Greetings. I would like to welcome you to one of the most versatile professions on Rubi-Ka, the Trader. Traders can do it all from calming, to doing insane damage with their massive crits, to healing. Unlike other professions, a trader’s breed doesn’t affect a trader as much as others.
Breed
Most people choose to be a Solitus for the fact that the Solitus doesn’t suffer from the other breed defining disadvantages. Though, all the other breeds will make great traders. An Atrox will make a great trader for the high HP and some of their weapon caps are higher. Nanomages make great traders because of the high nano skills. Opifex make great traders for the higher weapons skills.
Choosing a traders breed is more of your style of play Anarchy Credits. An atrox is the in your face type of guy. An opifex is the guy who sits back and shoots. A nanomage is more of your tradeskilling, caster nanos faster rather then up close action. And a Solitus is your guy who is average at everything.
Base Abilities
There are a few stats to try to always raise as a trader. Always try to raise you agility so you can get a higher weapon skill. Intelligence is a must, as well as psychic to keep up your nano skills and nano pool. Those are the main abilities traders use. If you are a breed other than solitus, raise two of your green abilities and stick with them so you can use the best armor.
Ranged
About 90% of the Trader community use shotguns. I would suggest other traders use this too Anarchy Credits. Though a lot of traders use guns that require fling shot and/or aimed shot. But during the lower levels sticking to a gun that uses just Shotgun is a wise choice.
Speed
Many skills in speed are useful for a trader.
Nano Init: Nano init determines how fast you cast your nanos . The faster you can cast your debuffs, the better. Debuffs get resisted a lot so it is critical to be able to dish out your debuffs.
Evades: The evades are dodge, evade, and duck. Dodge determines how well you can evade ranged attacks. Evade determines how well you can evade melee attacks. And Duck determines how well you can evade other attacks such as shotguns and a beam. Putting IP into evades is putting IP into your defense.
