Masterdevil

First of all, as said above by Ultimo, badges don't affect gameplay, so how come that's the big deal now?

Second of all, a empath defender can rest infront of a group of mobs and go afk just as good as a regen scrapper, maybe not exactly as many mobs as the scrapper can take especially if he is regen but a good enough amount to get those badges done in a fairly quick time. NOBODY has gained the epic dmg badges through normal gameplay, NOBODY. (a defense set resisting or avoiding dmg would be ridiculous so we're ONLY talking about regen scrappers here, not any of the other scrapper sets).

And a scrapper can just go afk in a gladiator match just as well as a empath defender can. How else do you think top badge hunters like Beefcake who is a tanker have gained all the healing badges? CERTAINLY NOT by using heal other. It was calculated to take 10 years with heal other as opposed to 8 months of afk gladiator farming.

Just another invalid point against this idea.

To another poster in this thread:
Obviously we'll use the dualspec for this so you can, at any given time, switch back to your main lvl 50. If you were to respec him, well, obviously hed be lost. But I never talked about the ability to respec your primary spec. Your secondary or even additional specs are the only specs where you could (well you could have the possibility to scrap your 50 primary spec if you really needed to, but isnt having a lvl 50 necessary to actually acces the dualspec ability?) switch AT/power sets and restart form level 1. It is, in no way, exploitable.

And last but not least:
What about the mute majority who have QUIT the game because there was nothing left to do for theirs 50s? Anybody considered them coming back for such a feature? I know I'm one of them (or soon to be again). Look at Lineage2 when subclasses were introduced. Most loved restarting from lvl 40 with a different class on their main and now this specific class even gives you additional bonuses on your main class such as becoming nobless/hero and even skill and stat increases.

But just saying NO (as it has been the case multiple times on first page) is not? Suuuure man.

I love how the thread has evolved so far, the pros to this suggestions outweighting the cons by FAR (because the cons are pretty much inexistant).

Really, everything that has been said AGAINST this suggestion so far has this sweet little touch of *I've rolled so many alts I dont want you to be able to keep your badges on a new set/AT".

Which is kinda sad... big deal, my main and only char will just cover up in dust again on an inactive account waiting for them to deliver a new content patch which might inspire me to reactivate it again... or not.

You swap your lvl 32 ma/regen to a lvl 1 spines/dark.... what then? I don't understand your problem.

You start your new set form level 1, hows that entitling your character to no exp loss? What's that exploit you're talking about?

I don't see this as a big deal. Rather practical so if your team isn't doing good and some people have better sets on their secondary to complete the TF instead of having to restart form scratch with a different team. BIG PLUS imo. Still you could make it so you can't change your AT/sets during a TF if you're really such a pessimist and like to have people get disappointed in the game because somebody can't properly play their AT when they could switch to something different that fits their style better. Duh.

I couldnt keep my badges though.
Neither the same name.

I don't really see how this is exploitation. Doing that would just be called playing smart. I see farming AE missions as a far bigger concern than having to deal with somebody who just chose the easy path, power disparities and imbalances which shouldn't even be in the game in the first place...

So the damage is already done, this wouldnt make it worse. Actually, those people could roll a different set which they might be better at, instead of just QUITTING THE GAME because they couldnt bother rolling an alt.

Personally, I have something against alts, I couldn't stand playing any other char besides my main. But instead of covering him up in dust, I could be enjoying a second or maybe even third and fourth set on him. Maybe do it so you have to level up back from level 1. Which either way would sitll be pointless because it seems to me that after 5 years of playing this game, I'm pretty sure I could handle any set naturally well or get good with them after playing through one or two missions/tfs. Or realize that I don't like the set so I go try something else instead of having to grind through 50 boring levels just to figure out that I don't like the set.

Duh. The only things that above posts tell me is that you're probably on your 20th or so char to get to 50 and would hate this being implemented after so much *work*.... working on a videogame instead of enjoying it must be alot of fun.