Calling All Badge Hunters!

Badge as you go. Have fun. Prepare your lils. Respect PvP zones.

- If you're running the arcs and task forces as they're made available by level and picking up exploration/historical plaques when your new character first encounters a different zone, it's a breeze to pick up badges without thinking about it. Then, all those "Defeat X" badges not obtained by the time your character is level 50 are easier to finish off with AOE's.

- Have fun with the Defeat X badges: go in teams with friends and run in-character (500 DE Emanitors make for a great field study, collecting samples of local flora). Same with mini-events such as Fire Alarms in Steel Canyon. 100 fires never feels grindy when you're knocking about with light-hearted conversation in broadcast about selling cheap property at that location.

- So, there's one ultra anal thing I do. Each of my new characters (lils.. little ones) is e-mailed a checklist of badges which apply to the accolades that award powers or boost numbers. So I will pay extra attention when a specific level or contact/story arc is coming up. Part of my "badge as you go" motto.

- I've seen too many people lose their **** over badges in PvP zones. Have your head about you in advance. 1. Use /hide. I have friends who will switch sides and bee-line to a zone if they conduct a /sea and see strange names mucking about. 2. Do not announce yourself in broadcast. Saying things like "I'm just here to badge." paints a bright neon bullseye on your bootie. 3. Take a team of 8. Generally 6 badgers who conduct their business quickly and 2 friendly PvP escorts who can keep hostiles at bay is sufficient. 4. Go in at odd hours. Generally, if you respect the fact that it's a PvP zone.. that people are there for things other than badges, you'll do fine.

Look, I'm sorry that this is my only contribution to the thread, but I've been looking at that thread title for a full day now, and for the life of me I cannot stop thinking about Calling All Spider Riders every time I see it. I finally gave up on trying to fight, so enjoy the link.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Definitely make friends and have a regular badging group. Even find some people that have a lot of badges already, they can help you earn easy ones (assuming they're friendly!) - many times they don't mind earning the same badge twice, it was fun the first time (in most cases ).

And I completely agree with Angel, don't loose your **** in PvP zones. Accept the fact that you WILL get killed by someone. Accept the fact that on occasion, that someone will be a jack***. If you get frustrated, log off and try again later or find a badge that's not in a PvP zone to work at.

Here are some tips that I haven’t seen so far.

1. If you don’t mind waiting to get history, exploration, defeat badges then do them after you have a fast travel power or higher level. If your badger doesn’t have room for a travel power in there build then make use of a second solo badge build. My stone tank badger has a second build with super speed, super jump, flight, and extra attacks like hurl to badge faster.

2. Keep a list of TF’s and badges that you need and just watch the badge, TF channels so you can see what you need at a moment’s notice.

3. If you need a defeat badge then wait till the holiday events and work on trick or treat or gifts at the same time as the defeats in whatever zone they spawn in.

4. On the market sales badges, just buy a bunch of low level Salvage in groups of 10 for a low price and then just flood the market with them for 1 apiece. Fill all your market slots and check back later.

5. Volunteer to be your SG’s crafter, let anyone know if they bring you the salvage and set recipe that you will craft for free. Also you can just stock up the base with low end recipes for you SG.

If you're the lowbie or someone else, it's the same thing.

Repel is an oddball, but I'd probably consider that a mezz. I did in fact think of it when I was listing, I just went back and forth on it's own listing or not.

Technically speaking I should take all the PBAoEs and list them in one item I suppose.

You should be able to do it by flashbacking Wincott's arc. I believe that one caps out at 10.

If you're a Kheld, you could probably get as low as 5. And if you want to get really ludicrous, run the Oroboros initiation, then when you get to the Outbreak mission, you can run around Paragon as a level 1.

Here's something I like to call:

250 KPH (Kills Per Hour)

Getting the Fusion Generator might seem like a really difficult task but for Heroes it's actually pretty easy. All you need is a willing volunteer who (preferably) has Linda Summers unlocked as a contact and for both of you to be able to get into Warburg. Ideally they should be level 40+ and fill their inspiration tray with Awakens. Now both of you go into Warburg.

Head for the beach unteamed and you'll soon be enemies to each other. Make sure any and all defense/resistence powers are off and proceed to beat down your volunteer and then let him use a wakey. Now quickly beat them down again, let them rez and repeat until their tray is empty. What you'll find is that each kill, while too soon to allow you to gain rep, will still count towards the kill counter. Your volunteer can use the in-zone hospital and then zone back to Kings and buy more awakens from Linda who is now only a few hundred yards from the Warburg zone helicopter.

From personal experience, dual-boxing with a firekin and mind/ff troller, I was able to kill myself 40 times in ten minutes gaining the Fusion Generator badge within an hour.

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Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.