Necrotech_Master

im not complaining they are hard to get as in like master of badges which actually take skill, but because they cheat you out of so many points on the later badges

i know inf doesnt count for everything (like market and such), but thats understandable, i understand why falling dmg should not count, but if you being legitimately attacked or dmg'd by an enemy (ie the afk dmg farming), you should get credit for ALL the dmg that you take from an enemy attack

i also agree with Snow Globe for the fact that the last few badges are nigh impossible to get without afk farming (the other ones, like inf are fairly easy to get after a long time of playing), healing badges are also in this category since only toons with heal focused sets will get these badges without any real time input

i do like earning badges, but i like to actually participate in the earning for them, i honestly HATE the afk farming, but if i just waited to get them, it would prolly take me 20 years (if the game was still around) to even get all 7 dmg badges through normal play (if i played the toon 100% of the time when i was logged on)

the mez badges, inf badges, sk badges (which are almost pointless now) are very easy to get through normal gameplay and thats how it should be (i usually get around 3-4 of each on the journey to 50)

i also think the original requirements were way too high (hence i never bothered working on them until now, i just got the 10 mil one for born in battle when it was needed for that, then just stopped worrying about it), now that they are somewhat more reasonable, i have started working on them again (that and they are the only badges i can get aside from MoLGTF), and like Snow Globe i will refuse to do these badges again since they take way too long to get

i am still not sure if there is some technically limitation as to why it doesnt go by your max hp instead of your toons base hp, it would seem easier to just check the max hp since it is listed in the combat attributes and your ID card, and if it changed to check the max hp it would make it more attainable during a normal course of gameplay

my point is that the dmg badges are still harder (harder as in taking longer to get) than the other series of badges for basic stuff in the game (like inf, mezes, heals, ect)

im in the "no popup" group, i hated the popup when we had it and was so glad when they got rid of it

these badges need a revamp because in this new day and age, its only made them even harder to get

since HP bonuses actually hurt you on progress for this badge, and with the introduction of IO set bonuses with adding hp, these badges need to be adjusted

willpower and shield also have powers which give you hp bonuses

why were dmg badges ever made so that in order to get credit for the badges you have to go below base hp for your AT?

is there some technical limitation as to why it was designed that way? can it be changed?

if it can be changed i propose one of 2 things need to be done:

1. lower badge requirements for the 5th, 6th, and 7th badges (25 mil, 50 mil, 100 mil respectively), the first 4 are fairly easy to attain, but these are beyond annoying to get (the 25 mil isnt as bad as the 50 to 100 mil, but they are still SLOW if you have hp bonuses)
2. change the way the badges are coded so they actually give credit when you take ANY dmg regardless if its above your base hp

IMO if you take ANY dmg it should count for the badge (as the badge implies), so unless there is a good technical reason for it (coding, ect), i vote that it needs to be looked at

the other epic badges are fine but the dmg badges are essentially cheating you out of points for the badges if you have accolades, IO sets, +hp powers in the sets (dull pain type powers, the auto powers in WP and shield, ect)

monster class enemies that i know of in AE are babbage in the psi clockwork group, adamaster in the banished pantheon group, and koago in the igneous group (although i think koago was recently removed from AE because he was the target of some sort of exploit)

essentially a "monster" class enemy is the same as an AV and will spawn as an EB when diff is low enough, the only exceptions to this are the DE monsters which are more like actual GMs and not AVs

if you already paid for a year sub, then i think you keep it till that expires, so a year from whenever it got billed

since its canceled right now, you wont get billed further or auto billed again when the next year comes around, but can still play until the current paid time runs out

i usually try to get sets with acc included in them, so most of my powers will have between 125% and 220% accuracy (this doesnt include aim or bonus build up from gaussian proc in aim)

i personally like getting high global rech because the global rech added on top of whatever IOs you get makes powers rech extremely fast

with 90% global rech + 70% rech from hasten for 160% global rech, my archery/cold corr will have rain of arrows up approx every 17 sec (the power itself will have 89.92% rech)(this is the stats of what it will be in his final build according to mids, im currently still working on accruing all the IOs for it)

in fact with all the rech ill have, ill nearly be able to perma heat loss (will have approx 17 sec downtime)

IMO you should try to do what you think is better, i like high rech builds, but if you want to frankenslot be my guest (the enhance on the powers will be the same, but will have slower rech due to lower global rech)

i like the suggestion about cumulatively adding stars instead of averaging them.

and the possible way to overcome the pre i15 thing is you could make it so HoF is based on creation date (creation dates before X would be invalid for HoF)

or another possibility is to automatically exclude invalidated arcs from ever getting a HoF status, this would prolly automatically prevent most older unused arcs from getting HoF

it would prolly make a much greater impact if you put this kind of thing in your search comment in game

when i sometimes get bored i stage AV fights using a small map in AE and when in test mode i turn myself on untargetable so i dont add to the fight in any way, good fun to see what AVs can kill each other

i know thats happened to me every now and then too, its quite annoying to clear an entire map and realize the boss spawn that was supposed to be there never even spawned or an objective doesnt chain properly making it impossible to finish a mish

i dont know where poeple are coming up with the "redside will die with GR" thing, yes heroside might have a few more players, but i like villainside and i think all the redside zones are better looking than heroside and i dislike 90% of hero content. i do think that redside needs a little more content (co-op, whatever, more is better than nothing), but i definitly enjoy redside content over hero content. the 5 heros that i currently have are only because they have powersets unavailable to redside (such as ice melee, ill control, and scrapper version of spines which i would like on a brute) and once GR is out they will drop the hero tag and become full villains and/or rogues.as a full time redside player, i do agree with Zam that stuff on redside feels neglected 2/3 of the time

tl;dr

the mitos are still way overpowered, and IMO they actually made LGTF worse with this "fix"


just attempted a MO run and we were doing flawless until the green mitos in the hami mish. our team was:

• ninja/dark mm (myself)
• mind/elec perma dom
• cold/ice defender
• emp/psi defender
• elec/shield scrapper
• shield/elec tank
• fire/devices blaster
• rad blaster (didnt see what secondary)

i know several of the poeple had hold and my pets had holds aside from the perma dom, and if the mitos did get mez reduction to 10 pts, and the perma dom can fire the single target hold for 6 mag hold every 4 sec, i dont know how in the world the mito kept up the increased regen cause within 8 sec, the perma dom would have applied 12 mag hold, and the combined mag hold from rest of team was about another 6 pts which should have dropped their regen

those green mitos are so frustrating, because before when they were perma holding themselves, they were still a little annoying to most teams, and i believe that they were meant to have -hold to allow higher chance of success, because like many poeple, i did enjoy the LGTF, in fact the hami mish was one of my favorite mishs in the tf, now that the mitos are all ****** up, its not dropped from my favorite to one of the most annoying/hated mishs of mine (i still enjoy it, but just because i can see and fight hami outside of a normal raid, definitly nowhere near what i used to)

/endrant

electric control and kinetic melee i think are scheduled to be released when GR is released, so their beta testing will happen when GR is beta testing