That specific character may either be extremely unlucky or bugged.
It seems she qualifies for tips and gets them on other characters, but that character has trouble.
A suggestion, tips seem to drop more often off bosses.
That's a little odd, but it's not too terribly unlikely that someone, somewhere, would get that unlucky with the RNG; i.e. if there's a 1-in-100,000 chance of failing to get tips after so many kills, and the game has 100,000 characters, odds are pretty good ONE of them has experienced this.
I'd say if she still hasn't seen a tip by level 24 or 25, send a petition and/or bug report. Since she's not quite 22 yet, and tips start at 20, she could easily have gotten a large amount of XP off of a relatively low number of enemy kills, such as by teaming with a full group running level 50 or 50+ missions.
Finally, I believe tips do not drop when you have all 5 fame bubbles filled. She could have gotten on a tips team that got 5 fame really quickly (getting no tip drops of her own due to bad luck), then continued to play within the following 20 hours, during which she would be guaranteed to get no tips.
Try soloing with the toon and clear a misison or 2 fighting anything above level 20 just to see if somethings funny.
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Bosses also drop tips more frequently, so street hunting bosses a few levels below you (but still > 20) is a good way to get them too.
Hazard Zones are a great way to get them as well, somewhere like Striga may be of use in that regard, if you can handle and quickly clear the larger spawns (I tend to pick on large spawns of blues and greens if I've a character with decent AOE, that way you can smartie-chomp as you go).
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Originally Posted by T_Immortalus
A suggestion, tips seem to drop more often off bosses.
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Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA
Bosses also drop tips more frequently, so street hunting bosses a few levels below you (but still > 20) is a good way to get them too.
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Whenever I need Tips I'll just go find a few bosses of the appropriate levels. After hunting for Tips like this at least a hundred times over the last few years I can hardly ever remember it taking any of my characters more than 4-5 bosses tops before I get at least one Tip that way. Many, many times I'll get a Tip after only 1-3 bosses.
So if that character streetsweeps bosses and doesn't get a Tip after say 10-15 bosses I'd say there was something strange going on there.
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I recently had a character that didn't receive her first tip mission until she was 3 or 4 bars into level 21. Like any other drops, you can have long streaks where no tips are dropping, while other times they drop like clockwork.
As others have said, the type of enemies you face affects the probability of tips dropping. Bosses have been mentioned, but I also thought that Lieutenants dropped more tips than minions too.
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Yeah I don't recall the exact percentages but the bigger the enemy is (boss/lieutenant/minion wise) the better the chance is for a Tip drop. It's something on the order of 0.5% per minion, 5% per lieutenant and 10% per boss. Those aren't the exact numbers, more just the relative differences between them.|
Originally Posted by Red_Raccoon
I recently had a character that didn't receive her first tip mission until she was 3 or 4 bars into level 21. Like any other drops, you can have long streaks where no tips are dropping, while other times they drop like clockwork.
As others have said, the type of enemies you face affects the probability of tips dropping. Bosses have been mentioned, but I also thought that Lieutenants dropped more tips than minions too. |
There could also be something to the idea that higher level critters drop more Tips in general. Most of the Tip hunting I mentioned earlier has been done with level 50 characters. Perhaps Tips drop more frequently with level 50 bosses than with level 20 ones. It makes some sense that it might work that way but I don't really have any proof of that beyond my own anecdotal experience playing the game.
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Originally Posted by Lothic
I'd definitely go with streetsweeping bosses to test this character out.
Whenever I need Tips I'll just go find a few bosses of the appropriate levels. After hunting for Tips like this at least a hundred times over the last few years I can hardly ever remember it taking any of my characters more than 4-5 bosses tops before I get at least one Tip that way. Many, many times I'll get a Tip after only 1-3 bosses. So if that character streetsweeps bosses and doesn't get a Tip after say 10-15 bosses I'd say there was something strange going on there. |
And I'm not picking on you -I think it's a testament of how mundane it is to have to go hunting for tips.
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Tips have been in the game since Issue 18 which fully launched on August 17, 2010. Since that has been over a year ago my implication that I've been earning Tips for "years" is technically correct because it has indeed been -more- than one year.|
Originally Posted by Ukaserex
I'm sorry, I had to chuckle. I know it seems like they've been out forever, but best of my recollection, going rogue has been out for...a year and half? a little less?
And I'm not picking on you -I think it's a testament of how mundane it is to have to go hunting for tips. |
If you want to quibble that it's actually only been like 1 year and six-ish months then that's your deal not mine.
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Hello!
My spouse has one character, who's level 21, closing in on 22. This character has been along on tip missions with other characters, earned alignment points, and faces level 20+ critters fairly often.
The character has never gotten a Tip to drop.
My spouse's other characters have tips drop regularly.
Other than, "The RNG hates your spouse", has anyone had similar problems?