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LotS/The Dark Phantom

2015-12-26T22:56:49Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=The Dark Phantom
|color=Yellow
|attack={{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - AI}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - Weapons}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - Modules}}) *.75 * 10 + 104 round 0}}
|defense={{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - AI}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - Weapons}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - Modules}}) *.75 * 10 + 80 round 0}}
|race=Sussurra
|class=Any
|bonus=Any
|type=Officer
|procRate=10
|procDmgMin={{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * .66 * 86100 + 2870000) / 20.5}}
|procDmgCap={{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * .66 * 86100 + 2870000) / 20.5}}
|ability=Terribly Mysterious: Chance for bonus damage (10% @ 2,870,000); Extra damage for every Officer owned (+86,100; Max: {{#number_format: {{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * 86100 + 2870000)}} }}); The Dark Phantom gains 10 Attack and Defense for each ship engineering item owned; Whenever an Officer does damage, The Dark Phantom has a (13%) chance to mimic a larger amount of damage (500%) (does not apply to other mimics); Increases ship power bonus by 75%
|text=While his ultimate motivations and goals are unknown, the Gallassa known as The Dark Phantom is a popular legend among the crew of merchant ships. It's said that he appears without warning on ships under attack from pirates, repelling invaders and marshalling the defenses of the beleaguered crew and officers. Never saying a word, his heroics go unexplained, and when the fighting has done he fades like a fog in the morning sun.
|obtained={{LotS/Rexp}} - pre-released 
{{LotS/GSshoplink|250}}
|used=
|notes=The average players current maximum damage is likely around {{#number_format: {{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * .66 * 86100 + 2870000)}} }}. 
The mimic damage is a universal 'all or nothing mimic'. For example, if 5 Officer proc for damage and you roll a 1 on a 10 sided die, Phantom will mimic all 5 of their damage at a 500% rate. Phantom will also mimic his own base damage (e.g. {{#number_format: {{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * .66 * 86100 + 2870000) * 5}} }}). 
{{LotS/Unique}}
|unique=Y
}}
[[Category:LotS/Premium]]

LotS/FROSTY

2015-12-24T01:52:45Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=FROSTY
|color=Orange
|attack=55
|defense=55
|type=Officer
|race=Robot
|class=Healer
|bonus=Strength
|ability=Christmas Companion: Chance for bonus damage
(157,850 / 1,592,850)
|text=FROSTY, or the 'Festive Robot Offensive Snowman for TActical Yuletide needs', is a multipurpose bot. He's capable of performing many seasonal functions, such as singing popular Christmas tunes, baking mince pies, and disposing of guests who have outstayed their welcome.
|obtained={{LotS/Labex|frosty}}
}}

LotS/Natasha Cybersmash

2015-12-21T04:32:35Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Natasha Cybersmash
|color=Orange
|attack={{#expr: 43 + 3 * 4}}
|defense=27
|procRate=11
|procDmgMin=6675
|procDmgCap=8145
|type=Officer
|race=Human
|class=Melee
|bonus=Agility
|ability=Suck Your... Blood: Chance for bonus damage; Extra damage against Males raids; Natasha Cybersmash gains 3 Attack and increased proc damage for each {{LotS/ItemLink2|Vampire of the Void's Genevieve}} owned (Max: 4)
(11% @ 91,840 damage, 121,975 damage against Males)
|proc=6
|damage=4480
|Male=88
|text="I'm going to suck your pause suggestively blood. Oh... Right. Well, it's your fault for not marking the directions better. Let's start over. And stop whining, or I'll bite your throat out for real." -- Natasha Cybersmash, filming a Twisted Steel Halloween promo
|obtained={{LotS/Labex|natashacybersmash}}
|required={{LotS/Item Hunt|redthunderstorm}}
|notes=Natasha Cybersmash gains +3 ATK and +690 proc damage for each {{LotS/ItemLink2|Vampire of the Void's Genevieve}} item owned, quantity cap at 4
}}

LotS/Blitz

2015-12-21T04:03:07Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Blitz
|color=Orange
|attack=16
|defense=9
|procRate=11
|procDmgMin=420
|procDmgCap=6300
|type=Officer
|race=Human
|class=Ranged
|bonus=Agility
|ability=Guerilla Leader: Chance for bonus damage; Damage increases for each Agility crew in ship; Damage increase further for each {{LotS/ItemLink2|Guerilla}} in the ship
(11% @ 8,610 + 574 per agility crew/ +1435 per guerilla in ship)
|text=Blitz was once a renowned freedom fighter, who traveled across the galaxy in search for causes worth killing or dying for. Her skill as a guerilla leader helped shape the political destiny of more than one planet, until she finally grew tired of the constant warfare and left it all behind. It's possible that she could be coaxed back into battle, with the right motivation.
|obtained={{LotS/Labex|blitz}}
|used=
|required={{LotS/Item Hunt|redthunder}}
}}

LotS/Ragnar2

2015-12-21T03:37:21Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Ragnar
|color=Light Blue
|attack=35
|defense=66
|type=Officer
|procRate=14
|procDmgMin=61600
|procDmgCap=201600
|race=Human
|class=Melee
|bonus=Strength
|ability=Omnicidal Niflung: Chance for bonus damage (14% @ 70,315); Extra damage if {{LotS/ItemLink2|Ragnar's Omnicidal Axe}} is owned (+28,700); Extra damage if the {{LotS/ItemLink2|Ragnar Proc Boost}} is owned (+101,885); Extra damage if the {{LotS/ItemLink2|Cybernetic Surgery Receipt 3}} or {{LotS/ItemLink2|Cybernetic Surgery Receipt 4}} are owned (+28,700 each); Extra damage if {{LotS/ItemLink2|Ragnar Proc Boost II}} is owned (+717,500;+2,050,000 vs. Elites), (Max: 1,262,800 damage/ 4,132,800 vs. Elites)

Ragnar's Attack increases by 7 if the {{LotS/ItemLink2|Ragnar Stat Boost}} is owned and by 3 each if {{LotS/ItemLink2|Cybernetic Surgery Receipt 1}} or {{LotS/ItemLink2|Cybernetic Surgery Receipt 2}} are owned. Ragnar's Attack and Defense increase by 140 if {{LotS/ItemLink2|Ragnar Stat Boost2}} is owned

|text="What can you say about Ragnar? He's like a big, unstoppable, omnicidal teddy bear. A lovable brute and a vicious killer rolled into one. A mercenary who wouldn't betray us for all the credits in the galaxy. If we can find some comfort in the conquest of Sian space and the attack on the Child of Heaven, it's that they caused us to meet such a friend." -- Princess Illaria
|obtained={{LotS/Labex|ragnar}}
|notes=
}}

LotS/Pulfor, Heavyweight Champion

2015-12-21T03:17:43Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Pulfor, Heavyweight Champion
|color=Orange
|attack=74
|defense=404
|type=Officer
|procRate=10.5
|procDmgMin=21000
|procDmgCap=91000
|race=Snuuth
|class=Tank
|bonus=Strength
|ability=Weight Class: Chance for bonus damage (10.5% @ 430,500); Extra damage against Colossal raids (1,865,500)
|damage=4760
|text= Most view all Snuuth as great flabby sacks of flesh, as weak and malleable as they are immense. To those, I extend my offer. Step into the ring and test your assumptions." -- Pulfor, Heavyweight Champion
|obtained={{LotS/Labex|Pulfor, Heavyweight Champion}}
}}

LotS/Pulfor, Heavyweight Champion

2015-12-21T03:17:25Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Pulfor, Heavyweight Champion
|color=Orange
|attack=74
|defense=404
|type=Officer
|procRate=10.5
|procDmgMin=21000
|procDmgCap=91000
|race=Snuuth
|class=Tank
|bonus=Strength
|ability=Weight Class: Chance for bonus damage(10.5% @ 430,500); Extra damage against Colossal raids (1,865,500)
|damage=4760
|text= Most view all Snuuth as great flabby sacks of flesh, as weak and malleable as they are immense. To those, I extend my offer. Step into the ring and test your assumptions." -- Pulfor, Heavyweight Champion
|obtained={{LotS/Labex|Pulfor, Heavyweight Champion}}
}}

LotS/Telemachus2

2015-12-21T03:09:24Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Telemachus
|color=Light Blue
|attack=42
|defense=31
|procRate=8.5
|procDmgMin=64050
|procDmgCap=204050
|type=Officer
|race=Human
|class=Tank
|bonus=Strength
|ability=Heroic Prince: Increases Player's Stamina (+15 stamina); Chance for bonus damage (8.5%); Extra damage from each of these items if owned: {{LotS/ItemLink2|Robo-Telemachus}}, {{LotS/ItemLink2|Robo-Telemachus Badge}}, {{LotS/ItemLink2|Telemachus' Uber Chainsaw}}, {{LotS/ItemLink2|Telemachus Proc Boost}};
(80,360 damage / 101,885 damage if {{LotS/ItemLink2|Telemachus' Uber Chainsaw}} is owned / 159,285 damage with {{LotS/ItemLink2|Telemachus' Uber Chainsaw}}, {{LotS/ItemLink2|Robo-Telemachus}} and {{LotS/ItemLink2|Robo-Telemachus Badge}} owned.)
Extra damage if {{LotS/ItemLink2|Classic Videogame Cartridge 3}}, {{LotS/ItemLink2|Classic Videogame Cartridge 4}} are owned

Extra damage if {{LotS/ItemLink2|Telemachus II Proc Boost}} is owned (+717,500; +2,050,000 vs. Elites) (Max: 1,313,025; 4,183,025)

Telemachus' Attack increases by 7 if the {{LotS/ItemLink2|Telemachus Stat Boost}} is owned and by 3 each if {{LotS/ItemLink2|Classic Videogame Cartridge 1}} or {{LotS/ItemLink2|Classic Videogame Cartridge 2}} are owned. Telemachus' Attack and Defense increase by 140 if {{LotS/ItemLink2|Telemachus Stat Boost2}} is owned
|text="Telemachus... He's seen things that no boy should ever see. Done things that... Well, maybe no one should ever do the things he's done with that chainsaw of his. He's suffered. Felt the sting of war and loss just like we have. It's made him strong, a fighter. Yet he can still laugh, still show the warmth and joy of a child's heart. I would be proud to have a son like him." -- Princess Illaria
|obtained={{LotS/Labex|telemachus}}
|notes=
Heroic Prince contributed 1,163,785 damage (vs. non-Elite) - owned: {{LotS/ItemLink2|Telemachus II Proc Boost}},{{LotS/ItemLink2|Telemachus' Uber Chainsaw}}, {{LotS/ItemLink2|Classic Videogame Cartridge 3}}, {{LotS/ItemLink2|Classic Videogame Cartridge 4}}

}}

LotS/Pot of Gold Finder

2015-12-16T00:24:59Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Pot of Gold Finder
|color=Yellow
|attack=
|defense=
|type=Consumable - Random Item
|consumabletype=Random Item Generator
|ability=Open to receive your prize!
|text=They used to say that four-leaf clovers were lucky. Today, now that genetic engineering has imbued all clover with four or more leaves (the 99-leaf clover is currently in vogue), such beliefs are less common. But there's no question that this particular four-leaf clover can bestow great fortune on its possessor. Its advanced scanning systems often lead people to riches -- though the fact that the device explodes to mark the location of those riches is considered to be something of a design flaw.
|obtained={{LotS/GSshoplink|25}} 
{{LotS/ContainerLink|Bag of Bags}}
|notes=The {{LotS/ItemLink2|Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain}} and {{LotS/ItemLink2|Squeedlyspooch}} are the {{LotS/TermLink|Jackpot (term)|Jackpot}} items. But at super-low lottery winning rates apparently: [http://zoywiki.com/File:LotS_Pot_of_Gold_vault.jpg here]
}}
{{LotS/VaultHead}}
{{LotS/VaultRow|0.01|Squeedlyspooch|}}
{{LotS/VaultRow|0.01|Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain|}}
{{LotS/VaultRow|1|Kwank Jop Plon|}}
{{LotS/VaultRow|14|Roaring Death|}}
{{LotS/VaultRow|14|Screaming Skull Mask|}}
{{LotS/VaultRow|14|Screaming Skull Trousers|}}
{{LotS/VaultRow|14|Screaming Skull Shirt|}}
{{LotS/VaultRow|14|Screaming Skull Boots|}}
{{LotS/VaultRow|14|Screaming Skull Gloves|}}
{{LotS/VaultRow|14.98|Rylattu Minion Ship|}}
|}
{|class="lotstable"
{{LotS/TableHeaderRow2|Pot of Gold Finder|10}}
{{Lots/ItemRow|other=10|Screaming Skull Mask|Screaming Skull Shirt|Screaming Skull Gloves|Screaming Skull Trousers|Screaming Skull Boots|Rylattu Minion Ship}}

File:LotS Pot of Gold vault.jpg

2015-12-16T00:20:37Z

Yellow47:

LotS/Sian Aid Vessel

2015-12-15T23:40:43Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Sian Aid Vessel
|color=Yellow
|officers=26 - 8 Human, 4 Melee, 4 Healer, 4 Ranged, 6 Any
|crew=60 - 15 Human, 15 Melee, 15 Agility, 15 Any
|engineering=9 - 4 AI, 1 Weapon, 4 Module
|type=Ship
|powerbonus=250
|ability=Here to Help: Chance for bonus damage (10% @ 5,125,000); Extra damage if {{LotS/ItemLink2|Glenna Morrow}} is in the ship (+1,537,500), (max: 6,662,500) ; +50% ship power bonus against Elite raids
|text=During the war, the Sian Empire was too badly taxed to spend resources sending aid outside of their own worlds and front lines. However, now that the war is over the Sian Aid program has seen a resurgence.
|obtained={{LotS/Labex|Sian Aid Vessel}}
|used=
|notes=buffed as of the Nov. 11th 2015 patch as indicated [http://www.legacyofathousandsuns.com/forum/showthread.php?20801-Sian-Aid-Vessel-Change here.]

}}

LotS/Players Guide

2015-12-14T03:43:07Z

Yellow47:

<big>'''Quick Start Guide'''</big>
 
Some quick game play tips that may not be immediately obvious:

a) Always choose the class with the shortest timer for stamina (Lvl 6 Soldier, Lvl 100 Reaver). 
b) Join us in the world 'Chat'. It's always full of raids and best chance to have your question answered accurately (beware the trolls!). 
c) Join an alliance; browse for an 'Open' one in the list or ask in chat if you can't find a good one. 
d) Don't buy anything in the shop that cost Gold Suns until you know more (e.g. It's a Trap). 
e) Expeditions - New Item Pack does not give duplicates; Vaults, Relic and Mystery pack will give you a lot of duplicates. 
f) Missions - play through all the missions on Normal first (will allow you to summon a wide variety of raids); if you need to go back and reset a mission area, there's a reset button in the upper-right corner of the mission page. 
 
This document is intended to provide a quick way for new players to gain power. 
It will likely be useless to veterans. 
 
Updates needed to this Guide: 
1. The powerful equipment progression guide (Robot Rioter -> Plasmatic/Multiverse gear from Transdimensional Operations -> Talia gear from Invaders alliance raid and/or Sian Aid from Elite Titanomachy) 
2. Sakmussemm and Party Spacebus are the strongest free ships at the moment (especially Saknusemm vs. Psychic or Cosmic raids). The simplest way to search for a better ship is to go the wiki Ship page and sort by Power Bonus, scroll past all the Gold Sun ships, and look for a free ship that's currently available. Make sure to look all the way down to at least 200 Ship Power Bonus, and down to 100 when you are just starting. 
3. The way to hunt for Officers to fill your ship, is to sort the Officer wiki page by SP (Ship Power) and then by the Race/Role/Ability slot that you need for your ship. For example, scroll down to the Human section and they will be listed by their SP. You can do a similar sort on the Crew page to help fill restrictive slots (e.g. Piscarian). 
 
