An Army of One?

Of course not. Unlike most games, Anarchy Online encourages you to work in teams: When teamed up with others, you’ll get very close to the same number of experience as you would have gotten on your own, and the enemies will be significantly easier to vanquish, at least for nano-based professions. This will become vitally important once you leave the initial training grounds and enter the Real World. A reet of paradise is fairly easy for anyone to take down solo, but a blood reet will kill a much tougher character if he or she tries to take it alone.

Ready for the Monsters

You are now ready to take on the Anarchy Credits monsters in your training area. At this point, you have one goal: Get to level 4. You will not be able to leave the confines of the training area until you have, at the least, reached level 2 or obtained 1000 credits. However, it is recommended to wait for level 4: The extra IPs will help you a lot more than the credits burning a hole in your pocket. In addition, you will often find yourself too weak at level 2 to do much more than act as bait. Now, while the general goal is to reach level 4, there are several important milestones along the way. For now, however, walk out and kill monsters until you reach level 2. While doing this remember: If you are about to die, you can run to the guard for assistance.

Level 2

Since you have now gained a level, take the time to distribute your skill points again, and from now on remember to do this with each level. Keep in mind that you don’t have to distribute all of your points at once. Whatever IPs you don’t spend will be saved, so don’t feel that you have to invest in a skill that you don’t feel you’ll use simply because you have excess points. Upon reaching level 2, you should be familiar with your opening training area. Each training area (there are several) has a section that is a little bit further from the rest where some of the harder monsters are. At level 2 you should be able to head into the second area and attack them. This will give you more experience than you were getting previously and will hopefully force you to develop some tactics when fighting tougher monsters. Continue to fight here until you reach level 3.