Barthary Row wasteland corrupted...

Basically, I have a level 50 character and jack in when pretty much no other players are online =( So I'm wondering, is it actually possible to solo these darn things? Are there any methods for a player forced to solo to get the level 53 corrupted to spawn away from the level 100 corruptor? What sort of abilities should I load up? (I'm usually a Karate Grandmaster with a little bit guns thrown in, so I know little about the other trees in terms of combat).

So yeah to sum up, any tips on being able to successfully solo this or am I SOL as it's bascially impossible to find a group?

Talk to Criinge.

She has farmed countless patchers gears and such.

Spawn a Corruptor, then back away and wait for the spawned Corrupted to come to you.

Spawn a Corruptor, then back away and wait for the spawned Corrupted to come to you.

Hmm, how long should it take for them to come get me? When I tried just before the servers went down, they were rather adamant about not leaving the warm protection of their big buggy friend =/

I think if you have luggables on you, it'll increase your chance of spawning.

The fastest way to do this is to get someone to make a low level character and help you, or to use two accounts at once.
The level 50 loads Teleport Teammember and a few offensive area hacks. Might get a few heals in there too. Don't bother with getting high level attacks or high level heals, none of that is necessary.
The low level needs to hack the Bathary Node. So do you, but I assume you already have it tagged.
I always make a new character, /suicide to log in as a level 1 and then tag the node and a hardline. I'll be level 3. The lower level your lowbie is, the easier the NPC's are to kill. I'll get to that in a second.

The Corruptor spawns every 45 minutes. To skip this, you have to teleport the lowbie around. With every teleport you have a chance to spawn the Corruptor on the lowbie. Shouldn't take more than 10 teleports, which saves you the time waiting for one to spawn.

After spawning, you and the lowbie have to get at a little distance from the Corruptor. Every minute or two minutes it attacks you and takes away 80% of your health (notice its a percentage, not an amount). Need to find the right distance, but that's not too hard to do.

Because you spawned the Corruptor with the lowbie, the NPC's will be 3 levels higher as the lowbie. Yippy, no level 53's! They're easy to kill =) The Corruptor will stay for 45 minutes.
I load area hacks because they have a longer cast timer than the Ballista hacks. If I kill the low level NPC's too quick, I have to get near the Corruptors attack range to loot them. I rather have a longer cast timer so I don't have to walk so much.

Every now and then a random spawn of level 53's will come. You can hyperjump to get rid of those. Or you can try to find the stairs that connect Bathary with Stamos. There are two of these. If you can get the Corruptor to spawn in Bathary, but stay in Stamos then these random spawn won't be bothering you. Make sure you hack the Stamos node on your account and the lowbie one.

To kill the Corruptor you need 340 frags. These can be traded for insecticide at the Fumigator. The Corruptor has 5100 health and doesn't regenerate the health it loses. Each spray of insecticide does 15 damage, regardless of your characters level.
Remember the Corruptor takes away 80% of your health every minute or so. It's therefore best to attack it with the lowbie, so you can heal it up to its max health quick. The level 50 stays just out of its attack range, attacks the few NPC's that come with the Corruptor. I think it stops spawning those if you don't loot the corpses, but I am not sure. Been too long since I did this. They're easy to kill anyway.

All of this takes a little while to get used to. Once you farmed your first stack of frags you'll get the hang of it. It's all too easy. Just extremely time consuming, especially when you're going for the Headgear. Good luck. :)

Grab aggro by shooting em, then slowly back up enough for them to follow you out. As long as your out of range of the boss' area debuff, you should be fine to interlock em'.

Edit: Those 53s aren't random, corrupted spawn on every player within range so the 53s are tied into the level 50 doing the teleporting.

The fastest way to do this is to get someone to make a low level character and help you, or to use two accounts at once.

Sadly, niether of those are very likely. I can no longer afford two accounts and chances of me finding any other player willing to be a corrupted punch bag is very slim. I don't mind taking on the level 53s. They shouldn't be too much of a hassle if I can get them away from that big bug, I hope =)

Chuui wrote:

The fastest way to do this is to get someone to make a low level character and help you, or to use two accounts at once.

Sadly, niether of those are very likely. I can no longer afford two accounts and chances of me finding any other player willing to be a corrupted punch bag is very slim. I don't mind taking on the level 53s. They shouldn't be too much of a hassle if I can get them away from that big bug, I hope =)

You can always download the SOE station launcher and open a trial account for a month.

