Only two accolades need a team at all, everything else is completely soloable. Task Force Commander requires you to run certain task forces, as the name implies, but you could solo them if you can get people to fill for you and your character can handle the AV in each. Geas of the Kind Ones requires you to run the Katie Hannon task force, which again might be doable with fillers, but the first mission might be excessively difficult to solo. The other accolades do not require a team at all.
For villains, the Marshal and Megalomaniac accolades each require one strike force, and again the rest are soloable, although you might need help to get Invader, because you can't get lower-level mayhem missions on your own.
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well first off you will want to look here (I am assuming you are hero side): http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Hero_Accolades|
Originally Posted by Shuckins
Hey guys...didn't know where else to ask this...so decided to just do it here.
I play tanks and brutes almost exclusively. Because of time constraints I spend a lot of time soloing. I seldom have the time to wait around for task forces to form, and I have little experience with them lately anyways. I would like to pick up the "accolades" that boost my characters' hit points by 10% (Is that figure correct?) So...what I want to know is...is there anyway to do this SOLO...and one mission at a time? Thanks in advance for your help. Shuckins |
Portal Jockey is an easy place to start, you can do Maria Jenkin's AV a Hero's Hero (or Hero's Epic) through ouroboros solo as long as you can solo EBs.
Atlas Medallion is also very easy, get your hunts done in Striga, the rest is plaques/explores and a quick flashback mission as is pretty much the same routine for Freedom Phalanx Reserve Member
Task Force Commander requires doing Posi, synapse, sister psyche, citadel, manticore, and numina tfs. All of these are solo-able TFs. (use red insps for the final AV). Invite as many people as required to start the tf including either a friend or a second account that doesn't mind keeping their toon on the tf while you work through it. The friend can log their toon out, just not quit the tf, or the tf will auto disband if you're the only one on it. Have everyone else who came to fill quit the TF, mobs will scale down to 2 players. You can then complete the tf at your leisure.
There are also villain versions of all the hero accolades as well that have different requirements, some easier, some harder.
Thanks for the help guys. I've already started Positron I. Good thing about using Ouroboros is that I can do these at my own pace.
Again, thanks Dread and Hopeling.
The old version of the Positron TF (as opposed to the new version with part 1/part 2) is the only one accessible through Ouro, sadly. The rest have to be done as TFs from the contact, with the minimum team size and etc. That's what we're talking about fillers for.
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I would think that a lot of servers have regularly scheduled task forces. I run a task force every Saturday afternoon on Infinity with sign-up on the forums. Check your server forum section to see what's going on.
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Originally Posted by Shuckins
I seldom have the time to wait around for task forces to form, and I have little experience with them lately anyways.
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The global channels on servers are also a good place to look. And definitely keep an eye on the Weekly Strike Forces, they will eventually rotate through most (all?) of the TFs you need for the accolade, and the first few days there will be a fair number forming on every server. Again, you want to be on your server's Task Force channel to learn about them though.|
Originally Posted by Ironblade
I would think that a lot of servers have regularly scheduled task forces. I run a task force every Saturday afternoon on Infinity with sign-up on the forums. Check your server forum section to see what's going on.
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If you REALLY want to avoid TFs or teams, note that some accolades that might require a TF heroside don't villianside. If you are willing to switch alignments, you can cherry pick the easiest routes to accolades on each side. When you switch back, the appropriate matching accolade for the side you are now on is added to your powers list.
Here are my thoughts on the accolades I always seek and which side I pursue the accolade. I'm going to compare hero to vill, listing hero first.
10% HP
Freedom Phalanx. Biggest annoyance is Fake Nems.
High Pain Threshold. Marcone bosses are even more annoying
Slight advantage to Hero
5% HP, 5% End
Portal Jockey
Born in Battle
For PJ you need to rely on the kindess of others to get as a lowby. Once 45+ though it's easy enough. BiB's only annoyance is damage farming
Slight advantage to vill
5% End
Atlas
Marshall
Huge advantage for Hero side. You can't even think of getting Marshall until you're 45 due to LRSF mission.
5% HP
TF Commander
Invader
FP tfs vs all the mayhem explores.
