Snow Globe

I, for one, KNOW you are wrong. You get ONE level shift for slotting either a rare or very rare. Unslotted boosts do not grant a level shift. As you can only slot a single Alpha Boost, you are limited to a single level shift from the Alpha slot. Additionally very rares eat up two rares and two additional Notices of the Well.

Given that you can only get one Notice of the Well per week players will have time for other things, unless they are trying to get a dozen characters their level boost.

Current badges (and don't even get me started how some of these were before):

Damage badge series: 100k, 500k, 1 million, 10 million, 25 million, 50 million, and 100 million. This translates to 5x, 2x, 10x, 2.5x, 2x, and 2x jumps.

Debt badges: 50k, 100k, 200k, 400k, 600k, 1 million. This translates to 2x, 2x, 2x, 1.5x, and 1.67x jumps.

Healing badge series: 250k, 1 million, 2 million, 3 million, 5 million, and 10 million. This translates to 4x, 2x, 1.5x, 1.67x, and 2x jumps.

Held badge series (in minutes): 10, 30, 60, 180, 360, 720. This translates to 3x, 2x, 3x, 2x, and 2x jumps.

Inf series: 500k, 2.5 million, 10 million, 50 million, 250 million, 500 million. This translates to 5x, 4x, 5x, 5x, and 2x jumps.

Mentoring badges: 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24. This translates to 2x, 1.5x, 1.3x, 1.25x, and 1.2x jumps.

Pirate/Spectral: 10, 100 or a 10x increase.

Pillbox badge series: 10, 50, 100. This translates to 5x and 2x jumps.

Heavies controlled series: 10, 50, 250. This translates to 5x and 5x jumps.

Inventions crafted badge series: 50, 100, 500, 1,000, 2,000. This translates to 2x, 5x, 2x, and 2x jumps.

Ouroborus complete badge series: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50. A steady increase of 5 (not multiples of 5) per step.

Marketing badges: 10, 50, 100, 250, 500, 1,000, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000, 5,000, 6,000, 7,000. This translates to 5x, 2x, 2.5x, 2x, 2x, 1.5x, 1.33x, 1.25x, 1.2x, and 1.17x jumps.

Do two of the same WSTs per week on that one character and you'll have the badge before a year is over.

You mean the testing from last Thursday (Jan 27, 2011), over Double XP weekend?

Issue 19: Strike Pack - Patch notes for build 1950.201101250108.0

Do you honestly think 5 days on the Test Server while everyone is ignoring it qualifies as "testing"? This smacks of a upper management/publisher feature push for marketing hype.

Playing the odds, I think I've guessed what he was asking. I'm pretty sure that he thought that the count has to be achieved in a narrow time frame, others have.

Wishful thinking. I can also tell that you didn't even bother reading Black Scorpion's post:

Notice how the he talks about the WST and Incarnate Trials in the same paragraph? He's equating the two as upcoming.

He doesn't say that the Incarnate Trials are solo, and he goes on in a separate paragraph saying that they are investigating strategies for solo players. Separate paragraphs for separate thoughts. Additionally, he reinforces that there is no single player strategy (yet).

That is a separate issue from the above.

Official Announcement:
http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/gam...rike_pack.html
I expect that WSTs are a permanent addition to the game. So no worries on having to get it before Issue 20.

I don't know. I'll probably have the 2nd badge (10 runs) by next week.

Official Announcement:
http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/gam...rike_pack.html

Cause no one would even think of doing that, even by accident.

Curiously the only day job the Predator badge doesn't override is the Pilot day job (and I've only checked in Bloody Bay). Good luck getting that close on a hero. Even so it will not award for vigilantes or heroes, however you might still get credit for when you change to being a villain.

Curiously enough, the Master of Statesman Task Force. That took a solid month of attempts to get.

I was also relieved when the Empath's requirements were reduced from 100 million. I had figured it out that I would need to do some 900 PUG ITFs (beyond the 100-200 that I had done since Issue 12) to get it at that requirement after 4 years of playing this character. Curiously enough it took nearly 2 months of damage farms to get Immortal.

The base in Warburg doesn't give credit for that day job badge. It is overridden by Predator.

In the same paragraph Black Scorpion said Trials. Trials in this game are not solo content.

Actually the last two badges came with a whimper.

Crey Employee (Day Job) and Crey Scientist (Accolade). I was supposed to get it near midnight Tuesday, but when I checked my progress Tuesday night, I discovered that even though I was in the Crey building that being just inside the door didn't count. This set me back 24 hours. Figuring that a petition would take longer, I just moved a bit more into the room and logged off again.

The two badges previous were on Jan 4th. Pilot & Brood Leader. Again day job badges. I'd like to point out that it took 24 days to get the last day job, not 21, because I actually play this character.

Master of Apex and Already Dead were acquired on December 21st... Those were the last active badges I picked up and the battle was fairly intense.

Yeah, it is a race between those and my next Vet Reward badge which comes on Feb 12th (72 months, yay!). I'm assuming that there will also be a badge for making a rare and very rare alpha boost, as they have common and uncommon already.

Keep at it, you'll eventually find a team that can do them.

Enjoy the game on some other characters.

Yeah, but it is nice to have this little break.

Hmm. Some of those questions are moot. Either the groups will get 100% of the prestige back, or the bases will be transitioned to the new system and you'd have to "sell back" the old stuff and buy new.

"What happens to the roster? How do you move members from one base to the other?"
Nothing happens to the roster. The bases are not the super group system.

"What if someone wants to start a new base, but use their "old" SG name?
What happens to coalitions?
What happens to the Group badges?"
Again, confusing two separate systems.

"What about re-instituting raids?"
That is a legitimate concern. Many bases since Issue 13 have ignored raid pathing.

"What if someone wants to keep their old base, as some have mentioned, in a locked/museum state? Who gets access or leadership to the museum?"
With all current bases moved or transitioned to the new system that isn't an issue.

Don't forget about Outcasts.

It was tested during Issue 18 beta, and any hero or vigilante with any badge that had a blue/red version name switched to the blue version while they were blue aligned and the red version while they were villains or rogues. Except for Praetorians with specific gold badge versions.

In this case any hero or vigilante will have Grounded as their badge title, and that changes the moment they switch from rogue to hero. The moment they switch from vigilante (edit: to villain), the title changes back to Pilot.

I got 6 shards total for that raid. Oh, and an Endoplasm (should have taken the shards).