Anarchy Online - Brainstorming

[Smegster]

hehe lol, nah that was good post no crap there atall :P lol

would like to add to the target problem.. i cant seem to focus all my toons on 1 toon.. it is a nightmare... so.... i have resorted to just team healing.. i box 1x doc and 4x NT and yea like u say up to lvl 50 i was sooo good i just laughed at everyone else... now im at 50 things just hit me too hard and my heals cant keep up with the ammount of damage etc. ( thats only when im luring lots tho )

im going to roll some docs now... altho the DoT at low levels is not ideal im sure i can pick up some NCU pistols in nooby backyard that can be my dps untill i get a decent DoT :P hehe

ill post back when ive played them a little cheers for post konraddo

[Korruptor]

6 Doctors?

I'd equate that to ripping my eye balls out with my fingernails.

I have a Doc at 175 and nothing makes my eyes bleed more then reading someone saying they are going to play 6 of them at a time. Feel free to do it but Doc's have one of the worst if not the worst attack rating in the game. Yes Doc's can tank some endgame bosses like LotV but it takes 30-60 minutes to do it solo. If you work your aggro right you can run 5 soldiers and 1 doc or even 5 NT's and 1 Doc but you need to be mindful of what you're trying to do.

If you plan to use NT's to sit their and AOE then your breed becomes the issue. I'd use Atrox for those NT's. Even though they have bad int the HP pool you have will help prevent them from dying from a random crit. Also roll your Agg/Def bar all the way to Def to get your def skills as high as possible.

If you're trying to mass kill with NT's it's best to do it with only 1 NT having them kite for the rest of the group.

5 NT's will work well with 1 doc if you stick to single targets and let the Doc pull with a non-breakable init debuff (UBT being the last and best of those) and watch the NT nukeage. Docs can keep aggro with just heals just avoid mashing the nuke button as fast as you can until you have CH.

Regarding CH'n for aggro, CH generates hate based off the amount healed so if you use it on a full HP teammate it will do little for you vs letting your doc get punched up a bit and CH'n then opening up on the mob.

[PyrostasisTDK]

I tried running AO last week... but was getting some rather strange hitching. Things were stuttering around like I was at a few fps. Also the mouse cursor was extremely inaccurate. Like... it felts sort of like controlling my mouse through a bungee cord if that makes any sense, it just didnt feel smooth and crisp like Im used to.

I have an amd 4200 x2
4 gigs of ddr2 800
Geforce 8800 GTS 640 meg

I tried looking on the tech forums but didnt see anything that might help. I tried tweaking some stuff... but I gave up after a few hours.

Anyone know what might be up? If I can get that fixed Ill play it for sure.

[Korruptor]

I tried running AO last week... but was getting some rather strange hitching. Things were stuttering around like I was at a few fps. Also the mouse cursor was extremely inaccurate. Like... it felts sort of like controlling my mouse through a bungee cord if that makes any sense, it just didnt feel smooth and crisp like Im used to.

I have an amd 4200 x2
4 gigs of ddr2 800
Geforce 8800 GTS 640 meg

I tried looking on the tech forums but didnt see anything that might help. I tried tweaking some stuff... but I gave up after a few hours.

Anyone know what might be up? If I can get that fixed Ill play it for sure.

Try this first:

F10>>settings>>visual>>misc look for mouse lag fix or something named like that, if it's checked, un-check it otherwise check it.

Currently AO is based of DX6 and makes little use of high end video cards, that is until they release the visual upgrade.

[Smegster]

omg 6x doc sux, heals are great yea... but u sped half of ur time trying to heal everyone becuase you taking so long to kill the damn thing... on my NT's and doc i could take down somthing my own level in 1 hit, with the docs somthing my own level was a long annoing battle.. dont even get me started on my bosses around start area... its just too much hassel and too little dps. be good for umm.... yea i have no idea... i suggest not rolling doctors... fun solo... not so 6x.. erg..

was about to roll 5x advy and 1x enfo earlier but kinda went against it... im taking on too many toons as it is :P lol.. would be nice team i think tho.. 5x pistol advy... or might go 5x 1he hmm... and the enfo there as main to just hold aggro... just thinking all the buffs that come with advy is nice.. morphs etc... but i suppose you only need 1 advy for that.

ty for advice on my nt's korrupt, have alredy spec Nanomage now still a laugh tho hehe...

still not made 6x agent :P lol ^^

[Scritchin]

Close to 12 months ago I 6 boxed AO using 2 computers the classes were:
x1 NT, main dps, this account was upgraded to Shadowlands for the Cyberdeck item $5 per month
x1 Enforcer mongo and Essance buff for NT
x1 Fixer for the x2 HoT's for my NT, also team evac into the grid
x1 Doctor to heal
x1 Engi for Pet and to do full tradeskills to make my own weapons and armour
x1 Meta Phys for the Nano buffs

Boxing missions for tokens is pointless cause of the very poor pathing, all my leveling was done out doors mainly in the Lush Fields camps then moved onto Bot Hackers and 8x8 in pleasant medows etc. By the time I had left pleasent medows I had x2 Grid Armour discs drop for killing NPC camps this lets ya get Yalmaha's for all ya toons this fixes ya /follow command niggles cause they can fly so fast behind you. Prolly the most fun I had was flying around with my fixer finding good kite spots for the NT.

It is also worth taking ya enforcer and Doc into Temple of the Three Winds and getting ya Doc the Chalice that drops in there very nice healing item, anymore than duel boxing in there is to hard and a Doc / Enforcer combo can pretty much take down any boss.

I quit at level 80ish and went back to Vanguard.