I'm going call this a push even though I think Invader is preferable. If you're lucky, someone will have an Invader-athon where the player has all the mayhems lined up and ready to go. You can get the acco in minutes in that case.
+Def +Res (click)
Archmage
Demonic
Not even close. HUGE advantage for vills.
+Rch, +Rec, +Acc (click)
Geas of the Kind Ones
Force of Nature
If you do the Croatoa arcs with a full(ish) team, then you'll get all the defeats needed for Geas (except for some ghosts) and the advantage is easily for heroes. If you don't, then they're both annoying with Geas probably still easier to get.
Frozen Immobilizer Ray
Who cares. This acco must have been created on an April Fools Day.
Global = Hedgefund (or some derivation thereof)
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You jest, surely, or hardly ever play villain side? Marcone Capos in Port Oakes are plentiful and as they are lvl 10 or whatever, easy to kill. Comparing this to fake nems is ridiculous.
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Originally Posted by Deacon_NA
10% HP
Freedom Phalanx. Biggest annoyance is Fake Nems. High Pain Threshold. Marcone bosses are even more annoying Slight advantage to Hero |
"Hi, my name is Ail. I make people sick."
A partial selection from my 50's on Freedom: Ail = Ice/Traps, Luck = Street Justice/Super Reflexes Stalker, Mist = Bane, Pixy = Trick Arrow/Archery, Pure = Gravity/Energy, Smoke = Fire/Fire Dominator
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Not to many bosses in Port oak, but lot more in st. martel, I agree on it though.
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Originally Posted by _Ail_
You jest, surely, or hardly ever play villain side? Marcone Capos in Port Oakes are plentiful and as they are lvl 10 or whatever, easy to kill. Comparing this to fake nems is ridiculous.
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Originally Posted by _Ail_
You jest, surely, or hardly ever play villain side? Marcone Capos in Port Oakes are plentiful and as they are lvl 10 or whatever, easy to kill. Comparing this to fake nems is ridiculous.
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Here's the empirical fact - I can go from 0 to Unveiler in about 20 minutes. Just to be clear, "empirical fact" is used because I have personally done this.
How fast can you get the Marcone badge? Wanna race one day?
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Wait, what??? How? I've never found anywhere that lets me even get near 5 fakes per minute, at least not solo.|
Originally Posted by Deacon_NA
Here's the empirical fact - I can go from 0 to Unveiler in about 20 minutes. Just to be clear, "empirical fact" is used because I have personally done this.
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Seriously, I'm not trying to call you a liar or something, I want to know how to do this. It would make the accolade much easier.
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Personal Anecdote is not the same as empirical fact.
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Originally Posted by Deacon_NA
Yeah, I never play vill side, that must be it, brilliant deduction.
Here's the empirical fact - I can go from 0 to Unveiler in about 20 minutes. Just to be clear, "empirical fact" is used because I have personally done this. How fast can you get the Marcone badge? Wanna race one day? |
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<shrug> Having obtained this badge many times, I dispute your so-called fact.
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Originally Posted by Deacon_NA
Here's the empirical fact - I can go from 0 to Unveiler in about 20 minutes. Just to be clear, "empirical fact" is used because I have personally done this.
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Hum interesting I have gotten the marcone badge in 15 min in st. martle the nem badge with a full team in like 30 min.
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Originally Posted by Deacon_NA
Yeah, I never play vill side, that must be it, brilliant deduction.
Here's the empirical fact - I can go from 0 to Unveiler in about 20 minutes. Just to be clear, "empirical fact" is used because I have personally done this. How fast can you get the Marcone badge? Wanna race one day? |
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I'm not here to teach you word meanings. You should google these terms so you won't be so confused by them.|
Originally Posted by Agent White
Personal Anecdote is not the same as empirical fact.
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Originally Posted by Ironblade
<shrug> Having obtained this badge many times, I dispute your so-called fact.
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Originally Posted by Hopeling
Wait, what??? How? I've never found anywhere that lets me even get near 5 fakes per minute, at least not solo.
