As things stand, I don't see the logic in letting, for example's sake, a Lvl 50 Empath who has all the Healing badges, being permitted to log onto their Brute and have the badges, signifying that it has also done that amount of healing.
Most people "badge" for those stupid, grindy time-sink badges (myself included) on one character...making them account wide may only please a few people who do those abhorrent chores on more than one toon, and probably not work the dev's time.
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As things stand, I don't see the logic in letting, for example's sake, a Lvl 50 Empath who has all the Healing badges, being permitted to log onto their Brute and have the badges, signifying that it has also done that amount of healing.
Most people "badge" for those stupid, grindy time-sink badges (myself included) on one character...making them account wide may only please a few people who do those abhorrent chores on more than one toon, and probably not work the dev's time.
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I was going to say something relevant but I can't rally any more. So I'll just stick to:
LOLz, badges.
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As things stand, I don't see the logic in letting, for example's sake, a Lvl 50 Empath who has all the Healing badges, being permitted to log onto their Brute and have the badges, signifying that it has also done that amount of healing.
Most people "badge" for those stupid, grindy time-sink badges (myself included) on one character...making them account wide may only please a few people who do those abhorrent chores on more than one toon, and probably not work the dev's time.
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I'm not saying I want to see all healing badges on every toon, I'm just saying that i'd be nice if the last few of those badges (that are in some cases ridiculously hard to get) get an account wide progress bar. So your empath can for example help work on the healing badges your badge-hunter(that might not be an empath or have an active heal) can't get otherwise.
I for one would be happy to see something like this, for I feel no use standing for hours on a spot letting a bad guy beat me up, mez me, or spend days farming healing badges in an arena. It would just be nice to be able to get these badges by actually playing the game.
It's most cases it's still quite impressive to get it done even account-wide. Though I'm sure this will not sit well with those hardcore badge-hunters that are willing to spend hours on end doing the above things.
and after all it's just a suggestions, if it doesn't happen then well, it doesn't. I can live with it.
I realize that you have a good point towards these "hard to get" badges. However, they are classed as "achievement" badges for a reason 
They woudn't be as much of a achievement as they're now if your suggestion goes live.
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I for one would be happy to see something like this, for I feel no use standing for hours on a spot letting a bad guy beat me up, mez me, or spend days farming healing badges in an arena. It would just be nice to be able to get these badges by actually playing the game.
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No disrespect chap, but you can. It just takes longer than it takes a creature to fossilize.
My response was somewhat in character, as a Dev. I personally wouldn't like it on the grounds that, they are epic badges. Aptly named. Somewhat less epic if you can gain account wide progress, in my opinion.
yeah, in completely understand your points, it has merit. It is something to be proud of when you finally reach that badge.
But perhaps they have gone a tad overboard on what you need to do. Look at Master of Statesman, it's hard to get but obtainable and getting it still makes people look at you in awe.
it's now just a shame that over 95% (and probably more) will never get even one of these 'epic'(are they actually epic or did they just get that name because they are so hard?) badge.
As I said I could probably do without every single one of them. I have peace in knowing I will never get them. (which also seems to be the case for Master of States in my case), But then there is always that glimmer of hope.
Thanks for your feedback on the matter guys.
(wonders if the devs actually read the European suggestion board, but that's another matter )
Nope sorry i think this is a terrible idea badges should mark the progress of a toon and having one of the "epic" badges shows commitment to that toon making them ernable account wide would just cheapen them.
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are they actually epic or did they just get that name because they are so hard?
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Epic; adjective
1. noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style: Homer's Iliad is an epic poem.
2. resembling or suggesting such poetry: an epic novel on the founding of the country.
3. heroic; majestic; impressively great: the epic events of the war.
4. of unusually great size or extent: a crime wave of epic proportions.
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So considering the epic amount of effort required to accuire those badges, I'd the answer to your question is: Yes.
with the new I14 badges that are account wide like 'Early Bird' I was wondering about something
Why not make those hard to get last 2-3 dmg, healing, inf, mez, etc achievement badges account-wide. If all characters of a person can work towards progress of this badge. This would allow players to sooner earn these badges. Will decrease the amount of non-stop farming for people and the badgers that earned them shouldn't be to bothered cause it's still only a few that will have them and it will still need an great amount of work to get them.
So why not? At the moment they are completely unobtainable for most players who don't want to keep their computers logged in day and night for an extensive period of time farming one of these badges.
Who comes up with these kind of badges anyways? :P