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2025-07-17Lots of updates after the recent major intro of the Items section. I'll keep the Items section intro below available for a little while longer. But I wanted to add here that the site continues to be updated as feedback is sent to us.
Happy Summer!
2025-07-06
Welcome to the New and Improved Items Section!
Here’s a summary of everything that's new:
A Revamped Search Experience
- New Advanced Search: The main "Items" link now takes you to a dedicated Advanced Search page. You can filter by a range of criteria, including item class, stats, and abilities.
- Smarter Search Logic:
- Improved Name Matching: Search results prioritize exact and close matches, making it much easier to find items with short or specific names (e.g., "x4 viral blade" will show "X1-R4 Viral Force-Blades").
- Acronym Search: Some items can be searched by common familiar acronyms, such as
acdc
,pdkp
,hhab
,ellts
,dchest
..
- UI Enhancements: Active search fields are highlighted, so you can see your applied filters at a glance.
Dynamic & Interactive Item Pages
- Live Quality (QL) Interpolation:
- A "Change QL" input box appears on interpolation items, allowing you to enter a custom QL and see the stats update.
- The input box shows the item's valid QL range.
- Weapon-Specific Tools:
- An Aggression/Defense slider has been added for weapons, with logic updated to match in-game calculations.
- You can set a preference to display the slider as
-100% to 100%
or0% to 100%
. - A reverse search has been added to calculate the weapon skill required to meet instant-cast or 1/1 attack times.
- More Details & Data:
- Weapon pages show Special Attack Caps.
- Nano pages link directly to their respective Nano Crystal.
- A link to GMI pricing has been added for tradable items.
Comments
- Comments Section:
- You can add comments, reply to others, and upvote helpful contributions in a Reddit-style thread.
- Get notifications for new replies to your comments and see new, unread comments highlighted.
- Comments are shared between Nano formulas and their corresponding Crystals.
The Perk Planner
- Build and visualize your perk setup for all perk lines (SL and AI).
- View a searchable table of all modifiers provided by your chosen perks.
- See soft caps calculated based on your character's level.
- See which perk action belongs to which perk.
General UI & Quality-of-Life Improvements
- Main Menu Redesign: The top menu has been updated to keep the search bar permanently visible, with the main navigation links moved to the left for better accessibility.
- Dark Mode: Many elements, especially the new comments section, have been fixed to display correctly in dark mode.
Thank you for the Support!
- Thank you to those of you who joined me early to get this party started. I don't want to call anyone out that doesn't want to be named, but I know all of you
- Huge thanks to @Noky for pushing me to continue to work on it
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Nano Crystal (Weapon Enhancement)
An amazing nano for low levelled twinks to buff damage. These do still drop in-game, but is very hard to obtain:
First, get into jobe BY (through the /stuck method, see linked youtube video). Then you go to the southern edge of the playfield where the hecklers are. There's 1 special heckler called the heckler of evolution. Killing it spawns 1 more heckler of evolution, and a few hecklers of normality (these are decoys). Chain kill the hecklers of evolution (there are a total of 6 of them), ignoring the normal heckler decoys. Upon killing the 6th, there's a 50% chance a 'greedy heckler' spawns. If you kill it, it drops a badly corrupted nano that can be an old school expertise/incompetence/etc. This nano is one of them, but the drop rate is something like ~0.1%. The corrupted nano can be repaired
https://www.ao-universe.com/guides/shadowlands/tradeskill-guides-5/general-crafting-4/repairing-nano-crystals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwepoTPSZ_s
Posted by: briandmg
Added/Modified: 2025-07-19

