Multiple badge hunters, is there a need now that we can alignment shift?
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Posted on: 2011-03-24 09:15 in Badges and Gladiators
I used to have one 'main' badger on both sides (EI was my hero and Daimyo Revenant was my 'main' badger for the villain side).....but...DR never got played much and now with GR/etc, EI is my one and only badger. So for me the answer is an easy "no". 
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Of course there's a point. You have to have one Hero badger, one Villain badger, one Rogue badger, and one Vigilante badger.
What a silly question. 
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Y'know....I did contemplate that idea and pretty much decided no. 4 dedicated badgers....ugh.
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
Of course there's a point. You have to have one Hero badger, one Villain badger, one Rogue badger, and one Vigilante badger.
What a silly question. |
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I never really followed the "one hero and one villain" badge hunter model because the Devs had be dropping hints that they wanted to give us alignment crossovers even before CoV was released. Of course as we all know it took them like 5+ years to finally do that, but I still always figured it would happen.|
Originally Posted by Nericus
is there a point to having two or more dedicated badge hunters now?
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So basically I've always only had one main badge character as far as I was concerned. I started getting badges on a few other badgers mostly just to have something else to do during the times I had "finished" my main badger waiting for new badges to be released.
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You forgot about the Praetorian badger.
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
Of course there's a point. You have to have one Hero badger, one Villain badger, one Rogue badger, and one Vigilante badger.
What a silly question. |
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I'm a one-toon badger myself, but that also has a lot to do with the limited amount of time that I have to play in the first place. I just barely have enough time to run the WST on 3 or 4 characters, as well as work on the WST complete badges on my badger. It'll probably take me months.
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Actually the fact that there's around 5 badges a Praetorian can have that a Primal can't have (and vice-versa) it really only seriously makes sense to have one Primal and one Praetorian badger any more.
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Originally Posted by Bohmfalk
You forgot about the Praetorian badger.
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With each passing game session and the introduction of grindier and harder to achieve (IMO) badges I ponder how wise it is to have two of them... I'm currently focusing on my main Hero as a priority in getting the new badges. The Villain is being shunned like a red headed step child. If this continues, might as well just have the one.
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By your own logic, as above, no, it doesn't.
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Originally Posted by Lothic
Actually the fact that there's around 5 badges a Praetorian can have that a Primal can't have (and vice-versa) it really only seriously makes sense to have one Primal and one Praetorian badger any more.
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This is pretty much the same take I have on the topic. I DID try running a villain badger for a while, but when Issue 9 came out and the bazillion-and-twelve crafting badges came out, it REALLY burned me out of wanting to work one up to top dog. So I do all the "hard" badge work on my main toons, hero, villain, etc; but the grindy ones (Empath, Leader, everything Inventions-related, etc) I leave to the side and just work on my main.
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Originally Posted by Lothic
I never really followed the "one hero and one villain" badge hunter model because the Devs had be dropping hints that they wanted to give us alignment crossovers even before CoV was released. Of course as we all know it took them like 5+ years to finally do that, but I still always figured it would happen.
So basically I've always only had one main badge character as far as I was concerned. I started getting badges on a few other badgers mostly just to have something else to do during the times I had "finished" my main badger waiting for new badges to be released. |
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Did you actually read what I said? Any Primal badger has access to all badges EXCEPT the five or so that only Praetorians can get. Likewise there are around 6 anniversary badges that Praetorians can never get. Therefore the only way a player can currently have ALL the badges in the game is to have at least one Primal badger and one Praetorian badger. What part of that was hard to understand?
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Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit
By your own logic, as above, no, it doesn't.
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The way I see it, once Praetoria is upgraded to have zones that reach lvl 50, and they get Oro added, most if not all of the Prae badges will end up available to anyone. I know this might take a while, but it will probably happen in less time than it would take for me to get one of my lowbie Praetorians all of the badges that are available to him.|
Originally Posted by Lothic
Did you actually read what I said? Any Primal badger has access to all badges EXCEPT the five or so that only Praetorians can get. Likewise there are around 6 anniversary badges that Praetorians can never get. Therefore the only way a player can currently have ALL the badges in the game is to have at least one Primal badger and one Praetorian badger. What part of that was hard to understand?
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And this may not have been officially announced, but I can't really see this not happening eventually.
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The only problem is that what you're saying is only "very likely" not "100% gauranteed". |
Originally Posted by Bohmfalk
The way I see it, once Praetoria is upgraded to have zones that reach lvl 50, and they get Oro added, most if not all of the Prae badges will end up available to anyone. I know this might take a while, but it will probably happen in less time than it would take for me to get one of my lowbie Praetorians all of the badges that are available to him.
And this may not have been officially announced, but I can't really see this not happening eventually. |
In any event I have a Praetorian that curently has the few badges Primals can't get so I'm now "covered" regardless as far as that goes. I have no real intention of trying to get that Praetorian up to around 1,200 other badges at this point.
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What really put a crimp on my urge for two badgers was the recent set of badges for assisting others on the Weekly TF. I don't mind multiple runs as it helps stock up on inf, merits, incarnate shards/components, but the 50 TF requirement for the full set to me is a tad much. Possible to do in a hurry with grinding as one of my badgers did, but still.....
My other one is trying to wrap this set but many lag spikes on ITF killed my urge to grind ITF for it, and I'm not sure if Tin Mage is going to be a good one to grind.
I'm likely going down to one badge hunter, all my one needs is to wrap the Partner badge and Immortal badge and then I'm likely sticking with that alt as my badger.
