DFB and Badges

Well, my home server was down this morning, so I logged on a lowbie on Exalted.

Has something changed? Or did I get stuck with a group of Freedom folks?

Since I was level 4 on this toon, the only show in town seems to be DFB, unless you want to try those new arcs with all that hoorb nonsense. (I find them catered to a much younger audience, so I'm gonna pass on those, every chance I get)

So, after we're done with the Hellion AV, the leader (in response to another player) responds that we're going for the badges.
Me, I'm on a brute with a fiery aura. I'm already irritated that my server is down, and now I have to turn my powers off so someone can get a badge? I don't think so. I feel like if you're going to go for badges (which calls for different tactics), you should announce this ahead of time. Not in the midst of the trial.

Is this the way you guys do things now ? Everything is a badge run by default?

I'm likely over-reacting- but there are still principles, aren't there?

at such a low lvl just turn off blazing aura and stick with single target attacks for the vahz AV

honestly i think its easier to get that badge on smaller team so the AV spawns as an EB

due to how easy those badges are for the most part i usually just try for them every time or at least mention what we have to do to get them, if people dont listen then their loss

I typically run every DFB I'm in as if it were a badge run whether or not anyone asks for it or not. If someone else kills a cadaver before the doc, well, then it's fair game, but I figure there's not much issue to sticking to single target attacks for the 20 seconds or so a full team can take down that AV.

I pretty much assume every DFB run is a badge run. They're too easy to get to intentionally not get them, imo. In fact, I don't think I've ever been on a DFB run that wasn't a badge run.

So, imo, assume a DFB run is going to be a badge run unless told otherwise.

The AV will die either way, since the team will kill everything in that room and the tactics required aren't that fancy. If the team doesn't get it, no biggie since most folks run it again to get all the possible reward buffs.
So what if fiery aura is off? Does it make you kill slower by 20 secs during the time the team is killing the AV? The completion time for a badge run vs a regular run isn't a huge difference, maybe a minute at most. If you care about time constraints so much, then by all means ask the leader if it's a badge run before joining. The leader can't read your mind about what you want, so just find teams that will accomodate your playstyle.

Yeah usually before the Vahz boss, every team has asked 'badges or no' and anyone saying 'yes' makes it a badge run.

Really, the Vahz boss is the only one that you have to jump through any extra hoop to get the badge, the Lost AV you should be clearing out the mobs before taking him down anyway.

If the extra badges were more involved, I could see being a lil miffed. But the trial is stupid easy to the point you can get by with just 1-2 single target attacks the whole trial, bosses or no, since there's almost always enough bodies to simply dogpile anything to death.

Sorry OP but it sounds like you just need to chill. At that level it doesn't really matter, besides it's not like fire aura was going to tip the scales and save the day.