'''1. Save your Golden Suns (GS)''' - If you don't intend to spend money on this game, you should never spend GS on anything other than front page ships (e.g. [http://zoywiki.com/LotS/The_Demoiselle The Demoiselle] and premium officers/crew (the ones that cost 150 GS). Spend them on anything else and you'll probably end up regretting it. There are some very few exceptions to this rule, you can generally see people mentioning said exceptions in chat when they occur ([http://zoywiki.com/LotS/items/Best_Items Best Item]). 
 
'''2. Hit raids with 1 Stamina (AKA tagging)''' - The links people post in chat are generally all raids. In particular you should target the following raids (the more common ones are noted with *): 
*Galactic Reaver* 
*CC Councilor 
*Crush Colossa* 
*Storm Commander* 
*The Hat* 
*Fleet Commander 
*Sludge Serpent 
*Robot Uprising *Hit Robot Uprising only if it has the tactics ''Better To Receive'' or ''Teachings of Wu'' on it. Otherwise wait till you can hit the first dmg tier of 5m and 7.5m before hitting this raid. 
 
Since Robot Uprising is a great first raid, you should either ask someone in chat or in your Alliance to give you a private Robot Uprising raid so that you have enough time to reach the 5m and 7.5m tiers (after you have a few levels under your belt and built up a sufficient supply of stamina to be able to hit your tier within 1-2 levels). Or you can gamble and try to hit a Public raid in time before it dies. Also, while you are wearing/using the gear for your raid damage, be careful not to craft the gear for stat points in your Lab. 
 
These raids give you early access to some solid gear (the Sludge Scale gear). As soon as you have enough stamina and raid damage to hit Fair Share (FS) on early raids like Colonel, Sentinel, and Warmaster, you should stop tagging and strive to reach the Fair Share damage mark on as many lower FS raids as possible. 
 
On the other hand, avoid Trulcharn, Hao, Quiskarian Temples and Space Pox (not the World Raid), these raids require you to deal a specific amount of damage (Usually 10s to 100s of millions) for any sort of loot and have very limited space, if you cannot hit said mark but hit it anyway, you may cause the raid to fail and make a lot of people angry or waste a lot of stamina to 'save' the raid. 
 
Keep in mind that tagging will not always give you what you want from a raid. The loot system is set up so that dealing increasing damage up to the raid's Fair Share (FS) will give an increasing chance of 1 Epic tier loot drop that is guaranteed at the FS mark, which is total raid health divided by the maximum number of participants possible. Some raids go past that to an Optimal Share (OS) mark, which is a theoretical point determined by players that maximizes the damage per epic loot ratio. 
 
A new feature that the developers have been providing on some of the newer tiered raids is a 'new player' tier at 5m and 7.5m. Current examples of raids with these beneficial tiers include: Krakak Plague, Infected II, Mothership, Hwang, Death Flora II, Tourniquet 7.5, Hyper-Con, Sapphire, Multheru, Bonderbrand, Noir (III), A G Attack, A G Monster, and Robot Uprising. The 5m tier typically provides 1 epic and the 7.5m tier provides 2 epics; with the 7.5m tier being the highest value tier on the entire raid. Veteran/strong players will typically hit to the Optimal Share loot tier of 500m to obtain a far greater amount of loot for a reasonably similar value to the 7.5m tier as these tiers are mainly designed as a means for a new player to quickly gain access to powerful items early in their career. 
 
Typically, hitting fair share will give you 1 epic loot; and optimum share will usually give you 2 epics. Hitting far beyond fair share/optimum share on a 'general' raid may give you 3-4 epics, but at a loss of common tier loot ('diminishing returns' that peaks at 5-10x fair share depending on the raid). Over damaging small/rare raids is generally frowned upon. 
 
Therefore you should target hitting OS on a raid and then using your stamina to hit another raid unless you need to save the raid (something you shouldn't be worrying about if you're reading this). The Fair Share and Optimal Epic damage marks are listed on the zoywiki.com/LoTS page. If you login through Kong and have the raid script, you can ask RaidBot what FS/OS is for any raid by typing "/raid (partial raid name) (difficulty 1-4)" into Kong chat. 
 
Examples: 
/raid colon 4 = information for Psychic Colonel on Nightmare difficulty. 
/raid tele 1 = information for Telemachus on Normal difficulty. 
/raid colo 3 = information for Psychic COLOnel AND Crush COLOssa on Legendary difficulty. 
/raid gene = information for CC General on all 4 difficulties. 
/raid 2 = information for all raids on Hard difficulty (Don't do this!) 
 
A further caution regarding hitting raids and healing. The below raids will hit you back hard (e.g. 1-100 damage) and you should not attack them until your average damage is over 2-3 million on a 20x stamina hit. Essentially, don't chase epic loot from a raid that has an OS over 3x your 20x hit. 
- Dule's Robot 
- Quiskerian Temple 
- Space Pox 
- Sky Commander Bethany 
- Vunlac 
- Reichsmarschall Dule 
- Master Hao 
- Noir (II) 
- Subjugator 
 
'''3. Join an Alliance''' - Your honor bar is wasted unless you join one. Just ask in chat, most alliances are happy to take active players. Note that the player recruiting/inviting you to join their alliance in chat may not be an officer or otherwise have the delegated power to accept your application. So plan ahead and allow several hours (or even days!) for an alliance officer to login and check for applications. The button doesn't glow so there is no automatic notification an alliance's officers that you've submitted an application. Ideally, ask the recruiter in chat if they have the power to accept you in to their alliance if you're short on time (maybe check first to see if the alliance in question is set to 'Open' recruitment in which case your application will be instantly accepted). 
Additionally, alliances give you more raids that you can tag for good gear: 
Myriam & Steelstrike (96/67 Gloves) 
Wahsh al-sahraa (special raid - always hit) 
Rabid Reindeer (2.5m fair share with 108/150 Main Hand/Trinket/Utility, +15 honor leveling gear) 
Santa's Workshop (5m fair share with 108/150 Off Hand/Trinket/Utility, +15 honor) 
Ship of the Damned (26/24 Helmet/Gloves) 
Genesis, Mecha-Wyrm (30/30 Helmet/Gloves) 
Shock Trooper and Tank (ability crystal) 
 
'''4. LSI.''' On level up, spend all your stat points on Energy or Stamina, do not consider any other stat until you reach Leveling Speed Index (LSI) 7. Additionally, there is no LSI cap until you reach level 100 (an additional reason to allocate 100% towards energy/stamina as quickly as possible). The XP ratio is slightly in favor of energy vs. stamina (1.66 vs. 1.5 ~11% better); but allocating energy vs. stamina becomes a personal preference. Stamina will allow you to farm more stats from raids, and energy will typically allow you to level faster plus deal more damage to Rare Spawn and World Raids. The achievement system of the game suggests a balance of 2 energy to 1 stamina. 
 
'''5. Get a good ship''' - Ship power is a VERY large factor in the early part of the game for deciding how much damage you deal to raids. Good free ships drop from: 
The Blue Drake (Professor Bonderbrand: 5m or 7.5m*) 
Flying Saucer Mothership (Tourniquet 7.5: 5-7.5m*) 
The S.S. Suck It, Humans! +Human (Robot Uprising: 5-7.5m*) 
The Orbit Racer (level 200 Evolving Hero Vault) 
The Human History Museum (Besalaad Exhibit Rampage: 100-500m) 
Smythe R&D Vessel (Fungal Invasion: 100-500m) 
Vengeful Pinata +Mechanized (Pinata's Revenge: 200m-1b) 
Legacy of the Ancients +Cosmic (Ruins of the Forgotten: 500m - 6b) 
The Saknussemm +Psychic +Cosmic (Shadow Parasites: 1-5b) 
Party Spacebus +Elite (Elite Titanomachy: 100m - 6b) 
 
It is also important to hunt down the officers Anita (from the Rylattu Exterminator alliance raid), Svana Spunbracher (from crafting word axes dropped from Blobs), and crew that synergize with both of them (Zombie Rautha and Zombie Ragnar from the Haunted House alliance raid, Mecha-Drakes from the Mecha-Wyrm alliance Raid). 
 
Before you become able to seriously pump stats, your ship power will be all your damage. Eventually you should upgrade to a GS ship, one will generally be posted on the front page every few months and available for typically 1 weeks You will also need crew to fill your ship; you might look for a Noir 1 raid with BtR/ToW on it as this raid has some of the best free crew that are reasonably available to a newer player. 
 
Other powerful, free crew include: 
Lineage - Zone 22 (133 ship power with full equipment set and Officer) will fit in Any class slot. 
Fawkes - Zone 15 (Shop for 1m credits) 
Scalding Sussurran - Kleptotherms RS 
Huk-Kral Juggler - special mission event 
Piranha - Shadow Parasite raid (Saknusemm ship) 
Corrupted Paragon - Hard Transdimensional Encounters Operations 
Arcade Bots - Arcade Gas Attack and Monster 
Gallassa Diver & Sussurran Biker - Hard Cyan Sea Operations 
 
'''6. Raid Difficulty.''' If you summon a raid, make it either Normal (N) or Nightmare (NM) difficulty - Hard and Legendary raids are (with a few exceptions) worthless. Normal raids cater to stat farmers and NM raids cater to AP farmers, either way they will ensure your raid gets hit if you post it. For the early raids that you get, it generally makes more sense to summon them on NM difficulty, otherwise they simply die too fast. And these are also some of the smallest and rarest raids that almost always have epic loot that is available on NM only, therefore a newer player should typically summon all their raids on NM. 
 
'''7. Spamming.''' Do not spam the same raid in chat - Common sense, this is just annoying. If you see others 'spam' it's because they're all different raids, that's what we call a raid train. If however it actually is just spam, kindly link them to this guide and tell them to read #7 
 
'''8. Public Raids.''' Posting raids to the 'Public' list is the primary means of raid distribution (and you get rewards for making it Public). Note that small raids with low health will typically die within seconds or minutes of posting (e.g. Void Killer, Telemachus, CC Commander). Click the 'Post Red Alert' button inside the raid or the green satellite button in the raid list; then select 'Post Public' from the pop-up menu. To join a raid, click 'Raids' and then the 'Public' tab. Note that the search function is tied to their internal raid name so there's a few that may be hard to search for: 'Blood Alley Gang' = 'China'; Vorden = Seth; Dule = Emperor; Harlot = Scarlet Harlet; Blob = Shuborunth; Fleet Commander = Xarpa; Symphony = Where Music Meets; Councilor = Dule Warmaster; CC General = GeneralRahn; Cybersmash = Natasha; Psi-Echo = Sun Xi; the others should be intuitively named. 
 
Historically, there were various raid sharing websites/tools for each platform used in the 2-3 years before 'Public' became an in-game feature: 
Facebook: FB farming groups and the forums here http://www.legacyofathousandsuns.com...-Help-Requests 
Kongregate: cconoly.com/lots/ 
Armor Games: http://citevirtuelle.fr/lots/tools/raids.php 
 
'''9. Shortening links.''' The profile message character limit is lower than an actual raid link, meaning that if you try to paste a raid link on someone's profile, no one would be able to get to it because the relevant parts get cut off. To fix this, use a url shortener like preview.tinyurl.com or bit.ly or goo.gl etc. or alternatively you can do this: 
 
Start with the full link pasted onto some place you can edit it, e.g. a new tab 
http://www.kongregate.com/games/5thP...ash=VSk8Org9Nq 
 
Remove everything before "kv_raid_id": 
kv_raid_id=5118950&kv_difficulty=1&kv_raid_boss=sp ace_pox&kv_hash=VSk8Org9Nq 
 
This is already short enough to post, but because the profile message chat space is limited in height and scrolling it is obnoxious, consider reducing it further to: 
kv_raid_id=5118950&kv_hash=VSk8Org9Nq 
 
IN essence, you only need what follows "kv_raid_id", an "&", and what follows "kv_hash" to join a raid. Copying this much reduced string and pasting it directly to your raid list will work just as well as the full link. This is also useful for sharing raids cross-platform. 
 
'''10. Tactics.''' There are only a handful of usable/acceptable tactics. Using anything else will generally get you yelled at. An important note is that if you don't know/understand tactics, it is best to not place one and either ask for advice in Chat or just let other players place them. Tactics are extremely powerful and an important part of the community's raids. Puny tactics on larger raids will often cause them to be ignored and ultimately fail since optimal tactics often double or triple your damage. 
 
Before the introduction of Bull/Gorgon Stare/SUH (more on this later) the most commonly used by brand new players and their abbreviations were as follows 
Suppressive Fire (SF) 
Esprit de Corps (EdC) 
Flank Attack (FA) 
Preparation (Prep) 
 
The above 4 are collectively known as the EdC chain, due to all of them having synergy with each other. A full EdC chain adds +87% on every hit. As such, these were the most commonly used tactics. If you are very new player and do not have these tactics, ask politely in chat and someone will be glad to help you (e.g. you most likely will have Suppressive Fire, but will need another player to apply EdC for you to obtain the +45% damage boost). 
 
Two new GS tactics that have outclassed EdC are Bull in a China Shop and Gorgon Stare. They nullify the effect of EdC and should not be combined on the same raid. Individually they add +28% and together they add +112%. The Zone 19 raids (Vunlac, R. Dule, Bethany, and Noir II) essentially require these tactics due to the fewer tactic slots and high damage required. Other useful tactics that you may see on raids include: 
 
Legacy Forge (LF) - Granted upon reaching level 2500 
Master Wu's Gambit - Obtained from Zone 20 on Nightmare difficulty, one of the best free tactics 
Trojan Horse - Crafted in the Lab from collections obtained from Zone A5
Asymmetric Warfare (AW) - Only effective on small (10 man) raids, plus Pox/Temple/Luna/Reindeer/Termynx Parasite/CC Commander 
Stan's Undying Heroism (SUH) - Granted upon reaching level 5000 

Bull in a China Shop / Gorgon Stare - Gold Sun tactics
Collision Course - Gold Sun tactic
Broadside Cannons and Out of the Drift (Drift/Cannons) - Effective when separate, especially effective together. (Gold Sun tactics) 
Take a Chance (TaC) - an old Gold Sun tactic with a fan following for it's 1.75% chance to double experience 

Better to Recieve... (BtR) and Teachings of Wu (ToW) - Should only go on raids that are going to die soon as it doesn't contribute damage, or in the case of ToW, not significant damage. Raids that are certain to die regardless of tactics can have it on immediately (e.g. Bashan, Cake, Colonel). Note that these are only useful on older non-tiered raids. Everything from Trulcharn and newer is likely a tiered riad, and Quiskerian Temple and Space Pox are about the only examples of older raids with tiers. 

In smaller alliances where Gold Sun tactics are not available, the EdC Chain, Teachings of Wu, Gambit and Legacy Forge are still often the most useful tactics. You may also see some of these other tactics:
Plan 10 and Plan 11 - should only be used on a Huk-Kral raid, such as Subjugator and the alliance raids, Storm Trooper and Tank (but not on an Elite Subjugator because LF/gambit is 5% better and readily available). 
Biological Warfare (BW) - Effective against organic humanoids and alien beasts. 
Trick or Treat (ToT) - Effective on Nightmare and Legendary raids 
Angel of Death (AoD) - Effective on Normal and Hard raids. 

