Difficulty in getting tip missions.

Has anyone ever had difficulty getting tip missions?

I made a Fortunata character, leveled it all the way to 20 without problem, but once I got to level 20 I was expecting to get tip missions so I can start my journey to the hero side.

My character is now 26 and I've just now completed my 9th Rogue tip. Mind you, I play solo allot and I've joined teams occasionally, 2 of those tips were from teaming.

So that means I've only got 7 tips in 6 levels on my own, I think that's a bit much dontcha think?

Last night I got frustrated and sent in a petition, let’s see how that goes.

But I'm just curious, how many of you have trouble getting tips?

One thing to keep in mind is that Tips drop from Bosses far more often than LTs and Minions. Whenever I need Tips I usually go streetsweep the highest level bosses I can find and get a Tip within minutes. In fact I don't think it's ever taken me more than about 5 minutes tops from the time I have the thought "I need a Tip" to the time I actually have one.

Better luck to you from now on.

Go to Villa Requin, the island taking up the southeast corner of Sharkhead Island. Go to the airstrip there and start hammering people's heads into their chest cavities. That will get you your rogue tips fairly quickly.

Once you're ready to go hero, you have more options, but I don't think they're as good. I suggest Terra Volta if the enemies there are largely gray, but if not, then Dark Astoria also works. I suggest getting a full load of three tips and then going to Atlas to investigate them, that way you're in a small and low level zone which will reduce transit time.

Another good choice in Sharkhead is to wait for a miner's strike zone event and go pound a shedload of them with AoEs.

Odd, I usually get the next tip while running a tip mission. And that's true for multiple toons.

Every once in a while I'll hit a dry spell. Ghost of Scrapyard works well villainside as mentioned above. Blueside I usually head over to Dark Astoria and aoe-bomb the big groups of BP. Usually have a tip after the first group or two.

From my experience as well, it's Lts and bosses that drop tips most.
Also, if you plan to play villains, and you see a paper mission called Get the Loot, keep that for tips. It's like a mayhem mission but with only RIP mobs. It spawns a LOT of mobs on a small map, so you don't need to run around a lot. When I need tips, I run it and kill all the Lts and bosses. In about 5-10 mins, I get 3 tips. The key is to not finish it, ie, don't get the loot.

I know people say Bosses and Lts., and this is true, but I just run around and wipe out the largest spawns of gray-con, 20+ enemies I can find. It's never taken me more than 5 minutes to get a tip mission.

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Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA Just watch out for the Ghost of Scrappy (the giant Miner guy, not Scooby-Doos nephew).

But wouldn't it be great if we *could* beat the tar out of Scrappy Doo? Man, I always hated that character.