StarGeek

Since my first post in this thread until just a few minutes ago, I've gotten the empath badge on three characters now, two starting with under 50k points, one with 700k points, using the aforementioned T3 Rebirth Total Core+T1 Vigor, in Mercy by the base portal. I'd say I was averaging 12 hours.

You do have to do it when there's a lot of wolf spiders squads in the area. If you don't have 5 or 6 squads in formation there, move some distance away, wait a minute and come back. As long as there wasn't any other players in the area, the squads should have despawned and will be different. Some times I had to do this a few times to get the most spiders up.

The buff pet is counting as heal for the +hp though. I'm currently working on the heal badges using this method (T3 Rebirth Total Core+T1 Vigor by base portal in Mercy) and when I add in the buff pet it's giving me +500 points toward the badge.

You post is a little confusing, but I'm going to guess you mean that you kept buying the Game Card, which looks like this:

And that you can't find them in stores anymore? As to where the cards have gone, I haven't seen them for awhile so it's possible they aren't printed up anymore. The LKT-1700 Rocket Pack that comes with the card only lasts for 30 days real time. You can purchase one through the Paragon Market for 200 Paragon Points (about $2.50). Or you can just go to Grandville or Firebase Zulu and buy a Raptor Pack from the vendors for only 10K infl.

If none of this answers your questions, you'll need to be a bit more specific.

The target just has to have Gravity Distortion or Gravity Distortion Field on them, they don't need to actually be held. Only those two powers allow impact, though it doesn't matter who was the source.

Actually it uses the /autoreply command, which is still restricted to higher tier.

/who just responds with Unknown command: who

I don't think so. I just did a search in my logs and Shining Magic doesn't show up there since April. Of course, that could just mean we're keeping different times.

edit: Added Calendar link back into Vigil's MotD (using TinyUrl)

Previously it may have just been my plain text "Note". Blondeshell came in afterwards and added the "Bug" template.

It can be difficult sometimes, there's a bit of a learning curve. But in this case it was easy. I clicked "edit" on the Night Ward page by the day jobs, and saw the change Blondeshell made. It now looked like this

"{{Bug|Although the Midnighter Day Job badge appears on your character while near and inside the Midnighter Mansion, no progress is earned and the badge is not awarded.}}"

I copied that, popped over to the Imperial City page and altered it to be specific to this problem.

{{Bug|Although the Day Trader/Marketeer Day Job badge appears on your character while inside the Trading House, no progress is earned and the badge is not awarded.}}

Very nice. I hadn't even heard of getting the badges this way. I took a character over there, built a T3 Rebirth Total Core, the one with the wider radius and was able to get a bit over 20k heal every 2 minutes. I had just enough stuff to make the T1 Vigor and that bumped it up to 27,390 points toward the badge each time. I'm going to leave it on overnight and see how well it does.

Not strange at all. After syrusbLiz's post verifying that it doesn't award at all after 21 days, I went ahead and fixed it. Then Blondeshell was nice enough to clean up my note and use the bug template.

Remember, *anyone* can edit the wiki.

or type /logchat

Do you remember where you were when you noticed it? And where you working a contact at the time? I just remember that there's a couple areas in KR that do the phasing thing during... Twinshot's(?) arc I think, and have a bunch of skulls spawn that won't normally spawn in such quanity. Behind the Police HQ and near the Pawn Shop in the north, IIRC. I'll have to get the arc and go test those as well, I guess

I've so done this, many, many times.

It has always worked for me, except for the aforementioned Ouro interference. You do have to make sure you *set* your mission, so it shows up in red, not yellow, though.

Well, I was unable to replicate your findings. I went into KR on my level 20 character who didn't have the badge. I found Skulls that were level 5, 6, 7, and 8 and carefully checked the badge progress before and after killing them. They gave credit each time. I went from 125 skulls to 145 skulls and they all counted.

Level doesn't matter for defeat badges. If they count while you're the same level, they'll count while grey.

Now, sometimes there are exceptions, oddities, and bugs. For example, as I mention in this thread, the Failed Experiments in the Sutter TF don't count toward the Escapee Badge.

Hmmm, interesting. Sounds like a bug. Since Skulls were added to The Hollows with the revamp, it's possible that mistake was made at the time.

True, no xp, but it won't affect the badge count (except, as said, in unusual cases). It xp were needed, then I wouldn't have gotten the new Night Ward badges as quickly and easily as I did.