Quiskeran Psi-Eye (QPE) - Only effective on the Quiskeran Psi-Hound 
Secret Weapon (SW) - Only effective against Genesis 
Purge - Only effective against Space Pox and Infected Squad (Beaten out in power by Bull/Gorgon/BW/ToT/DfD) 
Final Assault (FiA) - Old Gold Sun tactic, but still effective 
Applied Scholarship (AS) - Effective against Alliance raids 
Death from the Darkness (DftD/DD) - Effective against non-Alliance raids 

 
Taking all of this together shows that tactics choices will vary greatly depending on what raid it is. A quick reference guide is shown here: tiny.cc/tacs2add. A detail overview of some good choices for tactics, sorted by number of tactics slots: 
1 slot - AW +45% (if Small: Hao) or Gambit/LF/SUH for Plague (Medium raid) 
2 slot - Warwalker, Hyper-Con, R. Dule and Vunlac: Bull/Gorgon +112% > EdC+SF +45% 
2 slot - Small 10-man raids like CC Commander and Ragebeast: AW+ToW +45%+10%/loot > EdC+SF +45% 
2 slot - Pox/Temple (Bull/Gorgon if available or AW + Gambit/LF/SUH)* 
3 slot - Sapphire, Mothership, Bethany, Noir II (Bull/Gorgon + Gambit/LF/SUH) +157% > EdC/SF/FA +68% 
3 slot - Low-health Medium 50-man raids like Void Killer, Carnus, Bashan (ToW+BtR+bull/GS) 
4 Slot - Bull in a China Ship/Gorgon Stare/Legacy Forge/(either Gambit or SUH) 
5 Slot - Bull/GS/LF/(gambit/TaC/SUH or Drift/Cannons) 
6 Slot - Bull/GS/LF/(gambit/TaC/SUH or Drift Cannons) 
 
It's inevitable that some bad tactics will be used though, if you are the owner of the raid, you can remove any tactic by double-clicking on. If you see Bull/Gorgon placed on a raid, do not place any part of the EdC chain. If you accidentally place a bad tactic, you can double-click to remove your own tactic on a general raid (non-alliance). Note that certain end-game, high FS raids like Weiqi, are almost guaranteed to fail if anything less than the best tactics are placed on them. For example, Suppressive Fire or Teachings of Wu placed on a Weiqi raid will cause it to be ignored and ultimately fail. 
 
For alliances where bull/GS tactic owners are not available, typically the EdC chain plus Gambit and ToW are the most commonly used. The order that the EdC chain is placed is important to maximize damage while the raid tactics are incomplete (even more important for alliance raids). EdC+SF gives +45% and should always be placed first. EdC+FA will give a further +23% boost; and Preparation gives a +19% for a total of +87% (45% + 23% + 19%). If Flank Attack is placed on Bashan first, this is less than ideal as typically it will end up with FA+EdC + BtR; which is a +23% boost versus a +45% boost if it had SF for it's first tactic. On Telemachus, the most common 100-man raid, ideally EdC + SF + FA are placed with BtR to fill the 4th tactic slot to give it a +68% damage boost plus an extra epic loot. In a mixed alliance where Bull/GS are available, but not always at the same time, one idea to to have the Bull/GS holder place their tactic (28%) and then add Prepartion + SF (15%), this takes up 3 tactic slots but provides 43% boost similar in power to the 45% that could be provided with EdC+SF, especially if Gambit and LF can also be placed in other tactic slots. That way when a holder of the other tactic logs in, they can remove the Prep+SF to add their Bull/GS. 
 
On low-health/valuable 'General' raids typically ToW and BtR will be placed and the last spot saved for a moderate tactic like bull/GS/Drift/Cannons. For example, Gambit should typically not be placed on Bashan, the most common 50-person raid, but rather just ToW/BtR/(something moderate) to fill it's 3 tactic slots because Gambit has a high damage spike and could prematurely kill the raid before 20-30 people have a chance to hit and share in the loot. 
 
*Pox and Temple are small raids that need a lot of damage, Bull/Gorgon are the best if both are available (+112%), but if they are not available, AW+Gambit (45+45=90%) or AW+LF (45+60=105%) are effective and quickly available. Other spike damage tactics like ToT/BW provide a 4.1% chance at +645% on a single hit; or +26.5% on average over the series of hits it takes to hit a target loot tier (in other words, Gambit is stronger than these older GS tactics: 45%>26.5%). 
 
'''Special note - Newbies and World Raids''' 
A World Raid (WR) is just what it sounds like: a raid that everyone can join in and hit. World Raids are differentiated from regular raids in a number of ways. 
1. Rarity - Only developers can summon world raids, and generally speaking, only 1 World Raid is summoned per month. 
2. No health - World Raids are time-based. Where normal raids fail when the timer reaches 0, World Raids can only succeed at that point. 
3. Ability to use all resources - WRs let you use Energy, Stamina, and Honor on it with an addition to the usual raid interface at the bottom. 
 
A Rare Spawn (RS) is a 24-hour long World Raid that is not announced ahead of time, and is generally tied with the month's WR in some way. There is typically an in-game scrolling message when a RS appears and the game's home page will provide the link in bright-green text. 
 
All information regarding timing of the WR and RS will be noted in the monthly State of the Game here: http://www.legacyofathousandsuns.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?2-News-and-Announcements 
 
or in the weekly patch notes here: http://www.legacyofathousandsuns.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?4-Changes-Update-Logs 
 
WRs require you to do a specific amount of damage to it in order to receive a specified amount of loot. To see what damage level yields what loot you should consult the loot table that is linked next to the raid on the game's home page. See the wiki for a list of World Raids and Rare Spawn. 
 
As a newbie you will likely not do much damage to the WR, but if you use all or most of your stamina to hit the raids specified in #3, you should be able to pick up enough gear and ships to increase your damage output exponentially. 
 
 
'''For Kongregate-specific players:''' 
 
LoTS guide for DotD players: http://www.kongregate.com/forums/120-legacy-of-a-thousand-suns/topics/289847-lots-guide-for-dotd-players 
^Some things to read when you are a bit more experienced. 
 
If you plan on playing the game on Kongregate for a while, get the script. They make the game infinitely more playable. 
Main script ("doomscript"): http://bit.ly/doomscript 
Installations instructions: http://www.tinyurl.com/doomscript-docs 
 
On Firefox, you must install Greasemonkey (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/) for these scripts to work. 
On Google Chrome, you must either add it from the Chrome store or install Tampermonkey and then the script. 
These scripts do not work for Internet Explorer. 
 
'''SPECIAL NOTICE TO KONGREGATE BADGE HUNTERS''' 
If you do not intend to continue playing the game after getting your badges, only #3-8 apply to you. And you should ignore #2 completely and spend all your free GS to maximize your damage. Consider buying an expedition or one of the equips on the main page to that end.

Link to GodBot3000's original guide from November 2012: bit.ly/lotsqsg http://pastebin.com/mAKW1qUV

LotS/Players Guide

2015-12-14T03:42:32Z

Yellow47:

<big>'''Quick Start Guide'''</big>
 
Some quick game play tips that may not be immediately obvious:

a) Always choose the class with the shortest timer for stamina (Lvl 6 Soldier, Lvl 100 Reaver). 
b) Join us in the world 'Chat'. It's always full of raids and best chance to have your question answered accurately (beware the trolls!). 
c) Join an alliance; browse for an 'Open' one in the list or ask in chat if you can't find a good one. 
d) Don't buy anything in the shop that cost Gold Suns until you know more (e.g. It's a Trap). 
e) Expeditions - New Item Pack does not give duplicates; Vaults, Relic and Mystery pack will give you a lot of duplicates. 
f) Missions - play through all the missions on Normal first (will allow you to summon a wide variety of raids); if you need to go back and reset a mission area, there's a reset button in the upper-right corner of the mission page. 
 
This document is intended to provide a quick way for new players to gain power. 
It will likely be useless to veterans. 
 
Updates needed to this Guide: 
1. The powerful equipment progression guide (Robot Rioter -> Plasmatic/Multiverse gear from Transdimensional Operations -> Talia gear from Invaders alliance raid and/or Sian Aid from Elite Titanomachy) 
2. Sakmussemm and Party Spacebus are the strongest free ships at the moment (especially Saknusemm vs. Psychic or Cosmic raids). The simplest way to search for a better ship is to go the wiki Ship page and sort by Power Bonus, scroll past all the Gold Sun ships, and look for a free ship that's currently available. Make sure to look all the way down to at least 200 Ship Power Bonus, and down to 100 when you are just starting. 
3. The way to hunt for Officers to fill your ship, is to sort the Officer wiki page by SP (Ship Power) and then by the Race/Role/Ability slot that you need for your ship. For example, scroll down to the Human section and they will be listed by their SP. You can do a similar sort on the Crew page to help fill restrictive slots (e.g. Piscarian). 
 
'''1. Save your Golden Suns (GS)''' - If you don't intend to spend money on this game, you should never spend GS on anything other than front page ships (e.g. [http://zoywiki.com/LotS/The_Demoiselle The Demoiselle] and premium officers/crew (the ones that cost 150 GS). Spend them on anything else and you'll probably end up regretting it. There are some very few exceptions to this rule, you can generally see people mentioning said exceptions in chat when they occur ([http://zoywiki.com/LotS/items/Best_Items Best Item]). 
 
'''2. Hit raids with 1 Stamina (AKA tagging)''' - The links people post in chat are generally all raids. In particular you should target the following raids (the more common ones are noted with *): 
*Galactic Reaver* 
*CC Councilor 
*Crush Colossa* 
*Storm Commander* 
*The Hat* 
*Fleet Commander 
*Sludge Serpent 
*Robot Uprising *Hit Robot Uprising only if it has the tactics ''Better To Receive'' or ''Teachings of Wu'' on it. Otherwise wait till you can hit the first dmg tier of 5m and 7.5m before hitting this raid. 
 
Since Robot Uprising is a great first raid, you should either ask someone in chat or in your Alliance to give you a private Robot Uprising raid so that you have enough time to reach the 5m and 7.5m tiers (after you have a few levels under your belt and built up a sufficient supply of stamina to be able to hit your tier within 1-2 levels). Or you can gamble and try to hit a Public raid in time before it dies. Also, while you are wearing/using the gear for your raid damage, be careful not to craft the gear for stat points in your Lab. 
 
These raids give you early access to some solid gear (the Sludge Scale gear). As soon as you have enough stamina and raid damage to hit Fair Share (FS) on early raids like Colonel, Sentinel, and Warmaster, you should stop tagging and strive to reach the Fair Share damage mark on as many lower FS raids as possible. 
 
On the other hand, avoid Trulcharn, Hao, Quiskarian Temples and Space Pox (not the World Raid), these raids require you to deal a specific amount of damage (Usually 10s to 100s of millions) for any sort of loot and have very limited space, if you cannot hit said mark but hit it anyway, you may cause the raid to fail and make a lot of people angry or waste a lot of stamina to 'save' the raid. 
 
Keep in mind that tagging will not always give you what you want from a raid. The loot system is set up so that dealing increasing damage up to the raid's Fair Share (FS) will give an increasing chance of 1 Epic tier loot drop that is guaranteed at the FS mark, which is total raid health divided by the maximum number of participants possible. Some raids go past that to an Optimal Share (OS) mark, which is a theoretical point determined by players that maximizes the damage per epic loot ratio. 
 
A new feature that the developers have been providing on some of the newer tiered raids is a 'new player' tier at 5m and 7.5m. Current examples of raids with these beneficial tiers include: Krakak Plague, Infected II, Mothership, Hwang, Death Flora II, Tourniquet 7.5, Hyper-Con, Sapphire, Multheru, Bonderbrand, Noir (III), A G Attack, A G Monster, and Robot Uprising. The 5m tier typically provides 1 epic and the 7.5m tier provides 2 epics; with the 7.5m tier being the highest value tier on the entire raid. Veteran/strong players will typically hit to the Optimal Share loot tier of 500m to obtain a far greater amount of loot for a reasonably similar value to the 7.5m tier as these tiers are mainly designed as a means for a new player to quickly gain access to powerful items early in their career. 
 
Typically, hitting fair share will give you 1 epic loot; and optimum share will usually give you 2 epics. Hitting far beyond fair share/optimum share on a 'general' raid may give you 3-4 epics, but at a loss of common tier loot ('diminishing returns' that peaks at 5-10x fair share depending on the raid). Over damaging small/rare raids is generally frowned upon. 
 
Therefore you should target hitting OS on a raid and then using your stamina to hit another raid unless you need to save the raid (something you shouldn't be worrying about if you're reading this). The Fair Share and Optimal Epic damage marks are listed on the zoywiki.com/LoTS page. If you login through Kong and have the raid script, you can ask RaidBot what FS/OS is for any raid by typing "/raid (partial raid name) (difficulty 1-4)" into Kong chat. 
 
Examples: 
/raid colon 4 = information for Psychic Colonel on Nightmare difficulty. 
/raid tele 1 = information for Telemachus on Normal difficulty. 
/raid colo 3 = information for Psychic COLOnel AND Crush COLOssa on Legendary difficulty. 
/raid gene = information for CC General on all 4 difficulties. 
/raid 2 = information for all raids on Hard difficulty (Don't do this!) 
 
A further caution regarding hitting raids and healing. The below raids will hit you back hard (e.g. 1-100 damage) and you should not attack them until your average damage is over 2-3 million on a 20x stamina hit. Essentially, don't chase epic loot from a raid that has an OS over 3x your 20x hit. 
- Dule's Robot 
- Quiskerian Temple 
- Space Pox 
- Sky Commander Bethany 
- Vunlac 
- Reichsmarschall Dule 
- Master Hao 
- Noir (II) 
- Subjugator 
 
'''3. Join an Alliance''' - Your honor bar is wasted unless you join one. Just ask in chat, most alliances are happy to take active players. Note that the player recruiting/inviting you to join their alliance in chat may not be an officer or otherwise have the delegated power to accept your application. So plan ahead and allow several hours (or even days!) for an alliance officer to login and check for applications. The button doesn't glow so there is no automatic notification an alliance's officers that you've submitted an application. Ideally, ask the recruiter in chat if they have the power to accept you in to their alliance if you're short on time (maybe check first to see if the alliance in question is set to 'Open' recruitment in which case your application will be instantly accepted). 
Additionally, alliances give you more raids that you can tag for good gear: 
Myriam & Steelstrike (96/67 Gloves) 
Wahsh al-sahraa (special raid - always hit) 
Rabid Reindeer (2.5m fair share with 108/150 Main Hand/Trinket/Utility, +15 honor leveling gear) 
Santa's Workshop (5m fair share with 108/150 Off Hand/Trinket/Utility, +15 honor) 
Ship of the Damned (26/24 Helmet/Gloves) 
Genesis, Mecha-Wyrm (30/30 Helmet/Gloves) 
Shock Trooper and Tank (ability crystal) 
 
'''4. LSI.''' On level up, spend all your stat points on Energy or Stamina, do not consider any other stat until you reach Leveling Speed Index (LSI) 7. Additionally, there is no LSI cap until you reach level 100 (an additional reason to allocate 100% towards energy/stamina as quickly as possible). The XP ratio is slightly in favor of energy vs. stamina (1.66 vs. 1.5 ~11% better); but allocating energy vs. stamina becomes a personal preference. Stamina will allow you to farm more stats from raids, and energy will typically allow you to level faster plus deal more damage to Rare Spawn and World Raids. The achievement system of the game suggests a balance of 2 energy to 1 stamina. 
 
