Anarchy Arcanum - Your Rubi-Ka travelguide

We recommend that you download this program as we will be using it in our examples a lot. This program lets you pick the exact skills you want, and automatically, via means of a priority-list, puts them into your cluster setup as well as helping out with the possibility to change the requirements on your implants. In short? You will want this.

Picking clusters in Nanonanny
As you see - after picking the skills you need by adding them to the right column using the drop-menu and then clicking add, you are able to auto-assign them to your setup. When picking the skills you want, we strongly recommend that you pick the most vital ones only. Don't go "shopping" this early on adding loads and loads of skills. Using a max of 5 skills is a good start really. We are going to use a trader as an example. To follow us on this examples add these clusters (in this order as well) to your priority-table.

Time & Space
Psychological Modifications
Sensory Improvement and Modifications
Max Health

You should now have Nano Nanny present you with the image to the right.

Cluster Clashing!
As you can see, two of our clusters are clashing after you hit the "Auto assign" button. This is normal for clusters, like we mentioned earlier, especially when it comes to tradeskills. The clusters clashing are always marked with a red circle-arrow and an exclamation mark. In our case, we have two clashes - one in shining head, and one in bright eye positions. By clicking on the respective positions you can select the cluster you prefer from the list.

Balancing out the skills
This is where the Faded+Bright=Shining formula really will help you a lot. The optimum goal here is of course to balance all these out. For traders, this means you will want to balance out Time & Space, Psy Mod and Sense Imp. So lets do that. Right now we have all three clusters for Time & Space - which we of course wont need then, so lets drop the shining cluster in the head there and replace it with a Psy Mod cluster. Now we have all three of the Psy Mod clusters in, and only one Sense Imp. We haven't touched the bright eye yet, so lets do that now. Change the bright eye cluster to Sense Imp instead. What we have now is this:

Faded + Shining Psy Mod
Faded + Bright Sense Imp
Faded + Bright Timespace

Now - we have one faded too many for it all to be "balanced out" - the faded Psy Mod. Here's a good tip if you really want to twink your nanoskills up that extra bit - use a Faded Genious cluster in your ear, it will up all of your nanoskills by a small amounts, so by doing this, we have effectively balanced out our skills.

When you are balancing out skills like this - remember to take buffs into account as well. For weapon-users in particular, this is very important. Soldiers, for instance, using a gun that requires 400 Assault Rifle and 300 Fullauto might want to consider there are special buffs for Assault Rifle, but none for Fullauto, so using a shining Fullauto-cluster instead of the Assault Rifle one, can actually get that extra big gun on you.

Selecting Requirements
Selecting and checking requirements we do by clicking on the "Build" tab, bringing up the build-section of Nano Nanny. We only really need to concern ourselves with the lower right part, where it says "Important Attributes".

Lets say that for our trader, we want to use Stamina and Agility for our implants, so we check those two attributes and then click the Build button.

This instantly transfers us to the Results-page where we can see the increase in skills from our implants. Personally, I don't use this page, since it has been known to produce the wrong stats from time to time. We'll make haste into the next Result-tab, the Requirements.

By clicking on the various headlines, you can sort your clusters by requirements, or by implants, or even by type (faded, bright, shining). My personal favourite is "Implant" really, although some prefer it to be by its "Secondary Skill".

As you can see - our setup is mostly agility and stamina already, except for two very naughty implants that will have to be spanked later on, the ear and eye. But hold on! We still have one more tab to check out! The Results - Suggestions tab. As you can see here, to change the requirements on our ear we need to add a Bright Sneaking cluster, and for the eye, we can opt to either put in a Shining Rifle cluster or a Shining Aimed Shot cluster. Both options would be perfectly valid. so return to the Layout tab, add those clusters to your setup, and then go into your Build-tab and click "Build" again - voilá! One set of Agility / Stamina implants. Checking and rechecking like this is never wrong. Please feel free to test a bit with Nano Nanny until you get comfortable with it.

Getting treatment up there

Like mentioned earlier, treatment is one of the most crucial skills in AO, regardless of which profession you are, simply because of the requirements on implants. Needless to say, you will
need to have NCU's for buffs, as well as some luck, skills, and possibly friends to help you out
when you try to squeeze into implants.

Buffs
Like mentioned before, docs have wonderful buffs for this. The +80 buff is really something else. Add the +20 general expertise buff, and the +100 you get from the Surgery Clinic and you have +200 already. Since dribbledown on Treatment is based on Intelligence, Sense and Agility, its never a bad thing to hit yourself with those three boosts as well. Possibly even Feline Grace and Enhanced senses.

Clothes
Ah yes. The medisuit. A complete Omni-Med Suit adds 78 to treatment (remember to wear both sleeves) and complementing it (if you can) with a Biomech helmet for additional +5 treatment isn't too bad either (+10 for a QL200 one, but you will need a ton of PSY and STA for that one). The only drawback here is that you will look like something out of a lampshop. The very same goes for the Biomech cloak as that also gives you yet a slight boost, although doesnt make you look like a walking lamp.

Weapons
There is a very nifty little rifle in the game, frequently used for this sort of thing, and its called OT-Windchaser M06 Quartz. Its quite rare, existing only between QL22-25 but it adds a very nice +10 boost to treatment. For soldiers, or others with a will to spend IP into Fullauto, Assault Rifle and aimed shot, there is the MTI G-70 Talmo, existing between QL65-74. Requirements are higher, but if you already spent IP into the required skills, this might be a better choice, as it adds 10 just as the Quartz gun does. If you are really stretched on cash, or cant get hold of these guns, you might want to get a trader to go shop in the special Trader only store and pick you up a bottle of Doctor - Sugarfree Rum. It only adds 1 to treatment, but sometimes, thats all it takes, and it has no reqs to wield really, so its very IP non-expensive, and its sugarfree too, so it doesnt rot your teeth.

Items
There are various items that can be used to buff your treatment up a bit, most of these items are items that buff agility, or intelligence however and as a result of dribbledown effects, you get a slight increase in treatment. These items range from the Personal Robotic Brain, to the Virral Triumvirate Egg. All items wearable in your "free" slots buffing Sense, Intelligence or Agility can be used to up your treatment somewhat. One thing that is important to know is that pure Treatment-buff items are usually a lot better than using ability-buff items.
And of course, you haven't forgotten about the newly introduced Treatment Laboratories already have you? If so, please read our guide on how to make one of those.

Note that there are also some profession specific items that can boost treatment (example, the dissasembly clinic for Fixers or Agents in disguise, the Medical Epaulet or Pharmacy Clinics that only doctors can use and so on). This guide will only touch on non-profession specific items though.

So with that in mind, lets see how much we are getting treatment up by without resorting to implanting low QL surgery cluster into the setup..