Tip
This article is about one-use contacts. For the tips that are displayed on in-game loading screens, see Loading Screen Tips.
Overview
A Tip is a special contact that you may only use once. 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.
Tip are available for purchase from the base item Oracle (Arcane Control) or Mission Computer (Tech Control) for 1 Reward Merit.
First Tip Drop
The following message appears when a character obtains their first Tip drop:
You have received your first Tip. A Tip is a special one-use contact that will give you a lead on the word on the street. Investigating a Tip will grant you an Alignment Mission. Completing enough of these missions will eventually give you access to an Morality Mission that will allow you to change your current alignment.
In addition to this message, a character also obtains the Tipped Off badge:
You received your first tip earning yourself the Tipped Off badge.
Alignment System
Alignment Tips
Main Article: Alignment Mission
Alignment Tips are dropped for defeating enemies. Accepting an Alignment Tip will give a character access to an Alignment Mission. Characters earn Alignment Points for completing these missions. A list of Alignment Missions is available on the Alignment Mission page. A player's account does not have to have the Going Rogue expansion to get Alignment Tips.
Characters can have a maximum of three Alignment Tips at one time. As long as a character already has three Alignment Tips, no more will be dropped by defeated enemies.
Morality Tips
Main Article: Morality Mission
Once a character has earned a total of 10 Alignment Points toward an alignment, enemies will have a chance of dropping Morality Tips. Accepting a Morality Tip will give a character access to a Morality Mission. A list of Morality Missions is available on the Morality Mission page. A player's account must have the Going Rogue expansion to get Morality Tips.
Characters can complete these missions to either change their alignment or reaffirm their alignment and earn Reward Merits or Alignment Merits.
Special Tips
Unless otherwise stated, all Special Tip missions will drop from defeating enemies level 20 or higher, and will drop even if the character has three Alignment Tips currently on hand.
Event Tips
- Whispered Rumor; available during the annual Halloween Event, uncovering more details about the Malleus Mundi and offering badge rewards. Acquired by trick or treating while wearing a Model Replacement Costume Power.
- Valentine Tips; available during the annual Valentine's Event, allowing characters to deliver (or misdeliver!) Valentine notes between NPCs in the world.
Exploration Tips
Tour Guide Missions give the coordinates of Exploration Badges. Characters of any level can acquire tips for exploration badges in a zone by defeating enemies in the same zone.
Introduction Tips
These tips introduce and unlock another contact, currently only available to Villains and Rogues.
- Wizard's Weakness; the only way to unlock Mortimer Kal, the contact for the Strike Force The Fire and the Flames. This tip is only available to villains and rogues above level 20. Only the leader of a team is required to unlock this contact for a team to participate in Kal's Strike Force.
- A Window of Opportunity; this tip unlocks the Pandora's Box Signature Story Arc Contact Lastri Kayumanis. This tip is only available to villains and rogues above level 30.
Historical
The tip system launched in Issue 18, allowing characters to change their alignment for the first time.
- Halloween 2010 introduced the Whispered Rumor Tip.
- Issue 20 introduced the Wizard's Weakness Tip.
- Valentine's Day Event 2012 introduced the Valentine Tips.
- Issue 23 introduced the A Window of Opportunity Tip.