Issue 21.5 Badges

Here is a repost from the Beta forums for the new badges that went live today. Since not everyone may have access to those forums, I thought it would be a good idea to have the badges listed here too. The original poster was Snow Globe.


Trial Badges

Section 1: TPN Trial Badges
Master of TPN Campus.

• Hint text - Achieve the following special achievements during the TPN Campus Incarnate Trial: Spin Doctor, News Flash, Fair & Balanced, Television Addict and Tonight's Top Story.
• Completion text - You have mastered the Incarnate Trial: TPN Campus.

• Spin Doctor
  • Hint text - None.
  • Completion text - You have completed the Incarnate Trial: TPN Campus.
• News Flash
  • Hint text - Complete all three 500-point Public Opinion challenges, taking no more than 8 minutes per challenge, and then finish the trial.
  • Completion text - You managed to successfully complete each major broadcast to the people of Praetoria within a few minutes, establishing to the world that Tyrant's Imperial forces are no obstacle to the Incarnates and their mission to deliver the truth to the people during the raid on TPN Campus.
• Fair & Balanced
  • Hint text - Do not allow a single Telepathist to convert 4 or more citizens for the duration of TPN Campus, and then finish the trial.
  • Completion text - The Imperial forces threw some of Mother Mayhems' mindwashing Telepathists at the populace in an effort to turn them against you, and you stepped up to shut them down. No Telepathist managed to convert four citizens during the raid on TPN Campus.
• Television Addict
  • Hint text - Complete all four terminals in all three buildings during each 500-point Public Opinion challenge, while also keeping H.D. above 80% health at all times, and then finish the trial.
  • Completion text - During the raid on TPN Campus, H.D. offered you his assistance in delivering the truth to the world, with only his protection as his price. You accepted his bargain and delivered far better than would be expected with the IDF swarming the facility, thus ensuring that H.D. had the greatest chance to deliver your message with no interference.
• Tonight's Top Story
  • Hint text - Defeat Maelstrom within four minutes during each of his three encounters.
  • Completion text - Maelstrom arrived during the raid on TPN Campus to send a message of his own: that he would not allow the Incarnates to spread their 'lies'. Not only did his efforts fail, but you also managed to defeat him handily, adding his humiliating defeats to your message to the people of Praetoria.

• Hint text - Achieve the following special achievements during the Minds of Mayhem Incarnate Trial: Mental Voyager, Dreamwalker, A Perfect Storm, Daylight Saver and Lost Connection to Server.
• Completion text - You have mastered the Incarnate Trial: The Minds of Mayhem.

• Mental Voyager
  • Hint text - None.
  • Completion text - You have completed the Incarnate Trial: The Minds of Mayhem.
• Dreamwalker\Dreamkiller
  • Hint text - Defeat all of Malaise's possible nightmares at least once.
  • Completion text - Through persistence or madness, you have faced down the many nightmares of Malaise while battling him in the dreamscape of the Minds of Mayhem.
  • Required Arch-Villains - Eochai, Jack in Irons, Paladin, Babbage, Adamastor, Jurassik, Crystal Titan, Kronos, Lanaruu the Crazed, Ruladak the Strong, Lord Winter, Bat'Zul, Deathsurge, Caleb, Lichen-Infested War Walker, Avatar of Hamidon (note - these must be defeated in phase 1 of the trial. The versions that appear in phase 4 don't count)
• A Perfect Storm
  • Hint text - Defeat Penelope Mayhem while creating no more than 4 Eyes of the Storm, then complete the trial.
  • Completion text - Despite the furious typhoon of psychic energy enveloping you within Mother Yin's layer of the Minds of Mayhem, you were able to keep calm, efficiently using the precious Eyes of the Storm to put an end to Mother Mayhem's hold on Penelope Yin.
• Daylight Saver
  • Hint text - Defeat Mother Mayhem without allowing Aurora Borealis' health to drop below 75%, and then complete the trial.
  • Completion text - Deep within the Minds of Mayhem, you came across the long-suffering Aurora Borealis, whose body and mind had been taken over by Shalice Tilman. Separating the two was never going to be an easy task, but you did it while causing minimal risk to Aurora Borealis, delivering her from Tilman's torment with a minimum of suffering.
• Lost Connection to Server
  • Hint text - Defeat Shalice Tilman without missing any opportunity to sever her connection to the Seer Network, and then complete the trial.
  • Completion text - When you finally were able to confront Shalice Tilman within the depths of the Minds of Mayhem, you found that she would not go easily, for she was strongly connected to the Seer Network. Despite this difficulty, you found a way to sever her connections with little trouble, never allowing her to regain her strength after being chased from Malaise's broken body.

• Completion text - You've passed along the mysterious Duplicating Gift left by the Gamester!

• Completion text - You've received a copy of the mysterious Duplicating Gift from another! Don't forget to pass it on!

Curses! They release both itrials before I'm done with day job badges with EI!


hehe...

Hooray for new content!

im glad theres more badges, i just hope they are reasonable like the underground trial badges and not like keyes badges

at least ill be finished the final day job in first ward in the next 2-3 days then ill be all for the trials lol

Awkward.

Having done both trials a couple of times, I'll tell you the ones that are going to be a pain, based on the group that I had (Full leagues, mostly at +3, one attempt fail, one attempt success on each trial)


for MoM:

Once you get the tactics down, none of them are particularly harsh, except maybe Perfect Storm. Everythng else is a matter of learning the tactics and repitition to get all the nightmares.

for TPN:

This is more interesting, as I'm still not 100% sure about certain aspects. We got Fair and Balanced on the second run, mostly due to getting an efficient high damage ST team to deal with the telepathists. A target telepathist bind/macor helps here. I can see where it might cause an issue.

News flash I can see being a pain, but eventually dooable. I think it's going to come out to experiments on balancing between the inside teams and the outside team.

Television Addict, I have to say, I have no idea how to get, largely because I have no idea who HD is, how he takes damage or how you stop him taking damage. More practise will probably bear fruit here.

For this crop of trial badges, I have to say, they've found the balance. There's none for "doing it in hard mode" (ie. making things much harder for yourself deliberately to get a badge, such as all the lambda temp power ones) and pretty much all of them will, I believe, fall as teams get used to the tactics. How long it will take, we shall see.

Do we have a count of all 16 nightmares? It seems many are at 15/16.

The Transcendent One
Level 50+ PB (Badge Count 1404)

The original post has been updated with specific AV requirements for the Dreamwalker badge.

Does it have to be in one go, or can you just do the trial a bunch of times and hope to get it randomly?