'''5. Get a good ship''' - Ship power is a VERY large factor in the early part of the game for deciding how much damage you deal to raids. Good free ships drop from: 
The Blue Drake (Professor Bonderbrand: 5m or 7.5m*) 
Flying Saucer Mothership (Tourniquet 7.5: 5-7.5m*) 
The S.S. Suck It, Humans! +Human (Robot Uprising: 5-7.5m*) 
The Orbit Racer (level 200 Evolving Hero Vault) 
The Human History Museum (Besalaad Exhibit Rampage: 100-500m) 
Smythe R&D Vessel (Fungal Invasion: 100-500m) 
Vengeful Pinata +Mechanized (Pinata's Revenge: 200m-1b) 
Legacy of the Ancients +Cosmic (Ruins of the Forgotten: 500m - 6b) 
The Saknussemm +Psychic +Cosmic (Shadow Parasites: 1-5b) 
Party Spacebus +Elite (Elite Titanomachy: 100m - 6b) 
 
It is also important to hunt down the officers Anita (from the Rylattu Exterminator alliance raid), Svana Spunbracher (from crafting word axes dropped from Blobs), and crew that synergize with both of them (Zombie Rautha and Zombie Ragnar from the Haunted House alliance raid, Mecha-Drakes from the Mecha-Wyrm alliance Raid). 
 
Before you become able to seriously pump stats, your ship power will be all your damage. Eventually you should upgrade to a GS ship, one will generally be posted on the front page every few months and available for typically 1 weeks You will also need crew to fill your ship; you might look for a Noir 1 raid with BtR/ToW on it as this raid has some of the best free crew that are reasonably available to a newer player. 
 
Other powerful, free crew include: 
Lineage - Zone 22 (133 ship power with full equipment set and Officer) will fit in Any class slot.
Fawkes - Zone 15 (Shop for 1m credits)
Scalding Sussurran - Kleptotherms RS
Huk-Kral Juggler - special mission event
Piranha - Shadow Parasite raid (Saknusemm ship)
Corrupted Paragon - Hard Transdimensional Encounters Operations
Arcade Bots - Arcade Gas Attack and Monster
Gallassa Diver & Sussurran Biker - Hard Cyan Sea Operations

 
'''6. Raid Difficulty.''' If you summon a raid, make it either Normal (N) or Nightmare (NM) difficulty - Hard and Legendary raids are (with a few exceptions) worthless. Normal raids cater to stat farmers and NM raids cater to AP farmers, either way they will ensure your raid gets hit if you post it. For the early raids that you get, it generally makes more sense to summon them on NM difficulty, otherwise they simply die too fast. And these are also some of the smallest and rarest raids that almost always have epic loot that is available on NM only, therefore a newer player should typically summon all their raids on NM. 
 
'''7. Spamming.''' Do not spam the same raid in chat - Common sense, this is just annoying. If you see others 'spam' it's because they're all different raids, that's what we call a raid train. If however it actually is just spam, kindly link them to this guide and tell them to read #7 
 
'''8. Public Raids.''' Posting raids to the 'Public' list is the primary means of raid distribution (and you get rewards for making it Public). Note that small raids with low health will typically die within seconds or minutes of posting (e.g. Void Killer, Telemachus, CC Commander). Click the 'Post Red Alert' button inside the raid or the green satellite button in the raid list; then select 'Post Public' from the pop-up menu. To join a raid, click 'Raids' and then the 'Public' tab. Note that the search function is tied to their internal raid name so there's a few that may be hard to search for: 'Blood Alley Gang' = 'China'; Vorden = Seth; Dule = Emperor; Harlot = Scarlet Harlet; Blob = Shuborunth; Fleet Commander = Xarpa; Symphony = Where Music Meets; Councilor = Dule Warmaster; CC General = GeneralRahn; Cybersmash = Natasha; Psi-Echo = Sun Xi; the others should be intuitively named. 
 
Historically, there were various raid sharing websites/tools for each platform used in the 2-3 years before 'Public' became an in-game feature: 
Facebook: FB farming groups and the forums here http://www.legacyofathousandsuns.com...-Help-Requests 
Kongregate: cconoly.com/lots/ 
Armor Games: http://citevirtuelle.fr/lots/tools/raids.php 
 
'''9. Shortening links.''' The profile message character limit is lower than an actual raid link, meaning that if you try to paste a raid link on someone's profile, no one would be able to get to it because the relevant parts get cut off. To fix this, use a url shortener like preview.tinyurl.com or bit.ly or goo.gl etc. or alternatively you can do this: 
 
Start with the full link pasted onto some place you can edit it, e.g. a new tab 
http://www.kongregate.com/games/5thP...ash=VSk8Org9Nq 
 
Remove everything before "kv_raid_id": 
kv_raid_id=5118950&kv_difficulty=1&kv_raid_boss=sp ace_pox&kv_hash=VSk8Org9Nq 
 
This is already short enough to post, but because the profile message chat space is limited in height and scrolling it is obnoxious, consider reducing it further to: 
kv_raid_id=5118950&kv_hash=VSk8Org9Nq 
 
IN essence, you only need what follows "kv_raid_id", an "&", and what follows "kv_hash" to join a raid. Copying this much reduced string and pasting it directly to your raid list will work just as well as the full link. This is also useful for sharing raids cross-platform. 
 
'''10. Tactics.''' There are only a handful of usable/acceptable tactics. Using anything else will generally get you yelled at. An important note is that if you don't know/understand tactics, it is best to not place one and either ask for advice in Chat or just let other players place them. Tactics are extremely powerful and an important part of the community's raids. Puny tactics on larger raids will often cause them to be ignored and ultimately fail since optimal tactics often double or triple your damage. 
 
Before the introduction of Bull/Gorgon Stare/SUH (more on this later) the most commonly used by brand new players and their abbreviations were as follows 
Suppressive Fire (SF) 
Esprit de Corps (EdC) 
Flank Attack (FA) 
Preparation (Prep) 
 
The above 4 are collectively known as the EdC chain, due to all of them having synergy with each other. A full EdC chain adds +87% on every hit. As such, these were the most commonly used tactics. If you are very new player and do not have these tactics, ask politely in chat and someone will be glad to help you (e.g. you most likely will have Suppressive Fire, but will need another player to apply EdC for you to obtain the +45% damage boost). 
 
Two new GS tactics that have outclassed EdC are Bull in a China Shop and Gorgon Stare. They nullify the effect of EdC and should not be combined on the same raid. Individually they add +28% and together they add +112%. The Zone 19 raids (Vunlac, R. Dule, Bethany, and Noir II) essentially require these tactics due to the fewer tactic slots and high damage required. Other useful tactics that you may see on raids include: 
 
Legacy Forge (LF) - Granted upon reaching level 2500 
Master Wu's Gambit - Obtained from Zone 20 on Nightmare difficulty, one of the best free tactics 
Trojan Horse - Crafted in the Lab from collections obtained from Zone A5
Asymmetric Warfare (AW) - Only effective on small (10 man) raids, plus Pox/Temple/Luna/Reindeer/Termynx Parasite/CC Commander 
Stan's Undying Heroism (SUH) - Granted upon reaching level 5000 

Bull in a China Shop / Gorgon Stare - Gold Sun tactics
Collision Course - Gold Sun tactic
Broadside Cannons and Out of the Drift (Drift/Cannons) - Effective when separate, especially effective together. (Gold Sun tactics) 
Take a Chance (TaC) - an old Gold Sun tactic with a fan following for it's 1.75% chance to double experience 

Better to Recieve... (BtR) and Teachings of Wu (ToW) - Should only go on raids that are going to die soon as it doesn't contribute damage, or in the case of ToW, not significant damage. Raids that are certain to die regardless of tactics can have it on immediately (e.g. Bashan, Cake, Colonel). Note that these are only useful on older non-tiered raids. Everything from Trulcharn and newer is likely a tiered riad, and Quiskerian Temple and Space Pox are about the only examples of older raids with tiers. 

In smaller alliances where Gold Sun tactics are not available, the EdC Chain, Teachings of Wu, Gambit and Legacy Forge are still often the most useful tactics. You may also see some of these other tactics:
Plan 10 and Plan 11 - should only be used on a Huk-Kral raid, such as Subjugator and the alliance raids, Storm Trooper and Tank (but not on an Elite Subjugator because LF/gambit is 5% better and readily available). 
Biological Warfare (BW) - Effective against organic humanoids and alien beasts. 
Trick or Treat (ToT) - Effective on Nightmare and Legendary raids 
Angel of Death (AoD) - Effective on Normal and Hard raids. 

Quiskeran Psi-Eye (QPE) - Only effective on the Quiskeran Psi-Hound 
Secret Weapon (SW) - Only effective against Genesis 
Purge - Only effective against Space Pox and Infected Squad (Beaten out in power by Bull/Gorgon/BW/ToT/DfD) 
Final Assault (FiA) - Old Gold Sun tactic, but still effective 
Applied Scholarship (AS) - Effective against Alliance raids 
Death from the Darkness (DftD/DD) - Effective against non-Alliance raids 

 
Taking all of this together shows that tactics choices will vary greatly depending on what raid it is. A quick reference guide is shown here: tiny.cc/tacs2add. A detail overview of some good choices for tactics, sorted by number of tactics slots: 
1 slot - AW +45% (if Small: Hao) or Gambit/LF/SUH for Plague (Medium raid) 
2 slot - Warwalker, Hyper-Con, R. Dule and Vunlac: Bull/Gorgon +112% > EdC+SF +45% 
2 slot - Small 10-man raids like CC Commander and Ragebeast: AW+ToW +45%+10%/loot > EdC+SF +45% 
2 slot - Pox/Temple (Bull/Gorgon if available or AW + Gambit/LF/SUH)* 
3 slot - Sapphire, Mothership, Bethany, Noir II (Bull/Gorgon + Gambit/LF/SUH) +157% > EdC/SF/FA +68% 
3 slot - Low-health Medium 50-man raids like Void Killer, Carnus, Bashan (ToW+BtR+bull/GS) 
4 Slot - Bull in a China Ship/Gorgon Stare/Legacy Forge/(either Gambit or SUH) 
5 Slot - Bull/GS/LF/(gambit/TaC/SUH or Drift/Cannons) 
6 Slot - Bull/GS/LF/(gambit/TaC/SUH or Drift Cannons) 
 
It's inevitable that some bad tactics will be used though, if you are the owner of the raid, you can remove any tactic by double-clicking on. If you see Bull/Gorgon placed on a raid, do not place any part of the EdC chain. If you accidentally place a bad tactic, you can double-click to remove your own tactic on a general raid (non-alliance). Note that certain end-game, high FS raids like Weiqi, are almost guaranteed to fail if anything less than the best tactics are placed on them. For example, Suppressive Fire or Teachings of Wu placed on a Weiqi raid will cause it to be ignored and ultimately fail. 
 
For alliances where bull/GS tactic owners are not available, typically the EdC chain plus Gambit and ToW are the most commonly used. The order that the EdC chain is placed is important to maximize damage while the raid tactics are incomplete (even more important for alliance raids). EdC+SF gives +45% and should always be placed first. EdC+FA will give a further +23% boost; and Preparation gives a +19% for a total of +87% (45% + 23% + 19%). If Flank Attack is placed on Bashan first, this is less than ideal as typically it will end up with FA+EdC + BtR; which is a +23% boost versus a +45% boost if it had SF for it's first tactic. On Telemachus, the most common 100-man raid, ideally EdC + SF + FA are placed with BtR to fill the 4th tactic slot to give it a +68% damage boost plus an extra epic loot. In a mixed alliance where Bull/GS are available, but not always at the same time, one idea to to have the Bull/GS holder place their tactic (28%) and then add Prepartion + SF (15%), this takes up 3 tactic slots but provides 43% boost similar in power to the 45% that could be provided with EdC+SF, especially if Gambit and LF can also be placed in other tactic slots. That way when a holder of the other tactic logs in, they can remove the Prep+SF to add their Bull/GS. 
 
On low-health/valuable 'General' raids typically ToW and BtR will be placed and the last spot saved for a moderate tactic like bull/GS/Drift/Cannons. For example, Gambit should typically not be placed on Bashan, the most common 50-person raid, but rather just ToW/BtR/(something moderate) to fill it's 3 tactic slots because Gambit has a high damage spike and could prematurely kill the raid before 20-30 people have a chance to hit and share in the loot. 
 
*Pox and Temple are small raids that need a lot of damage, Bull/Gorgon are the best if both are available (+112%), but if they are not available, AW+Gambit (45+45=90%) or AW+LF (45+60=105%) are effective and quickly available. Other spike damage tactics like ToT/BW provide a 4.1% chance at +645% on a single hit; or +26.5% on average over the series of hits it takes to hit a target loot tier (in other words, Gambit is stronger than these older GS tactics: 45%>26.5%). 
 
'''Special note - Newbies and World Raids''' 
A World Raid (WR) is just what it sounds like: a raid that everyone can join in and hit. World Raids are differentiated from regular raids in a number of ways. 
1. Rarity - Only developers can summon world raids, and generally speaking, only 1 World Raid is summoned per month. 
2. No health - World Raids are time-based. Where normal raids fail when the timer reaches 0, World Raids can only succeed at that point. 
3. Ability to use all resources - WRs let you use Energy, Stamina, and Honor on it with an addition to the usual raid interface at the bottom. 
 
A Rare Spawn (RS) is a 24-hour long World Raid that is not announced ahead of time, and is generally tied with the month's WR in some way. There is typically an in-game scrolling message when a RS appears and the game's home page will provide the link in bright-green text. 
 
All information regarding timing of the WR and RS will be noted in the monthly State of the Game here: http://www.legacyofathousandsuns.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?2-News-and-Announcements 
 
or in the weekly patch notes here: http://www.legacyofathousandsuns.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?4-Changes-Update-Logs 
 
WRs require you to do a specific amount of damage to it in order to receive a specified amount of loot. To see what damage level yields what loot you should consult the loot table that is linked next to the raid on the game's home page. See the wiki for a list of World Raids and Rare Spawn. 
 
As a newbie you will likely not do much damage to the WR, but if you use all or most of your stamina to hit the raids specified in #3, you should be able to pick up enough gear and ships to increase your damage output exponentially. 
 
 
'''For Kongregate-specific players:''' 
 
LoTS guide for DotD players: http://www.kongregate.com/forums/120-legacy-of-a-thousand-suns/topics/289847-lots-guide-for-dotd-players 
^Some things to read when you are a bit more experienced. 
 
If you plan on playing the game on Kongregate for a while, get the script. They make the game infinitely more playable. 
Main script ("doomscript"): http://bit.ly/doomscript 
Installations instructions: http://www.tinyurl.com/doomscript-docs 
 
On Firefox, you must install Greasemonkey (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/) for these scripts to work. 
On Google Chrome, you must either add it from the Chrome store or install Tampermonkey and then the script. 
These scripts do not work for Internet Explorer. 
 
'''SPECIAL NOTICE TO KONGREGATE BADGE HUNTERS''' 
If you do not intend to continue playing the game after getting your badges, only #3-8 apply to you. And you should ignore #2 completely and spend all your free GS to maximize your damage. Consider buying an expedition or one of the equips on the main page to that end.