Nano Crystal (Healing)
An amazing heal nano for low levelled twinks. These do still drop in-game, but is very hard to obtain:
First, get into jobe BY (through the /stuck method, see linked youtube video). Then you go to the southern edge of the playfield where the hecklers are. There's 1 special heckler called the heckler of evolution. Killing it spawns 1 more heckler of evolution, and a few hecklers of normality (these are decoys). Chain kill the hecklers of evolution (there are a total of 6 of them), ignoring the normal heckler decoys. Upon killing the 6th, there's a 50% chance a 'greedy heckler' spawns. If you kill it, it drops a badly corrupted nano that can be an old school expertise/incompetence/etc. This healing nano is one of them, but the drop rate is something like ~0.1%. The corrupted nano can be repaired
https://www.ao-universe.com/guides/shadowlands/tradeskill-guides-5/general-crafting-4/repairing-nano-crystals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwepoTPSZ_s
Posted by: briandmg
Added/Modified: 2025-07-19

Nano Crystal (Tutoring Expertise)
This expertise is the only buff that gives you +20 tutoring, since composites do not buff tutoring.
The easiest way to get this buff is to use a hacked boosted graft: tutoring expertise. Those can occcasionally be bought from the Smuggler Broker in Smuggler's Den: https://www.ao-universe.com/guides/classic-ao/tradeskill-guides-6/gadgets-5/hacking-grafts
Posted by: briandmg
Added/Modified: 2025-07-19

Nano Crystal (LR Energy Weapon Expertise)
This is one of the expertises that stacks with composites, giving you an extra +20 RE. Great for ranged energy users at any level!
The best place to farm this is in low levelled statics in Nascence. Check and unlock every chest, and expect a long grind. You can fix corrupted nanocrystals you find to turn them into proper crystals: https://www.ao-universe.com/guides/shadowlands/tradeskill-guides-5/general-crafting-4/repairing-nano-crystals
Posted by: briandmg
Added/Modified: 2025-07-19

Nano Crystal (Grenade Expertise)
This is one of the expertises that stacks with composites, giving you an extra +20 grenade. Really good for low levelled twinks!
The best place to farm this is in low levelled statics in Nascence. Check and unlock every chest, and expect a long grind. You can fix corrupted nanocrystals you find to turn them into proper crystals: https://www.ao-universe.com/guides/shadowlands/tradeskill-guides-5/general-crafting-4/repairing-nano-crystals
Posted by: briandmg
Added/Modified: 2025-07-19

Nano Crystal (Psychology Expertise)
This is one of the expertises that stacks with composites, giving you an extra +20 psychology. Note that this does not stack with improved psychology expertise, which crats can get by proccing a briefcase of holding
The best place to farm this is in low levelled statics in Nascence. Check and unlock every chest, and expect a long grind. You can fix corrupted nanocrystals you find to turn them into proper crystals: https://www.ao-universe.com/guides/shadowlands/tradeskill-guides-5/general-crafting-4/repairing-nano-crystals
Posted by: briandmg
Added/Modified: 2025-07-19

Nano Crystal (Heavy Weapons Expertise)
This is one of the expertises that stacks with composites, giving you an extra +20 HW.
The best place to farm this is in low levelled statics in Nascence. Check and unlock every chest, and expect a long grind. You can fix corrupted nanocrystals you find to turn them into proper crystals: https://www.ao-universe.com/guides/shadowlands/tradeskill-guides-5/general-crafting-4/repairing-nano-crystals
Posted by: briandmg
Added/Modified: 2025-07-19

Nano Crystal (Nano Programming Expertise)
This is one of the expertises that stacks with composites, giving you an extra +20 NP.
The best place to farm this is in low levelled statics in Nascence. Check and unlock every chest, and expect a long grind. You can fix corrupted nanocrystals you find to turn them into proper crystals: https://www.ao-universe.com/guides/shadowlands/tradeskill-guides-5/general-crafting-4/repairing-nano-crystals
Posted by: briandmg
Added/Modified: 2025-07-19

Nippy John Stiletto
Most commonly the most sought after are the top and bottom QL of Nippy. 140 for ease of getting them on and 160 for doing the most amount of damage once you have leveled up some!
Posted by: Noky
Added/Modified: 2025-07-18

