I'm currently sitting around 16K xp, and have ripper, high density, brute strength, and ultraclotte. I plan on taking abom with my tenth slot and hyperimmune with the ninth since the gas mask you need to get HI (I assume?) is obviously not wearable by aboms, but I don't want to be deprived of nanites until they'd become almost worthless anyways, and so have decided that I'll take HI when I have two slots free, to get it and abom in one go without needing to grind in between.
Since I need fuck machine and hideous freak, that means I have two slots I can fill with something else before going abom. Were I to put off getting abom till my eleventh slot I could get yeti skin, leapfrog, and flight (should I choose to go flybom). If I maintain my current path I could get twitchy nerves and leapfrog, taking yeti skin and flight for eleven and twelve.
Or I could toss out the flybom and go for focus muts, with the intent of going for blink eventually, meaning I should take fuck machine for my fifth so I can better manage my horny level to balance buffs and debuffs, and to (try) to grind focus. This was my original idea until people started talking about how awesome flybom is. With this route I could take rubberskin and firewalker, since I wouldn't need yeti skin, meaning I'd have better soak coverage against just about anything players are likely to throw at me, though considering how random blink is compared to flight I'd have a bit harder time getting around safely...
Or I could put off all that until later, and get twitchy nerves and bloodhound to buff up my dodge, track, spears, and ultimately focus...
I'm rather at a loss because I still don't know if I should go flybom or blinkbom (or clairbom but that's a little lolwut...), or focus on becoming the best damn killing machine I can be for the time being. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten many opportunities to talk with more knowledgeable players about this, so I'm hoping someone will have more of a clue than I do what my priorities at this point should be...
Semi-related: when should I start buying endocrine boosters? As soon as I can afford to? Or should I be stockpiling my money?