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While there is no true offical name in game for these items, the player base has come to call these things 'Pocket Bosses' and they were the first of the 'Content on Demand' initiatives implimented by Funcom for use with the [[Shadowlands]] expansion.  The idea of a pocket boss is that you collect pieces of the pattern, mash them all together and go some place to spawn the boss and kill it for Phat L00t.  The loot in this regard is often Symbiants, which are like supercharged implants.
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There are many different pocket bosses and their pattern peices drop randomly from named mobs around the Shadowlands and even more rarely from their croonies.  It should be noted that the pieces of a particular boss will only drop from one small camp of mobs, in a single area.  So you wont find 'Gunk' patterns in [[Nascence]], nor will you find them from camping Eremites.  One of the best places to find out about information about the actual pocket boss drops and locations to camp the patterns is [http://aopocket.tngk.com/ AO Pocket].  When venturing out to fight the bosses though, note that the boss will have more powerful versions of the abilities that the mob camp had that dropped their pattern.  Some will even nuke or evade.
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The other problematic part of the Pocket Boss process is the Source Filled Crystal.  There are two ways to get these crystals.  First, is that the empty crystals randomly drop from mobs around the shadow lands.  Second, is that there is a series of nano programs for Meta-Physicists that allow them to summon empty crystals.  From there you need to take the empty crystal to a Notum Control Tower of ql equal to or higher than the Crystal and right click the crystal on the tower.  This will fill the crystal.  Keep on your toes though, these notum towers are often jealously guarded by their owners and if you arrive to fill crystals during a time when the tower is 'hot' you might trigger an attack alert!
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To use the pocket boss crystal you have made you simply need to travel to a shadowlands incarnator, target the incarnator and right click on the crystal.  Doing this will reduce your health to 1 and spawn the boss who will be hellbent on your death, so it is ill advised to kill these bosses alone or without the ability to heal quickly and absorb damage.
  
 
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== Resources ==
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* [http://aopocket.tngk.com/ AO Pocket]
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--[[User:Berael|Berael]] 07:28, 19 May 2007 (PDT)
 
--[[User:Berael|Berael]] 07:28, 19 May 2007 (PDT)

Revision as of 14:43, 19 May 2007

While there is no true offical name in game for these items, the player base has come to call these things 'Pocket Bosses' and they were the first of the 'Content on Demand' initiatives implimented by Funcom for use with the Shadowlands expansion. The idea of a pocket boss is that you collect pieces of the pattern, mash them all together and go some place to spawn the boss and kill it for Phat L00t. The loot in this regard is often Symbiants, which are like supercharged implants.

There are many different pocket bosses and their pattern peices drop randomly from named mobs around the Shadowlands and even more rarely from their croonies. It should be noted that the pieces of a particular boss will only drop from one small camp of mobs, in a single area. So you wont find 'Gunk' patterns in Nascence, nor will you find them from camping Eremites. One of the best places to find out about information about the actual pocket boss drops and locations to camp the patterns is AO Pocket. When venturing out to fight the bosses though, note that the boss will have more powerful versions of the abilities that the mob camp had that dropped their pattern. Some will even nuke or evade.

The other problematic part of the Pocket Boss process is the Source Filled Crystal. There are two ways to get these crystals. First, is that the empty crystals randomly drop from mobs around the shadow lands. Second, is that there is a series of nano programs for Meta-Physicists that allow them to summon empty crystals. From there you need to take the empty crystal to a Notum Control Tower of ql equal to or higher than the Crystal and right click the crystal on the tower. This will fill the crystal. Keep on your toes though, these notum towers are often jealously guarded by their owners and if you arrive to fill crystals during a time when the tower is 'hot' you might trigger an attack alert!

To use the pocket boss crystal you have made you simply need to travel to a shadowlands incarnator, target the incarnator and right click on the crystal. Doing this will reduce your health to 1 and spawn the boss who will be hellbent on your death, so it is ill advised to kill these bosses alone or without the ability to heal quickly and absorb damage.

Required skills

  • Quantum Field Theory (QFT)

Required Items and Tools

Component *1 Location Minimum Ql
Aban Pattern Piece C Shadowlands Drop -
Bhotaar Pattern Piece C Shadowlands Drop -
Chi Pattern Piece C Shadowlands Drop -
Dom Pattern Piece C Shadowlands Drop -
Crystal Filled
By The Source		 C Shadowlands Drop
Tradeskill		 Equal to pattern or higher
Ancient Novictum Refiner R Shadowlands Buy
Random Inventory with Shop Yutto		 -
Novictum Block C Shadowlands Spirit Drop Equal to pattern or higher
*1 R = reuseable, C = consumed


Types of Novictum
These novictum blocks are suitable for use in this process.

Icon Name QL Range
ID NOT FOUND Disturbed Sequence of Novictum 1-89
ID NOT FOUND Provoked Bond of Novictum 90-129
ID NOT FOUND Enraged Pith of Novictum 130-159
ID NOT FOUND Vicious Novictum Continuity 160-189
ID NOT FOUND Furious Novictum Nexus 190-219
ID NOT FOUND Cataclysmic Birth of Novictum 220-300

Tradeskill process

The combination of items in Anarchy Online works as follows:

Open the tradeskill window (Ctrl-t). Here you can place the two items you want to combine in the left and middle box. The resulting Item will be shown in the right box. Missing skills, or non possible combinations will be shown below. A detailed look on the resulting item is possible with a simple shift-left-click on it. It is recommended to have free inventory space before combining items, else the item will end in the overflow window.


DEPRECATED EXTENSION [AOICON]! CHANGE TO AODB! 		+
DEPRECATED EXTENSION [AOICON]! CHANGE TO AODB! 		=
DEPRECATED EXTENSION [AOICON]! CHANGE TO AODB! 		Skills: ???
Bhotaar Pattern Piece Aban Pattern Piece Aban-Bhotaar Pattern Assembly

DEPRECATED EXTENSION [AOICON]! CHANGE TO AODB! 		+
DEPRECATED EXTENSION [AOICON]! CHANGE TO AODB! 		=
DEPRECATED EXTENSION [AOICON]! CHANGE TO AODB! 		Skills: ???
Chi Pattern Piece Aban-Bhotaar Pattern Assembly Aban-Bhotaar-Chi Pattern Assembly

DEPRECATED EXTENSION [AOICON]! CHANGE TO AODB! 		+
DEPRECATED EXTENSION [AOICON]! CHANGE TO AODB! 		=
DEPRECATED EXTENSION [AOICON]! CHANGE TO AODB! 		Skills: ???
Dom Pattern Piece Aban-Bhotaar-Chi Pattern Assembly Complete Blueprint Pattern
ID NOT FOUND +
DEPRECATED EXTENSION [AOICON]! CHANGE TO AODB! 		=
DEPRECATED EXTENSION [AOICON]! CHANGE TO AODB! 		Skills: ???
Crystal Filled by the Source Complete Blueprint Pattern Etched Notum Crystal
ID NOT FOUND + ID NOT FOUND = ID NOT FOUND Skills: ???
Ancient Novictum Refiner Novictum Block Subdued Flow of Novictum
ID NOT FOUND +
DEPRECATED EXTENSION [AOICON]! CHANGE TO AODB! 		=
DEPRECATED EXTENSION [AOICON]! CHANGE TO AODB! 		Skills: QFT
Subdued Flow of Novictum Etched Notum Crystal Novictalized Notum Crystal 4.5 x QL of Crystal

Resources

--Berael 07:28, 19 May 2007 (PDT)

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