GavinRuneblade

I'll put in a vote for RuneScape. If you can live with the low-end graphics and the slow gameplay, it has a wonderful sense of humor. If you want to grind you can, but I played for years without and had plenty of fun and accomplished a lot and had a wonderful character. There is an issue with the young people playing it because you can play for free, but if you shell out the money there are many fewer paying kids.

As a player who could use such a resource, what would be helpful to me is to break it into chunks based on level. Rather like the way Oroboros is grouped. Doesn't have to be in equal sized ******, but breaking it out like that would help me say "hmm this character is level 23, let me check and see what I don't want to miss in his range".

Having it all in one long list is rather like a wall of text forum post. I need the framework to help sort it out and make sense of it quickly when I'm doing two things at once.

Thanks for making this resource!

Tanks as squishy as mine get really frustrating to play with after a few minutes. So do corruptors who deal defender-level damage and Brutes who faceplant every 4th spawn.

Always beware of a character under level 40 with multiple debt badges.

And the advice the others gave about having a badge character and others with a lot fewer is good advice to keep in mind.

So you are saying there is a rule that says you don't earn any progress toward your day job badges if you log in before the badge gets earned? You are not "Not playing your main character". You are playing your main character. And all your others are earning badges at the same time. Then when you log into an alt, you have two characters earning badges at once without dual boxing!

Isn't it great?

By the way, I totally agree the time is too long on them. But nothing about them says you can't play your main. If you literally do the exact same thing you did before the day jobs were invented, you are not penalized in any way, you just get bonuses.

What about the Vanguard Rangers from Gaussian's Arc? Those guys definitely aggro from farther away than normal.

Totally the wrong way to think about it. You say "main" which implies you have alts. Think about it this way: Your main is earning badges while you play your alt. And while you sleep. And while you're at work. And while you're in the shower. All things you do anyway. You change no behavior of your own, just play the game exactly like you did before day jobs, and you get an extra bonus out of it.

I have 23 characters. The fact that 22 are accomplishing something while I play the 23rd is not a problem for me. It's not like there is some rule about not being allowed to play your main until you have all the badges accumulated.

How did Ziggy put it? "My glass may be half empty but at least there will be less to clean up when I spill."

Two of the other badges are also pretty much impossible (the one for reporting bugs and the one for moving between Europe/America). I think even Beefcake is missing both of those.

A more accurate analogy of the thoguht process is to say "why level, just wait until they reduce the level cap".

If you ever made that assumption of one of my characters, I apologize for letting you down. Most of mine are well over 150 badges some getting up on 400. And I suck. I am helpful and friendly. Just pretty useless and incompetent.

I always chuckle when games misuse the "pst" which is short for "please send tell". Some games have "whisper" or other words for private communication ,and nearly everyone says "Please PST". Kind of like "Please RSVP". Hehe.

The QFT here is "quoted for truth" whereas every other game I've seen it used it is the exact opposite as "Quit F#$%^ng Talking". Man that one confused the heck outta me when I first came to these forums.

We have respec, whereas most games have retrain.

Can't think of any others myself though.

That is a halloween event reward. There are similar rewards for the winter event (ear muffs, winter gloves, etc), valentines day, and others.

Also, the veteran badges are badges and they all give a costume or power or something.

Or you partner a lot with a friend who likes Vengeance and Fallout (If I am remembering the Rad power that triggers off of a friendly corpse correctly).

As an alternative, crafted Hammi O-type enhancements that give two mods but aren't in a set. Although, I do like that the HOs are special for that reason.

Really, there aren't so many more examples from other games. Interactive terrain you can break is really a biggie, minigames are another, and that's about it that any game anywhere has. The only other differences are variations on what is already listed. Clicking items on the ground in WoW for a collection quest? No different from glowies except the ones in WoW don't glow. Whacking peons in the orc start zone? No different from the PvP patrol missions in CoH except for the humor and the animation.

Now, riding a giant in the frozen wastelands and using it's powers instead of your own? Very cool minigame. Or RuneScape's soduko puzzles as a minigame for a locked chest you need to open, and their anti-farming minigames? Very fun.

But in terms of mission mechanics, just giving different clothing to the same action isn't really a big deal to me and 90% of the differences come down to "different clothing - same action". That said, my biggest desire would be some voice overs and more animation.

Only finally getting a huge body type for females comes close to my desire for in game voices.

These two right here are the biggies for me.

I find that I can loot at least a few IOs that are useful and thanks to salvage drops only require a few tens of thousands in Inf to "finish" the requirements to craft. If you find everything or nearly everything you need to craft an IO, you might as well do it. They are more powerful than SOs, and they never expire. Spending on them, many people like to wait. But if they fall into your lap, why pass up the opportunity?

And while the numbers at level 35 are as Fulmens points out, dual and triple Crafted IOs start totaling higher than 36% a fair bit earlier than level 35. Late 20's if I recall correctly. Higher levels just make them more and more valuable. If you care about the set bonuses, then you want to research some about how exemplaring will impact them. That bit gets confusing.