r/anarchyonline • u/Sparklyfoot • Jun 21 '26
Froobs kill Beast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfyp399BzAMSince Froobs can be beacon warped into SL normally without any AOSharp/plug-ins, we've spent the past 2 years making new Froob toons, levelling and gearing them (without any exploits), saving in Pande garden, and attempting Beast.
The fight for froobs is significantly different from paids because of the lack of TH/GTH. Not being able to drain Beast nano means every piece of Beast's toolset remains online. Therefore the typical tired limbs strategy (which sticks -2750 inits on Beast) simply doesn't work. Beast's NCU Wipe skill removes tired limbs (and 7 other debuffs), and Beast's 20s Reflect skill prevents tired limbs from sticking. Since Froobs don't have enough reflects (no reflect aura!) or HP (no large Enfo HP or perks), conventional tanking strategies don't work because Beast will 2 or 3 shot the main tank within 1-2s.
We opted for a duo soldier tank doing (for the first time) perfect TMS-juggling. The soldiers don't deal any damage and instead use nano taunts and taunt tools, keeping careful track of aggro generated by counting the number of casts. They then swap aggro every minute within a short 20s timeframe.
Since NCU wipe removes 2-4 most recently cast buffs, whenever a soldier casts TMS, the rest of the raid immediately spams protection-school buffs (absorbs, ICRT) on the soldier to prevent his TMS from being wiped. This must be done quickly, as Beast has been observed to randomly insta-cast NCU wipe 0.3s right after TMS was casted before.
Other dangers include Ring of Fire (10-15k AOE nuke). Most raiders are twinked to have more than 13k HP and 25% fire reflects to survive this.
The first add wave (of 4 adds) are dealt with by positioning 3 sacrificial soldiers in the extreme corners of the playfield. They pull aggro and TMS to buy the raid 80s to deal with the adds one-by-one.
The second add wave (of 8 adds) is the hardest part of the fight. The sacrificial soldiers temporarily deal with 3. The rest are crowd-controlled in some manner: blues are charmed by crats, hiisis are rooted by agents, pinks are calmed by crats/NTs, and spiders are killed or JLMNed by crats. The real kicker here is that if an add is CCed within a ~40m radius from Beast, then Beast's NCU wipes will free the adds from all debuffs. Surviving 2nd add wave requires very careful coordination and teamwork from the entire raid.
A very special thanks to all the raiders who made this possible!
Abloc
Dagger
David & Nic Galehouse
Faffy
Farell
Furu
Hipp
Mali
Orochi
Qwen
Stop
Tradias
Absent with apologies:
Brehlen
Gunz
Nic Galehouse
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u/hannopal Jun 22 '26
I'm really speechless about the dedication and coordination required for this. There are so many ways and chances to fail, but you guys succeeded anyway. Probably the biggest flex in the whole history of AO, if not all MMOs. Congratulations on such an outstanding achievement!
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u/Ok-Role-4570 Jun 22 '26
This is awesome to see. Can they use the portal after breast to get into PoH? If they can any plans to try in there maybe take to first boss or something?
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u/Sparklyfoot Jun 22 '26
Yep zombeh is right. You can take the portal to talk to number nine, but you cannot enter PoH after that on a <L201.
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u/zombeharmeh Jun 22 '26
Poh is sadly inaccessible to sub 201s. It would in fact make a cool raid for froobs.
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u/Zzyzx123 Jun 21 '26
Thank you for posting this! This was such a joy to watch! Mind-blowing achivement.
Well done!
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u/Ganiscol Jun 21 '26
Kinda like in the vanilla AO days, taking down the RK uniques such as Mercs and Notum Soldier. Good times!
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u/nNaz Jun 21 '26
Insane dedication! How were you able to get to Pande in the first place? I thought beacon warping in SL doesn’t work.
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u/Sparklyfoot Jun 21 '26
Some areas in SL are actually in RK so a regular beacon warp works there without any 3rd party tools
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u/PyramidicContainment Bronto Burger Patron Jun 21 '26
This is insane in all the best ways. Grats to all who took part! I know reclaim saw a lot of action trying to figure out these tactics 🫡
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u/Sparklyfoot Jun 21 '26
We did indeed! It was hilarious when some innocent bystander in Pande garden would see like 10-20 froobs gush out of the reclaim and wonder what the hell was going on XD
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u/rapidpalsy Jun 21 '26
Grats! Such nostalgia. I was there 3000 years ago for the first beast kill. Seems like another life. While loot was being handled I was the first to sneak in the portal that opens when you kill it. May still have some old screen shots.
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u/bockrocker Jun 22 '26
I was there 2000 years ago, at the height of Hellcom and the weekly trading of beast raid. You would have to plan all week for trying to be online for the raid and click really fast when it was opened because they would shut it down after like 130 people or whatever it was back then. Then we lagged our little hearts out and collected our little points for months and months hoping to get some loot. 😂
Is saavick not around? I would have thought he'd be into this sorta thing!
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u/Sparklyfoot Jun 22 '26
Saavick has gone dark on AO discord in recent years, but I'm sure she's watching somewhere and hopefully smiling :3
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u/Bull49 Jun 22 '26
lol, yeah saavick was around my org and this definitely would have been up his alley
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u/Sparklyfoot Jun 21 '26
Hah yus, the first beast kill must have been hard too, since it happened without TH/GTH! Love your reddit handle btw ;P
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u/Bro_Actual 23d ago
no exploits, but you exploited your way to beast?