Baba's Cast of Characters

Name: Babaoroody
Breed: Atrox
Profession: Enforcer
Organization: Clan
Previous Guild Member of: Angels of the Knight
Born: May 5, 2007
Hours Played: 1426
Level as of December 12, 2020: 163
Current status:  Rarely actually levels, mainly logs in these day to help one of the Baba family of toons in one way or another.

Low Points:

• Being a totally clueless noob to both AO and MMORPGs in general
• Getting owned by slightly higher mobs when trying to reach missions in Wartorn Valley
• Only got as far as the first level of the Subway
• Crap equipment till the Temple of the Three Winds
• Getting killed by giant spiders between the Clan outpost and the TOTW entrance
• Getting creamed at level 35 on first few trips to TOTW
• Getting wiped traveling to Foreman's via Whompas
• The long run from Bliss to Foreman's that was the alternative
• Having to make that run every time he got killed at Foreman's
• After way too many trips to reclaim, he is not quite the Enforcer he used to be

High Points:

• The foolish satisfaction of the clueless noob equipping a new piece of gear with a really cool name but awful statistics
• Feeling really OP before leaving shuttle port Island by being able to kill anything there
• Satisfaction of venturing out into Wartorn Valley, getting chased by packs of mobs higher than him, getting to the mission and back without dying under the black starry night skies
• The fun of exploring every inch  of all the Rubi-Ka playfields
• The fun of Friday nights at TOTW.  There used to be a huge crowd milling around outside the entrance and it was mostly just average players like him with average equipment
• Getting in an active guild around level 40 or so.  Guild mates were a great help and guide.
• Getting his first decent weapon the Frost Scythe of the Legionnaire.
• Getting a Stygian Desolator
• Becoming proficient at farming the Foreman's sewers and actually having a income for a change
• Learning how to kite Borgs solo and for a team
• Getting a Panther axe in the Crypt of Home
• Much later getting a Pained Panther from the same source
• Even later getting help from his guild to equip the Pained Panther
• Hopes to start leveling once Babaemphee and Fixer Zigwee have all the good buffs
• Sponsoring alts and other froob accounts

Name: Tireen

Breed: Solutis

Profession: Trader

Organization: Neutral

Born: May 24, 2007

Hours Played: 840

Level as of December 12, 2020: 117

Current status:  Rarely actually levels now, mainly logs in when needed to help one of the Baba family of toons with a Wrangle or shuffle inventories.

Low Points:

• Making the mistake of registering on Baba's account, as an alt she could never meet Baba and trade, instead they had to roll a mule on another Froob account as a go between
• Stuck so far with fairly weak Vektor class shotguns which made solo leveling a slow painful process 

High Points:

• Shopping Omni shops
• Getting that sweet +75% premium when vendoring loot to Trader terminals for herself and Baba and friends
• Landing crits with her Vektor shotgun
• Learning how to ladder drains and wrangles with Babaemphee
• Teaming with Babaente and getting levels from Babente's kiting
• Being part of Team Pets (Babaengy, Babaemphee and her) running Foreman's and Crypt of Home
• Being called on frequently to wrangle Baba's toons

Name: Babaente

Breed: Nanomage

Profession: Nano Technitian

Organization: Clan

Born: August 31, 2008

Hours Played: 504

Level as of December 12, 2020: 83

Current status:  Rarely actually levels now, but is on call anytime to kite levels for new Baba sponsored toons below level 80.

Low Points:

• Knowing she was conceived to simply be a mule between Baba and Tireen
• Learning as a noob that kiting would not be possible until around level 25 to 30
• Not being able to kite in missions or dungeons

High Points:

• Graduating from mule duty when Baba was impressed watching an NT kite levels in minutes
• Pulling her first successful kite
• Nuking dead her first large pack of kited mobs
• Gaining levels in minutes with kiting
• Excellent luck with pick up groups in the Subway and TOTW, got to kill Abmouth and all the TOTW bosses
• Teaming with Tireen for a while with a mix of kiting and missions
• Getting the news that Baba has sponsored a new Fixer just out of Arete Landing (Run speed and HOT buffs incoming!)

