Is there a point in badging twice still?

I started badge hunting hero side. Makes me wonder though, with GR coming out, if there is any point in badging twice.

My heroine has "Celebrant", which my villain may never get, depending on if those go global or not. Positron said he would look into that, but we never heard anything else.

Sadys has "bug hunter" and "Master thief", and my hero can't get either of those, unless I'm lucky again in the former and they bring back or re-purpose the latter.

So, is it worth doing twice, since after GR the total available will be the same, and neither side has an advantage over the other?

ALL the Badges! (I can get. 1396)

Personally.. I had only my Hero badge hunter for a long time.. but then recently I decided to make a second one.. and it didn't take much time or effort to get most of them a second time.

Then I decided to finally make a Villain badger too. I haven't done much with her yet, but I think that's because most of the PiTA badges would be more easier to come by once I have access to Heroside.

That said.. it's probably worth waiting to see how GR actually impacts the badges first before deciding, and after that it's just personal preference. Some people people just have 1 badge hunter, some don't care for badges at all.. some just go for accolades.. others try to get everything on all their characters. Me.. I'll most likely keep badging on the same 3 I already have.. and maybe even add a 4th one if I feel the need.

I don't see a point in throwing away or stopping on a character just because they may end up with the same badges.. I mean.. it doesn't usually take significantly longer to get new badges on 2 characters than it does on only one. And for all we know, even if both sides may have access to mostly similar badges, there might still be minor differences that may make it worth it to some people to still hunt from "both sides", or even a 3rd, depending on if Praets are any different as well.

On a side note, I gave up on bug hunter a long time ago. I report stuff all the time and am an active member in the tech area of these boards, but it doesn't seem to matter much. That, combined with the fact that I'll always be behind by 2 years of anniversary and veteran badges.. means one more badge doesn't make a difference. lol

I think as Master-Blade implied this is the kind of question we can't really answer yet because we know virtually nothing about how the whole badge thing is going to play out when Going Rogue happens. I have some general ideas about what I plan to do about it, but until I know exactly what the pros and cons are of switching sides it's kind of hard to say with absolute certainty. There is no guarantee that characters who started on either side will ever be 100% "equal" in this regard.

Even though we've only had serious news about side switching in the last year or so the Devs have been hinting at giving it to us almost from the beginning, even before CoV was finished. This is the main reason why I was never too serious about having a villain badger - I took a gamble that eventually, in some far off future, we'd get the chance to switch sides in some form or fashion. I'm obviously looking forward to seeing how that turns out.

i got 17 badges but then i got obsessive compulsive disorder so it a must for me to do. same with get my toon to 50 :S.

anyways it what you want to do, not what other want you to do as if it make you feel good then do it, if not and you think your wasting your time do something else you might enjoy doing

Well...my point is I have one villain and one hero that collect badges. As things are now, they are considered different categories. Two different attainable totals, apples and oranges.
Kind of why I was motivated to do it twice, but only twice. I'm not going to strive for every badge on every character.

GR will possibly change that. If my logic was two hunters for two possibilities...

This all depends on whether or not there are exclusive badges for never switching, as well.

ALL the Badges! (I can get. 1396)

I'm with MB and Lothic on this, Sadys. I think, before really making a hard and fast decision on this stuff, we need a LOT more information.

As it stands today, I have every badge that is "commonly" considered attainable (i.e., not counting Passport, Bug Hunter, etc.) on my badge toon except for a total of nine -- three are DJ-related, the two top epic damage badges, and the rest are Vet badges that will come in time but, because my PC at the time couldn't run CoH, I'll always be 12 months behind on (which is no biggie, by the way).

I'll realistically get the DJ and damage badges by the end of January, but I have yet to decide on whether to switch her over to red-side when GR comes. I'm really torn on whether getting the villain-only badges at the potential expense of the blue-side badges (depending on the mechanic the devs use on badges post-move, if any; and by "expense" I mean that they may suppress/hide them, etc.) will be worth it for me. To me, if you can't "see" the badge on a toon, the toon might as well not have the badge.

So I have to wait and see what happens before making a decision. I think your situation is similar, and in your shoes I'd just continue to badge on your hero and you should have enough data to make an informed decision before too many more months elapse.

*sings* *BADLY*

All I want fer Christmas is some badge info,
Some badge info,
Some badge info.

All I want fer Christmas is some badge info,
So I can know 'f I should go Rogue!

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Originally Posted by Nethergoat it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!

ok, see that dead horse over there? You guessed it...

While I have no chance of getting the first two anversity badges since I have only been playing for 3 years, I really think that if you have been playing or paying during that time you should get them for all your characters there are certain badges you get only certain times like Halloween or Christmas or whatever and you always get another chance to get them you can even trade in candy cains for some of them so why not make those availible to all characters
ok there I said it!!!

I don't plan on badging twice. I plan on getting the easy accolades on one side and then switching to get the easy ones on the other side (i.e. Geas instead of FoN, Demonic instead of Magus, etc.), if we can switch sides and keep earned accolades. If not, feh, I won't bother.