I find it also to be a good idea to incorporate a sniper rifle.  That way you can safely stand outside of the Corruptor's  range and shoot the Corrupted NPCs.  Depending on the level of the spawn, you can one-shot most of them.  Once the big guy takes his leave, you can loot away.

Syna wrote:

The fastest way to do this is to get someone to make a low level character and help you, or to use two accounts at once.
The level 50 loads Teleport Teammember and a few offensive area hacks. Might get a few heals in there too. Don't bother with getting high level attacks or high level heals, none of that is necessary.
The low level needs to hack the Bathary Node. So do you, but I assume you already have it tagged.
I always make a new character, /suicide to log in as a level 1 and then tag the node and a hardline. I'll be level 3. The lower level your lowbie is, the easier the NPC's are to kill. I'll get to that in a second.

The Corruptor spawns every 45 minutes. To skip this, you have to teleport the lowbie around. With every teleport you have a chance to spawn the Corruptor on the lowbie. Shouldn't take more than 10 teleports, which saves you the time waiting for one to spawn.

After spawning, you and the lowbie have to get at a little distance from the Corruptor. Every minute or two minutes it attacks you and takes away 80% of your health (notice its a percentage, not an amount). Need to find the right distance, but that's not too hard to do.

Because you spawned the Corruptor with the lowbie, the NPC's will be 3 levels higher as the lowbie. Yippy, no level 53's! They're easy to kill =) The Corruptor will stay for 45 minutes.
I load area hacks because they have a longer cast timer than the Ballista hacks. If I kill the low level NPC's too quick, I have to get near the Corruptors attack range to loot them. I rather have a longer cast timer so I don't have to walk so much.

Every now and then a random spawn of level 53's will come. You can hyperjump to get rid of those. Or you can try to find the stairs that connect Bathary with Stamos. There are two of these. If you can get the Corruptor to spawn in Bathary, but stay in Stamos then these random spawn won't be bothering you. Make sure you hack the Stamos node on your account and the lowbie one.

To kill the Corruptor you need 340 frags. These can be traded for insecticide at the Fumigator. The Corruptor has 5100 health and doesn't regenerate the health it loses. Each spray of insecticide does 15 damage, regardless of your characters level.
Remember the Corruptor takes away 80% of your health every minute or so. It's therefore best to attack it with the lowbie, so you can heal it up to its max health quick. The level 50 stays just out of its attack range, attacks the few NPC's that come with the Corruptor. I think it stops spawning those if you don't loot the corpses, but I am not sure. Been too long since I did this. They're easy to kill anyway.

All of this takes a little while to get used to. Once you farmed your first stack of frags you'll get the hang of it. It's all too easy. Just extremely time consuming, especially when you're going for the Headgear. Good luck.

Perfect.

I would tell you the exact load you need but i cant jack in for the forsable.

The best place to do this is on the warehouse roofs in bathory.

I have farmed a headgear in 2 days before.  Its mind numbingly boring and not really worth the reward to be honest but at the time i was selling them on order so it made me really quite rich.

You need 2100 corrupted frags in total unless you extremely uberomgh4xlucky and get a double drop >_> when doing this if you want the headgear, it sounds like LOADS but once you get the 1st 340 you know that you can do it hehe, i farmed mine in 5 days which was basically 340 per day and a few more for the archives

I did the low lvl tactic suggested above and it worked like a charm hehe, now that i think about it, i think i may farm some more and sell em for some good dosh ^^

GL if ur gonna do it

If you're determined to do this alone then you might want to find out which Archive Mission it is that lends you several party members in the first phase.  You can take them down to Bathary and they'll help you kill the 53s. 

You killing level 6 corrupteds from trial account level 3 is much, much faster than trying to kill 53s.

Another PC with 4x trial account level 3s is even better.

Bayamos wrote:

You killing level 6 corrupteds from trial account level 3 is much, much faster than trying to kill 53s.

Another PC with 4x trial account level 3s is even better.

Teach me...

If you're determined to do this alone then you might want to find out which Archive Mission it is that lends you several party members in the first phase.  You can take them down to Bathary and they'll help you kill the 53s.

You mean such as one of the missions, IIRC, that had level 255 Agents working for you? Or am I remembering wrong in regards to their level?

As nice as the multiple accounts on multiple PCs sounds, my current PC set up is not really geared towards making that easy. While I have two PCs, they share the same monitor but I could try giving it a go if I get desperate =) But I have plenty of time and don't mind the high level NPCs. At least they aren't level 55 commandos (which made mincemeat of me yesterday >_<

I farmed a Patcher's Dana on my own without the help of any low levels chars (Yes I'm in the same situation as you are).

