faction. This part is fairly easy, as you just need to join an kite team in ely for 1 or 2 kites to max out faction there, and once in adonis you can team from anywhere in the zone and get Guardian faction from adonis heck kills. In Penumbra you may need to do a bit more killing but you should be good to go for inferno access.

Equipping the 5-Slot Belt QL 100 is the hardest part of this entire setup. It was a while ago so I cannot remember the specifcs, but I had approximately 185 NCU when I began, and used QL 52 brain-59 right hand with computer literacy. I did not use the treatment clinic to hotswap implants mid way since when I attempted this it failed miserably. Also, you must be sure to have a Sense Improvement Chest implant in, and enough nano to cast Bulk Trader.

If you are looking at the requirements to cast Bulk Trader you will obviosly think "How the hell". Well the problem isn't just getting the required nanoskills to cast it lol, its having the 30 NCU to hold the buff as well. All in all if you counted using Mochams, 131 wrangle, drains and expertises when trying to cast Bulk Trader, it totals somewhere around 220-230 NCU needed. Note, I did this with 185 NCU, and that is as big a hint as I am going to give you guys because this is the only part of this process that took thought rather than just simple calcing. I have given you as much info as I can so if you deserve to get 5-Slot Belt on, you will get it on :)

After that I returned to Inferno to try for my Wen-Wen Decoy. There are no level reqs so a level 1 trader can infact equip it and have blockers at level 1. Once you finally avoid several Eremite deaths you can loot 5x Phobia Beads from The Remains of The Keeper and combine them. The resulting necklace is then force traded with the Yutto outside and you recieve a blank wen-wen. Simply right click it and enjoy one of the coolest looking util items in game :)

Overclocked Belt Component Platform
When I originally began to acquire this, I didn't think 6-slot belt was possible. Mid way through the quest I was able to calc out equipping a 6-slot but I decided I might as well finish the quest, and am I glad I did. You recieve this belt as the final reward for the AI Tech 3 questline. The main benefit of this belt is obviously the +20 NCU.

With your 5-slot belt equipped, casting bulk trader is much easier. What you want to do though, is update 4x of your NCU's as high as possible, in my case, I used ql 124 NCU's. You can try swapping out 5 NCU memories but you will most likely run into the same problem I did, if you do not have enough time left on bulk trader, about 7 seconds or longer, once the buff ends the equipping process will as well. Simply go through the same steps as was done for equipping the 5-slot belt and you have your Overclocked Belt on.

6-Slot Belt QL 160
The beast. Luckily for you guys I actually wrote down my steps here and used a skill emulator to calculate all of this exactly. So this part will allow all of you who have made it to this point to repeat my steps exactly, as long as you have the Lya Sangi patches :)

Keep in mind I had some +3/+3 miy's armor, and for probly the first half of the twinking process I did not own a Pioneer Backpack or +5 stat rings (I had a +4 set). Also the ql50 implants were simply stat implants such as agi+stam thighs.

