Accolade Hunting for Heroes

This is a badge hunting guide focused on accolades. It is for heroes who don’t care too much about badges, but don’t want to miss out on the accolades. It is set up as a number of tasks that you should do at different levels. If you complete all these tasks, you will get all the accolades. The levels given are not absolute, just my recommendations.

This guide is a compilation, and not based on personal research. All my data comes from other sites, I have merely sorted and analyzed it. My main sources are City Information Terminal, City of Heroes Online and Nofuture.org.uk. I also hearthily recommend Vidiot Maps.

Throughout, I use the coordinate system built into the City of Heroes engine. You get your current coordinates using the /loc command.

The level range of hunting missions is when you get xp for them – you can of course do them later, which is easier but less rewarding.


Introducing the Accolades

There are seven accolades you can earn in the City of Heroes, and they are definitely not created equal. I do not count special accolades, like the ones that let you respect or which only grant a costume piece. A short introduction is in order.

Archmage
Level 45 (minimum 21). This is a 25-minute-recovery click power that grants a lot of resistance and defense to all but psi, at the cost of speed, recharge and accuracy.

Conspiracy Theorist (Hereafter Conspiracy)
Level 35 (minimum 20). This is a 25-minute-recovery click power attack that immobilizes.

Freedom Phalanx Reserve Member (Hereafter Freedom)
Level 40 (minimum 14). A 10% increase in hit points, and thus in regeneration rate.

Geas of the Kind Ones (Hereafter Geas)
Level 40 (minimum 40). Increase your recharge speed, Endurance recovery, and Accuracy for 1 minute. Defense will be severely reduced. Long recharge (guesstimate 25 minutes). This a Croatoa accolade, mostly earned there.

Portal Jockey (Hereafter Portal)
Level 45 (no minimum). +5% Endurance and +5% Hit Points.

Received the Atlas Medallion (Hereafter Atlas)
Level 25 (Minimum 7). +5% Endurance.

Vanguard
Level 40 (minimum 40). This is a 25-minute-recovery click power that doubles the duration of all your Disorient, Hold, Immobilize, Fear, Confuse and Sleep powers. Knockback distance is also increased.

There is but one task in this level range, but it is very important.

Spelunker Badge (Atlas)
Complete mission “Rescue the Mystic”, given by Hugo Redding, Dr. Trevor Seaborn, or Hayley Phillips. Many heroes spend their teen levels in the Hollows and miss out on this mission, which is needed for the first badge, Atlas. When you get this mission, it is very good form to broadcast an open invitation – doing so and asking for tips may solve your influence problems for quite a while.

This is where the real work starts, and also where you get your first accolade. After completing these tasks, you will have earned the Pupil history badge and the Atlas accolade – congratulations!

Explore King’s Row – Archmage, Atlas, Freedom - Vidiot Map. This is the first exploration task. To save time later on, you will only explore each zone once, picking up any badges and history plaques you need for all accolades in one sweep. Do the sites in order and you will end up well situated for the next zone. Note that the Pupil badge is a history badge, awarded after clicking all the history plaques in a certain set. So are the Authority and Savant badges you will be hunting for later.

Keen Sighted - Freedom - (-2175, 95, 1140) 300 yds N of the Sewer entrance, top of powerline tower next to monorail tracks
Summoned - Freedom - (-940, -40, 2975) Against the inner side of the road at S edge of map, straight S & slightly E from Blue Steel,
Pupil - Atlas - (-400, 0, 1755) Corner of building between Police HQ and Hospital. Go N from front of hospital, where road goes W, go E behind the building, pedestal with plaque is at the far corner.
Mystic King - Archmage - (-375, 70, 245) On rooftop 250 yds SW from Gish dot
Pupil - Atlas - (-175, -40, -1465) Follow road from GC exit 640 yds S, then on right side (W of Hide Park side) jump down to find it on the E-facing side of building.

Explore Galaxy City – Atlas, Conspiracy, Freedom - Vidiot Map
Pupil - Atlas - (-730, 0, -1340) 40 feet NE of Equinox dot. Plaque is on a pedestal opposite the arena.
Bird Watcher - Conspiracy - (2nd story ledge -1100, 50, -2260) 87yds SE of Orion Beltway dot on 2nd story ledge
Brawler - Freedom - (-1180, 65, -935) Top of Mighty Mart 475yds NW of Perez exit

Explore Perez Park – Atlas - Vidiot Map
Pupil - Atlas - (-1170, -30, 2250) 320 yds SW of Perez Park dot, along the SW bank of the river, hidden from the river view under a tree.