Link to GodBot3000's original guide from November 2012: bit.ly/lotsqsg http://pastebin.com/mAKW1qUV

LotS/Lineage

2015-12-14T03:31:13Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Lineage
|color=Orange
|attack=74
|defense=74
|procRate=
|procDmgMin=
|procDmgCap=
|race=Human
|class=Any
|bonus=Special
|type=Crew
|ability=Lineage gains 6 Attack and Defense for each unique piece of {{LotS/ItemSetLink2|Descendant's}} Set owned; Lineage gains 20 Attack and Defense if {{LotS/ItemLink|Legacy of the Kasan}} is in the ship
|text=You may have to face Noir alone, but you can feel the press of history at your back. Countless hands beckon you onward as you face the final destiny of your bloodline.

The culmination of eons rests on your shoulders, but you stand on the shoulders of giants.
|obtained={{LotS/Missionall|Fade to Gold}} - Nightmare Only
|used=
|notes=
}}

LotS/Players Guide

2015-12-14T03:27:00Z

Yellow47:

<big>'''Quick Start Guide'''</big>
 
Some quick game play tips that may not be immediately obvious:

a) Always choose the class with the shortest timer for stamina (Lvl 6 Soldier, Lvl 100 Reaver). 
b) Join us in the world 'Chat'. It's always full of raids and best chance to have your question answered accurately (beware the trolls!). 
c) Join an alliance; browse for an 'Open' one in the list or ask in chat if you can't find a good one. 
d) Don't buy anything in the shop that cost Gold Suns until you know more (e.g. It's a Trap). 
e) Expeditions - New Item Pack does not give duplicates; Vaults, Relic and Mystery pack will give you a lot of duplicates. 
f) Missions - play through all the missions on Normal first (will allow you to summon a wide variety of raids); if you need to go back and reset a mission area, there's a reset button in the upper-right corner of the mission page. 
 
This document is intended to provide a quick way for new players to gain power. 
It will likely be useless to veterans. 
 
Updates needed to this Guide: 
1. The powerful equipment progression guide (Robot Rioter -> Plasmatic/Multiverse gear from Transdimensional Operations -> Talia gear from Invaders alliance raid and/or Sian Aid from Elite Titanomachy) 
2. Sakmussemm and Party Spacebus are the strongest free ships at the moment (especially Saknusemm vs. Psychic or Cosmic raids). The simplest way to search for a better ship is to go the wiki Ship page and sort by Power Bonus, scroll past all the Gold Sun ships, and look for a free ship that's currently available. Make sure to look all the way down to at least 200 Ship Power Bonus, and down to 100 when you are just starting. 
3. The way to hunt for Officers to fill your ship, is to sort the Officer wiki page by SP (Ship Power) and then by the Race/Role/Ability slot that you need for your ship. For example, scroll down to the Human section and they will be listed by their SP. You can do a similar sort on the Crew page to help fill restrictive slots (e.g. Piscarian). 
 
'''1. Save your Golden Suns (GS)''' - If you don't intend to spend money on this game, you should never spend GS on anything other than front page ships (e.g. [http://zoywiki.com/LotS/The_Demoiselle The Demoiselle] and premium officers/crew (the ones that cost 150 GS). Spend them on anything else and you'll probably end up regretting it. There are some very few exceptions to this rule, you can generally see people mentioning said exceptions in chat when they occur ([http://zoywiki.com/LotS/items/Best_Items Best Item]). 
 
'''2. Hit raids with 1 Stamina (AKA tagging)''' - The links people post in chat are generally all raids. In particular you should target the following raids (the more common ones are noted with *): 
*Galactic Reaver* 
*CC Councilor 
*Crush Colossa* 
*Storm Commander* 
*The Hat* 
*Fleet Commander 
*Sludge Serpent 
*Robot Uprising *Hit Robot Uprising only if it has the tactics ''Better To Receive'' or ''Teachings of Wu'' on it. Otherwise wait till you can hit the first dmg tier of 5m and 7.5m before hitting this raid. 
 
Since Robot Uprising is a great first raid, you should either ask someone in chat or in your Alliance to give you a private Robot Uprising raid so that you have enough time to reach the 5m and 7.5m tiers (after you have a few levels under your belt and built up a sufficient supply of stamina to be able to hit your tier within 1-2 levels). Or you can gamble and try to hit a Public raid in time before it dies. Also, while you are wearing/using the gear for your raid damage, be careful not to craft the gear for stat points in your Lab. 
 
These raids give you early access to some solid gear (the Sludge Scale gear). As soon as you have enough stamina and raid damage to hit Fair Share (FS) on early raids like Colonel, Sentinel, and Warmaster, you should stop tagging and strive to reach the Fair Share damage mark on as many lower FS raids as possible. 
 
On the other hand, avoid Trulcharn, Hao, Quiskarian Temples and Space Pox (not the World Raid), these raids require you to deal a specific amount of damage (Usually 10s to 100s of millions) for any sort of loot and have very limited space, if you cannot hit said mark but hit it anyway, you may cause the raid to fail and make a lot of people angry or waste a lot of stamina to 'save' the raid. 
 
Keep in mind that tagging will not always give you what you want from a raid. The loot system is set up so that dealing increasing damage up to the raid's Fair Share (FS) will give an increasing chance of 1 Epic tier loot drop that is guaranteed at the FS mark, which is total raid health divided by the maximum number of participants possible. Some raids go past that to an Optimal Share (OS) mark, which is a theoretical point determined by players that maximizes the damage per epic loot ratio. 
 
A new feature that the developers have been providing on some of the newer tiered raids is a 'new player' tier at 5m and 7.5m. Current examples of raids with these beneficial tiers include: Krakak Plague, Infected II, Mothership, Hwang, Death Flora II, Tourniquet 7.5, Hyper-Con, Sapphire, Multheru, Bonderbrand, Noir (III), A G Attack, A G Monster, and Robot Uprising. The 5m tier typically provides 1 epic and the 7.5m tier provides 2 epics; with the 7.5m tier being the highest value tier on the entire raid. Veteran/strong players will typically hit to the Optimal Share loot tier of 500m to obtain a far greater amount of loot for a reasonably similar value to the 7.5m tier as these tiers are mainly designed as a means for a new player to quickly gain access to powerful items early in their career. 
 
Typically, hitting fair share will give you 1 epic loot; and optimum share will usually give you 2 epics. Hitting far beyond fair share/optimum share on a 'general' raid may give you 3-4 epics, but at a loss of common tier loot ('diminishing returns' that peaks at 5-10x fair share depending on the raid). Over damaging small/rare raids is generally frowned upon. 
 
Therefore you should target hitting OS on a raid and then using your stamina to hit another raid unless you need to save the raid (something you shouldn't be worrying about if you're reading this). The Fair Share and Optimal Epic damage marks are listed on the zoywiki.com/LoTS page. If you login through Kong and have the raid script, you can ask RaidBot what FS/OS is for any raid by typing "/raid (partial raid name) (difficulty 1-4)" into Kong chat. 
 
Examples: 
/raid colon 4 = information for Psychic Colonel on Nightmare difficulty. 
/raid tele 1 = information for Telemachus on Normal difficulty. 
/raid colo 3 = information for Psychic COLOnel AND Crush COLOssa on Legendary difficulty. 
/raid gene = information for CC General on all 4 difficulties. 
/raid 2 = information for all raids on Hard difficulty (Don't do this!) 
 
A further caution regarding hitting raids and healing. The below raids will hit you back hard (e.g. 1-100 damage) and you should not attack them until your average damage is over 2-3 million on a 20x stamina hit. Essentially, don't chase epic loot from a raid that has an OS over 3x your 20x hit. 
- Dule's Robot 
- Quiskerian Temple 
- Space Pox 
- Sky Commander Bethany 
- Vunlac 
- Reichsmarschall Dule 
- Master Hao 
- Noir (II) 
- Subjugator 
 
'''3. Join an Alliance''' - Your honor bar is wasted unless you join one. Just ask in chat, most alliances are happy to take active players. Note that the player recruiting/inviting you to join their alliance in chat may not be an officer or otherwise have the delegated power to accept your application. So plan ahead and allow several hours (or even days!) for an alliance officer to login and check for applications. The button doesn't glow so there is no automatic notification an alliance's officers that you've submitted an application. Ideally, ask the recruiter in chat if they have the power to accept you in to their alliance if you're short on time (maybe check first to see if the alliance in question is set to 'Open' recruitment in which case your application will be instantly accepted). 
Additionally, alliances give you more raids that you can tag for good gear: 
Myriam & Steelstrike (96/67 Gloves) 
Wahsh al-sahraa (special raid - always hit) 
Rabid Reindeer (2.5m fair share with 108/150 Main Hand/Trinket/Utility, +15 honor leveling gear) 
Santa's Workshop (5m fair share with 108/150 Off Hand/Trinket/Utility, +15 honor) 
Ship of the Damned (26/24 Helmet/Gloves) 
Genesis, Mecha-Wyrm (30/30 Helmet/Gloves) 
Shock Trooper and Tank (ability crystal) 
 
'''4. LSI.''' On level up, spend all your stat points on Energy or Stamina, do not consider any other stat until you reach Leveling Speed Index (LSI) 7. Additionally, there is no LSI cap until you reach level 100 (an additional reason to allocate 100% towards energy/stamina as quickly as possible). The XP ratio is slightly in favor of energy vs. stamina (1.66 vs. 1.5 ~11% better); but allocating energy vs. stamina becomes a personal preference. Stamina will allow you to farm more stats from raids, and energy will typically allow you to level faster plus deal more damage to Rare Spawn and World Raids. The achievement system of the game suggests a balance of 2 energy to 1 stamina. 
 
'''5. Get a good ship''' - Ship power is a VERY large factor in the early part of the game for deciding how much damage you deal to raids. Good free ships drop from: 
The Blue Drake (Professor Bonderbrand: 5m or 7.5m*) 
Flying Saucer Mothership (Tourniquet 7.5: 5-7.5m*) 
The S.S. Suck It, Humans! +Human (Robot Uprising: 5-7.5m*) 
The Orbit Racer (level 200 Evolving Hero Vault) 
The Human History Museum (Besalaad Exhibit Rampage: 100-500m) 
Smythe R&D Vessel (Fungal Invasion: 100-500m) 
Vengeful Pinata +Mechanized (Pinata's Revenge: 200m-1b) 
Legacy of the Ancients +Cosmic (Ruins of the Forgotten: 500m - 6b) 
The Saknussemm +Psychic +Cosmic (Shadow Parasites: 1-5b) 
Party Spacebus +Elite (Elite Titanomachy: 100m - 6b) 
 
It is also important to hunt down the officers Anita (from the Rylattu Exterminator alliance raid), Svana Spunbracher (from crafting word axes dropped from Blobs), and crew that synergize with both of them (Zombie Rautha and Zombie Ragnar from the Haunted House alliance raid, Mecha-Drakes from the Mecha-Wyrm alliance Raid). 
 
Before you become able to seriously pump stats, your ship power will be all your damage. Eventually you should upgrade to a GS ship, one will generally be posted on the front page every few months and available for typically 1 weeks You will also need crew to fill your ship; you might look for a Noir 1 raid with BtR/ToW on it as this raid has some of the best free crew that are reasonably available to a newer player. 
 
'''6. Raid Difficulty.''' If you summon a raid, make it either Normal (N) or Nightmare (NM) difficulty - Hard and Legendary raids are (with a few exceptions) worthless. Normal raids cater to stat farmers and NM raids cater to AP farmers, either way they will ensure your raid gets hit if you post it. For the early raids that you get, it generally makes more sense to summon them on NM difficulty, otherwise they simply die too fast. And these are also some of the smallest and rarest raids that almost always have epic loot that is available on NM only, therefore a newer player should typically summon all their raids on NM. 
 
'''7. Spamming.''' Do not spam the same raid in chat - Common sense, this is just annoying. If you see others 'spam' it's because they're all different raids, that's what we call a raid train. If however it actually is just spam, kindly link them to this guide and tell them to read #7 
 
'''8. Public Raids.''' Posting raids to the 'Public' list is the primary means of raid distribution (and you get rewards for making it Public). Note that small raids with low health will typically die within seconds or minutes of posting (e.g. Void Killer, Telemachus, CC Commander). Click the 'Post Red Alert' button inside the raid or the green satellite button in the raid list; then select 'Post Public' from the pop-up menu. To join a raid, click 'Raids' and then the 'Public' tab. Note that the search function is tied to their internal raid name so there's a few that may be hard to search for: 'Blood Alley Gang' = 'China'; Vorden = Seth; Dule = Emperor; Harlot = Scarlet Harlet; Blob = Shuborunth; Fleet Commander = Xarpa; Symphony = Where Music Meets; Councilor = Dule Warmaster; CC General = GeneralRahn; Cybersmash = Natasha; Psi-Echo = Sun Xi; the others should be intuitively named. 
 
Historically, there were various raid sharing websites/tools for each platform used in the 2-3 years before 'Public' became an in-game feature: 
Facebook: FB farming groups and the forums here http://www.legacyofathousandsuns.com...-Help-Requests 
Kongregate: cconoly.com/lots/ 
Armor Games: http://citevirtuelle.fr/lots/tools/raids.php 
 
'''9. Shortening links.''' The profile message character limit is lower than an actual raid link, meaning that if you try to paste a raid link on someone's profile, no one would be able to get to it because the relevant parts get cut off. To fix this, use a url shortener like preview.tinyurl.com or bit.ly or goo.gl etc. or alternatively you can do this: 
 
Start with the full link pasted onto some place you can edit it, e.g. a new tab 
http://www.kongregate.com/games/5thP...ash=VSk8Org9Nq 
 
Remove everything before "kv_raid_id": 
kv_raid_id=5118950&kv_difficulty=1&kv_raid_boss=sp ace_pox&kv_hash=VSk8Org9Nq 
 
This is already short enough to post, but because the profile message chat space is limited in height and scrolling it is obnoxious, consider reducing it further to: 
kv_raid_id=5118950&kv_hash=VSk8Org9Nq 
 
IN essence, you only need what follows "kv_raid_id", an "&", and what follows "kv_hash" to join a raid. Copying this much reduced string and pasting it directly to your raid list will work just as well as the full link. This is also useful for sharing raids cross-platform. 
 
'''10. Tactics.''' There are only a handful of usable/acceptable tactics. Using anything else will generally get you yelled at. An important note is that if you don't know/understand tactics, it is best to not place one and either ask for advice in Chat or just let other players place them. Tactics are extremely powerful and an important part of the community's raids. Puny tactics on larger raids will often cause them to be ignored and ultimately fail since optimal tactics often double or triple your damage. 
 
Before the introduction of Bull/Gorgon Stare/SUH (more on this later) the most commonly used by brand new players and their abbreviations were as follows 
Suppressive Fire (SF) 
Esprit de Corps (EdC) 
Flank Attack (FA) 
Preparation (Prep) 
 
The above 4 are collectively known as the EdC chain, due to all of them having synergy with each other. A full EdC chain adds +87% on every hit. As such, these were the most commonly used tactics. If you are very new player and do not have these tactics, ask politely in chat and someone will be glad to help you (e.g. you most likely will have Suppressive Fire, but will need another player to apply EdC for you to obtain the +45% damage boost). 
 