Steaming Hot Cup of Enhanced Coffee
While most people drink this for the +1% crit chance, a lesser known trick is that the coffee can actually bump up your aggdef value to more than 100%! Meaning if you stay at full agg and drink the coffee, you will actually shave off an additional 0.18s off both your weapon attack and recharge times! This has been tested and verified in-game, and also appears in your stats menu if you do a /tell nadybot !stats. You'll see your aggdef setting actually bumped up to 118 points at full agg with this buff on
Strangely enough, while having 118 aggdef points speeds up your weapon attack/recharge times by 0.18s compared to 100 aggdef points, it does not actually help you cast nanos 0.18s faster
Posted by: briandmg
Added/Modified: 2025-07-18

Steaming Hot Cup of Enhanced Coffee
While most people drink this for the +1% crit chance, a lesser known trick is that the coffee can actually bump up your aggdef value to more than 100%! Meaning if you stay at full agg and drink the coffee, you will actually shave off an additional 0.18s off both your weapon attack and recharge times! This has been tested and verified in-game, and also appears in your stats menu if you do a /tell nadybot !stats. You'll see your aggdef setting actually bumped up to 118 points at full agg with this buff on
Strangely enough, while having 118 aggdef points speeds up your weapon attack/recharge times by 0.18s compared to 100 aggdef points, it does not actually help you cast nanos 0.18s faster
Posted by: briandmg
Added/Modified: 2025-07-18

Nippy John Stiletto
Do you know if there's a specific QL that is the most sought after? Or is it kind of, just whichever you can get?
Posted by: Dyrshin
Added/Modified: 2025-07-18

Aleksander's Blooded Punchknife
Drops from AI generals from City Raids & Ship
Posted by: Noky
Added/Modified: 2025-07-17

Nippy John Stiletto
Drops from Adonis Dynaboss Nippy Slither. Very low drop rate, Good luck!
Posted by: Noky
Added/Modified: 2025-07-17

Spear of Forbidden Ceremonies
Drops from catacombs bosses and Lord of the Void. QL250-300 is what has been confirmed available
Posted by: Noky
Added/Modified: 2025-07-17

Programmed Photon Particle Emitter (Shape Soft Armor)
For those interested in farming this: get a L78 or L84 character, and roll level 58 team missions with 6 people in your team (they need to be in teaming range; the more people in your team, the more loot the boss drops). At these levels, you're guaranteed a L60 final boss that has a 3-5% chance of dropping a shape soft/hard PPE.
I usually roll from Last Ditch in Stret West Bank (mission terminals right beside the whompah), and roll to right outside Foremans since I can whompah to Borealis and use the Foremans recapture beacon to teleport there immediately
Posted by: briandmg
Added/Modified: 2025-07-16

Mass Relocating Robot (Shape Soft Armor)
For those interested in farming this: get a L78 or L84 character, and roll level 58 team missions with 6 people in your team (they need to be in teaming range; the more people in your team, the more loot the boss drops). At these levels, you're guaranteed a L60 final boss that has a 3-5% chance of dropping a shape soft/hard PPE.
I usually roll from Last Ditch in Stret West Bank (mission terminals right beside the whompah), and roll to right outside Foremans since I can whompah to Borealis and use the Foremans recapture beacon to teleport there immediately
Posted by: briandmg
Added/Modified: 2025-07-16

Chesterfield Dining Chair
This item is rollable. Neat Proc, giving it a try on a froob MP soon!!
Posted by: Noky
Added/Modified: 2025-07-16

Piercing Evil
Drops from Inferno Dynaboss Anitaap's Shadow. Can also drop from bosses in the "new" inferno missions.
Posted by: Noky
Added/Modified: 2025-07-16

The Repressor
I keep forgetting to try this item out on my latest Agent alt! Thank you for the good breakdown of how to use it!
Posted by: Noky
Added/Modified: 2025-07-16