Seriously, I'm not trying to call you a liar or something, I want to know how to do this. It would make the accolade much easier. |
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Oh, so you have a compelling argument but it is "secret".|
Originally Posted by Deacon_NA
I'll send you a PM. I appreciate you keeping the discourse civil, dullards that do call me a liar and struggle with basic English definitions aren't going to get the answer.
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lolz... If you are trying to discredit yourself you are doing a wonderful job.
I would be happy to be proven otherwise but in my experience fake nems take longer than marconi bosses. If you have an actual argument, by all means share it. If you want to claim victory because of your secret argument, whatever...
"Hi, my name is Ail. I make people sick."
A partial selection from my 50's on Freedom: Ail = Ice/Traps, Luck = Street Justice/Super Reflexes Stalker, Mist = Bane, Pixy = Trick Arrow/Archery, Pure = Gravity/Energy, Smoke = Fire/Fire Dominator
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I find them rather plentiful in port oakes. The hardest part is getting a macro because you want marcone capo's but there are marcone's that are not marcone capo's and capo's that are not marcone capo's.|
Originally Posted by LSK
Not to many bosses in Port oak, but lot more in st. martel, I agree on it though.
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Maybe a macro expert can say a better way but the way I do it is first type in
/macro target "targetcustomnext blah"
and then I right click on the target button and choose to edit it and replace blah
with
alive "marcone capo"
It then still targets dead ones but it won't target anything but marcone capos. In other words, I use 2 steps basically to get nested quotes. Maybe there is also a way to do it in one step. So you can very rapidly zero in on exactly what you want.
Most are in Marconeville if you do a loop around the area with the building where you pay supergroup upkeep. Look on rooftops as well as they are often there. Also look in alleys. They can also be north of this area fighting with family people and also northeast in a little square. Some are also in oil spill either around or on top of warehouses there.
You can kill them in 1 shot with a temp power like a nem staff at lvl 50, so once you locate one killing it is instant.
I did it just this week with my new stalker and it took about 30 mins, but I wasn't trying to go for a speed record or anything. While there, wait until dark and then trap your 10 ghosts. You should already have spiders if you levelled normally, but if you were PLd they are also plentiful in port oakes.
"Hi, my name is Ail. I make people sick."
A partial selection from my 50's on Freedom: Ail = Ice/Traps, Luck = Street Justice/Super Reflexes Stalker, Mist = Bane, Pixy = Trick Arrow/Archery, Pure = Gravity/Energy, Smoke = Fire/Fire Dominator
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I would appreciate if you would also keep the discourse civil. When somebody questions something you say, that's not an attack, an insult, or an accusation. It's a question. You said Unveiler was easier to get than Gangbuster, which was quite opposite Ail's and my experience, since the best method for getting Unveiler that I knew 24 hours ago was hunting in FBZ (indeed, this has been the conventional wisdom on the best way to get the badge in almost every conversation on the topic I have seen for years). Simply saying that, no, you are not speaking in jest, Unveiler can be quickly obtained from a certain mission, would have been a perfectly sufficient reply.|
Originally Posted by Deacon_NA
I'll send you a PM. I appreciate you keeping the discourse civil, dullards that do call me a liar and struggle with basic English definitions aren't going to get the answer.
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However, when you interpret skepticism as fighting words, civility has ceased.
If you have two helpers, that twenty minute figure is believable in FBZ. Any additional teammates should sit back in the bubble so that they have no impact on the spawn rates. Meanwhile, your three fake hunters should each stake a claim to points Sierra, X-Ray and Tango (I think). One lap of each of those islands typically produces anywhere from zero to six fakes, the average probably being closer to two than to three. That should work out to about twenty minutes, especially seeing as it normally takes me about an hour when I'm doing it solo. This assumes you can kill fakes in ten seconds or less without letting them bubble up.
Another option for fake farming is Dark Watcher's arc. Use low difficulty to reach the Nemesis mission and then crank it up to x8 and you're guaranteed something like twenty fakes per run. I believe it's followed up by another Nemesis mission that also has a spawn that's nothing but fakes, combined with being on a large map that will have lots of fakes in normal spawns just by statistical necessity. This strategy obviously requires you to be able to survive against and rapidly kill x8 Nemesis at your own level.
