"Badge to the Bone" Tuesdays!

Did that MoITF you needed start just before you logged in? Getting slaughtered trying to solo AVs in Recluse's Victory? Still have no idea how you're going to get all those safeguard mission exploration badges that you outleveled before they were even introduced?

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to "Badge to the Bone" Tuesdays!

(Title subject to change if I can find a worse pun to replace it with.)

Yes, every week on Tuesday at 8:00 PM Eastern we'll go for different badges! I'm taking requests, there are just two conditions:

1) The badge is not easy or even possible solo.
2) The badge doesn't step on the toes of any other regular Protector event. (For example, we won't do any Master runs of Incarnate Trials, you can try for those on Saturday with Sept.)

I figure we'll have our first "Badge to the Bone" Tuesday on December 6, 2011. That way, I'll have time to gather suggestions in this thread and work out a schedule of which badges we're going for on which week.

On some of these, I'm sure we'll have to coordinate (like the aforementioned safeguard mission exploration badges), but we'll cross those bridges when we get to them.

12/06/11 - Safeguard and Mayhem Mission Exploration Badges
12/13/11 - Giant Monster Marathon
12/20/11 - Recluse's Victory Archvillains and Heroes
12/27/11 - Weekly Strike Target Marathon
01/03/12 - Master of Lord Recluse's Strike Force Attempt
01/10/12 - Master of the 5th Column Strike Force (aka 'Cuda) Attempt
01/17/12 - Master of the 5th Column Task Force (aka KAAAAAAAHN!) Attempt
01/24/12 - Master of the Imperious Task Force Attempt
01/31/12 - Master of the Lady Grey Task Force Attempt
02/07/12 - Arena Badges, Part I
02/14/12 - Arena Badges, Part II
02/21/12 - Arena Badges, Part III
02/28/12 - Arena Badges, Part IV
03/06/12 - Cancelled Due to Issue 22 Release
03/13/12 - Master of Keyes Island Reactor Trial Attempt
03/20/12 - Master of Dilemma Diabolique Trial Attempt
03/27/12 - Master of TPN Campus Trial Attempt
04/03/12 - Cancelled Due to No Internet Connection
04/10/12 - Master of Lambda Sector Trial Attempt
04/17/12 - Master of Behavioral Adjustment Facility Trial Attempt
04/24/12 - Master of Minds of Mayhem Trial Attempt
05/01/12 - Master of the 5th Column Task Force (aka KAAAAAAAHN!) Retry
05/08/12 - Master of Apex Task Force Attempt
05/15/12 - Master of Tin Mage Mark II Task Force Attempt
05/22/12 - Cancelled Due to Me Being Really Really Tired
05/29/12 - Master of Master of Lord Recluse's Strike Force Retry

So... who needs what badge?

Ooooo, I like this idea. My work schedule will keep me from participating for now, but I should be getting about a month off starting in mid-december. I'll have to make a list of badges that have been taunting me.

Thanks Ex, this is a neat idea. If anything strikes my interest I will definitely join you!

I love this idea! The time won't work for me though, since the start is 2 am at my location :-(

Ex, if you'd like to have this added to the Protector Calendar and have editing rights to it, please let me know via PM by sending me an email address.


Also, for my personal badge suggestions:

• Weekly Strike Target - Assist badge(s)
• Underground Trial - regular, plain vanilla run. I've never run it yet and need the badge for completing it. If I have it by the time yo uget around to it I'll help out if you need me.

Love it! Count me in

Some suggestions:

• Badges for repeating the WST:
  
  Assistant (1511)
  Complete one Weekly Strike Target after you have already completed one for the week.
  
  Backup (1512)
  Complete ten Weekly Strike Targets after you have already completed one for the week.
  
  
• Badges for Safeguard Missions, especially those for Side Missions.
  
  PPD Deputy (353)
  Save 20 PPD Officers during a Jail Break in Safeguard Missions. Only 3 Officers are available to be freed during each Jail Break Instance. So completing 7 of these Side Missions should unlock this Badge.
  
  
• Alignment mission badges that cannot be done solo:
  
  Tested the Water (1162)
  Help someone complete an Alignment mission that is different from your current alignment.
  
  
• "Condition" badges
  
  Waiting (1255)
  Be mezzed for 10 minutes.
  
  Locked Out (1256)
  Be mezzed for 30 minutes.
  
  Trapped (1257)
  Be mezzed for 60 minutes.
  
  Imprisoned (1571)
  1 hour of being held - you can be Held, Slept, Stunned, or Mezzed.
  
  
• Architect Badges
  
  Among Friends (842)
  Test an arc with a full team.

I still need to get the heroes in RV - always hard to get a group together for this.

