Bendagon

launch day of I8, I had no problems except the occasional crash.

This morning, I had such terrible slowdown I almost could not move. I had to get my girlfriend to teleport me everywhere.

Once, in the early days of CoV, two friends and I were partying with an EM stalker, right. She was pretty new to MMOs in general, so she's doing some scouting and reports that a couple of mobs are hanging out behind some crates, right.

So my girlfriend's like "oh OK" and hops her stone/fire brute self over the crates to, well, SMASH and lo and behold there's like three spawns of five over there. We... didn't know at the time how new to MMOs and online gaming in general the stalker was, so when she (the stalker) said "mob" we, you know, thought she meant mob, when in fact she meant mob.

With pitchforks, torches, and grenade launchers because I think they were Council or Sky Raiders or something like that. And hell, at the time I was playing my rad/kin corruptor and in fairly early levels, so all I could really do was fire up repel and run screaming + blasting in a pretty broad circle so brute 2, my girlfriend's sister, could drop things as they aggroed onto myself and the stalker.

Anyway, there's my newb story. Not really a n00b story, just.. miscommunication, I guess.

Oh and there's the time I was powerlevelling my fire/fire tank with a kheldian and six completely new players on invincible. That's not as funny though. Just... kind of tragic.

Yes, I've already bested them all but Indigo.

However, as they are apparently Vindicators and not the Freedom Phalanx (I was not aware of the distinction prior to this thread, but then my heroes never made it past 22) my question was: do they earn you the Annihilator badge, is the Freedom Phalanx itself available for defeat, or must we wait for future content to earn it?

But are they available for us to take down?

Darla Mavis gives Aurora, Minx and Back Alley Brawler come from Crimson Revenant (which you gain access too by having the Hammer Down badge), Luminary from Operative Rutger, and Infernal's from the Cap Au Diable taskforce and also some higher level mission that I personally haven't gotten yet- just two-manned him with a brute in my SG.

All of the above contacts are in Nerva, Darla caters to level 25-30s, the rest 30-35s. The Cap taskforce auto-malefactors to 20 and is pretty rad, you might consider that to get a taste of hero-whacking early.

Anyone know if we can get the Annihilator badge yet?

I've only taken down Aurora, Minx, Luminary, Back-Alley and Infernal so far, so I know if I'm going to get it before I7 I've got a ways to go.