Keyes Island badges

Hey badgers, I wrote up strategies for earning these badges on the ParagonWiki pages for them, if you could read them, critique them, add to them, that'd all be great. I think screenshots of the Obliteration Beam and Disintegration would be helpful.

You did? That link shows none of them, just the badges and badge text. Do I have to click on something else?

When I posted that link the strategies were written on the individual badge pages, but they got moved to their own pages since then. If someone could come up with a good way to link to the strategies pages on the MoKI badge page that'd be nice. I don't know any of the wiki's fancy formatting codes, all I can do is write content.

For what it is worth I posted this to Liberty Server, but was told I might spread it around to other threads.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=270176

After being on several successful and many, many unsuccessful attempts at those two badges, it is possible for the entire league to participate and get the badges.

However, failure is ridiculously easy. During the fight, you are talking in the neighborhood of 30-40 oblit beam attacks (if you are going for both badges at once in hopes of getting at least one of them). Even very competent players can easily blow this only once in 30 tries and it only takes one player to do it once. Most of our failures were like that - an otherwise good and capable player blinked at the wrong time. I've blinked at the wrong time and gotten away with it, other times, I was the jerk that ruined it for everyone.

I think one of the reasons for the relative lack of Keyes runs, for badges or not, is the extreme repetition of patterns and cycles on both the macro and micro levels.

With BAF and Lambda, at least you can blunder into a badge or two. In Keyes every single badge requires high levels of coordination and competence.

Everyone who wears either of these badges or the MO badge has earned it. Through as much perseverance and resolve as through any level of skill or competence. We did not employ the method, but that goes to folks on "the bench" as well. No one wants to just stand around in the safe zone while others do the risk and work required.

Actually I might have an alternative to benching players in the hospital: Decoy Duty.

You might ask "What is Decoy Duty?" Well I haven't fully tested this out, but Decoy Duty is to be out of the hospital, away from everyone else (no being above another player) and away from the truck depot (out of line of sight is best). Have one of the "decoys" do a 5 minute warning of the Obliteration Beam so everyone can look at the ground and be prepared to move. If they are targeted, they'll need to move out of the way.

Having another decoy or hospital sitter call out health warnings at 85-55-25 health.

I still don't like this idea as it places the "decoys" firmly in the role of a sidekick. However it is an alternative to sitting on the bench, so to speak.

Oh, the Line of Sight thing. Apparently the only people targeted by Disintegration are those in Line of Sight of Anti-Matter. So if you aren't visible to him, you won't get disintegrated.

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Just a thought..

I lead a team where all that attacked AM were Pets..either MM pets or Lore pets ...to great success, but alas the "pet bug" was in place and we were not awarded the badge (although I do believe a few people petitioned and were awarded the badge)

I am refering to the "Avoids the Green Stuff" by the way, as the Lore pets will attack anything, not caring if its a terminal or not (alot of people are not aware that Lore pets do have MM controls and just let them be aggressive to attack everything) so a "Loves a Challenge" badge may not be in the scope of this strategy.

If I remember correctly, using this strategy went pretty smoothly. All you had to do was target AM, set your pets to attack him, then just watch out for the Oblit. beam (and of course Dis., but just going for the "Avoids.." badge it didnt matter if you died)

Through the course of my trying for this badge we discovered you HAD to have 12 to start the trial, but 1 could drop and you could still continue. If more than 1 dropped you ran the risk of the trial "freezing" (for lack of a better term) and be unable to continue. So I DEFINATELY concur that less people make trying for this badge EXPONENTIALLY easier (although it is alot of fun with a full league too, just not for serious badging IMO)

Just my 2 cents, your results may vary

On the subject of hiding in the hospital:

I didn't feel slighted by being asked to hide in the hospital. In all my time badge hunting I've done things that could be considered cheap, like setting up ambush farms for the now-defunct AE Test defeat badges, trading pillboxes in Recluse's Victory, or hovering over Director 11's head while my pets slaughter him. But any time I feel like I'm doing it wrong, I remember that it's no different than hunting for bosses in the places they spawn the most and going after the gray ones because the put up the least fight.

That's what we badge hunters do: we always search for and use the fastest, easiest way to earn a badge.

[QUOTE=Vanden;3851141That's what we badge hunters do: we always search for and use the fastest, easiest way to earn a badge.[/QUOTE]

I take exception to that..I call it efficiency

Hi everyone, Frostwork has an effect on disintegration?