Two new GS tactics that have outclassed EdC are Bull in a China Shop and Gorgon Stare. They nullify the effect of EdC and should not be combined on the same raid. Individually they add +28% and together they add +112%. The Zone 19 raids (Vunlac, R. Dule, Bethany, and Noir II) essentially require these tactics due to the fewer tactic slots and high damage required. Other useful tactics that you may see on raids include: 
 
Legacy Forge (LF) - Granted upon reaching level 2500 
Master Wu's Gambit - Obtained from Zone 20 on Nightmare difficulty, one of the best free tactics 
Trojan Horse - Crafted in the Lab from collections obtained from Zone A5
Asymmetric Warfare (AW) - Only effective on small (10 man) raids, plus Pox/Temple/Luna/Reindeer/Termynx Parasite/CC Commander 
Stan's Undying Heroism (SUH) - Granted upon reaching level 5000 

Bull in a China Shop / Gorgon Stare - Gold Sun tactics
Collision Course - Gold Sun tactic
Broadside Cannons and Out of the Drift (Drift/Cannons) - Effective when separate, especially effective together. (Gold Sun tactics) 
Take a Chance (TaC) - an old Gold Sun tactic with a fan following for it's 1.75% chance to double experience 

Better to Recieve... (BtR) and Teachings of Wu (ToW) - Should only go on raids that are going to die soon as it doesn't contribute damage, or in the case of ToW, not significant damage. Raids that are certain to die regardless of tactics can have it on immediately (e.g. Bashan, Cake, Colonel). Note that these are only useful on older non-tiered raids. Everything from Trulcharn and newer is likely a tiered riad, and Quiskerian Temple and Space Pox are about the only examples of older raids with tiers. 

In smaller alliances where Gold Sun tactics are not available, the EdC Chain, Teachings of Wu, Gambit and Legacy Forge are still often the most useful tactics. You may also see some of these other tactics:
Plan 10 and Plan 11 - should only be used on a Huk-Kral raid, such as Subjugator and the alliance raids, Storm Trooper and Tank (but not on an Elite Subjugator because LF/gambit is 5% better and readily available). 
Biological Warfare (BW) - Effective against organic humanoids and alien beasts. 
Trick or Treat (ToT) - Effective on Nightmare and Legendary raids 
Angel of Death (AoD) - Effective on Normal and Hard raids. 

Quiskeran Psi-Eye (QPE) - Only effective on the Quiskeran Psi-Hound 
Secret Weapon (SW) - Only effective against Genesis 
Purge - Only effective against Space Pox and Infected Squad (Beaten out in power by Bull/Gorgon/BW/ToT/DfD) 
Final Assault (FiA) - Old Gold Sun tactic, but still effective 
Applied Scholarship (AS) - Effective against Alliance raids 
Death from the Darkness (DftD/DD) - Effective against non-Alliance raids 

 
Taking all of this together shows that tactics choices will vary greatly depending on what raid it is. A quick reference guide is shown here: tiny.cc/tacs2add. A detail overview of some good choices for tactics, sorted by number of tactics slots: 
1 slot - AW +45% (if Small: Hao) or Gambit/LF/SUH for Plague (Medium raid) 
2 slot - Warwalker, Hyper-Con, R. Dule and Vunlac: Bull/Gorgon +112% > EdC+SF +45% 
2 slot - Small 10-man raids like CC Commander and Ragebeast: AW+ToW +45%+10%/loot > EdC+SF +45% 
2 slot - Pox/Temple (Bull/Gorgon if available or AW + Gambit/LF/SUH)* 
3 slot - Sapphire, Mothership, Bethany, Noir II (Bull/Gorgon + Gambit/LF/SUH) +157% > EdC/SF/FA +68% 
3 slot - Low-health Medium 50-man raids like Void Killer, Carnus, Bashan (ToW+BtR+bull/GS) 
4 Slot - Bull in a China Ship/Gorgon Stare/Legacy Forge/(either Gambit or SUH) 
5 Slot - Bull/GS/LF/(gambit/TaC/SUH or Drift/Cannons) 
6 Slot - Bull/GS/LF/(gambit/TaC/SUH or Drift Cannons) 
 
It's inevitable that some bad tactics will be used though, if you are the owner of the raid, you can remove any tactic by double-clicking on. If you see Bull/Gorgon placed on a raid, do not place any part of the EdC chain. If you accidentally place a bad tactic, you can double-click to remove your own tactic on a general raid (non-alliance). Note that certain end-game, high FS raids like Weiqi, are almost guaranteed to fail if anything less than the best tactics are placed on them. For example, Suppressive Fire or Teachings of Wu placed on a Weiqi raid will cause it to be ignored and ultimately fail. 
 
For alliances where bull/GS tactic owners are not available, typically the EdC chain plus Gambit and ToW are the most commonly used. The order that the EdC chain is placed is important to maximize damage while the raid tactics are incomplete (even more important for alliance raids). EdC+SF gives +45% and should always be placed first. EdC+FA will give a further +23% boost; and Preparation gives a +19% for a total of +87% (45% + 23% + 19%). If Flank Attack is placed on Bashan first, this is less than ideal as typically it will end up with FA+EdC + BtR; which is a +23% boost versus a +45% boost if it had SF for it's first tactic. On Telemachus, the most common 100-man raid, ideally EdC + SF + FA are placed with BtR to fill the 4th tactic slot to give it a +68% damage boost plus an extra epic loot. In a mixed alliance where Bull/GS are available, but not always at the same time, one idea to to have the Bull/GS holder place their tactic (28%) and then add Prepartion + SF (15%), this takes up 3 tactic slots but provides 43% boost similar in power to the 45% that could be provided with EdC+SF, especially if Gambit and LF can also be placed in other tactic slots. That way when a holder of the other tactic logs in, they can remove the Prep+SF to add their Bull/GS. 
 
On low-health/valuable 'General' raids typically ToW and BtR will be placed and the last spot saved for a moderate tactic like bull/GS/Drift/Cannons. For example, Gambit should typically not be placed on Bashan, the most common 50-person raid, but rather just ToW/BtR/(something moderate) to fill it's 3 tactic slots because Gambit has a high damage spike and could prematurely kill the raid before 20-30 people have a chance to hit and share in the loot. 
 
*Pox and Temple are small raids that need a lot of damage, Bull/Gorgon are the best if both are available (+112%), but if they are not available, AW+Gambit (45+45=90%) or AW+LF (45+60=105%) are effective and quickly available. Other spike damage tactics like ToT/BW provide a 4.1% chance at +645% on a single hit; or +26.5% on average over the series of hits it takes to hit a target loot tier (in other words, Gambit is stronger than these older GS tactics: 45%>26.5%). 
 
'''Special note - Newbies and World Raids''' 
A World Raid (WR) is just what it sounds like: a raid that everyone can join in and hit. World Raids are differentiated from regular raids in a number of ways. 
1. Rarity - Only developers can summon world raids, and generally speaking, only 1 World Raid is summoned per month. 
2. No health - World Raids are time-based. Where normal raids fail when the timer reaches 0, World Raids can only succeed at that point. 
3. Ability to use all resources - WRs let you use Energy, Stamina, and Honor on it with an addition to the usual raid interface at the bottom. 
 
A Rare Spawn (RS) is a 24-hour long World Raid that is not announced ahead of time, and is generally tied with the month's WR in some way. There is typically an in-game scrolling message when a RS appears and the game's home page will provide the link in bright-green text. 
 
All information regarding timing of the WR and RS will be noted in the monthly State of the Game here: http://www.legacyofathousandsuns.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?2-News-and-Announcements 
 
or in the weekly patch notes here: http://www.legacyofathousandsuns.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?4-Changes-Update-Logs 
 
WRs require you to do a specific amount of damage to it in order to receive a specified amount of loot. To see what damage level yields what loot you should consult the loot table that is linked next to the raid on the game's home page. See the wiki for a list of World Raids and Rare Spawn. 
 
As a newbie you will likely not do much damage to the WR, but if you use all or most of your stamina to hit the raids specified in #3, you should be able to pick up enough gear and ships to increase your damage output exponentially. 
 
 
'''For Kongregate-specific players:''' 
 
LoTS guide for DotD players: http://www.kongregate.com/forums/120-legacy-of-a-thousand-suns/topics/289847-lots-guide-for-dotd-players 
^Some things to read when you are a bit more experienced. 
 
If you plan on playing the game on Kongregate for a while, get the script. They make the game infinitely more playable. 
Main script ("doomscript"): http://bit.ly/doomscript 
Installations instructions: http://www.tinyurl.com/doomscript-docs 
 
On Firefox, you must install Greasemonkey (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/) for these scripts to work. 
On Google Chrome, you must either add it from the Chrome store or install Tampermonkey and then the script. 
These scripts do not work for Internet Explorer. 
 
'''SPECIAL NOTICE TO KONGREGATE BADGE HUNTERS''' 
If you do not intend to continue playing the game after getting your badges, only #3-8 apply to you. And you should ignore #2 completely and spend all your free GS to maximize your damage. Consider buying an expedition or one of the equips on the main page to that end.

Link to GodBot3000's original guide from November 2012: bit.ly/lotsqsg http://pastebin.com/mAKW1qUV

LotS/raids/general/Elite Kulnar-Xex Elite Subjugator

2015-12-13T01:05:58Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS/raid
|name=Elite Kulnar-Xex Elite Subjugator
|raidlistname=E. K-X E. Subjugator
|zone.area=[[LotS/experiment/Elite Kulnar-Xex Elite Subjugator Data|Lab]]
|type=General
|size=Large
|tactics=5
|players=100
|time=24 hours
|cooldown=72 hours
|normalhp=150000000000
|hardhp=300000000000
|legendaryhp=375000000000
|nightmarehp=450000000000
|normalos=0
|hardos=0
|legendaryos=0
|nightmareos=0
|type1=Large
|type2=Huk-Kral
|type3=Mechanized
|type4=Elite
|type5=
|type6=
|shorttexttiers=
|notes=Kulnar-Xex's mechs crash through the city streets, mauling everything in sight. Their blades hack crowds of people into bloody heaps. Energy blasts scatter charred chunks across the sidewalks.

|tiers={{LotS/SpTieredTable}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|?|?|?|?|?|?}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|5,000,000,000|525|18|18|9|9}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|10,000,000,000|800|28|28|14|14}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|50,000,000,000|800|28|28|14|14}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|60,000,000,000|800|28|28|14|14}}

}}

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LotS/Shiver

2015-12-11T21:45:21Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Shiver
|color=Orange
|attack=211
|defense=108
|race=Human
|class=Ranged
|bonus=Intellect
|type=Officer
|procRate=10
|procDmgMin=133000
|procDmgCap=196000
|ability=Coldhearted: Chance for bonus damage (10% @ 1,435,000); Extra damage for each unique piece of Sian Aid set owned; Extra damage against Elite raids (Max: 2,726,500; 4,018,000)
|text=Shiver may enjoy indulging in her supervillain persona, but outside of her grudge against the Sussurran vigilante has no passion for petty crime on its own merits. For a woman of her talents, acting as a hired agent to enact the crimes of others is much more rewarding.
|obtained={{LotS/Labex|Shiver}}
|used=
|notes=
}}

LotS/Trojan Horse

2015-12-10T07:45:27Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Trojan Horse
|color=Orange
|type=Tactic
|Tactype=Spike Tactic - Mechanized Raids
|dmgincreasealone=0%
|dmgincreasecombo=75%
|ability=Each attack by any raid member has a chance to inflict bonus damage against Mechanized raids (5% chance for +1500% damage, for a net +75% benefit)
|text="Should we open it? What do you think is inside?" "Money? I bet it's money. Or booze!" "Or what if it's just full of heavily armed commandos? We should ask the Captain." "What? That would be a horrible gift. It's probably booze."
|obtained={{LotS/Labex|Trojan Horse}}
|used=
|notes={{LotS/Unique}}
|unique=Y
}}

LotS/raids/general/Elite Kwelshax

2015-12-05T07:01:18Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS/raid
|name=Elite Kwelshax
|raidlistname=E. Kwelshax
|zone.area=[[LotS/facilities/Communication_Tower|CT]]
|type=General
|size=Epic
|tactics=4
|players=250
|time=24 Hours
|cooldown=96 hours
|normalhp=175000000000
|hardhp=350000000000
|legendaryhp=437500000000
|nightmarehp=525000000000
|normalos=25,000,000,000
|hardos=25,000,000,000
|legendaryos=25,000,000,000
|nightmareos=25,000,000,000
|type1=Epic
|type2=Alien Beast
|type3=Elite
||shorttexttiers=Tiers:?, 4b (180SP), 10b (1200SP), 20b (2500SP)*, 25b (3000SP), 30b (3500SP), 35b (4000SP), 40b (4500SP), 45b (5000SP), 50b (5500SP), 100b (8000SP)
|notes=These were the tiers before the health was nerfed on November 26, 2015; 58b gave 3500 stat points, therefore these tiers need to be re-confirmed with the new, lowered health version of this raid.
|tiers={{LotS/SpTieredTable}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|?|?||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|4,000,000,000|?||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|10,000,000,000|?||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|20,000,000,000|?||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|25,000,000,000|2500||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|30,000,000,000|3000||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|35,000,000,000|3500||||}}
}}
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LotS/raids/general/Elite Centurian Commander

2015-12-05T06:45:44Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS/raid
|name=Elite Centurian Commander
|raidlistname=E. CC Commander
|zone.area=[[LotS/facilities/Communication_Tower|CT]]
|type=General
|size=Small
|tactics=6
|players=25
|time=24 Hours
|cooldown=96 hours
|normalhp=30000000000
|hardhp=60000000000
|legendaryhp=75000000000
|nightmarehp=90000000000
|normalos=5,000,000,000
|hardos=5,000,000,000
|legendaryos=5,000,000,000
|nightmareos=5,000,000,000
|type1=Small
|type2=Human
|type3=Mechanized
|type4=Elite
|tiers={{LotS/SpTieredTable}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|?|?||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|1,000,000,000|70|20|20|10|10}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|1,500,000,000|110|20|20|10|10}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|2,500,000,000|150|20|20|10|10}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|5,000,000,000|450|20|20|10|10}}
}}
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LotS/raids/general/Elite Kwelshax

2015-12-05T06:43:15Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS/raid
|name=Elite Kwelshax
|raidlistname=E. Kwelshax
|zone.area=[[LotS/facilities/Communication_Tower|CT]]
|type=General
|size=Epic
|tactics=4
|players=250
|time=24 Hours
|cooldown=96 hours
|normalhp=175000000000
|hardhp=350000000000
|legendaryhp=437500000000
|nightmarehp=525000000000
|normalos=30,000,000,000
|hardos=30,000,000,000
|legendaryos=30,000,000,000
|nightmareos=30,000,000,000
|type1=Epic
|type2=Alien Beast
|type3=Elite
||shorttexttiers=Tiers:?, 4b (180SP), 10b (1200SP), 20b (2500SP)*, 25b (3000SP), 30b (3500SP), 35b (4000SP), 40b (4500SP), 45b (5000SP), 50b (5500SP), 100b (8000SP)
|notes=These were the tiers before the health was nerfed on November 26, 2015; 58b gave 3500 stat points, therefore these tiers need to be re-confirmed with the new, lowered health version of this raid.
|tiers={{LotS/SpTieredTable}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|?|?||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|4,000,000,000|?||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|10,000,000,000|?||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|20,000,000,000|?||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|25,000,000,000|?||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|30,000,000,000|3000||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|35,000,000,000|3500||||}}
}}
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LotS/raids/general/Elite Kwelshax

