Living_Viking

There are some pics.. in fact, i found some on the W00t radio site from the meet n greet.
Namely, here.
She's the one in the red.

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the PCPD pasted me with glue guns like I was an arts and crafts project.

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Thats the best way i've heard it put yet. I'd put it in my sig, but i'm lazy.

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Define mostly in SGMode? Is that 75% of the time, 80%, 90%? I know my wife has never ran in SGMode with her MA/Regen scrapper and she just hit 40 and still doesn't have the 2nd badge. My 43 Stone Tank has run only in SG mode (600K prestige earned when I hit 43 last night). I still only have the 1st badge and know I will not see the 2nd and 3rd badge til 50 when I finish my prestige project (1-50 in SGmode). Most hit the 3rd badge around 48-49 and that was before prestige. Now you could run TF's/SF's exemp'd down not in SGMode to get the needed inluence/infamy. Basically if you are in an SG that likes you to stay in SGMode, just hope that the contact is available at 50 and drop out of SGMode then. The infamy will come in alot quicker. I just don't see anyone getting this without doing alot of exemping prior to 50 if you ran in SGMode the majority of time.

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From "sources" the contact is 45-50, so dont worry about outleveling it. Yes re-doing TFs/SFs and things does help the inf count greatly.

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That's fine. The rest of my post still holds. Defeats in the game are supposed to occur as is the debt that comes with it. To not expect to have any defeats is unrealistic and the tying of a +Health Accolade to an Epic Debt Badge to ensure that it is earned by the 40+ crowd makes sense and is perfectly acceptable IMHO.

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To say I don't expect to die occasionally wouldn't be true, because I do expect to die periodically. Heck, my villain main has died 3 times on test this week just from working on the Black Scorpion arc (darn Malta anyway...). That said, at level 40 the character has only the first two debt badges. At my rate of play, there is simply no way I will get the 4th debt badge unless I intentionally off myself repeatedly. My level 50 hero main that was created on week 1 of CoH live, and who still gets played more than any other character (including quite a few Hamidon raids), STILL does not have the 4th debt badge. I don't say that to gloat, just to point out that there is not realistic way that I'm going to get this thing in the course of normal gameplay.

While it may be true that perma debt has its advantages in the form of amassing more influence/infamy as you level up, it does have the additional major drawback of making it take much longer to reach high level. Also, as a gamer who at least tries to play well and avoid death in the games I play, the idea that I should repeatedly and (in the case of most of my characters, at least) purposefully lose in order to reap a tangible benefit is somewhat insulting.

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From what was posted earlier about the debt badges: Deathless is about 2 million debt paid off. At level 50, that is a sum total of 4 debt caps (or 20 deaths). That isn't hard to do at that level whatsoever considering the Elite bosses and AVs. So its a totally viable badge imo.
Look at the name of the badge: High Pain Threshold. This implies either damage badges or debt badges, to use damage taken badges is a lot more unfair to defence based sets as they generally have to survive by not taking damage and thus gaining the later badges becomes a difficulty. Thus the debt badges are used, they're easily achievable by all ATs and *in the majority* are likely to be close to already achieved.

Ok, i'm gonna chip in here.
I've ran a few 29/32 mayhem missions and to be honest the PPD Ghost at the least should be looked at...Glue, fine it slows me.. i have things to stop them getting close, but its got a pretty heavy slow on it. The sniping, ok i can deal with that, pop a minor insight and get closer. What really gets me are his flashbangs, we're back to earth thorns and their quicksands here. I just had an ambush (mid-hero battle) of a ghost, shell and the one beginning with e...on villainous. I just about managed to take out the hero before the shell got to me, already had a glue on me and a flash... then a hold... and a stun.

Right, how do i get out of this? small breakfree, medium insight, medium damage, medium sturdy. And i pounded as best as i could on the ghost... for about 2 shots (slowed) and then i was flashed again, this is compound of 2 flashes and i can now no longer hit anything with anything bar a rare cone attack. Just about manage to stagger around a corner after tar patch, but the shell came and stunned me again, at which point i was in the red. I willed the stun to wear off, but alas in came yet ANOTHER flash (thats 3 *stacked*).. i feebly attempted a twilight grasp to no avail...


