whip Cracker is a defeat badge and is only for defeating Desdemona. Tested the Waters is for helping someone do a tip mission which is not your alignment.
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#1460 Hometown Rivalry
Villainy is always the way to go 
Selecting "villain" on Alignment mission: The Dagger of Caernoz will earn your character the Whip Cracker badge. I always find her to be in the first mob from the mission entrance. I like this one because she's not the only objective so I can exit and set her aside for fellow badgers.
I have a 30 Mastermind, and trying to get the Whip Cracker badge. I found a link indicating which Tip missions give the badge:
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Desdemona
I didn't have any of those tip missions, but met someone who did. So we teamed and did the "Seeds of Destruction". But after completing the mission, the badge I got was "Tested The Water".
Is there something else I need to do? When selecting the tip mission, I think he selected Rogue. Perhaps we should have selected Villain?
Thanks!
Impervia Girl