Badge farming isn't fun for me, so I think I'm going to give up on this badge, and the associated Accolade. 
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I so despise this badge.
What the hell kind of sense does it make to give a badge for an accolade that is pretty much a must-have, where you have to get sadomasochistically abused all night to receive.
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The same sense that makes the hero version require defeating 13 Praetorians to get it?
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What?! If anything, that proves how borked the villain-side badge is. I view having to defeat the Praetoreans as a model more of these badges should be switched to: regular content that you can work through but it's non-trivial. That's the ideal way to earn an accolade.
For example, when I unlocked Rularuu weapons for my scrapper, I went into the Shadow Shard and farmed eyeball bosses. Boring, unfun. When I wanted to unlock the Rularuu shield for my Brute, I did Scirocco's "Hammer of the World" arc. Fun, interesting content with an actual story.
Heroside an infamous accolade requirement is the stupid summoned illusionist one. They should change that instead to a requirement to do all of Harvey Maylor or Madeleine Casey's arcs, or even both arcs. That'd be infinitely better than the stupid requirement as it stands.
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level 9 brute lackied to a 47 thug/ pain getting healed in a paper mission vs maltas - tactical operations officer (orange to him)(yellow to the mm)... something like that. 5mill dam overnight 
and heal credit accumulation for the vg.
I Just ran a damage soak for a villain that needs the badge for the accolade, using a 53 CoT like usual.......the badge meter isn't moving at all and I know I'm taking enough damage. Bug or stealth fix?
Im doin this as we speak on my SS/INV brute ... Went to grandville, found a CoT Paper mish and found two ice thorn casters and curled up next to them with rest. Mind you i have all my toggles on (including combat jumping) and im taking a little over 1k dmg every 6 seconds. That amounts to about 600k an hour (that's if they dont miss) so Im hopin for about 500k an hour which isnt too bad I guess. My brute is sitting at 1566.7 HP base and I slotted rest with a 50 healing IO and Health only has a 30 healing IO. I made sure that it was registering the thousand dmg as well so from what I've rea, this would probably be your best bet if you can rest tank them. hope this helps some of you. Enjoy! 
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Like defeating 13 AVs remotely equates to accumulating 10 million damage points... I have the accolade on my main Hero (Mind/Emp Controller) and still waiting for it on my Rad Blast/Thermal Corruptor. While the former can be done in 2-3 nights of casual play AND in a team, the later... well, my villain was created back in I7 so...|
Originally Posted by Inazuma_NA
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This is one of those badges that really needed to be rethought Villain side. The alternative to not grinding it takes far, far too long (as evinced by my Corruptor). I suggest that it be lowered to the 3rd Damage badge or substituted for some other badge (for example, Usurper).
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Just going through a checklist here...|
Originally Posted by Nericus
I Just ran a damage soak for a villain that needs the badge for the accolade, using a 53 CoT like usual.......the badge meter isn't moving at all and I know I'm taking enough damage. Bug or stealth fix?
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How many 'bonus hps' are you dealing with? From sets or accolades, high pain tolerance...etc
If you have say 1500 hps and 300 of it is bonus, then that first 300 just doesnt count. It appears as though any single hit that is part of the 300 is not counted even in part either. Meaning: youre at full hp (1500, 300 of it is bonus) - you get hit for 1000 damage, but no credit. Not even 1000 - 300 = credit for 700. But any damage sustained After you have reached your base hps then Does count. So the next 1+ hp of damage after that 1k hit would count on your badge.
Things you can do - if you have powers/sets that are granting you bonus hps, can you junk them/ respec out of them temporarily?
What server are you? If infinity, I've a friend that has a Thug/ Pain MM CONSTANTLY online in mission heaing a pet for sg heal badge credit. Would be happy to set you up in overnight supported healing. - granted this constant healing isnt as lucrative heal credit wise... I Have to respect it's consistency. 500k or whatever it is per day for healing just a pet isn't a lot towards 100mill... But... it IS EveryFreakingDay. He's determined to keep it constantly going...