I know it's not efficient, but it works.

Loadout: Improved Hacking + Insidious Code + HJ

Tactic:

• Spawn a Corruptor at a hardline (Jack in -> Back to Loading Aria -> Jack-in...)
• Wait until the 53's run after you
• HJ on the building near the hardline in safe distance of corruptor
• Make sure to have Improved Hacking running
• Hack them with Insidious + Nukes to death
• Wear IS-regen gear
• If you health gets low, go a few steps back and they  can't hit you anymore

Now that's interesting. I'll have to code up the hacker tree I guess. Meh. Gives me something else to do too. I'll try as many of these suggestions as I feasibly can =)

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Okay, once again I'm showing how far out of the loop I am now. As I don't understand the "Improved Hacking" part of your load out. =/

Improved hacking gives points to healing and viral damage for 300 seconds / 5 minutes.

So it's basically like having Overclock on for 5 minutes; you do much more damage (and heal better) with it on. More damage with Artillerist / IH than you would with Howitzer/ no IH.

Okay, I've looked all through my ability tree, multiple times now, and I simply cannot find anything with the name Improved Hacking. So you're going to have really dumb things down for me today and tell me where it is. I've either turned into a complete noob, or this is my fever's fault. >_< Perhaps instead of trying to play MxO while sick, I should try to sleep >_>

its a lvl 47 ability under the team patcher tree force mulitiplier part.

Chuui wrote:

You mean such as one of the missions, IIRC, that had level 255 Agents working for you? Or am I remembering wrong in regards to their level?

As nice as the multiple accounts on multiple PCs sounds, my current PC set up is not really geared towards making that easy.

The one i've seen used gives you about three standard lvl51 org npcs.

If your machine is strong enough, you can dual client - run two instances of the game at the same time.

Maybe running the game in window mode will help getting rid of your graphic glitches?

I can't force you to use multiple accounts but if you want to complete this without killing yourself at the end, I encourage you to use the multiple accounts method. It's 10 times easier and a 1000 times faster than killing the level 53's.

And a 1000 is an understatement. You need 2100 frags for the headgear. Not every NPC drops a frag, so you'll probably end up killing 3500 NPC's. You can either fight them like a true fighter would, or be lazy and instant-kill them.

It's a tedious grind, not challenging at all. Might as well get through as quick as you can.

ArchDuke wrote:

Bayamos wrote:

You killing level 6 corrupteds from trial account level 3 is much, much faster than trying to kill 53s.

Another PC with 4x trial account level 3s is even better.

Teach me...

• Make 4 trial accounts.
• Copy the launcher.exe from your MXO directory and paste it in that same directory. The name will be "copy of launcher.exe", I think.
• Add 2 shortcuts on your desktop to launcher.exe
• To 1 of those shortcuts add -clone at the end of the Target's path (right click > properties > See Target path)
• Add 2 shortcuts on your desktop to 'copy of launcher.exe'
• To 1 of those shortcuts add -clone at the end of the Target's path

You can now login with the 4 trial accounts by opening each shortcut. =)

There's also a thread in the Guides section (opened by Mindsweep, if I remember correctly) that has various parameters to add to the Target's path. I find the most handy ones to be: -user -pwd -char and -noeula
Try this as your Target's path: "C:\Program Files\Monolith Productions\The Matrix Online\launcher.exe" -user 'loginname' -pwd 'password' -noeula -char 'charactername' (-clone)
With this you can login to MXO with a simple double click on the icons. =)

Your main account is on the other pc of course. If you don't have a second pc, you can login with 3 trial accounts and your main one. I've never tried to give the launcher.exe different names but I assume you can keep copying it and adding shortcuts so you can open more clients, in to infinity, as long as the names are different. Never tried this though and I can't at the moment because I am at work.
If I made a mistake somewhere, please point it out and I'll correct it. I'm not sure about the parameters or how the English version of Windows translates words like Properties and Target, cause I use a Dutch version of Windows.

Chuui wrote:

However, when I try to ALT TAB out of MxO the graphics go darn weird until I jack out.

This is normal, you can fix it by hitting the Windowed checkbox in your Video Options menu (\) and then selecting 'No'. 

Or you could select 'Yes' and play in Windowed mode as that's the better option for multiclienting in any case. 

When making your shortcuts you don't need to copy in any particular order.  You can name them however you like so long as all the target paths (except for your primary account) contain '-clone'.  Start the primary account first and then the extras in any order after that.  Oh, and depending on lag you might want to lower your graphics some beforehand.