Whats my point in this rant? The ghost recharges have to be looked at for both the hold and the flashes. The PPD can inflict so many status effects its unreal for just 3 guys: slows, immobilises, holds, stuns, acc debuffs, def debuffs, res debuffs all cycling quickly... and those are just 3 minions. As a (supposedly) post-hero ambush arriving mid-battle, not only is a player likely to be low on health or endurance, but the lack of notification (no npc shouts) that theyre coming is a bit of a nasty surprise.

Just an FYI, the signature heroes/villains appear when a side takes 4 pillboxes. They will despawn for 2 reasons, either the side wins or the side drops below 4 pillboxes.

We had a really cool situation where the heroes had just 4 (LR and BS turned up at Golf), then the villains took one of them.. the signatures disappeared, and the villains eventually gained 4 for them, 3 for us.. BAB and Manticore appeared. And then the villains turned the whole zone evil.

It was sweet.

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I'd have to go back and check, but I believe it offers a 10% buff to your HP and some new costume options.

I haven't checked the costume options yet.

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It only offers a 5% boost to you max HP, but yes, it unlocks a costume piece, some military shoulder pads.

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Is the 5% HP boost confirmed? Also, screen shots of the military pads, please!

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Actually the 5% HP boost is bugged, it happens for some but not for others. ie my main has it but has no new auto icon nor been boosted above the original 1170hp.

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I'm a little confused about the Weed Whaker badge. It says CoT bosses, but only lists Hellfrosts and Succubus. There are Death Mages that are CoT bosses too though. So is it all CoT bosses or JUST Hellfrost and Succubus? Also, where can I find Hellfrosts? I'm sick of battling Succubus that constantly use that "Come Hither" garbage on me.

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Unfortunately the Weed Whacker badge is for CoV-unique CoT bosses, which are Hellfrosts and Succubii. Theyre pretty abundant around Primeva at around lvl35+ afaik. Succubii are annoying and i refuse to fight them unless i have to... theres nothing worse than dropping a tar patch the split second after being confused.

i'd expect its the behemoth overlords, they're the only fire demons i can think of. unless theres some cov-unique ones that have been added?

currently pvp badges are bugged, so most wanted is got be doing a patrol (iirc). as for infamy, the bling badge is for 1mil accumulated through defeating enemies and doing missions, etc.

ho hum, roll on i7/1, thats when i would hope to see badge progress bars... would be nice.

actually AFAIK, theres only a couple of badges within or due to story arcs from contacts. Badge missions can be mini-arcs, but rarely tied to a whole arc (plague stopper from coh is the obvious example of one in an arc).
oh and fyi, if you start an arc at any level, you will be able to finish it, CoV arcs are short early on (dont know about late game), but if you have got the first part of a souvenir in your clue box, you can resume it at any time.

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OK, with 5 minutes remaining, a GM shows up, and completes it for me. I tell her the mission is missing the glowy, she doesn';t say anything, and then I get a Mission Complete.

But... I don't get a Temp Power, or Storyarc completion bonus, or SO. I ask her about this, and she says "Sometimes it happens". So I'm SOL on the Blackwand it seems. I hear it was cool too... Dammit.

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Just did this for a VG mate... He didnt get a reward either.

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You're saying his mission was bugged, and he had to get GM support to complete it? Or he could complete it,b ut still didn't get the Temp power reward?

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Did this last night with a VG mate myself, after 3 attempts... there was a damn behemoth portal in the middle of the corridor not far from the entrance... i died muchly, i dont know how anyone without a decent map/invis/PFF could do that mission.
anyway, he used his pff, i used combat invis and flew to the end room where there was a glowie and 2 portals (which started spawning and going for me ) my mate clicked the glowie and mission over. He got the blackwand, i got nothing, at all, nada.
so i think its bugged in that the person to click the glowie gets the temp power... and its one of the missions that doesnt give a souvenir atm.

my personal favourite was in the port recluse fort:
Wolf Spider TacOps: 'No, I don't think you're up for a promotion. You insulted your commanding officer's wife. You're lucky you're not shark bait.'

i got a great screenie of the guy giving an /e shrug

btw, the latest patch has changed the privateer (trap 50 ghosts) badge to Pirate. (the servers have gone down, but ill put up what i think it said).
'You have trapped 50 ghosts, You can now be called an honorary pirate.' (will edit later)

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