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That's not my experience at all.|
Originally Posted by Thrunk
If you have say 1500 hps and 300 of it is bonus, then that first 300 just doesnt count. It appears as though any single hit that is part of the 300 is not counted even in part either. Meaning: youre at full hp (1500, 300 of it is bonus) - you get hit for 1000 damage, but no credit. Not even 1000 - 300 = credit for 700. But any damage sustained After you have reached your base hps then Does count. So the next 1+ hp of damage after that 1k hit would count on your badge.
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Using your example, I'm in Rest with 1500hp (300 of it bonus), and get hit for 1600. The 1-shot code prevents me from dying, leaving me with 1hp, which I regen 100% back to 1500hp before the next attack. I get hit for 1600 again, etc, etc etc..
Using your logic, everybody using the 1-shot method in rest wouldn't be getting any credit at all... but of course that's not the case. Even now that our favorite Rikti Boss kills us with a second attack, we can get hit for 1400hp by a different foe, regen 100% back to 1500hp (300 of it bonus) before the next strike.. and still get lots of credit. That's how I got my badges.
I was busy looking at support for another reason and I saw this:
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I haven't tested it out, but if it is true, then the damage farm is over. Therefore, it would make sense that Unbreakable would be replaced eventually with another badge that is easier to obtain.
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There are several safeguards built into the game's system that will restrict your character from earning credit toward damage badges if certain conditions are detected. We cannot disclose specifically what those conditions are, but one general example would be if you are standing in one location and continuously receiving damage while maintaining an effectively invulnerable state. These safeguards were implemented to help prevent exploiting. If you are performing a specific activity and you find your damage credit is not going up, it is recommended you change what you're doing. As long as you play and complete missions, and help defeat enemies in combat, you generally should not run into this issue. |
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Check the date on that info. It was posted quite a while ago, and people have still been damage farming since then, myself included. I don't know what they tried to do, or what "conditions" they are referring to, but their safeguards aren't working (for me). lol
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Originally Posted by starphoenix
I was busy looking at support for another reason and I saw this:
I haven't tested it out, but if it is true, then the damage farm is over. Therefore, it would make sense that Unbreakable would be replaced eventually with another badge that is easier to obtain. |
Think they might have been referring to the red crystals in CoT maps.
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Well it said it was posted yesterday, but I haven't done any farming of any type since December for the Healing badges so I have no clue on what "exploits" have been recently fixed. However if damage farms that overcome HP accolades are no longer working, then this would explain it.
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Originally Posted by Mateo_06
Check the date on that info. It was posted quite a while ago, and people have still been damage farming since then, myself included. I don't know what they tried to do, or what "conditions" they are referring to, but their safeguards aren't working (for me). lol
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Whatever post you pulled it from may have been from yesterday, but I'm saying the original quote was from a long time ago. I've personally damage farmed since then, and it was working the same way it always had. I even damage farmed last night as a test, and still gained credit as usual.|
Originally Posted by starphoenix
Well it said it was posted yesterday, but I haven't done any farming of any type since December for the Healing badges so I have no clue on what "exploits" have been recently fixed. However if damage farms that overcome HP accolades are no longer working, then this would explain it.
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I see from the other thread, you might have seen it on the support pages. The date shows when the page was last edited/updated, but I'm certain it was originally posted a long time ago within the forums. I'm guessing somebody decided to finally put it on the support site to discourage people from damage farming. I have yet to run into any circumstance that actually prevents credit though.
I was able to get my Unbreakable badge using a Rikti Boss with shoulder pads overnight,with a 2nd account to help survive it long enough to regenerate it,all sometime last week night. Solo,I'd probably be able to do it if I slotted 2 Heals in rest but just had one,so I couldn't heal enough to take it.
As for the method not working anymore,could be because there's two types of Bosses with big shoulderpads,one that does strictly melee and brawl(and occasionally range) and the one that specializes in psychic attacks. Mine was using psychic and it took a while to get it to finally bring out its Rikti sword to melee. I noticed during the whole time,all it did was the one big sword swipe,no brawl. So,the method works for this partcular type,not the other one,since they fixed it.
(This was on redside,my Brute taking the hits and a lowbie Thermal autohealing.)
Another thing,don't rely on a Kinetics or Dark to heal,because there's always a chance it will miss,which is why I switched from Kinetics to Thermal back up because it happended to my Corruptor,lmao.
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