Explore Atlas Park- Atlas - Vidiot Map
Pupil - Atlas - (510, 0, -1150) NW Corner of City Hall building in parking lot.
Top Dog - Atlas - (135, 315, -340) On top of Atlas' globe

Gearsmasher - Freedom
Defeat 100 Clockwork Gears – these spawn form defeated Clockwork bosses.
This is really a task in the 5-20 level range, but since it is so easy and to keep the guide simple it is listed here. Do the Synapse task force, or go to Faultline, to complete this.

Finder - Vanguard
Defeat 100 Lost bosses.
This is really in the 5-20 level range too. Lost bosses abound in the south-central part of Skyway City, or you can offer to help people do their cape mission.

Tracer - Archmage
Defeat 100 Tsoo sorcerers.
You will find sorcerers in great numbers in the west of Steel Canyon and on the north part of the island in Talos Island.

Banisher - Archmage
200 Banished Pantheon spirit masks.
These can be found in Dark Astoria and in Talos Island close to Dark Astoria – but only at night. A large team helps a lot here, as they spawn more of your team is big.

Tank Buster – Freedom
100 Freakshow Tanks
Real easy. Do Sister Psyche’s task force, or any number of Freakshow missions with a reasonably-sized team. Or just hunt them in Brickstown.

Silver Bullet – Atlas
100 Council Warwolves
These are bosses of the Council werewolves. Do the Striga Isle arc in big teams, or hunt them on the mountain in the Bony Morass of Striga.

The Slayer – Atlas
100 Council Vampyri
Another easy one – you find these in abundance on Striga Isle and in the arcs there.

This is an interlude in Croatoa for the Geas of the Kind Ones badge. You can skip this step entirely if you do not fancy that one. In it you will earn the Ten Times the Victor and Geas of the Kind Ones accolades – congratulations!

Explore Croatoa – Geas - Vidiot Map. Get all the badges from the vidiot map; Grim Wanderer (762, 48, -2440, 300 yds NE to NNE of The Misty Wood marker), Ensorcelled (1018, 159, -1090 73 yds ESE of The Grim Vale marker), Spiritual (300 yds NE to NNE of The Misty Wood marker).

Giant Killer – Geas - Kill Jack in Irons [RARE] (Red Caps Monster) .

Pumpkin King – Geas - Kill Eochai [RARE] (Fir Bolg Monster).

Beleiver – Geas - Kill Sally twice (Loch Ness lookalike). Sally spawns every 1/2 to an hour. This can be done solo.

Cap Buster – Geas - Kill 333 Red Caps of any kind.

Bane of Dannan – Geas - Kill 333 Tuatha de Dannan of any kind.

Pumpkin Master – Geas - Kill 333 Fir Bolgs of any kind.

Haunted – Geas - Kill 333 Croatoan Ghosts of any kind. The Ghosts only spawn at night.

Spellbinding – Geas - Kill 333 Cabal of any kind.

This is where you begin to cash in on previous work. By level 40, you should have the Conspiracy and Vanguard accolades as well as the Scholastic and Savant history badges. If you do the Unveiler badge by now, you will also get Freedom. Solo players often run out of missions at level 38 or so – hunting Fake Nemesis can be a worthwhile activity at this time.

Sould Binder - Archmage
200 Circle of Thorns mages
Any number of Circle of Thorns missions, or hunt them in the south of the Hollows or in Dark Astoria. The reason why it is listed so late is that you will probably have it anyway by now.

The Doctor’s Ally - Conspiracy
Do the “Read the email from the Doctor” mission given by Gordon Stacy. You can only get this mission in the 35-39 level range.

Zookeeper - Vanguard
1000 Rikti Monkeys
Monkey Island in Peregrine Island, Crey’s Folly, or in any number of Rikti missions.

Infiltrator - Conspiracy
100 Crey Paragon Protectors
You find these in the remote parts of Eden, but it is better to do them in Crey missions.

Unveiler - Freedom
100 Fake Nemesis
These are hunted east of the shop in Peregrine Island or in level 40 and higher Nemesis missions. A good time to spend the time just before level 40 if you can manage; there are often teams formed for this purpose.

Explore Brickstown – Archmage, Portal
Scholastic - Portal - (-230, 0, -370) SE corner of a brick building that is 430 yds S of the tram.
Mystic - Archmage - (Grated Catwalk -590, 30, 1380) 330yds E of Crey's Folly exit on Circular Grated Catwalk
Scholastic - Portal - (-3460, 0, 2065) Just a smidge N of the SE corner of The Zig's fence.

Explore Crey’s Folly – Conspiracy, Vanguard
Crey Watcher - Conspiracy - (1080, 0, 2320) 230yds W of Crey Factories dot then travel the S side of sewage ditch next to you
Savant - Vanguard - (2570, 0, 2680) 239 yds N and a bit E of The Blight dot. It's a freestanding pedestal on the corner of a turn in the road.
Savant - Vanguard - (7225, 32, -550) 160yds N of Carnival Town dot. Turn E and go over wall to the electric tower. Plague is on tower's base next to cardboard box.

