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The Matrix Online News - The Art of the Duel
Posted by Ben Krueger on Jan 14, 2005 | 0 comments in our forums
The official site has posted a new article named 'The Art of the Duel'.
Streamlining Your Loadouts Only load those disciplines and abilities which are necessary for an upcoming duel. Try and refine everything down to the last detail. You should be very practiced and familiar with your best combat combinations so that you can adjust your attacks, or defenses, to any situation or attack that your opponent may throw against you. Flexibility, adaptation, and execution are the three keys to success against a canny opponent.
Upgrade Your Abilities
If you have the $Information to pay for it, you should always level up your primary dueling abilities as high as you can make them go–either to the cap for the ability or the cap for your redpill's level. This ensures that you fight with maximum effectiveness. For example, you must always have the Awakened ability loaded, so it should be at its maximum for your level. Each level added to Awakened also adds to your combat tactics, viral deflection bonus, and melee damage bonuses, among other things, so you will be at a distinct disadvantage if you do not keep this ability as high as possible. Since Awakened is a starting discipline, many redpills forget to focus their training in this crucial skill set before advancing in others.
You can read the entire article here.
