AO froob soldiers at level 200

Base values

⁽¹⁾IPs left after maxing abilities, body dev, nano pool, evades, run speed, comp lit, first aid and all the above shown skills. Purely informative.

I got often told that Solitus is the best overall choice especially for froobie soldiers. Looking at the raw values to the left my suspection about Opifexes being actually a quite good choice just found more proof. I dunno how this changes with levels past 200, but this is outside of the scope of this document here, anyway.

General setup description

It's not easy to make 'viable' setups for a level 200 froobie soldier (or level 200 froobie characters at all), because many items are either overly expensive or need a decent raid force to obtain.

For that reason I didn't really know what you can expect a level 200 soldier to use, and tried an approach 'through the middle'. The equipment is not the dream setup, and even though partially hard to obtain, a good indication where things are heading. The other reason to decide this way is the neutral stand of my own soldier (and no, I won't give this up), which denies a number of options (like the assault rifle sleeves and a decent token board, for example).

Hellfury

This setup is far from being perfect, nor did I check if every race is even able to put it on. I used Azure mostly to give an average 'add' of AR skill. There are better options, if you got the resources for this (or lets say additional options). Fact is, together with buffs and the right equipment (not available to neutrals), you can cap the attack rating cap (MBS=1200) of the Hellfury, and thus the maximal possible damage you can do with this gun.

The setup of the implants is not perfect, especially in regard to the STR, AGL and STA abilities. Interesting are the nano skills, they are not enough to cast the best buffs accessible to fr00bies without mochams / wrangle. The buff (Art of Peace) lasts 2 hours, which leaves enough time to do a mission or even two, if you don't cancel the mochams.

RangedInit ends up pretty high. Depending on what you prefer, it can be decreased in favor of more runspeed (which is 782 for Solitus in this setup, high enough for some running around). In return the setup has AddAllDef triple implanted, giving you a more defensive stand the more the agg-def-slider is moved towards def.

Running at 62.5% agg-def in the simulation; using a +6% crit scope you get like 6k damage more over the 300sec period (at full agg then). At about 9k AC the damage is decreased to the minimum, more AC won't affect the gun anymore.

The difference between the self-buffed and foreign-buffed case is roughly 3k over that period of time, means you don't need to run after a MP or trader every 3 or 2 hours.

Conclusions:

• Low MBS of 1200, but it's hard to reach that as a froob, anyway. You'd need certain not really easy to get items for this, and the tradeoff in higher damage compared to the loss of ACs and other boni makes it almost a no-go, afterall the AR beyond 1000 is divided by 3 for soldiers to calculate the damage.
• Single attack skill, thus it's possible to get high AR (attack rating), higher hit and crit chance. With the low crit bonus the crits are not really a deciding factor in the final damage.
• Requirements are based on two skills only. This allows for more room for other things in your implants, e.g. nano skills (which are very low for soldiers).
• Radiation damage. This is bad for the RK soldier damage buffs, because they cover energy and projectile damage only. Some weapon skill buffs have minor all-damage-buffs included. For further buffing you have to use outside buffs (e.g. kitty-cat, damage buffs from fixers, and so on, which are not included in the above calculations).
• The procs can be helpful against a number of mobs who employ shieldings and reflects. As a sidekick damage dealing profession this can come in handy.

Blinded Blickbirds (dualwield)

Equipment	auno.org
	+xx Assault Rifle, +100 rad damage, ...
Buffs	Assault Rifle Expertise ...
	+xx Assault Rifle, +100 rad damage, ...

	Solitus	Opifex	Atrox	Nanomage
Abilities
Strength	472	464	512	464
Agility	480	544	480	464
Stamina	480	480	512	448
Intelligence	480	464	400	512
Sense	480	512	400	480
Psychic	480	448	400	512
Ranged
Pistol	719	732	711	717
MG/SMG	659	664	662	655
Assault Rifle	719	725	719	715
FlingShot	719	735	719	715
Burst	659	666	663	655
MultiRanged	659	667	651	660
Speed
RangedInit.	719	724	701	721
Nano and Aiding
MatMet	659	665	639	667
PsyMod	659	658	639	666
MatCreat	599	596	585	604
Time&Space	599	599	583	605
SenImp	659	655	645	665

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Blinded Blackbird + SOL K-91

Equipment	auno.org
	+xx Assault Rifle, +100 rad damage, ...
Buffs	Assault Rifle Expertise ...
	+xx Assault Rifle, +100 rad damage, ...

	Solitus	Opifex	Atrox	Nanomage
Abilities
Strength	472	464	512	464
Agility	480	544	480	464
Stamina	480	480	512	448
Intelligence	480	464	400	512
Sense	480	512	400	480
Psychic	480	448	400	512
Ranged
Pistol	719	732	711	717
MG/SMG	659	664	662	655
Assault Rifle	719	725	719	715
FlingShot	719	735	719	715
Burst	659	666	663	655
MultiRanged	659	667	651	660
Speed
RangedInit.	719	724	701	721
Nano and Aiding
MatMet	659	665	639	667
PsyMod	659	658	639	666
MatCreat	599	596	585	604
Time&Space	599	599	583	605
SenImp	659	655	645	665

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