Name: Ohtizz

Breed: Solitus

Profession: Adventurer

Organization: Clan

Born: July 17, 2009

Hours Played: 24

Level as of December 12, 2020: 27

Current status:  Laying fallow

Low Points:

• Realizing at level 27 the ICC Shuttle port upgraded starter weapons did not cut beyond the subway
• Also realizing then that the defining skills of his class, polymorphs would not be accessible for 20-30 more levels

High Points:

• Between his self heals skills and dual upgraded starter weapons he rolled over most of the starter mobs on the island and later in the upper subway

Name: Babaemphee

Breed: Nanomage

Profession: Meta-Physicist

Organization: Clan

Born: July 17, 2009

Hours Played: 816

Level as of December 12, 2020: 136

Current status:  Laying fallow

Low Points:

• The day she realized heal pets generate heal aggro
• Her weapon the Skull of Lamentation is almost bigger than she is and she thinks it is ugly

High Points:

• Learning how to ladder buffs with Trader Tireen
• Teaming with AgentBaba on Shuttle Port Island
• Being part of Team Pets runnning TOTW and Foreman's
• Realizing her buffing skills moved her up in Baba's priorities for leveling
• Getting all her Froob Infuses
• Buffing Babacratus, Babaengy, and Bamboobill, into much higher pets
• Equipping a coffee cup social item to hide the Skull of Lamentation

Name: AgentBaba

Breed: Solitus

Profession: Agent

Organization: Clan

Born: July 21, 2009

Hours Played: 72

Level as of December 12, 2020: 47

Current status:  Laying fallow 

Low Points:

• Meeting a train in the deep subway with Abmouth and half of the other mobs there

High Points:

• Teaming with Babaemphee on Shuttle Port Island
• Being gifted by Babaoroody a Gripo-Com AKR 1K21 rifle from his huge inventory of past loot
• Getting nice crits from that rifle
• Reaching level 32 in the deep subway, soloing everything except Abmouth
• Killing Eumenides solo and looting the ring of Nucleus Basalis

Name: Babaengy

Breed: Opifex

Profession: Engineer

Organization: Clan

Born: August 8, 2009

Hours Played: 864

Level as of December 12, 2020: 136

Current status:  Laying fallow

Low Points:

• Slogging into Neleb's den in Steps of Madness to beacon warp a low level Babacratus there for a robe after forgetting that the only way to add someone not present to a team is the Looking For Team window, and it will not show players above or below your teaming level.
• Failing multiple times with Team Pets to acquire a second Custom IMI Desert Reet 1000 from the Foreman's Director

High Points:

• Succeeding with Team Pets in taking down the Foreman's Director and looting a Custom IMI Desert Reet 1000
• Beacon Warp, zap any teammate anywhere directly to you
• Running deep Foreman's with Team Pets (Babaemphee and Tireen)
• At level 136, running a Slayerdroid Warden thanks to infuses from Babaemphee

Name: Babacratus

Breed: Nanomage

Profession: Bureaucrat

Organization: Clan

Born: March 25, 2012

Hours Played: 528

Level as of December 12, 2020: 187

Note: The only paid subscription account toon sponsored by Baba

Current status:  Laying fallow, logs in occasionally to help Baba and friends as needed

Low Points:

• Finding roots, calms, and snares don't work much under level 100
• Oh boy Shadowlands, new playfields to explore, now start walking
• Just kind of stalled and confused at level 187 in Shadowlands

High Points:

• When roots, calms, snares start working after level 100 or so
• Love many of the Shawdowlands static dungeon interiors
• Steamrolling save level mobs with two charms and an outside buff enabled higher level droid
• Mobs that used to be your worst nightmare become your favorite charms (Oh boy, Mechdogs!)
• Selling via the Global Market Terminal some of Baba's old moldy inventory (Miy's Nano armor) for $25 million
• Hoping to start leveling again once Babaemphee and Fixer Zigwee have the best buffs
• A feeling of satisfaction and righteousness for supporting Funcom

Name: Bamboobill

Breed: Solitus

Profession: Bureaucrat

Organization: Clan

Born: November 18, 2020

Hours Played: 72

Level as of December 12, 2020: 58

Current status:  Leveling together with fixer Zigwee

Low Points:

• Roots, calms, and snares mostly worthless under level 100
• Getting attacked by Mechdogs
• Leveling solo in the Subway was slow, waiting for Driod to build up aggro before starting to shoot was tedious

High Points:

• Teaming with fixer Zigwee
• HOTs, NCU compression, and evades buffs from fixer Zigwee
• Charming Mechdogs and Giant Arachnids

Name: Zigwee

Breed: Opifex

Profession: Fixer

Organization: Clan

Born: November 19, 2020

Hours Played: 48

Level as of December 12, 2020: 58

Current status:  Leveling together with crat Bamboobill

Low Points:

• Learning that fixer HOTS are level locked
• Initially maxing Improvement Points in Duck-Explosions and Deflect, then finding out they are mainly for PVP which he avoids

High Points:

• The subway was a breeze for him and took less time than it did for Bamboobill
• HOTs, NCU compression, Evade Buffs, Oh My!
• Getting Grid Phreak and being able to grid his team out of completed missions
• Knowing he is high on Baba's priority list to level up
• Teaming with Crat Bamboobill