Tips For Beating Tough Forums

Some forums can seem really tough at first. However, they all can be beaten if you work at them!

Bring in enough items

The best way to stay strong is to bring in many consumable items to battle. You'll want to focus on items that recover your Ego, as well as your secondary statistic, because if either runs out you will likely perish.

Remember, consuming an item in battle takes a turn. It's usually worth it to purchase expensive items that recover more at once as opposed to several cheaper (and weaker) items. Each time you consume an item you will be attacked, so make it worth your while.

Make good use of your turns

When deciding on which action to take, keep the refresh times of your most powerful attacks in mind: try to use the turns where you can't do much damage to heal. If you can finish off a thread, it is virtually always best to do so immediately, since it saves you from a counterattack.

But I can't afford any new items, waaaah!

You will be paid in the form of valuable “junk” items via deliveries for the Cred you earned the previous day. Occasionally you may reach a point where all the items you can afford won't take you through the tougher forums you've unlocked. If this happens, you have several options:

• Use up your remaining forum visits to earn Cred. The next day you log in to play, you will be paid in proportion to the Cred you earned. Additionally, Cred will help you level up, and you can then use your upgrade points to improve your character. This will make forums easier to beat.

• You earn a Cred bonus for pwning many threads in a row. Sometimes you can earn more Cred by finishing a weaker forum in its entirety as opposed to dying after one or two threads in a stronger forum. Make your forum visits count!

• Try another mission in the meantime (if you have one). Some missions will pay you Flezz as a reward and you can use that to buy more items.

• Sell your old equipment and junk. There's no point in holding onto equipment you're not using unless you intend to "grind" (see below).

• Use your old equipment. Often, it might be more cost effective to "grind" the easier forums with your older equipment. As a rule of thumb, the more expensive an equipment is, the more it would cost to repair it. However, use your discretion all the same: an item that gives you +Charisma, for instance, may work out to be better in the long run.

XSS Attacks and FBO Attack

• You don't have to use XSS/FBO Attacks to pwn a forum. It's best to avoid using XSS/FBO Attacks for tougher forums, and come back to them later for that. This tactic will allow you to beat a mission and obtain some well deserved Flezz and Cred. You will also get additional Cred for coming back to beat the forum for XSS/FBO attacks. You can complete Episode 1 having deployed only 3 XSS and 1 FBO codes.

• You must pwn a forum for XSS/FBO attacks to count. It's a good idea to not visit a forum for purposes of clearing XSS/FBO until you are ready (items, skill, or both) to complete the attack, and to pwn the forum also. There's not much more depressing than having done all your XSS/FBO attacks, and dying in the last thread because you really weren't ready.

• XSS/FBO attacks can be completed independently of each other. If one or the other is clearly going to be easier to accomplish, then sometimes it's better to do just that part, and get paid for it, then invest the Flezz in more health items, and come back again. Other times, both will be roughly equal, and it's best to do both requirements in a single outing and and have the extra large payday of completing both. However that will be tougher and probably require more initial investment in health items. If doing both together, it's best to get within 1 attack of finishing a forum, then do the XSS, and finally do the FBO. This way, if you realize you're not going to make it you can finish off the forum for the cred. Also, finishing any thread (or using another FBO) right after using the FBO attack cancels out one turn of the debuff.

Abilities

• Get the Ophelia's Bad Poetry attack ASAP, by solving an easy mission acquired after paying off DrrtyCop74. A pwnage of 100+ every 9 turns effectively reduces the number of forum threads by 3 or more! Trust me, you know you want this.
• Tip: Ophelia's Bad Poetry Hits higher if you are an Emo Kid but not based on your Ego like other attacks.