-Kult

Updated the original post with the schedule for December.

First up will be safeguard and mayhem mission exploration badges. If anybody already has some of these missions, and can be available next Tuesday, please let me know. Also, if you want all of these badges (Up to 20!) on the same character, you should plan to have Vigilante or Rogue alignment.

Man, those mayhem exploration badges are the death of me. I'm so up for those.

@.MIDAS

BIG BROTHER MIDAS, Ice/Ice Dominator, 1314 Badges
* Any toon you see with Midas in the name is probably me *

Ex, I know that I totally up and quit on you tonight,so I wanted to take a minute to justify my actions before I leave COH for the night....

I have a problem. I am simply not okay with ever dying at the hands of level 15 enemies. Even if I'm level 15 too, technically, I'm just not willing to accept it. God did not give me the grace to accept exemplar level changes. I require all of my powers at all times. If something that is not a level 54 Sapper or a bunch of Mu bosses and Tarantula Mistresses is able to kill me consecutively, I just stop having fun.

The worst part is that I needed a lot of those badges- And I'm grateful to you for putting this together. I just, am not yet ready, on a personal level, to risk subjecting myself to the risk of dying. It just feels degrading to me. >.>

Thanks for running the Mayhem badges! I'll look forward to next week.

Not a complete success tonight, but we managed to do pretty well.

Kraken - Defeated.

Paladin - None were under construction while we were in Kings Row. Lazy Clockwork...

Adamastor - Defeated.

Lusca - Was not around, must've heard we were coming.

Jack in Irons - Defeated.

Eochai - Defeated, but no badge awarded. (Jack and Eochai were fighting each other.)

Sally - Defeated.

Babbage - Defeated.

Jurassik - Defeated.

Winter Lord - Defeated.

Deathsurge - Defeated. (Took forever to spawn.)

Ghost of Scrapyard - Defeated.

Caleb - This was really aggravating. We finally managed to spawn him, and then we couldn't find him anywhere. Finally gave up once the sun rose.

Arachnos Flyer - We planned to do this one, but it spawned while we were looking for Caleb, so we missed it.

Seed of Hamidon - Our grand finale, and I'm proud to say we took him down pretty fast.

Hope everyone had a good time and upped their badge counts a bit. Next week we're going to Recluse's Victory to fight Arch-Villains and Heroes!

Started off blueside, taking down the Recluse's Victory AVs. Black Scorpion and Lord Recluse took their sweet time spawning, though. Had one or two people try to grief us early on, but given how many heroes we had, they left pretty fast.

Didn't have as many redside, but we still had enough to take down the entire Freedom Phalanx.

Also had a lot of people get badges for pillboxes and controlling heavies, which was a bonus.

Thanks to everybody who showed up, but special thanks to Kyo and everybody who was on her teams. They were nice enough to be on the opposing side and flip pillboxes for us to better spawn the AVs and Heroes.

Next week we'll be doing a WST marathon to make some quick progress on the WST badges. Specifically, we'll be doing the redside version (3rd treespec) since its awfully quick.

Lastly, I'm still looking for ideas for badges to go for. I've nearly exhausted the initial suggestions I got. If I don't get many more, I'll set January up as a TF/SF Master month.

I love this idea so much I'll throw a badge idea into the mix: Arena badges. At least 3 of the 5 required for the Arena Accolade require teams to accomplish (Ex: Swiss Draw) so soloing them is impossible. I have a request though...if possible could you wait until at least the second week in January. Travel has me away from my beloved desktop atm. My loss if you can't. Either way I'm sure I'm not the only one lacking these badges.

Last night's marathon of the redside WST (third treespec) went great. We ran it six times total, and had it down to about 12 minutes per run at one point. Thanks to everyone who showed up and made a dent in those pesky WST assist badges!

January is going to be Master Month for Badge to the Bone Tuesdays! Each week we'll be attempting a different "Master of" badge. I'll update my original post with the schedule. You'll notice that MoSTF is not included for three reasons.

A) There's only 5 Tuesdays in January.
B) As far as I know, Impyre still runs regular MoSTF attempts.
C) Given what we know is coming in January as far as "Who Will Die?" is concerned...

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Originally Posted by cynical_mage I love this idea so much I'll throw a badge idea into the mix: Arena badges. At least 3 of the 5 required for the Arena Accolade require teams to accomplish (Ex: Swiss Draw) so soloing them is impossible. I have a request though...if possible could you wait until at least the second week in January. Travel has me away from my beloved desktop atm. My loss if you can't. Either way I'm sure I'm not the only one lacking these badges.

Good idea, thanks for the suggestion. We'll start on these ones the first tuesday of February.