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Yeah it'll continue to get harder to work on more than one badger as time goes on. The upcoming Incarnate trial badges in I20 will make it even worse.|
Originally Posted by Nericus
What really put a crimp on my urge for two badgers was the recent set of badges for assisting others on the Weekly TF.
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Still my second badger has always been set at a much lower priority than my main one. I got the top epic badges (Leader, Immortal, Empath) on her in some cases literally years after I had gotten them on my main. I got Partner on my main badger a few weeks ago but I only just got the Backup badge on my second badger a couple of days ago and have no real drive to "grind" for Partner on her anytime soon.
Basically I'll just continue to "slow gear" my second badger and get them as they come.
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ive always had only 1 badge toon, my main whose sitting at around 1192 badges atm, most of my other toons have barely broken 300 (and thats just purely from standard gameplay with the occasional accolade hunting)
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Originally, I was going to keep a Hero on Heroside, and a Villain on Villainside, and only switch sides with my main toon... but it was too tempting to switch with the others as well, so now I ended up getting everything on them too and I still have the 3 badge characters. |
Originally Posted by DarkGob
Of course there's a point. You have to have one Hero badger, one Villain badger, one Rogue badger, and one Vigilante badger.
What a silly question. |
Because they are already almost capped, it makes me want to keep getting new ones on all 3, but I can't see myself adding another one to the list any time soon, especially with all the regular work that I still need to do on some other toons. lol
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Originally Posted by Nericus
What really put a crimp on my urge for two badgers was the recent set of badges for assisting others on the Weekly TF.
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The way I see it, I'll focus on MB first, and depending on what else I have going on, or how long it ends up being between new badges, I'll grab what I can on the other two whenever there is time. As it stands, I still never finished the last Invention badges on either of them, and not sure I will ever bother, but I don't mind being a handful behind on them, especially for the really grindy ones.
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I will still have 3 badge characters, but 2 of them I consider to be "back-burner" and I'll get to them when I feel up to it or have the chance.
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I can definitely see that....if I had multiple toons with so many badges, it would be a shame to let them fall by the wayside.
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Originally Posted by Master-Blade
Originally, I was going to keep a Hero on Heroside, and a Villain on Villainside, and only switch sides with my main toon... but then I decided I wanted to switch with the others as well, so now I have 3 badge characters.
Because they are already almost capped, it makes me want to keep getting new ones on all 3, but I can't see myself adding another one to the list any time soon, especially with all the regular work that I still need to do on some other toons. lol |
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Well I got 50 50's and they all have some badge progress due to game play. I would send them off to get all the map badges since I pretty much have them memorized now and the 5 merits per zone does add up. Along the way they'd get the plaques since some of the those are accolade components. After that, wrap up kill badges that are started and unfinished then get the accolades. Beyond that I wouldn't bother with all the rest. |
Originally Posted by Bohmfalk
I can definitely see that....if I had multiple toons with so many badges, it would be a shame to let them fall by the wayside.
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For the MO's I have 21 alts (blackjack) dedicated to them and they are all winners so that goal is pretty much done.
But now only one is going to seek them all. Time constraints, plus some of the grind for some of the new badges (partner set) has cut down my urge for multiples.
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The part where you were willing to believe a Hero toon would eventually have access to Villain side, but can't make the same leap to Praetorian.|
Originally Posted by Lothic
Did you actually read what I said? Any Primal badger has access to all badges EXCEPT the five or so that only Praetorians can get. Likewise there are around 6 anniversary badges that Praetorians can never get. Therefore the only way a player can currently have ALL the badges in the game is to have at least one Primal badger and one Praetorian badger. What part of that was hard to understand?
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Which I find interesting. Also, loving your passive aggressiveness.
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Heh, my main badger is my first Praetorian! |
Originally Posted by Lothic
The only problem is that what you're saying is only "very likely" not "100% gauranteed".
In any event I have a Praetorian that curently has the few badges Primals can't get so I'm now "covered" regardless as far as that goes. I have no real intention of trying to get that Praetorian up to around 1,200 other badges at this point. |
Sitting in the low 900s right now...kinda slowed down on the badging with running three toons through the WTFs and continuing to indulge in restrined altitis. 
I've never been so glad I decided to restrict myself to only one badge toon as when the Partner badge was announced...50 "excess" runs x2 (or more) toons? No thank you!
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Much like red and bluesiders getting crossovers I also guessed that Primals would eventually have access to Praetoria back well before Issue 18 went live. That has now come to pass (since Issue 19) but Primals still CAN'T get the following badges: |
Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit
The part where you were willing to believe a Hero toon would eventually have access to Villain side, but can't make the same leap to Praetorian.
Which I find interesting. Also, loving your passive aggressiveness. |
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If you know why that's the case or know for certain that will actually change with 100% certainty some time in the future then by all means let us know.
The simple fact is that as of today you need at least two badgers to have all the badges in the game. I'm not seeing how my simple ability to prove that obvious fact to you is "passive aggressiveness" on my part but if you want to be upset by this situation like that I'm not going to stop you.
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I used to run a villain badger and a hero badger but I didn't really enjoy the hero badger so now I just have my main (stalker). I can live without getting the four Praet badges the same way I can live without the vet badges/anniversary badges. I won't restart just for the Praet ones.
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Like the thread title says: is there a need now for having two or more alts dedicated to getting every badge possible in the entire game now that we can change alignments?
Some of the in game badges aren't quite as fun to obtain as others for varied reasons that need not be excessively debated. Of course fun, like many things, is relative to one's own vagaries of perception, and different people have different views on different badges.
In any event, the main question is simply: is there a point to having two or more dedicated badge hunters now?
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