Tips drop when you are running missions from either radios, arcs and so on. Where you access your contacts for missions, there is a tab for Tips, can't remember if it is called that specifically, but it will house any tip missions that have dropped for you.
While you are running missions, a tip may drop, and a message will come up on the screen. I have gotten them blueside, never run them as a vigilante though, but I am assuming it works the same.
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Just to be clear, you did check under the Contact Menu->Tip mission tab? |
Originally Posted by OutaControl
My hero is level 50+3 and I can't see ANY so call tips or missions available,
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| so where do these so call tips drop. Don't say off any level 20+ because I couldn't have got to 50 without killing something over 20. |
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| Per say I got to 50 doing AE farms |
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| and most of the TFs, I've done the ITF & LGTF 100s of times. I I've done more BAF/LAMB that I can stand. |
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So, fix it. It's a wiki -- anyone can edit it to make it better. In fact, just earlier this evening I added the page for My Other Selves (Villain Morality Mission), since it was missing from the wiki.|
Originally Posted by OutaControl
The wiki is woefully an awful source of information about how it's done.
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I'm going to quote the wiki on the subject, and you tell me what's difficult to understand or inadequate instruction:
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Tips can obtained by characters over level 20 by defeating enemies. Any defeated enemy has a chance of dropping a Tip, regardless of whether that enemy is worth any experience. Once a character has obtained their first Tip, a "Tips" tab will be added to the Contact Window. Any Tip can be viewed, accepted, or rejected from the Tips tab. When a Tip is accepted in the Tips tab, a character will be given a choice of different versions of the same mission. ... Characters can have a maximum of three Alignment Tips at one time, and only as many a five in one 'day' (a 20 hour cool down period). As long as a character already has three Alignment Tips or has reached their max for the 'day', no more will be dropped by defeated enemies. |
As for where to find tips, I like to just street sweep in an area where the minimum level is 20 (IIRC, tips can only drop from level 20+ enemies, as well as requiring the player to be 20+, which is not mentioned on the page I quoted). For villains, Sharkhead Isle is a good place for this. For Heroes, Talos Island.
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It's likely that the OP is looking at wikia, which is a terrible source and because of dirty SEO tricks, is almost always at the top of the list for searching CoH terms.
If you want an updated wiki with most of the most recent data, go to http://www.paragonwiki.com - don't use a search engine and click a link, because chances are good you're going to the crapwiki.
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I finally found some tip mission on one of my alternates. The particular one I wanted to work on had never run a regular mission over 20. all AE/TF/BAF/LAM.
as for the wiki, i was probably using the bad one. It gave technically correct answers without helping me. Kind of reminds me of the MS joke where a helicopter pilot gets lost in a fog and ends up near a Microsoft Building and shouts to an employee there "where am I?" and the employee yells back "you're in a helicopter".
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You mean to tell me you have never done a Radio/Newspaper mission or one from an actual contact in the entire life of the character? Really?
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Originally Posted by OutaControl
all AE/TF/BAF/LAM.
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Shouldn't matter -- you can still receive Tips from TFs and Trials (I got some today, as a matter of fact).
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Originally Posted by OutaControl
all AE/TF/BAF/LAM.
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Correct. Any enemy that drops normal rewards should drop tips, even if that enemy is extremely gray to you and won't drop anything else. |
Originally Posted by Eric Nelson
Shouldn't matter -- you can still receive Tips from TFs and Trials (I got some today, as a matter of fact).
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With that in mind, enemies in Devs' Choice AE arcs should drop tips, but I have no idea if that is actually the case or not.
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
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You mean to tell me you're surprised that people farm to 50? Really?
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Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven
You mean to tell me you have never done a Radio/Newspaper mission or one from an actual contact in the entire life of the character? Really?
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Really.
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
You mean to tell me you're surprised that people farm to 50? Really?
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While I sometimes find tips in TFs, it's very rare. When I do it's only every one.|
Originally Posted by Eric Nelson
Shouldn't matter -- you can still receive Tips from TFs and Trials (I got some today, as a matter of fact).
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Lambda and BAF; I have never found tips during those.
AE? To my knowledge no tips will drop there; as it is only designed to drop tickets. Dev's Choice might, but only if set to drop normal rewards.
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My recommendation is to focus on bosses, they drop tips way faster than other mobs.
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On that particular character, yes! He's a relatively new character to 50 and I would only log on to him when I saw an TF opening, weekly's are a great source of TFs and you only need about 2-3 AE farms to get to 20+ where the TFs open up. lower level TFs are a great leveling places.
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Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven
You mean to tell me you have never done a Radio/Newspaper mission or one from an actual contact in the entire life of the character? Really?
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Second this -- higher-ranked enemies (not higher level, but rank, e.g. minion/LT/Boss/Elite Boss) seem to drop tips much more frequently.|
Originally Posted by GavinRuneblade
My recommendation is to focus on bosses, they drop tips way faster than other mobs.
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And I routinely get tips on Task Forces. Got a couple last night on a Sister Psyche TF.
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I've tried and I can't figure any of this out. The wiki is woefully an awful source of information about how it's done. I see more people that have gone hero than villain, maybe because I only play on the hero side.
I have a hero and want to be able to do some villain missions, like the weekly.
My hero is level 50+3 and I can't see ANY so call tips or missions available, so where do these so call tips drop. Don't say off any level 20+ because I couldn't have got to 50 without killing something over 20. Per say I got to 50 doing AE farms and most of the TFs, I've done the ITF & LGTF 100s of times. I I've done more BAF/LAMB that I can stand.
1. where is the best place to get a tip to drop?
2. why don't the tips drop in all of these places I've already been?