Hmmmm,
Well, I have to say, I am slightly dissappointed. Those who know me know I really have never farmed anything. Heck, Iwas someone who actually explored new zones to find the Exploration badges. And I always felt a little proud I was making slow but inevitable progress towards the last Influence Badge (I am at 1.4 billion earned) which is pretty good considering I don't farm. I had also reconciled that I was never going to get Empath. My only healing comes from Aid other and Vengence (I opened my healing with it...heh, and am going to respec back into it). I have earned over 13 million in Healing with just those two. Maybe I would in the future get the 50 mill healing, but I wasn't pushing that either.
But it was nice to have an Impossible Dream to keep me going.
But reading about the new Badge downgrade requirements, I will get all of them except Power Liberator. And then all I will have to do is complete the various litany of Day Jobs and....
I'll have 'em all.
So will lots of others. Good for them I guess, I hold no grudges against others getting badges. But few will have earned em the hard way.
But the thrill of finally getting a very hard to earn badge? That seems to be being bred out of CoX. Yes, the kind that takes a year or more to earn my way. The kind that IF you play that long you would get.
I remember chuckling to myself when the Isolator badge became first available again for long time characters by putting the Contaminated guys in the RV Train Station. People camped out there for days, waiting for a spawn that occurued once every two hours. Fine, I thought. I knew I would be going into RV a hundred times over the upcoming few months, and once the rush died down, I'd get it easily, which I did. But I enjoyed when it finally flashed "Badge Earned" on my screen.
Guess my point in closing is there should always be some badges that take some real perserverance and dedication to earn, There still are, which is good. Hopefully there will always be.
Sam Granite - The Liberty League
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