Multiple badge hunters, is there a need now that we can alignment shift?
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Angry_Angel,
Posted on: 2011-03-24 09:15 in Badges and Gladiators
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Yeah, I only have one dedicated badge character. The others get badges as they come.
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Originally Posted by Eric Nelson
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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As soon as GR was announced, I scrapped my hero badger. It is just annoying that she has all the Shadow Shard TFs done, but my villain badger had a Master of badge and other badges I didn't want to try for again.
The first step in being sane is to admit that you are insane.
I have hero and villain badgers, both of which have yet to switch to get the opposite side badges. My hero is my main badger, with my villain as my secondary.
I went through the effort to get all the crafting badges for both. Both have all the explores, and a majority of the achievements. However, with the effort/time needed to get the TF assistant badges, as well as any badges for the upcoming trials, I am seriously considering just dropping to the one hero badger.
I'm looking at these three things:
1. I have limited time to play. We all do, but, as I work nights, my time to team is more limited. I still don't have the Shard TF badges; I just don't have the time to commit to more than 2-3 hours of play time.
2. I enjoy playing alts. I know quite a few of us do, but I am now playing my main badgers more than normal to try to get their alpha slots filled.
3. Badging is taking more time and effort in some cases. I'm particularly talking about the Assistant badges. I know they will take me a while to get, as my main has only gotten 6 of 50 so far. I'm not sure how much time it will take to get the upcoming trial badges.
A combination of events has led me to the opinion that one badger is enough; the others will just get the ones that they happen to get, barring any needed for accolades. However, I don't feel sad/mad/upset/bothered/etc., about it; it's just the best decision for me. YMMV
I find your lack of signature disturbing.
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Gotta say tho... great way to build up shard reservoirs on your badger that way. |
Originally Posted by Eric Nelson
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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(presuming you're doing the lvl 50 TFs)
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Originally Posted by Turgenev
Gotta say tho... great way to build up shard reservoirs on your badger that way.
(presuming you're doing the lvl 50 TFs) |
155 common shards, 17 uncommon after crafting my T4 from getting my Conspiritor badge.
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Yeah, the ton of Incarnate stuff I have no (current) use for is staggering. Which I know I'm going to be VERY happy about in just a few short weeks... |
Originally Posted by Turgenev
Gotta say tho... great way to build up shard reservoirs on your badger that way.
(presuming you're doing the lvl 50 TFs) |
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That is about the ONLY good thing for running so many of the weekly TF/SF for the badges.
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Originally Posted by Turgenev
Gotta say tho... great way to build up shard reservoirs on your badger that way.
(presuming you're doing the lvl 50 TFs) |
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Geez. I read that as "Constipator".|
Originally Posted by Ullikummis
155 common shards, 17 uncommon after crafting my T4 from getting my Conspiritor badge.
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I was gonna suggest a digestive cookie or two, Ulli.
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Yeah, I still have over 200 shards after doing this:|
Originally Posted by Ullikummis
155 common shards, 17 uncommon after crafting my T4 from getting my Conspiritor badge.
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My goal is to "get them all".
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I have to admit that was tempting to pursue on one of my alts, but I passed on it. |
Originally Posted by Snow Globe
Yeah, I still have over 200 shards after doing this:
My goal is to "get them all". |
What would be cool though is this: lets say you decide to put an alt on the musculature path of Incarnation, then decide to switch to one of the others: wouldn't it be nice if we could breakdown the previously crafted booster into some shards?
I used to be a pretty serious badge hunter, had something like 90%+ of possible badges on my first level 50 hero, and I also did some badging on my first level 50 villain, but at some point I fell drastically behind to the point that I felt I'd never get back to that many.
It was actually kind of freeing. If I'm playing, I still get badges if I can... I recently got Empath without ever farming for it, so that made me happy. I'm a fan of jumping around and exploring, so all my 14 level 50s have run through the exploration and history badges. If a friend is running a TF, it really doesn't matter who I bring, and I don't feel a preference at the time, I still go with whoever doesn't have the badge (even if they're one of my below-50s.) But it doesn't kill me not having them all, anymore. (Well, I'm still kind of annoyed that I made my main badger one day after Celebrant stopped awarding...)
This isn't really answering the question. No, not needed, but it wasn't really ever needed... badging itself isn't needed if you want to get right down to it. 
Personally, I do low-level badging on all my 50s and a few of my other prominent characters, nowadays. Maybe 20 characters. I would not pass up working on rare or hard to get badges if my friends wanted to work on them, but otherwise I can wait.