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Overclocked belt equipped, calculating from all ql50 implants: 150 intel 320 treament without right hand equip a ql 64 treatment right hand equip a ql 69 sense+psychic chest replace intel+sense brain with psychic+sense brain replace intel ear implant with psychic ear implant 140 Psychic 334 treatment equip a ql 68 sense+agility waist implant replace psychic+sense brain with ql 59 intel+NP+sense brain equip Agility+Sense explosifs pillows equip second +4 int and sense ring 132 sense 338 treatment replace ql 50 ear with ql 66 percept+tutor+intel ear replace ql 50 eye with ql 64 map nav+treatment+wep smth eye equip pure novictum ring again equip Intel+Psychic explosifs pillows 149 intel 360 treatment replace ql 64 right hand treatment imp with ql 71 treatment right hand replace ql 69 sense+psychic chest imp with ql 72 stamina+psychic chest imp replace ql 59 intel brain with 59 psychic brain replace ql 68 sense+agi waist imp with 68 sense+stam waist replace ql 59 psychic brain imp with ql 63 treatment brain imp equip stam+str explosifs pillows equip 2x stamina rings equip solid steel hydraulic legwear equip nova +2 boots equip nova +2 sleeve equip miy's +3 stam body ??? stamina ??? treatment replace ql 50 agi+stam leg imp with ql 67 agi+stam imp replace ql 50 agi foot imp with ql 72 evade+agi imp replace ql 50 right arm imp with ql 72 str+swimming imp replace ql 50 left arm imp with ql 72 str+Mat met imp {{{{{Currentently here in twinking process}}}}} equip pure novi ring equip +5 int/sense ring equip int+psy explosifs pillows equip omni-med suit pants equip omni-med suit shirt equip nova +2 gloves equip omni-med suit sleeves replace ql 63 treatment brain with ql 59 psychic brain replace ql 68 sense+stam waist with ql 68 sense+agi waist equip nova +2 sleeve replace ql 59 psychic brain with ql 59 intel brain equip omni-med suit sleeve equip pioneer backpack equip omni-med suit gloves replace ql 72 stam+psychic chest with ql 72 sense+psychic chest replace ql 59 intel brain with ql 63 treatment brain equip sense+agi explosif pillows replace pure novi ring with +5 agi/str ring replace +5 int/sense ring with +5 agi/str ring equip 121 skill req lya sangi shoulder on right shoulder replace +5 agi/str ring with +5 int/sense ring replace omni-med suit gloves with +3 sense/agi miy gloves replace omni-med suit pants with +2 nova pants replace omni-med suit sleeves with +2 nova sleeves replace omni-med suit body with +2 nova body equip 136 skill req lya sangi shoulder on right shoulder equip 121 skill req lya sangi shoulder on left shoulder replace omni-med suit on body and one sleeve replace +5 agi/str ring with +5 int/sense ring ***150 sense 353 treatment*** replace ql 66 percept+tutoring+intel ear with ql 73 percept+tutoring+intel ear replace +2 nova pants with omni-med suit pants equip int+psy explosifs equip omni-med suit gloves replace +2 nova sleeve with omni-med suit sleeve equip pure novi ring remove treatment+NP+sense brain *****This section is a bit sketchy***** 115 psychic 133 intel 330 treatment equip ql 62 intel+EE brain imp equip omni-med suit boots replace ql 64 treatment eye imp with ql 69 tutoring+comp lit+ wep smt+TS eye imp equip +2 nova boots equip ql 69 psychic+sense imp chest remove brain implant 133 intel 329 treatment equip +2 nova glove eqip ql 65 CL+NP+tutoring brain implant equip omni-med suit gloves replace ql 71 treatment right hand with ql 64 TS+CL right hand implant Final Twinking Stage Equip ofab body and pants Equip +2 nova sleeves, gloves, boots Equip omni epaulet in left shoulder Equip loving and primative focus-funneling devices 305 tutoring req +16 comp lit tutoring device 351 Computer Literacy, start with NCUs and wrists. Get down to 4NCUs needed to cast bulk trader. Equip the 6slot belt. Congratulations

When you get to the final point where you begin to cast your bulk trader, you will have to use a similar trick I used when equipping the 5-slot belt. Don't forget your LE +9 nanoskills proc :) Also, the duration of the tutoring buffs is 2minutes, and the duration of CL buffs are 1minute, so I highly advise that you use the tutoring device first, then replace pioneer backpack before casting your Bulk Trader.

***EDIT 5/10/2011***
Well, I have held onto this twinking trick for a while now, shared it with only a select few individuals, but I figured I would go ahead and share with everyone else the twinking trick that lead to my most well-known achievement. The secret to getting a 5-slot and then 6-slot belt onto a level 1 trader.

Perhaps the biggest reason for sharing this publicly is so that others can attempt to achieve the same thing. I was hoping someone else would stumble across how I did it on their own but I have not seen any evidence to support that, so for those who are interested this will unveil the extremely simple concept that will make you facepalm after reading it. In fact, I had this idea to accomplish getting the 5-slot belt equipped while away from my computer, forgot it before I made it back to test it, and it took nearly a year to remember...

Long drawn out introduction asside, I dub this trick the "NCU Hotswap".

The problem with equipping the 5-slot belt at level 1 is that you need to cast bulk trader in order to have the necessary nanoskills. Most people calc the best possible outside buffs, mochams, and then calc the best possible drains in order to reach the necessary nanoskills. Doing so takes around 180-190 NCU, which is possible with a 4-slot belt and gives you the skills to cast bulk trader. Unfortunately, bulk trader itself has an NCU cost as well, meaning that the 220+ NCU needed is an impossible figure when calculating mochams and drains, all of which are almost necessary.

This is where the NCU hotswap comes into play. I realized that once I begin casting a drain, there was a delay before the corresponding buff on the trader was recieved, afterall it is an offensive nano. What this means is that if you are out of NCU, lets say 175/182 but can still cast better drains, you can begin to cast the drains and then remove the mochams from your NCU.

After doing this, you will recieve the buff from the drain you normally would not have had NCU to hold. At this point you can obtain infuses which take slightly less NCU than mochams and then repeat the process for the next higher drain. While casting, remove the infuses from your NCU and your drain laddering will be one step higher. From this point, you can use masteries instead of infuses or mochams in order to cast bulk trader.