Explore Skyway City – Freedom
Purifier - Freedom - (-1085, -15, -7610) Basketball court in NE

Explore Faultline – Archmage
Faultless Mystic - Archmage - (-845, -405, -715) Follow crevice N from Precipice dot and take first E.

Explore Founder’s Falls – Portal, Vanguard
Scholastic - Portal - (1720, -15, 2400) 217 yds W of Gaspee dot, on the E facing wall of a riverbank (with a dock attached).
Savant - Vanguard - (4245, 0, 3685) 211 yds N of the Hutchinson Park dot. Next to a bridge that is just W of Penny Preston (mutant store).

Explore Eden – Vanguard
Savant - Vanguard - (-2815, -25, 2970) 107 yds NE of The Pit dot. The plaque faces SE on a sloped bit of concrete squares pavement.
Savant - Vanguard - (-1320, 0, 4490) Pretty high up on a wall 148 yds W of the Utopia Complex dot.

Explore Rikti Crash Site – Vanguard - Minimum level 40
Ace - Vanguard - (1360, 295, -275) 636 yds W of entrance, giant statue that's in sniper blast position, on extended hand

Explore Talos Island – Freedom
Authority - Freedom - (1777, 20, 7845) By the statue of Talos, behind his left foot.

Explore Dark Astoria – Archmage, Vanguard
Dark Mystic - Archmage - (1675, 5, 2835) 310yds north of the Didos View marker on top of the cinema
Authority – Freedom - (3410, 42, 3035) 180 yards SE of Toffet Terrace dot, to the left of the bottom of a short stairwell. Plaque faces E.
Seeker of the Unknown - Vanguard - (1870, -80, 1355) 175 yards W of Moth Cemetery marker, drop into the trench and go inside the middle of the crypt

Explore Steel Canyon – Freedom
Nimble Mynx - Freedom - (-2425, 50, -3405) On roof of first building about 150yds W of Boomtown exit

Explore Boomtown – Freedom
Regal - Freedom - (-450, 45, 2170) 680yds W from the Powder Keg marker, inside the tunnel, in the center divider

Explore Independence Port – Conspiracy, Freedom
Authority - Freedom - (-1035, 30, -2445) 430 yds W of the Kings Row exit, near the water on a raised overpass.
Vigorous - Freedom - (-1615, 80, -1870) 665 yds S of Crey's Cove marker, near a green air-ventilation unit on top of a warehouse
Crey Havoc - Conspiracy - (-440, 20, -270) E of the Terra Volta exit in buildings ruins on outside edges
Authority - Freedom - (905, 100, -4180) 180 yds S of Valor Bridge dot. On the E side of bridge.

Explore Terra Volta – Freedom
Authority - Freedom - (350, 190, -3600) Go 300 yards E of Terra Volta Reactor, you'll be at a ledge, go to the NE corner and drop, it is at the base of the ledge facing E.

Explore Peregrine Island –Vanguard
Portal Parter - Vanguard - (3045, 0, 1290) On island with a utility tower 835yds SW of ferry

The end tier, where you get the last accolades – Freedom, Portal, and Archmage. Some of these tasks are monumental – in particular the Illusionist and Dimensional Warder badges.


Multidimentional - Portal
Do the “Go to the Hydra's dimension and learn anything you can” mission given by Tina Macintyre.

Dimensional Warder – Portal
The AVs are (in order of appearance): Anti-Matter from Tina Macintyre's Story Arc.
Chimera, Shadowhunter, Nightstar, Siege, Bobcat, Neuron, Battle Maiden, Black Swan, Malaise, Mother Mayhem, Infernal, Diabolique, Dominatrix, & Marauder from Maria Jenkins' Story Arc (Tyrant not required). These arcs run from level 40-44 to and 45-50. The hard part is to get Antimatter before level 45.

Illusionist - Archmage
Kill 200 Illusion pets from the Master Illusionist (Carnies) This one requires patience. It will go faster with more people. The more Master Illusionists you can keep busy, making them spawn Illusion pets, the faster this can go. Once the Master Illusionist spawns her 3 Illusion pets wait for them to unphase, then hit them once. Just once is all that is required to get credit for the kill.

Shrouded - Portal
Complete mission “Disrupt Nightstar's ritual” given by Maria Jenkins at level 45-50.

This guide replaces two previous versions. I may make one for City of Villains as well in the future, but the villain accolades are much more chaotic.

And to answer a common question; the order you do things does not matter; the order I list things in is just for convenience.