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Originally Posted by Snow Globe
My goal is to "get them all".
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Originally Posted by Nericus
I have to admit that was tempting to pursue on one of my alts, but I passed on it.
What would be cool though is this: lets say you decide to put an alt on the musculature path of Incarnation, then decide to switch to one of the others: wouldn't it be nice if we could breakdown the previously crafted booster into some shards? |
I figure from now on (and especially after I20) I'm going to continue to get a steady stream of Shards. Eventually I'll get the several hundred you need to craft the rest of them. Once all the Alphas are done any new Shards I get will just be fodder for any other Threads I still need in the future.
So basically I see no need for "Alpha breakdowns" because eventually we'll have no need for any Shards for anything anyway. Once you've crafted every possible Alpha they'll just pile up uselessly unless you keep converting them to Threads.
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Perhaps. We shall see how it goes with unlocking the other slots, and if any new slots after Omega come out.
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Originally Posted by Lothic
I'd say I eventually have the goal to get all the Alphas unlocked on my main character, but if it takes me another six months to do it I'm not going to be too worried about it. I already have the 2 Very Rares I actually "use" so the rest are just there for me to satisfy a new facet of OCD collectoritis.
I figure from now on (and especially after I20) I'm going to continue to get a steady stream of Shards. Eventually I'll get the several hundred you need to craft the rest of them. Once all the Alphas are done any new Shards I get will just be fodder for any other Threads I still need in the future. So basically I see no need for "Alpha breakdowns" because eventually we'll have no need for any Shards for anything anyway. Once you've crafted every possible Alpha they'll just pile up uselessly unless you keep converting them to Threads. |
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Not really, with the ability to get shards even while exempted I'll eventually have more than enough shards to complete all the trees and more to spare. So why would I need to breakdown already made powers?|
Originally Posted by Nericus
I have to admit that was tempting to pursue on one of my alts, but I passed on it.
What would be cool though is this: lets say you decide to put an alt on the musculature path of Incarnation, then decide to switch to one of the others: wouldn't it be nice if we could breakdown the previously crafted booster into some shards? |
I have one character that I made a "mistake" in taking the "wrong" tree, yet I don't feel the need or desire to break down the existing boost. Besides, the conversion would likely be more costly than just making the new boost anyways.
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Right, but how close are you on the constipated badge?
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Originally Posted by Snow Globe
Yeah, I still have over 200 shards after doing this:
My goal is to "get them all". |
That blue thing running around saying "Cookies are sometimes food" is Praetorian Cookie Monster!
Shoot on sight, please.
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I have all the badges available to me, except Bug Hunter (which is debatable on if it is actually available).|
Originally Posted by Ullikummis
Right, but how close are you on the constipated badge?
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While your earned badge list is impressive, I sort-of, kind-of think Ullikummis might have been joking about that one.|
Originally Posted by Snow Globe
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Character's badge list: http://cit.cohtitan.com/character/727 |
Just a hunch...
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Yeah, my "joke detector" has been off for a while now.
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Originally Posted by Lothic
While your earned badge list is impressive, I sort-of, kind-of think Ullikummis might have been joking about that one.
Just a hunch... |
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Sentimental value keeps my heroine and villainess both on the trophy hunt. Characters become beloved no matter where you adventure with them, whether they're in a book or a television series or a video game.
In the old days (pre I18) the main reason many people had "one hero and one villain" badger was to make sure you had all the red-only and blue-only badges. Now that people can crossover the whole redside/blueside badge thing is no longer an issue. But because Praetoria still prevents Primals access to 4 of its badges there's still a reason to have at least two badging characters. Obviously that reason is far less important than it used to be and there's always a chance that sometime in the future even those last 4 badges will be earnable by Primals in some form. But until that happens (and as of this moment there's really no absolute guarantee that it will) those 4 Praetorian badges are out there.
Like I said earlier all I've done is create a Praetorian who has those 4 unique-to-Praetoria badges. I actually don't seriously intend to get any other badges on that character - it's just acting as a placeholder to have those 4 badges accounted for as far as all my characters are concerned. If I can eventually get those last 4 badges on my main Primal badger then all's the better.
Loth 50 Fire/Rad Controller [1392 Badges] [300 non-AE Souvenirs]
Ryver 50 Ele� Blaster [1392 Badges]
Silandra 50 Peacebringer [1138 Badges] [No Redside Badges]
--{=====> Virtue ♀