respec Badges

I've been trolling the Badgehunter website looking at all the badges people have and I was wondering. When we first were able to change alignments I went from blue to red and did the 3rd treespec and got a badge for it because i never did the 3rd respec blueside. I tried doing the 1st and 2nd treespecs but no badge. I was told at the time that you couldn't get more than 3 badges total for respec, blue red or a mix of the two. Now I've come across 2 people with more than 3 respec badges. Is this a badgehunter glitch or can we get all 6 now? Cause almost all of the top badge hunters still only have 3.

Basically, if you earned a Trial Respec but never used it, you will get the other badge if you switch sides and actually use the Trial Respec. You have to use up any free respecs before the trial respecs are redeemed and award the badge. Don't worry, any claimed veteran respecs are redeemed last, so you wont have to waste through them first.

As far as I know, there isn't any way to definitively tell if you've used your Trial Respecs already or not other than possibly seeing what the chat say when you log in (You have X unclaimed respecs available) and subtracting an unused free repec and any claimed Veteran respecs...

..but I wouldn't really worry too much about them though. As Ironblade said, we're all hoping they fix it at some point anyway.

In the meantime, I got "lucky" with this one simply because I have never performed a respec on her before. I was testing the method to get them from another thread, and got all 6:

For the Hero respecs, the "earned the respec" badge has different text than the "used the respec" badge, so you can tell by that. The version that you get upon completing the trial talks about how your powers are fluctuating in the present tense, while the one that replaces it after you redeem the respec talks about how your powers were changed in the past tense. I've only ever run the Villain respec trial once, and redeemed it long ago, so I can't tell you about those for certain, but I'd bet they're the same as the Hero ones, with different text for both versions.

Well I burned through the freespec and 5 respecs (a couple of vetspecs were claimed earlier) at Lupin and got zip treebadges on my hero badger. If I recall correctly I only used freespecs on this character prior to this point. So it might not be consistently working.

I was a full villain at the time and leveled my 3rd build to level 5 and respec'd at Lupin.

I will have to look at what my badge text says.

Just to add some feedback here (there's probably other threads on this, but this was the first OT that I say in the search results).

I copied my character to test. I had used one blueside Terra Volta earned Respec way back in the day but that was it. I was a Vigilante when I did the three redside Treespecs. Now I'm a villain.

I had 9 unused Respecs in my System chat. I burned through 5 with nothing but added costume parts (which came around respec 4-5 I think). Then on my 6 and 7 respec I was awarded Thorn Thief (tier 2) and Thorn Usurper (tier 3) in that order. So it looks like my 5th respec was supposed to award Thorn Robber (tier 1), but since I already used a respec as a hero, it wasn't awarding.

It may not have been just to toy around with badge text, or any RP reason. I suspect that it was done that way because, at the time, it was the only way for the game to keep track of whether you had a respec banked, and whether you could earn another. The game still does check for a specific badge every time you log on or zone to see if you are allowed to have Fly, Super Speed, Super Jump or Teleport without having the prerequisites, for example.