Mysterious heal badge credit -- Where did it come from?

Originally Posted by Master-Blade

The Vet pets don't heal. Your friend meant that if you use a heal on one of those pets, it grants you extremely large credit toward the healing badge. Even though they only have 10hp, you can heal them for thousands, and it all counts.

If you get a small group of people together with their pets and start running a healing aura, you can get the badges much faster than the standard Gladiator Heal farm.

I /bugged it a long time ago. As far as I know, it has not been fixed yet.

Edit:
I just re-tested and it still works. Healing a pet shows about 4x the healing above it's head, and it all counts toward the badge.

Originally Posted by Orthicon

I would like to play one of these. I have years of experience in this powerset.

Originally Posted by Evilmeister

It's one a "regular" base hit point that counts, according to the progress on the characters I've been using this mechanism on for SG healing badges. As in, my defenders got their unmodified base hp at the level they were at even if the green number appearing over the veteran pet was a lot larger. I have no idea whether it is AT-specific base hit point or the "normal" base of (at 50) 1070.8970 hit points - I just know that set bonuses or accolades didn't change the amount received. I would lean towards the latter since I doubt AT hp-modifiers would matter. A bunch of veterans with AoE-heals could quickly accumulate both Empath and SG-healing badges using this method. It's fairly fast solo, even.

Originally Posted by Winza

Ok, the mechanic says healed other heroes, but I will tell you now from personal experience with my regen crapper, dark armor brute and stone tank, self heals also count. They honestly shouldn't, but they do.

Now don't go setting your heals to auto or anything, it only gives credit when you actually healed damage, so if you're at full or have max HP boosted and you're only healing the boosted part, it won't give credit. That's why you don't see that many melee characters with healing badges. None of the 3 characters I mentioned actually have the healing badges, but they have a lot of credit since they heal themselves often. Actual regen doesn't count either, only green numbers from click heals like Reconstruction, Dull Pain, Dark Regeneration, Siphon Life and Earth's Embrace (and any other click heal used when you are actually damaged).

Edit: I forgot, inspirations also do it.

Originally Posted by Evilmeister

Also, in response to where the healing comes from, I know for a fact that self-healing mastermind pets accumulate healing towards this badge (well, they did when I was playing that Necromancy/FF that got healing badges).

Originally Posted by Evilmeister

Also, in response to where the healing comes from, I know for a fact that self-healing mastermind pets accumulate healing towards this badge (well, they did when I was playing that Necromancy/FF that got healing badges). Since Ravenstorm is Dark melee/Dark Armor, both of which include self-heals, I expect that those may count based on previous experience.

Originally Posted by Snow Globe

I'll go out on a limb and say you are wrong. Especially since I know for a fact that inspirations do not "also do it".

Originally Posted by Gaia

They're certainly not intended to do so if you click them, whether they do if you use them on pets I don't know but would imagine that should be allowed.