These are great guides. Am I to understand that there are only a few missions I need to complete for these accolades and that most are exploration/history badges and kill xxx enemies? I only see like 3 or 4 mission badges all told (not counting the task forces).

Great Guide.

I hate having to track down this information on independant sites.

Great Guide. Thanks for the help.

One thing though. How can it be said that the Atlas medallion is minimum level 7? To get your Vampyri and Warwolves, would require entering Striga, wouldn't it?

No, Vampyri and Warwolves are found in many other places besides Striga - that's simply where they're most abundant.

You could just get Vamps and Wolves in missions.

You can pretty much get most of them by level 1 if you had a friend willing to let you tag along unsked.

Gah nm, I totally spaced about Founder's Falls. My apologies.

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You could just get Vamps and Wolves in missions.

You can pretty much get most of them by level 1 if you had a friend willing to let you tag along unsked.

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I don't recall any missions with them offhand that didn't have doors in Striga. Again, I could be wrong, but none come readily to mind.

I must have missed some things.

How can you claim Freedom Phalanx Reserve is a minimum level of 14 when you have to be 22 to enter Dark Astoria and get the plaque for the History mission? Shouldn't the minimum level be 22?

To those who ask about Atlas, the reason it is a level 7 minimum is because that is the level one must be to get into Perez Park, also for a plaque.

Crey's Folly for Conspiracy and Vanguard plaques mean that one has to be 30 to acquire them. You mentioned Vanguard needs 40, which is fine, but that sets the minimum level for Conspiracy THeorist to 30.

The Croatoa Accolade "Geas of the Kind Ones" can be achieved by level 30, the minimum level one must be for the task force. Expect to sacrifice yourself multiple times to accrue enough debt to make up for 10 consecutive AV kills, however. I know for certain it's not a minimum of 40, as my 32 Controller just got the thing.

Geas is L30 min. The Kattie Hannon TF is 30-33(34?). I usually debt cap, then start the TF to try to get it right at 30. That way I'll have it for Siren's Call.

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The Croatoa Accolade "Geas of the Kind Ones" can be achieved by level 30, the minimum level one must be for the task force. Expect to sacrifice yourself multiple times to accrue enough debt to make up for 10 consecutive AV kills, however. I know for certain it's not a minimum of 40, as my 32 Controller just got the thing.

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Ten Times the Victor is not needed for the Geas Accolade. Ten Times is its own accolade that unlocks the witch's hat.

The first mission can be 'failed' by not defeating the AV at all, whether no times or only nine times. At anytime before the tenth defeat if everyone leaves the map, the mission fails. The failure has no impact on the rest of the Task Force. So, one person can jump in and out of the first mission, fail it, and then everyone moves on to the next mission. Of course, this means no Ten Tims Accolade or witch's hat.

Once the TF is complete, everyone earns the Cabalist Badge which is necessary for the Geas Accolade.

Nice guide, thank you very much.

The quickest way to get Silver Bullet and Slayer is to run Moonfire. The first mission is all Warwolves, the 2nd is all Vampirii.

Update for i21
Min level for Atlas Medallion is now 14 since you have to go to Ouroboros to get to the Echo of Galaxy City for Pupil.

Ok fast question, now that there is no more Galaxy city, how am I supposed to get the badges from there for the accolade?


"Explore Galaxy City – Atlas, Conspiracy, Freedom - Vidiot Map
Pupil - Atlas - (-730, 0, -1340) 40 feet NE of Equinox dot. Plaque is on a pedestal opposite the arena.
Bird Watcher - Conspiracy - (2nd story ledge -1100, 50, -2260) 87yds SE of Orion Beltway dot on 2nd story ledge
Brawler - Freedom - (-1180, 65, -935) Top of Mighty Mart 475yds NW of Perez exit"

Is there a way around this or do just only get a part of the accolade now? or should we just not bother with it?

Ok, thanks Flower

This may be too late for you, but some other venturous soul may come across this and have the same question.

You can still access Galaxy City via Ouroboros. Go behind the building, where the med bays are, you will see a portal called Echo of Galaxy City.

Thus you should still be able to get these badges.

-there's no longer a lvl requirement for Striga right?

-At lvl 25 I always do the first arc in Croatoa. This will further your Croatoa hunts and there's a ghost mission you can save. (you'd give up the nice arc bonus if you save it tho)

-At lvl 40~44 try to get introduced to Madaline Casey in FF. Her second mission is a outdoor Carnie map with a billion Masters. The mish name is "2nd performance". I prefer doing this at 50 so everythings grey.

fyi, the illusions only need to be damaged...once they despawn you'll get credit. Melee's with damage aura's can set a Master on follow and go afk "/up 1" is your friend