Add bonus salvage to Dark Astoria badges
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Agent White,
Posted on: 2012-03-23 17:04 in Suggestions and Ideas
How do the Trial badges work? I've never really pay attention, so all I know is I get some extra salvage occasionally; I don't know if certain rarities are tied to certain badges, or if it's completely random.
If earning the badges gets me a few extra uncommon or better salvage, then I'm all for it. If it's just going to get me more commons (or a roll on the end of arc table, which is mostly commons), then no thanks, I get more than I can use of those already.
@Roderick
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When you earn a badge in the itrials you receive a random piece of uncommon incarnate salvage. Each time you meet the requirements for that badge afterwards you receive an extral astral merit. When you get the "Master of" badge you receive a random piece of rare salvage.|
Originally Posted by Roderick
How do the Trial badges work? I've never really pay attention, so all I know is I get some extra salvage occasionally; I don't know if certain rarities are tied to certain badges, or if it's completely random.
If earning the badges gets me a few extra uncommon or better salvage, then I'm all for it. If it's just going to get me more commons (or a roll on the end of arc table, which is mostly commons), then no thanks, I get more than I can use of those already. |
That aside, I do think each time you complete one of the three harder badge requirements n the DA arcs (Time Saver, Knows no Fear, and Lone Wolf) there should be some extra reward. Either an astral merit or a reward table with better odds of getting rare/very rare salvage at the end of the arc would be nice.
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@Inquisitor
I'll be honest, it kind of surprised me they didn't tag in some extra rewards for the badges, especially given some of the challenge with some of them.
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Indeed. Killing all those bosses or soloing either of the missions you'd normally have help for is way harder than, say, not clicking a glowie to turn off turrets in a BAF. Yet the latter gives bonus salvage and merits and the former do not.
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Originally Posted by Agent White
I'll be honest, it kind of surprised me they didn't tag in some extra rewards for the badges, especially given some of the challenge with some of them.
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How do you handle giving that salvage to folks who already have the badges?
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On the itrials you get an astral merit when you complete a badge objective for a badge you already have. Having the DA badges work similarly shouldn't be much of a stretch.|
Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven
How do you handle giving that salvage to folks who already have the badges?
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If you mean retroactively giving the bonus to characters for having gotten the badges, that's unlikely to happen.
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@Inquisitor
Just a note: You can't turn trials down to -1/x1.
Is Time Saver really that hard to earn when the enemies are all -1 and you're +3 with t4 Judgement and Lore pets? And how long would it really take for, say a stalker, to ghost each mission on that arc in Ouroboros and get back to that fight over and over again? To say nothing of a team of eight +3s that includes one stalker with Team Teleport... do they all get the salvage? And the bonus merit too? Because on a trial, the whole team gets them.
Best case, we'd be looking at a once-a-week time gate on this.
FUN FACT: That burst of light when you level up is actually the effectiveness escaping from your enhancements all at once.
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You should only get the bonus when soloing the mission and having the mission set to have the mobs at +whatever your own incarnate level is. How bout that?|
Originally Posted by Doctor Roswell
Just a note: You can't turn trials down to -1/x1.
Is Time Saver really that hard to earn when the enemies are all -1 and you're +3 with t4 Judgement and Lore pets? And how long would it really take for, say a stalker, to ghost each mission on that arc in Ouroboros and get back to that fight over and over again? To say nothing of a team of eight +3s that includes one stalker with Team Teleport... do they all get the salvage? And the bonus merit too? Because on a trial, the whole team gets them. Best case, we'd be looking at a once-a-week time gate on this. |
Edit: But yeah, there would almost certainly have to be a time gate on it.
Edit edit: FYI, I wasn't being sarcastic. When you get a badge for refusing any help then you should really have to refuse any help.
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@Inquisitor
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Yes, that is what I mean.|
Originally Posted by Mr_Morbid
If you mean retroactively giving the bonus to characters for having gotten the badges, that's unlikely to happen.
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And if it really is unlikely... then I am NOT in support of this idea. I don't plan to run the arc many times, I want to be equally rewarded for the time I already put in.
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Based on my experience with this game I could practically guarantee you that they would -not- retroactively reward salvage to characters based on any badge change like this. For one thing how would they be able to tell how many times a person with such a badge has re-run the arc? Let's say I've already run a particular arc 10 times since Issue 22 lauched. Would I get 10 extra slavages or only 1? *shrugs*
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Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven
Yes, that is what I mean.
And if it really is unlikely... then I am NOT in support of this idea. I don't plan to run the arc many times, I want to be equally rewarded for the time I already put in. |
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Just something that seemed logical to me. In the new Dark Astoria content, there are five badges you can get for fulfilling specific challenges in certain missions. There is also a sixth badge for getting all five of those plus the arc and personal story badges.
Now, in the Incarnate trials there are similar badges for challenges and a master of whatever trial badge for getting all of them. In the trials the challenge badges give a random piece of uncommon incarnate salvage plus a bonus merit the first time you achieve them, and a bonus merit each time after that. The master badge meanwhile gives a random piece of rare incarnate salvage when you get them.
I think the aforementioned Dark Astoria badges should give the same rewards. The first time you get the badge you should get uncommon salvage and an astral merit, and completing the same challenge again on subsequent runs of the same arc via flashback should still give the bonus merit. Likewise, earning the badge for all of them plus the arc badges should give a random rare salvage.
Just seems logical to me, all challenge badges in incarnate content giving the same rewards whether they're trials or solo content.
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