2015-12-05T06:39:11Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS/raid
|name=Elite Kwelshax
|raidlistname=E. Kwelshax
|zone.area=[[LotS/facilities/Communication_Tower|CT]]
|type=General
|size=Epic
|tactics=4
|players=250
|time=24 Hours
|cooldown=96 hours
|normalhp=175000000000
|hardhp=350000000000
|legendaryhp=437500000000
|nightmarehp=525000000000
|normalos=0
|hardos=0
|legendaryos=0
|nightmareos=0
|type1=Epic
|type2=Alien Beast
|type3=Elite
||shorttexttiers=Tiers:?, 4b (180SP), 10b (1200SP), 20b (2500SP)*, 25b (3000SP), 30b (3500SP), 35b (4000SP), 40b (4500SP), 45b (5000SP), 50b (5500SP), 100b (8000SP)
|notes=These were the tiers before the health was nerfed on November 26, 2015; 58b gave 3500 stat points, therefore these tiers need to be re-confirmed with the new, lowered health version of this raid.
|tiers={{LotS/SpTieredTable}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|?|?||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|4,000,000,000|?||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|10,000,000,000|?||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|20,000,000,000|?||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|25,000,000,000|?||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|30,000,000,000|3000||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|35,000,000,000|3500||||}}
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LotS/raids/general/Elite Centurian Commander

2015-12-05T04:58:23Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS/raid
|name=Elite Centurian Commander
|raidlistname=E. CC Commander
|zone.area=[[LotS/facilities/Communication_Tower|CT]]
|type=General
|size=Small
|tactics=6
|players=25
|time=24 Hours
|cooldown=96 hours
|normalhp=30000000000
|hardhp=60000000000
|legendaryhp=75000000000
|nightmarehp=90000000000
|normalos=
|hardos=
|legendaryos=
|nightmareos=
|type1=Small
|type2=Human
|type3=Mechanized
|type4=Elite
|tiers={{LotS/SpTieredTable}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|?|?||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|1,000,000,000|70|20|20|10|10}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|1,500,000,000|110|20|20|10|10}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|2,500,000,000|150|20|20|10|10}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|5,000,000,000|450|20|20|10|10}}
}}
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LotS/The Dark Phantom

2015-12-03T09:55:01Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=The Dark Phantom
|color=Yellow
|attack={{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - AI}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - Weapons}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - Modules}}) *.75 * 10 + 104 round 0}}
|defense={{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - AI}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - Weapons}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - Modules}}) *.75 * 10 + 80 round 0}}
|race=Sussurra
|class=Any
|bonus=Any
|type=Officer
|procRate=10
|procDmgMin={{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * .66 * 86100 + 2870000) / 20.5}}
|procDmgCap={{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * .66 * 86100 + 2870000) / 20.5}}
|ability=Terribly Mysterious: Chance for bonus damage (10% @ 2,870,000); Extra damage for every Officer owned (+86,100; Max: {{#number_format: {{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * 86100 + 2870000)}} }}); The Dark Phantom gains 10 Attack and Defense for each ship engineering item owned; Whenever an Officer does damage, The Dark Phantom has a (10%) chance to mimic a larger amount of damage (500%) (does not apply to other mimics); Increases ship power bonus by 75%
|text=While his ultimate motivations and goals are unknown, the Gallassa known as The Dark Phantom is a popular legend among the crew of merchant ships. It's said that he appears without warning on ships under attack from pirates, repelling invaders and marshalling the defenses of the beleaguered crew and officers. Never saying a word, his heroics go unexplained, and when the fighting has done he fades like a fog in the morning sun.
|obtained={{LotS/Rexp}} - pre-released 
{{LotS/GSshoplink|250}}
|used=
|notes=The average players current maximum damage is likely around {{#number_format: {{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * .66 * 86100 + 2870000)}} }}. 
The mimic damage is a universal 'all or nothing mimic'. For example, if 5 Officer proc for damage and you roll a 1 on a 10 sided die, Phantom will mimic all 5 of their damage at a 500% rate. Phantom will also mimic his own base damage (e.g. {{#number_format: {{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * .66 * 86100 + 2870000) * 5}} }}). 
{{LotS/Unique}}
|unique=Y
}}
[[Category:LotS/Premium]]

LotS/The Dark Phantom

2015-12-03T08:46:07Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=The Dark Phantom
|color=Yellow
|attack={{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - AI}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - Weapons}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - Modules}}) *.75 * 10 + 104 round 0}}
|defense={{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - AI}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - Weapons}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - Modules}}) *.75 * 10 + 80 round 0}}
|race=Sussurra
|class=Any
|bonus=Any
|type=Officer
|procRate=10
|procDmgMin={{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * .66 * 86100 + 2870000) / 20.5}}
|procDmgCap={{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * .66 * 86100 + 2870000) / 20.5}}
|ability=Terribly Mysterious: Chance for bonus damage (10% @ 2,870,000); Extra damage for every Officer owned (+86,100); The Dark Phantom gains 10 Attack and Defense for each ship engineering item owned; Whenever an Officer does damage, The Dark Phantom has a (10%) chance to mimic a larger amount of damage (500%) (does not apply to other mimics); Increases ship power bonus by 75% (Max: {{#number_format: {{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * 86100 + 2870000)}} }})
|text=While his ultimate motivations and goals are unknown, the Gallassa known as The Dark Phantom is a popular legend among the crew of merchant ships. It's said that he appears without warning on ships under attack from pirates, repelling invaders and marshalling the defenses of the beleaguered crew and officers. Never saying a word, his heroics go unexplained, and when the fighting has done he fades like a fog in the morning sun.
|obtained={{LotS/Rexp}} - pre-released 
{{LotS/GSshoplink|250}}
|used=
|notes=The average players current maximum damage is likely around {{#number_format: {{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * .66 * 86100 + 2870000)}} }}. 
The mimic damage is a universal 'all or nothing mimic'. For example, if 5 Officer proc for damage and you roll a 1 on a 10 sided die, Phantom will mimic all 5 of their damage at a 500% rate. Phantom will also mimic his own base damage (e.g. {{#number_format: {{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * .66 * 86100 + 2870000) * 5}} }}). 
{{LotS/Unique}}
|unique=Y
}}
[[Category:LotS/Premium]]

File:LotS The Dark Phantom.png

2015-12-03T08:44:59Z

Yellow47: Yellow47 uploaded a new version of "File:LotS The Dark Phantom.png"

LotS/The Dark Phantom

2015-12-03T08:39:56Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=The Dark Phantom
|color=Yellow
|attack={{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - AI}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - Weapons}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - Modules}}) *.75 * 10 + 104 round 0}}
|defense={{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - AI}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - Weapons}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - Modules}}) *.75 * 10 + 80 round 0}}
|race=Sussurra
|class=Any
|bonus=Any
|type=Officer
|procRate=10
|procDmgMin={{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * .66 * 86100 + 2870000) / 20.5}}
|procDmgCap={{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * .66 * 86100 + 2870000) / 20.5}}
|ability=Terribly Mysterious: Chance for bonus damage (10% @ 2,870,000); Extra damage for every Officer owned (+86,100); The Dark Phantom gains 10 Attack and Defense for each ship engineering item owned; Whenever an Officer does damage, The Dark Phantom has a (10%) chance to mimic a larger amount of damage (500%) (does not apply to other mimics); Increases ship power bonus by 75% (Max: {{#number_format: {{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * 86100 + 2870000)}} }})
|text=While his ultimate motivations and goals are unknown, the Gallassa known as The Dark Phantom is a popular legend among the crew of merchant ships. It's said that he appears without warning on ships under attack from pirates, repelling invaders and marshalling the defenses of the beleaguered crew and officers. Never saying a word, his heroics go unexplained, and when the fighting has done he fades like a fog in the morning sun.
|obtained={{LotS/Rexp}} - pre-released 
{{LotS/GSshoplink|250}}
|used=
|notes=The average players current maximum damage is likely around {{#number_format: {{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * .66 * 86100 + 2870000)}} }}. 
The mimic damage is a universal 'all or nothing mimc'. For example, if 5 Officer proc for damage and you roll a 1 on a 10 sided die, Phantom will mimic all 5 of their damage at a 500% rate. Phantom will also mimic his own base damage (e.g. {{#number_format: {{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * .66 * 86100 + 2870000) * 5}} }}). 
{{LotS/Unique}}
|unique=Y
}}
[[Category:LotS/Premium]]

LotS/The Dark Phantom

2015-12-03T08:33:26Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=The Dark Phantom
|color=Yellow
|attack={{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - AI}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - Weapons}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - Modules}}) *.75 * 10 + 104 round 0}}
|defense={{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - AI}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - Weapons}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - Modules}}) *.75 * 10 + 80 round 0}}
|race=Sussurra
|class=Any
|bonus=Any
|type=Officer
|procRate=10
|procDmgMin={{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * .66 * 86100 + 2870000) / 20.5}}
|procDmgCap={{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * .66 * 86100 + 2870000) / 20.5}}
|ability=Terribly Mysterious: Chance for bonus damage (10% @ 2,870,000); Extra damage for every Officer owned (+86,100); The Dark Phantom gains 10 Attack and Defense for each ship engineering item owned; Whenever an Officer does damage, The Dark Phantom has a (10%) chance to mimic a larger amount of damage (500%) (does not apply to other mimics); Increases ship power bonus by 75% (Max: {{#number_format: {{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * 86100 + 2870000)}} }})
|text=While his ultimate motivations and goals are unknown, the Gallassa known as The Dark Phantom is a popular legend among the crew of merchant ships. It's said that he appears without warning on ships under attack from pirates, repelling invaders and marshalling the defenses of the beleaguered crew and officers. Never saying a word, his heroics go unexplained, and when the fighting has done he fades like a fog in the morning sun.
|obtained={{LotS/Rexp}} - pre-released 
{{LotS/GSshoplink|250}}
|used=
|notes=The average players current maximum damage is likely around {{#number_format: {{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * .66 * 86100 + 2870000)}} }}.

{{LotS/Unique}}
|unique=Y
}}
[[Category:LotS/Premium]]

LotS/The Dark Phantom

2015-12-03T08:32:24Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=The Dark Phantom
|color=Yellow
|attack={{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - AI}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - Weapons}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - Modules}}) *.75 * 10 + 104 round 0}}
|defense={{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - AI}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - Weapons}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Engineering - Modules}}) *.75 * 10 + 80 round 0}}
|race=Sussurra
|class=Any
|bonus=Any
|type=Officer
|procRate=10
|procDmgMin={{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * .66 * 86100 + 2870000) / 20.5}}
|procDmgCap={{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * .66 * 86100 + 2870000) / 20.5}}
|ability=Terribly Mysterious: Chance for bonus damage (10% @ 2,870,000); Extra damage for every Officer owned (+86,100); The Dark Phantom gains 10 Attack and Defense for each ship engineering item owned; Whenever an Officer does damage, The Dark Phantom has a chance to mimic a larger amount of damage (500%) (does not apply to other mimics); Increases ship power bonus by 75% (Max: {{#number_format: {{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * 86100 + 2870000)}} }})
|text=While his ultimate motivations and goals are unknown, the Gallassa known as The Dark Phantom is a popular legend among the crew of merchant ships. It's said that he appears without warning on ships under attack from pirates, repelling invaders and marshalling the defenses of the beleaguered crew and officers. Never saying a word, his heroics go unexplained, and when the fighting has done he fades like a fog in the morning sun.
|obtained={{LotS/Rexp}} - pre-released 
{{LotS/GSshoplink|250}}
|used=
|notes=The average players current maximum damage is likely around {{#number_format: {{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}} * .66 * 86100 + 2870000)}} }}.

{{LotS/Unique}}
|unique=Y
}}
[[Category:LotS/Premium]]

LotS/Great Big Rye

2015-11-29T21:46:53Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Great Big Rye
|color=Yellow
|attack=1000
|defense=1000
|race=Snuuth
|class=Any
|bonus=Any
|type=Crew
|procRate=12
|procDmgMin={{#expr: 100000 + (({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Crew}} * .9 + ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officers}} * .66)) * 1000) }}
|procDmgCap={{#expr: 100000 + (({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Crew}} * .9 + ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officers}} * .66)) * 1000) }}
|type=Crew
|ability=Enuk Chuk!: Chance for bonus damage (12% @ 2,050,000); Extra damage for every unique [[LotS/items/Crew|Crew]] and [[LotS/items/Officers|Officer]] owned (+20,500); Great Big Rye gains 2 Attack and Defense for each {{LotS/ItemLink2|Genetic Stabilizer}} owned and 6 Attack and Defense for each {{LotS/ItemLink2|Growth Serum}} owned (Max: {{#number_format: {{#expr: 2050000 + (({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Crew}} + ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officers}} )) * 20500) }} }})
|text="They say to me: Rye, you are too big. Even for snuuth, so big and fat! Isn't healthy, Rye, you must stop. Ha! They thinking I am too big now? They will see. Oh yes." -- Great Big Rye
|obtained={{LotS/ColorLink|LotS/shops/expeditions/mystery|Mystery Pack|GreenYellow}} - Pre-release 
{{LotS/GSshoplink|150}}
|used=
|notes=List of items: [[LotS/items/Crew|Crew]] ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Crew}}), [[LotS/items/Officers|Officers]] ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officer}}) 
The average player's proc damage is likely around {{#number_format: {{#expr: 2050000 + (({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Crew}} * .9 + ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Officers}} * .66)) * 20500) }} }}. 
{{LotS/Unique}}
|unique=Y
}}
[[Category:LotS/Premium]]

LotS/Ocean Mistress Synactha

2015-11-29T21:36:03Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Ocean Mistress Synactha
|color=Yellow
|attack={{#expr: 84 + ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Crew}} * .9) round 0}}
|defense={{#expr: 84 + ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Crew}} * .9) round 0}}
|procRate={{#expr: 20+26}}
|procDmgMin={{#expr: {{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Crew}} * .9 * 70 + 14 * 10 + 9800}}
|procDmgCap={{#expr: {{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Crew}} * .9 * 70 + 14 * 500 + 9800}}
|type=Officer
|race=Piscarian
|class=Any
|bonus=Any
|ability=Synactha: Chance for bonus damage (20% @ 200,900); Chance increases for each other [[LotS/items/Officers|Officer]] in the ship (+1%); Extra damage for each different [[LotS/items/Crew|Crew]] owned (+1,435); Extra damage based on the maximum participants in the raid (up to 500) (+287); Synactha's Attack and Defense increase by 1 for every different [[LotS/items/Crew|Crew]] member owned
|text=The titles of "Ocean Master" and "Ocean Mistress" date back to the days when the Piscarians were a collection of pre-spaceflight civilizations. Due to their aquatic origins, it was akin to saying "Master / Mistress of the Universe" -- somewhat hyperbolic, but indicative of the great military power those individuals wielded. Though many of the species avoid using it today, considering it to be rather boastful and excessively grand, Synactha refuses to be called anything else. And given her impressive string of victories, in which she demonstrated both personal courage and tactical brilliance, the politicians to whom she answers are content to go along with it.
|obtained={{LotS/GSshoplink|150}}
|notes=There are currently {{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Crew}} [[LotS/items/Crew|Crew]] that boost the proc damage of this [[LotS/items/Officers|Officer]]. The average players current maximum damage is likely around {{#number_format: {{#expr: ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:LotS/Crew}} * .9 * 1435 + 287 * 500 + 200900)}} }}.

