Question about halloween banners (yeah, I know it's not the season... But I like to plan ahead. :p)
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GavinRuneblade,
Posted on: 2011-06-06 24:08 in Badges and Gladiators
To make the banners vulnerable, mobs at all four need to be attacked at the same time. There should be a counter visible in the banner/nav window to see your progress.
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Snow Globe is spot on. Once the banners are vulnerable teams usually take them down one at a time so that everyone can get the badges for all of them in one run.
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Also, while it is not the season, these still do come up fairly often when halloween salvage is turned in, and I just got all the badges including the one for the GM at the end in April redside on virtue, so I know it's still possible to scrounge a team together and score the badges.
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But essentially, it requires one, more likely two, teams spreading out over the whole map then gathering at the weakened point right? Between that and the hassle of building a team, it seems like a real hassle to get all the badges. BTW, do ALL the banners lose their invulnerability at the same time?
And another question - I think I saw mentions of people "forcing" Eochai and Jack to spawn during the halloween event, are those facts? Can one force-spawn them?
Contrary to the wiki, you don't actually need to defeat enemies at all 4 at the same time, the game can keep track(I was able to get about 25% of the bar by myself one time, just cycling between them 
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I don't know exactly how many enemies are needed at each, seems to be 50 or thereabouts.
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It's doable with one team, but the team would need a good amount of damage and/or debuffs(incarnate powers/pets help here). 2 people per banner is the standard single team setup, but even 1 per banner would work. Besides, making the banners vulnerable is the easy part. it's the banners themselves that require the most work.| But essentially, it requires one, more likely two, teams spreading out over the whole map then gathering at the weakened point right? |
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| And another question - I think I saw mentions of people "forcing" Eochai and Jack to spawn during the halloween event, are those facts? Can one force-spawn them? |
The spawn intervals for the halloween versions are set, with about 30 seconds between each spawn, once one has been defeated. It used to be 90% chance for Eochai and 10% chance for Jack, but they balanced it out more last Halloween, not sure of the exact % now.
The only 'forcing' of them lies in making sure the Unseelie that often spawn with them are defeated. If even 1 Unseelie is left alive, the next GM won't spawn as the game doesn't register them as defeated.
And now, with Leagues, multi-team coordination for zone events like this should be a breeze, especially seeing on the map how many are at each banner.
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Thanks for the info, it should make getting those badges much less of a hassle next Halloween ! Now to finish my Geas badge... :-p
I read the Paragonwiki article and what threads I could find here, but I'm still confused. To make the banners vulnerable, one needs to off mobs at all four of them at the same time? or in turn? How does the game keep count, is there a counter or a time limit?