TL:dr version

Buff with mochams and a 131 wrangle and begin draining up. Drain until your NCU is full and you should still be able to cast better drains but lack the NCU to obtain their buff. While draining and before recieving the buff, cancel the mochams to free up the NCU. Cast infuses in place of mochams and repeat until you are able to make use of masteries. Masteries+131+top possible drains allows you enough NCU to cast bulk trader at level 1.

There you go, the big secret to my twink. For those that wish to duplicate my twink I hope this makes it a possibility.

***EDIT 5/10/2011***

/signed Gatester
Sep 13th, 2009, 21:01:30
theobelisk

all that twinking, for that weapon? :p
*facepalm*

still grats on the 6slot
Sep 13th, 2009, 21:31:17
Amishjoo

<3 free bump
Sep 14th, 2009, 00:31:53
Lupusceleri

Grats.. awesome accomplishment Gatester. :)

I think I know what you did to equip the 5slot belt.

But haven't bothered to calculate, I'm a Notum Wars addict so you'll very likely won't see me make a twink outside those ranges.

As a hint I'll refer to a Dutch proverb: "Wie het kleine niet eert is het grote niet weerd."

Drop you a tell later to find out if I was right? :)
Sep 14th, 2009, 00:35:54
Saetos

Good god :eek:
Sep 14th, 2009, 00:49:01
theobelisk

Not at any particular twinking range, but I've used frequent customer to switch from a GCB to 6slot on a toon or two of mine in the past.

I've never had any issue unequiping 5 memories, and swapping the belt during the minute. What am I missing that everyone does not? Maybe it's been a while and something has changed... but I recall always doing it in some obscure location to avoid any lag and it went smoothly.
Sep 14th, 2009, 00:55:30
Saetos

On the one Trader twink I had (level 15) that I threw a 6 slot belt on, it really wasn't hard transitioning from 5 to 6, even with 70 second delay and 60 second buff duration.
Sep 14th, 2009, 01:01:02
Lupusceleri

Quote:

Originally Posted by theobelisk

Not at any particular twinking range, but I've used frequent customer to switch from a GCB to 6slot on a toon or two of mine in the past.

I've never had any issue unequiping 5 memories, and swapping the belt during the minute. What am I missing that everyone does not? Maybe it's been a while and something has changed... but I recall always doing it in some obscure location to avoid any lag and it went smoothly.

Aye I always put the NCUs and belt on hotbar, so I could spam them like a madman.

Can't say I ever had the belt stop equipping on me. And I twinked a couple traders. :)
Sep 14th, 2009, 01:36:03
Gatester

The equipment change halt happens with delays. If you have a really good connection it will work but latency for instance will mess you up :)

If anyone has a guess on what I did feel free to PM me in game :p Undercutting, and Superenforce (maybe hehe) and the 3 lovely ladies that assisted me are the only ones that have either seen me during the process of doing this or have been actually told.
Sep 14th, 2009, 15:32:55
Noxira

'Sploits! I call shenanigans!

This is absolutely crazy, must've taken ages to do.
Sep 15th, 2009, 01:54:12
Gatester

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mirura

'Sploits! I call shenanigans!

This is absolutely crazy, must've taken ages to do.

Lilgatester has played 5 days 13 hours 48 minutes 48 seconds

Take a day off that for goofing around and add several weeks trying to figure out what I need outside of the game. It is officially the biggest waste of effort spent on a single goal in AO lol.
Sep 15th, 2009, 04:05:25
Wrangeline

So, how much NCU do you have? :p
Sep 15th, 2009, 11:33:26
Gatester

I Need my top NCU's to max it out, but its about 225-230 with a Viral Compiler. I hit 270 in full NCU setup without top NCU's.
Sep 16th, 2009, 00:18:27
Noddle22

NCU twink
Sep 16th, 2009, 17:45:47
Leafybits

Grats!

Haa haa haa, that is awesome Gatester. Very nicely done. :)
Sep 16th, 2009, 23:39:39
rustinel

Of course, since you are still level one you are one of those noobs who 'ran left'...

<3 :p
Sep 17th, 2009, 09:14:51
aramsunat

gz for the twinking! really impressive :)
Sep 18th, 2009, 18:20:58
Sterva

Yeah, me and marx had a level one Atrox that was about 7 CL away from a 6 slot like a year and a half ago. The only thing that stopped us from doing it then was breed.

It's cool, but not really surprising and not too difficult, it's just a long grind to equip a toon until you can do it.

edit: for clarity, I meant that we were a few CL away from getting the 5 slot in, but we had calced that the 6 slot was possible if we had been able to get the 5 slot on.
Sep 20th, 2009, 04:28:53
Sechsy

Congrats on finishing your trader; that's one awesome twink you have

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