[[Category:LotS/Premium]]
}}

LotS/raids/general/Elite Birthday Cake of Doom

2015-11-29T02:16:24Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS/raid
|name=Elite Birthday Cake of Doom
|raidlistname=E.Cake
|zone.area=[[LotS/facilities/Communication_Tower|CT]]
|type=General
|size=Large
|tactics=3
|players=100
|time=24 hours
|cooldown=72 hours
|normalhp=1875000000000
|hardhp=1875000000000
|legendaryhp=1875000000000
|nightmarehp=1875000000000
|normalos=20000000000
|hardos=20000000000
|legendaryos=20000000000
|nightmareos=20000000000
|type1=Large
|type2=Mechanized
|type3=Elite
|shorttexttiers=Tiers: ?, 13b (1500SP),20b (3000SP)*, 25b (3500SP), 30b (4000SP), 35b (4500SP), 40b (5000SP), 45b (5500SP), 50b (6000SP), 60b (6500SP), 70b (7000SP), 80b (7500SP), 90b (8000SP), 100b (8500SP)
|notes=The Elite Birthday Cake of Doom raid data is obtained from the {{LotS/FacilityLink|Communication Tower}}. This raid uses Energy instead of Stamina. 
|tiers={{LotS/SpTieredTable}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|1|0||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|?|?||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|500,000,000|15||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|1,000,000,000|40||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|10,000,000,000|390||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|13,000,000,000|900||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|20,000,000,000|1800||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|25,000,000,000|2100||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|30,000,000,000|2400||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|35,000,000,000|2700||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|40,000,000,000|3000||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|45,000,000,000|3300||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|50,000,000,000|3600||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|60,000,000,000|3900||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|70,000,000,000|4200||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|80,000,000,000|4500||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|90,000,000,000|4800||||}}
{{LotS/SpTieredRow|100,000,000,000|5100||||}}
}}

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LotS/Reckless Charge

2015-11-28T05:28:00Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Reckless Charge
|color=Yellow
|type=Tactic
|Tactype="Craptic"
|dmgincreasealone=2%
|dmgincreasecombo=2%
|attack=
|defense=
|ability=Each raid member has a chance to both receive and inflict additional damage (16.66% chance for +12% damage, for a net +2% benefit)
|text=When Mei started wearing a multi-colored cloorian garment, people made disparaging comments about her fashion sense. this angered her, and caused her to fight far more ferociously in battle. Soon the insults stopped, since few people felt inclined to mock someones who's standing atop a pile of corpses, covered in the blood and gore of her enemies.
|notes=Trivia: The garment mentioned in the flavor text is a reference to the {{LotS/ItemLink2|Multi-Colored Cloorian Pants}}
|obtained={{LotS/GSshoplink|40}}
}}

LotS/Reckless Charge

2015-11-28T05:24:33Z

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LotS/Rapid Fire

2015-11-28T05:22:53Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Rapid Fire
|color=Yellow
|attack=
|defense=
|type=Tactic
|Tactype="Craptic"
|dmgincreasealone=2.25%
|dmgincreasecombo=2.25%
|ability=Each attack by any raid member has a significant chance to cause additional damage. (25% chance for +9% damage, for a net +2.25% benefit)
|text=“Any idiot can pull a trigger again and again, firing off hundreds of wasted shots. The Tempest Troopers are famous for such ‘tactics’, if their ineptitude can even be dignified with such a word. What sets an elite soldier apart is their ability to aim and shoot in rapid succession, laying down a blanket of targeted fire that can rip their advancing enemies apart.” – Gunmaster Duncan
|obtained={{LotS/GSshoplink|40}}
}}

LotS/No Escape

2015-11-28T05:21:11Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=No Escape
|color=Orange
|Attack=
|Defense=
|type=Tactic
|Tactype="Craptic"
|dmgincreasealone=0%
|dmgincreasecombo=17.5%
|ability=Each attack by any raid member has a chance to cause bonus damage if the boss' Health is at 30% or lower. (7% chance for +250% damage, for a net +17.5% benefit)
|text=19. The Reaper kept killing. Her night's work wasn't done. Neither was Kell's. She stuck to the alleys where a sniper couldn't pick her off from a distance, and exacted her fierce justice there. So the manhunter followed into that nest of filth and crime, stepping through the blood and gore the vigilante left in her wake as a warning to evil men and an exhortation to women who might grow strong from the example. His pistols were as busy as her scythe, dropping thugs who thought they could make some quick credits by murdering him and stripping his expensive gear from his corpse.
|obtained={{LotS/Rexp}}
}}

LotS/Last Stand

2015-11-28T05:19:48Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Last Stand
|color=Orange
|type=Tactic
|Tactype="Craptic"
|dmgincreasealone=0%
|dmgincreasecombo=33%
|ability=When timer is below 20%, each attack by any raid member has a small chance to inflict heavy damage. (16.5% chance for +200% damage, for a net +33% benefit)
|text=
|attack=
|defense=
|obtained={{LotS/Rexp}}
}}

LotS/Jackpot

2015-11-28T05:17:03Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Jackpot
|color=Orange
|type=Tactic
|Tactype="Craptic"
|dmgincreasealone=4%
|dmgincreasecombo=4%
|ability=Each attack by any raid member has a chance to inflict additional damage and generate triple the usual number of Credits. (6.9% chance for +580% damage, for a net +4% benefit)
|text="If you're visiting River World, it's worth buying a ticket to watch their popular local game show -- River World Rampage. What's not to love about contestants navigating a dangerous maze filled with perils and pitfalls, stopping only to zap enemy robots and collect the gold coins that erupt from the wreckage?" -- {{LotS/ItemLink2|Vagrant's Guide to the Cosmos}}
|attack=
|defense=
|obtained={{LotS/Rexp}}
}}

LotS/It's a Trap!

2015-11-28T05:13:07Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=It's a Trap!
|color=Yellow
|attack=
|defense=
|type=Tactic
|Tactype="Craptic"
|dmgincreasealone=3.3%
|dmgincreasecombo=3.3%
|ability=Each attack by any raid member has an increased chance to land a critical hit. (+3.3%)
|text="Surviving audio logs show that this phrase is commonly yelled by ship captains prior to fatal ambushes." -- Entry for 'It's a Trap' in the 'New Interstellar Dictionary of Quotations and Phrases' (964th Ed.)
|obtained={{LotS/Rexp}}

{{LotS/GSlink|40}}
}}

LotS/I Have a Cunning Plan...

2015-11-28T05:12:03Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=I Have a Cunning Plan...
|color=Orange
|type=Tactic
|Tactype="Craptic"
|dmgincreasealone=5.5%
|dmgincreasecombo=5.5%
|ability=Each attack by any raid member has a small chance to inflict massive bonus damage. (1% chance for +550% damage, for a net +5.5% benefit)
|text="This phrase often precedes the revelation or application of some insane stratagem which will almost certainly result in disaster. However, on the rare occasions when the eponymous plan works as desired, remarkable things tend to occur." - Entry for 'I Have a Cunning Plan...' in the 'New Interstellar Dictionary of Quotations and Phrases' (984th Ed.)
|attack=
|defense=
|obtained={{LotS/Rexp}}
}}

LotS/Gadgetmaster

2015-11-28T05:10:31Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Gadgetmaster
|color=Orange
|attack=
|defense=
|type=Tactic
|Tactype="Craptic"
|dmgincreasealone=2.5%
|dmgincreasecombo=3.5%
|ability=Each attack by any raid member has a chance to inflict additional damage based on the number of {{LotS/ItemLink2|Gadget Bot|Gadget Bots}} owned, and grants the attacker a chance to create a {{LotS/ItemLink2|Gadget Bot}}. (2.5% chance for +100% damage; Max: with 500 {{LotS/ItemLink2|Gadget Bot|Gadget Bots}} +140%, for a net +2.5 - 3.5% benefit)
|text=Whoever kills with the most toys wins.
|obtained={{LotS/Rexp}}
}}

LotS/Focused Fire

2015-11-28T05:05:37Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Focused Fire
|color=Orange
|attack=
|defense=
|type=Tactic
|Tactype="Craptic"
|dmgincreasealone=4%
|dmgincreasecombo=4%
|ability=Each attack by any raid member has a chance to cause additional damage. (6.3% chance for +66.67% damage, for a net +4.2% benefit)
|text=“I told them all to shoot whatever target I went for. You know, to bring it down faster. Well, I missed – and hit the commander in the back by mistake. Stupid bastards didn’t stop to think…” -– Sergeant Huliar, speaking at his court-martial hearing
|obtained={{LotS/Rexp}}
}}

LotS/Fear the Reaper

2015-11-28T05:02:40Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Fear the Reaper
|color=Orange
|type=Tactic
|Tactype="Craptic"
|dmgincreasealone=0%
|dmgincreasecombo=16%
|ability=Each attack by any raid member has a chance to cause bonus damage if the boss' Health is at 70% or higher. (6.4% chance at +250% damage; net 16% benefit)
|text=20. The two of them came face to face in a derelict warehouse. Kell had entered a few seconds behind her, almost barging into the weeping woman who was running out of the building -- doing her best to hold her torn clothing together. The scene inside told the other half of the tale: a man's butchered body on the floor, and the Grim Reaper standing above it like a dark, avenging angel. For a long moment they stared at one another. A myriad possible outcomes hung in the air between them, Kell's death and the Reaper's balanced on ten thousand scales. Perhaps his first shot would pierce her mask and brain. Maybe her scythe would cleave through his spine. But all those destinies dissipated when the world exploded.
|obtained={{LotS/Rexp}}
|Attack=
|Defense=
}}

LotS/Dutch Courage

2015-11-28T04:59:57Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Dutch Courage
|color=Yellow
|type=Tactic
|Tactype="Craptic"
|dmgincreasealone=0%
|dmgincreasecombo=8%
|attack=
|Defense=
|ability=If the boss' health is above 80%, each attack by any raid member has an increased chance to score a critical hit (Increases critical strike chance by 8%).
|text=Driving or flying whilst drunk is inadvisable, but when it comes to fighting, sometimes it gives you just the edge you need.
|obtained={{LotS/GSshoplink|40}}
}}

LotS/Crazy Like a Fox

2015-11-28T04:52:45Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Crazy Like a Fox
|color=Yellow
|attack=
|defense=
|type=Tactic
|Tactype="Craptic"
|dmgincreasealone=5%
|dmgincreasecombo=5%
|ability=Each attack by any raid member has a small chance to inflict significant bonus damage. (2.5% chance for +200% damage, for a net +5% benefit)
|text="My overlords, I'm pleased to report that the mission was an incredible success! All our puny enemies were obliterated in a series of catastrophic explosions. We were able to recover some hostages you sent us to rescue. Not much, but some. Enough to fill a small box, anyway..." -- {{LotS/ItemLink2|'Insane' Ipk Dal Flek}}
|obtained={{LotS/GSshoplink|40}}
}}

LotS/Backseat Thinker

2015-11-28T04:50:40Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Backseat Thinker
|color=Yellow
|attack=
|defense=
|type=Tactic
|Tactype="Craptic"
|dmgincreasealone=5.25%
|dmgincreasecombo=5.25%
|ability=Each attack by any raid member has a small chance to cause significant additional damage. (3.5% chance for +150% damage, for a net +5.25% benefit)
|text="I'm a genius! I've devised a way to thrust my mind into yours, so I may guide you in battle and greatly increase your combat effectiveness. Naturally I had to delete a few things to make room for my mighty consciousness. So, don't be surprised if you can no longer control your excretory systems." -- Meek Sen Kwalk
|obtained={{LotS/GSshoplink|40}}
}}

LotS/Asymmetric Warfare

2015-11-28T04:44:43Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Asymmetric Warfare
|color=Orange
|type=Tactic
|Tactype=Damage Increase - Small Raids only
|dmgincreasealone=0%
|dmgincreasecombo=45%
|ability=Each attack by any raid member has a chance to inflict additional damage against Small and Personal raids. (+45%; 0% vs. other size raids; but not +Plus size raids - 0% vs. {{LotS/RaidLink|Purple Lion}} raid)
|text=Sometimes it's just more fun to pick on someone who's weaker than you...
|attack=
|defense=
|obtained={{LotS/RaidLink|Crush Colossa}}
|required={{LotS/Item Hunt|omegadeathmachine}}
|notes=This tactic does not work vs. +Plus size raids (i.e. gives zero benefit vs. {{LotS/RaidLink|Purple Lion}} raid since it is Small +Plus size). Similarly, {{LotS/ItemLink2|Propaganda}} does not 'work' vs. {{LotS/RaidLink|Pinata's Revenge}} and {{LotS/RaidLink|Besalaad Warmaster}} raids since they are Colossal +Plus size raids.
}}

LotS/Master Wu's Gambit

2015-11-28T04:42:32Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Master Wu's Gambit
|color=Orange
|attack=
|defense=
|type=Tactic
|Tactype=Spike Tactic - All Raids
|dmgincreasealone=45%
|dmgincreasecombo=45%
|ability=Each attack by any raid member has a chance to inflict massive bonus damage (6% chance at +750% damage; net 45% benefit)
|text="To have a myriad plans and stratagems in one's mind is akin to having a lavish wardrobe full of fine garments. One must only be careful not to spend too long choosing which to wear." -- {{LotS/ItemLink2|Wu Tenchu}}
|obtained={{LotS/Mission2b|Days_of_Wu}} - NM Boss (random)
}}

LotS/Smythe Procedure

2015-11-28T04:19:46Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Smythe Procedure
|color=Yellow
|attack=
|defense=
|procRate=6
|procDmgMin=0
|procDmgCap=1200
|type=Tactic
|Tactype=Spike Tactic - All Raids
|dmgincreasealone=1%
|dmgincreasecombo=45%
|ability=Chance to restore all health to attackers. Chance to deal increasing damage to raids for every 1% of Health reduced from the raid (6% @ +12% damage); Additional damage for every unique Smythe equipment set owned; Additional damage for owning Yuuluu, Escaped Smythe Test Subject, Smythe Laboratories Inc. Transport Ship, Storage Unit, Extractor Beam, and Sammy Science
|text=To avoid damaging sensitive laboratory equipment, please sit patiently and refrain from running, flailing and/or screaming if you find yourself melting or on fire. Lab maintenance droids will attend to your station and assess the safety issue you are experiencing.
|obtained={{LotS/GSshoplink|40}}
|used=
|notes=Reference points for value of tactic: 1% damage dealt to raid:1% value; 25:18%; 50:36%; 62:45%; 100:72%. [http://i.imgur.com/cpPaajX.png]
}}

LotS/Caped Crusading

2015-11-28T03:44:22Z

Yellow47:

{{LotS Item
|name=Caped Crusading
|color=Orange
|type=Tactic
|dmgincreasealone=0%
|dmgincreasecombo=100%
|Tactype=Specific Spike - M&S raid only
|ability=Each attack by any raid member against {{LotS/RaidLink|Ms. Myriad and Steelstrike}} has a chance to inflict superheroic bonus damage. (10% chance for +1000% damage, for a net 100% benefit)
|text="Why..." Telemachus began.

"It was a drunken dare," Talia replied. "Tech-Fist told Ragnar being a superhero was way tougher than being a mercenary."

"Oh. Cool. Wonder if he needs a sidekick..."

"Really? What would your name be?"

"Hmm... How about Kid Chainsaw?"
|attack=
|defense=
|obtained={{LotS/RaidLink|Ms. Myriad and Steelstrike}}
|required=Item Hunt: {{LotS/ItemSetLink|Man of Mystery}}
}}