I'd say that's comparable in difficulty to hunting Marcones, since the best place to hunt Marcones is not Port Oakes at all, but one small neighborhood in northeastern Saint Martial. They spawn like crazy there and if only one person is doing the hunting they respawn very, very rapidly. Any teammates there for badge credit should hit the slots in the Giza or something so as not to interfere.
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Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle
I'd say that's comparable in difficulty to hunting Marcones, since the best place to hunt Marcones is not Port Oakes at all, but one small neighborhood in northeastern Saint Martial. They spawn like crazy there and if only one person is doing the hunting they respawn very, very rapidly. Any teammates there for badge credit should hit the slots in the Giza or something so as not to interfere.
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On a related note, I have run across people who like sharkhead better than cap au diable for coldhearted.
I always find cap au diable quicker because there are so many spawn points there across such a wide area and it is such a tiny little area in sharkhead. Maybe sharkhead is quicker if soloing though. Possibly there is also some mission with a bunch that you could farm.
In cap au diable, I tend to get gremlins as well to kill 2 birds with one stone, although Deacon accurately pointed out that an immob ray accolade is utterly pointless and more bragging rights than anything else. This one is definitely easier hero side I think. But you kill gremlins and then wait for the deathsurge has been seen message in between getting the frost hordelings.
Edit: Some like nerva too I suppose?
"Hi, my name is Ail. I make people sick."
A partial selection from my 50's on Freedom: Ail = Ice/Traps, Luck = Street Justice/Super Reflexes Stalker, Mist = Bane, Pixy = Trick Arrow/Archery, Pure = Gravity/Energy, Smoke = Fire/Fire Dominator
I actually do prefer Villa Requin in Sharkhead for my coldhearted badge. It's kind of fiddly, though, because the Hellfrosts don't just spawn on the rocks, they also spawn up on the cliffs and there are a few spawns that are actually mixed in with the sky raiders by the airfield. So, if the vertical movement doesn't bother you it's pretty easy to get five or six Hellfrosts per lap of the island, making sure that your laps are wide enough and slow enough to allow the spawns to catch up with you. I admit I've never really tried it in cap for very long, so I'm not sure if that ends up being faster or not but it is steady and reliable which at least keeps me from getting frustrating periods of no progress.
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Thanks for the tip! I'll have to try it out.
On a related note, I have run across people who like sharkhead better than cap au diable for coldhearted. I always find cap au diable quicker because there are so many spawn points there across such a wide area and it is such a tiny little area in sharkhead. Maybe sharkhead is quicker if soloing though. Possibly there is also some mission with a bunch that you could farm. |
Sharkhead has 2 areas for Cold demons. With 2 or more people Sharkhead > Cap. All depends if there are other badges people are going for (gremlins, CoT bosses, Hordeling gladiator, etc.)
Sidenote: Elusive Mind isn't on the listings
Sidenote2: Invader can be done for 1-almost infinite people all at same time and takes under 2 hours (with 8 or less I have done it in under 15 minutes, there is no comparison to TFC)
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I used to go to shark for that till someone pointed out that the cold demons was spawning 2 or 3 per mob and self rez for double count some times. But like some one pointed out each to there own.
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Originally Posted by Tamerlayne
Sharkhead has 2 areas for Cold demons. With 2 or more people Sharkhead > Cap. All depends if there are other badges people are going for (gremlins, CoT bosses, Hordeling gladiator, etc.)
Sidenote: Elusive Mind isn't on the listings Sidenote2: Invader can be done for 1-almost infinite people all at same time and takes under 2 hours (with 8 or less I have done it in under 15 minutes, there is no comparison to TFC) |
Hey guys...didn't know where else to ask this...so decided to just do it here.
I play tanks and brutes almost exclusively. Because of time constraints I spend a lot of time soloing. I seldom have the time to wait around for task forces to form, and I have little experience with them lately anyways.
I would like to pick up the "accolades" that boost my characters' hit points by 10% (Is that figure correct?) So...what I want to know is...is there anyway to do this SOLO...and one mission at a time?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Shuckins