Ninja Monkey badge tips please.

Hi Guys,

have run the event about a dozen times now on various alts and only got the badge once (luckily on my main badger) but even that seemed to be more luck than method.

We seem to get about 18/20 Monkeys and about 30 Ninja's before the killing stops.

I have done the gather together at one spawn point and the all spread out methods but it still feels really random.

How does it work, so that when I got the star I can get it for the guys on a regular basis?

Thanks

When I was on teams that got the badge we employed a couple strategies.

First we split the team 2/2 on each spawn point and popped reds while trying to use AoE's to full effect. IF you have a mass immob, that seemed to help my pairings keep them grouped for the AoE's before they scattered like roach's when someone moves the fridge.

We shot for 35-40 (obviously) in each of the fights.

Everytime I have had a team split, it failed. They seem to spawn similar to invasion mobs..as in..the more people in one spot..the more come.

My tactic now is..move the Mino over to the gate, to the left of the one he enters by. Kill him, then wait at that gate. Like others said, pop reds or the favor. The ninjas should get concentrated there. Once they begin to spawn, you can let any that spawn at other gates come, and kill them at range.
Aoes help a LOT naturally. But doing it this was, on a team of 3, we got 58! ninjas.

Then, for monkies, same thing. More asap to the gate, grouping up. Same team..we got 62 monkeys. Some teams struggle with 58 all up.

Yes, eat reds. Lots of them and if possible the team ones too. The faster you kill the more you get.

First time I ran it the team was 2 scrappers and 2 blasters. We stayed huddled up and didn't have any problems getting the badge.

if you split 2/2 on each door, and use aoes, if you get them down to at least 50% or less hp it still counts as a kill at the end of the round

if you are going for even then you need at least 38 on each round to get the 75, of course the more ninjas you get the less monkeys you have to get

sadly do what i did.


I have no facts other than the story of what happened to me.


run it several times and get the badges like i did.

I got the badges and never met the requirement.

true thats what happend. I never killed the right amont of monkeies or ninjas.

i think it may be a counter like regular kill npcs badges.


but the description says other wise.


anywho that is how i did it.

I ran it 5 times and got the badge and NOT ONE TEAM was awesome and killed the number stated in the badge.


true story..... please dont take my badges away!

Well, what I did was buy 2 ultimate insps and filled the rest of my tray with reds. I popped one ultimate along with half of the reds for the ninjas and then ate the rest for the monkeys.

Badge acquired!

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Just put together a team with a lot of AoE. The mobs die easily, you just need attacks that hit them all. New packs spawn when you clear out the one before, so don't let stragglers get away.

We've met the reqs for this badge on every run I've taken my Staff Brute, so IME, AoE = badge.

Hi,

thank you all for the responses. Lots to ponder over.

Am I right in guessing that the Monkey/Ninja phases are on a timer and that all we have to do is kill fast?

Most of the fails I have been involved with still had ample foes standing when the "Run out of..." message goes off which seems to indicate that a timer had expired.

fast kills = fast spawns?

Thanks

Buy reds at the consession stand.

Gather your team at one of the spawn points. I usually do the one to the left of where the baddies enter the arena. Eat half the reds you bought and defeat as many as you can.

Do the same for the monkeys.

You need to defeat a combined 75 ninjas and monkeys. I think there is a 1 minute timer on each phase.

Highest combined total I got was 137. 58 Ninjas + 79 Monkeys

So on Ninjas 58, 55 and 54 are my best 3
Monkeys 79, 74 and 71 are my best 3

Maybe its not strange that the combined totals were 58+79, 55+74 and 54+71.

The only tips I have is have all 4 players huddle next to 1 spawn point, don't use pets, and on the monkey fight, be aware that monkeys have +KB so Footstomp and other KD powers do KB.

Oh yeah, fire brutes and blaster/corruptors with rain powers are helpful.

I have also noticed that when the Kill phase ends, and the green text pops up..your score for kills will suddenly jump up X amount. Seems to be counting any still OUT and damaged at the despawn time, as 'killed.' In the same way Illusionist pets do. Cant really confirm if it is so..but just keep hitting different foes, as you get to the end of the phase.